Run It Up Reno VIII

$1,100 Thursday Thrilla
Day: 2
Event Info

Run It Up Reno VIII

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
23
Prize
$20,400
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,100
Prize Pool
$82,720
Entries
176
Level Info
Level
21
Blinds
10,000 / 20,000
Ante
10,000

Level: 19

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 12,000

Max Value for Brown

Level 18 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Max Brown moved all in for 110,000 from the button and Jeff Newman called from the big blind.

Brown: {q-Spades}{q-Diamonds}
Newman: {a-Clubs}{7-Clubs}

The {7-Hearts}{q-Hearts}{2-Spades} flop gave Brown top set and left Newman looking for either running aces or sevens. The {9-Clubs} turn took away any shot of that happening and Brown shipped the double after the {3-Spades} was run out on the river.

Player Chips Progress
Max Brown us
Max Brown
235,000 125,000
Jeff Newman us
Jeff Newman
180,000 -155,000

Tags: Jeff NewmanMax Brown

Cota Spikes an Ace to Stay Alive

Level 18 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Adin Cota got his stack all in preflop holding the {a-Spades}{k-Clubs} and was in a bad spot against the {k-Spades}{k-Hearts} of Derek Frye.

Cota's best shot at finding a double was to find an ace, and he did on the {2-Clubs}{4-Hearts}{a-Diamonds} flop.

Neither the {10-Spades} turn nor {8-Diamonds} river changed a thing and Cota shipped the double.

Player Chips Progress
Adin Cota ca
Adin Cota
672,000 344,000
Derek Frye us
Derek Frye
283,000 -317,000

Tags: Adin CotaDerek Frye

Jerry White Eliminated in 9th Place ($2,400)

Level 18 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
Jerry White - 9th Place
Jerry White - 9th Place

Derek Frye raised to 30,000 from middle position and called when Jerry White three-bet all in for 190,000 from the hijack.

Frye: {q-Spades}{q-Diamonds}
White: {a-Diamonds}{k-Spades}

It was a flip but White needed to improve to stay alive. That proved easier said than done as the board ran out {7-Spades}{j-Diamonds}{10-Spades}{2-Diamonds}{7-Hearts} to give Frye the first $500 bounty of the final table.

Player Chips Progress
Derek Frye us
Derek Frye
600,000 214,000
Jerry White us
Jerry White
Busted

Tags: Derek FryeJerry White

Level: 18

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 10,000

Who Will Walk Away with the $20,400 Thursday Thrilla Top Prize?

RIU Reno VIII Thursday Thrilla Final Table
RIU Reno VIII Thursday Thrilla Final Table

The biggest buy-in tournament of the Run It Up Reno VIII – the $1,100 Thursday Thrilla – started with 178 entries battling it out at the Peppermill Casino. Today, the final eight will return to play down to a winner with Katie Lindsay and her stack of 1.104 million leading the way.

That’s nearly a third of the chips in play, more than double her next closest competition. You might recall that earlier this year Lindsay, the wife of poker pro and online poker’s winningest tournament player Chris Moorman, was a guest on the LFG Podcast, which you can listen to here.

Joining her at the final table are Timothy Guilford (497,000), Frank Lagodich (413,000), Fintan “Easy with Aces” Hand (127,000), and Max Brown (140,000), who has already improved upon his 15th-place finish in this same event last year.

Remember, each player at the table has a $500 bounty on their head.

Thursday Thrilla Final Table

TableSeatPlayerChip Count
Feature1Katie Lindsay1,104,000
Feature2Jeff Newman335,000
Feature3Adin Cota328,000
Feature4Timothy Guilford497,000
Feature5Frank Lagodich413,000
Feature6Derek Frye386,000
Feature7Jerry White190,000
Feature8Fintan Hand127,000
Feature9Max Brown140,000

The final table began at 2 p.m. local time with action resuming with 28:11 remaining on the clock in Level 18. However, with the RunItUp.TV live stream starting at 5 p.m., we're delaying our PokerNews updates to coincide with that stream.

$1,100 Thursday Thrilla

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