$1,100 Thursday Thrilla
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Run It Up Reno VIII
$1,100 Thursday Thrilla
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Run It Up Reno VIII
Buy-in
$1,100
Prize Pool
$82,720
Entries
176
Level
21
Blinds
10,000 / 20,000
Ante
10,000
Who Will Walk Away with the $20,400 Thursday Thrilla Top Prize?
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
| Table | Seat | Player | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feature | 1 | Katie Lindsay | 1,104,000 |
| Feature | 2 | Jeff Newman | 335,000 |
| Feature | 3 | Adin Cota | 328,000 |
| Feature | 4 | Timothy Guilford | 497,000 |
| Feature | 5 | Frank Lagodich | 413,000 |
| Feature | 6 | Derek Frye | 386,000 |
| Feature | 7 | Jerry White | 190,000 |
| Feature | 8 | Fintan Hand | 127,000 |
| Feature | 9 | Max Brown | 140,000 |
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.
Level: 18
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
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Level 18
: 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
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Jerry White Eliminated in 9th Place ($2,400)
Level 18
: 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
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: 
White: 
It was a flip but White needed to improve to stay alive. That proved easier said than done as the board ran out 
to give Frye the first $500 bounty of the final table.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
600,000 | 214,000 |
|
Busted |
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 
and was in a bad spot against the 
of Derek Frye.
Cota's best shot at finding a double was to find an ace, and he did on the 
flop.
Neither the turn nor 
river changed a thing and Cota shipped the double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
672,000 | 344,000 |
|
|
283,000 | -317,000 |
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:
Newman: 
The 
flop gave Brown top set and left Newman looking for either running aces or sevens. The 
turn took away any shot of that happening and Brown shipped the double after the 
was run out on the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
235,000 | 125,000 |
|
180,000 | -155,000 |
Level: 19
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 12,000
Fintan Hand Eliminated in 8th Place ($2,970)
Level 19
: 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante
Fintan "Easy with Aces" Hand got his last 65,000 all in preflop and had a chance to triple up against Timothy "VaderNader" Guilford and Frank Lagodich.
Hand: 
Lagodich: 
Guilford: 
Both active players checked the 
and then Guilford bet 75,000 when the turn gave him a flush draw. Lagodich ditched his hand and the 
spiked on the river.
Guilford made his flush and collected the Irishman's $500 bounty.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Jeff Newman Eliminated in 7th Place ($3,580)
Level 19
: 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante
Jeff Newman got his last 95,000 all in preflop and found himself in dire straits against Derek Frye.
Frye:
Newman: 
Newman had the inferior ace and the kicker played when the 
flop paired both players. The turn locked it up for Frye and he collected Newman's $500 bounty after the 
was run out on the river.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
352,000 | 69,000 |
|
|
Busted |