Welcome to Day 2 of the 11-day long Run It Up Reno VIII at the Peppermill Resort Hotel. With $700,000 in guarantees spread over a wide variety of games and buy-ins, it's shaping up to be Jason Somerville's biggest series yet.
Among those slated to attend the festival are Somerville, Fintan Hand, Benjamin “Spraggy” Spragg, Kevin Martin, Arlie Shaban, Ricky Guan, Andrew Neeme, Brad Owen, Joe “Stapes” Stapleton, 2003 World Series of Poker champ Chris Moneymaker, LFG Podcast co-host Jamie Kerstetter, Marle Cordeiro, Johnnie Vibes, David Tuchman, and Survivor legend Tyson Apostol.
Today is the second of two starting flights in the $440 Mini Main Event will get underway at Noon local time. The tournament features a big blind ante (it becomes the size of the small blind when four-handed or less) and starts players with 20,000 in tournament chips. Registration and re-entries are available until the start of Level 12, at which point the length of each level will increase from 30 to 40 minutes.
There will be 15-minute breaks every two hours with a one-hour dinner break at the end of Level 11. The plan for each starting flight is to end when the first flight did, which was with 4:42 left on the clock in Level 12.
Speaking of Day 1a, that flight attracted 127 runners and played down to 20 percent of the field. Leading the surviving 26 players was Alan Mastic, who bagged up 310,000. Others to bag big stacks were Andy Pokrivnak (242,000), Jesse Capps (194,000), Glenn Uchibori (155,500), and Jason Pease (144,000), who round out the top five.
Among those to fire and fall on 1a, who will have another chance to fire today if they so choose, are Jason Somerville, Michael Trivett, Jimmy Cappucci, Ashley Sleeth, LFG co-host Jamie Kerstetter, and Joe Brindle.
Here’s a look at the structure for the day:
| Level | BB Ante | Small Blind | Big Blind | Level Length |
|---|
| 1 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 30 Minutes |
| 2 | 100 | 100 | 200 | 30 Minutes |
| 3 | 200 | 100 | 200 | 30 Minutes |
| 4 | 300 | 100 | 300 | 30 Minutes |
| 5 | 400 | 200 | 400 | 30 Minutes |
| 6 | 500 | 300 | 500 | 30 Minutes |
| 7 | 600 | 300 | 600 | 30 Minutes |
| 8 | 800 | 400 | 800 | 30 Minutes |
| 9 | 1,000 | 500 | 1,000 | 30 Minutes |
| 10 | 1,200 | 600 | 1,200 | 30 Minutes |
| 11 | 1,600 | 800 | 1,600 | 30 Minutes |
| 12 | 2,000 | 1,000 | 2,000 | 40 Minutes |
PokerNews will be on hand to live report five events including today's $440 Mini Main Event (April 12-14). Other events that will be live reported over the next week and a half are the $235 Pro Bounty (April 15), $235 Black Chip Bounty (April 16), $1,100 Thursday Thrilla (April 18-19), and the $600 buy-in, $250K GTD Main Event (April 19-22).
Stay tuned as PokerNews brings you all the action straight from the tournament floor. Also, be sure to follow @runitupreno on Twitter and runituptv on Instagram for more behind-the-scenes covereage of the eight edition of Run It Up Reno!
