The tournament staff has provided us with some numbers. Technically they're unofficial, but barring an accounting error, they should stand. Day 1c attracted 111 entries, which along with Day 1a's 149 and 1b's 166 has brought the total field to 426 entrants. That has created a $251,340 prize pool — more than double the guarantee — which will be paid to the top 45 finishers. A min-cash will be worth $1,382, while the eventual winner will take home $57,806.
"I should have stayed at the craps table," World Series of Poker bracelet winner Eric Rodawig told us as he headed toward the exit. He stopped long enough to tell us about his demise.
According to him, in the first hand back from break he woke up with only to run into the [axa] of Adrian Jimenez. The board ran out clean, and just like that Rodawig's 2015 RunGood Poker Series Horseshoe Council Bluffs Main Event came to an end.
With 2,700 in the pot and a flop of , Scott Sharpe bet 1,200 from the small blind and RunGood Ambassador Bryan Campanello called from the big. The turn saw Sharpe check-call a bet of 2,800, and then he checked for a second time on the river.
Campanello announced a bet of 4,700, and Sharpe thought for about 30 seconds before dropping in a call. Campanello showed the for a missed flush, and Sharpe tabled the for the win.
World Series of Poker bracelet winner Bryan Campanello, who is in today's field, is 21 years old from Southlake, Texas. Lucky enough to grow up in the Moneymaker era, he started playing small stake poker games with friends in seventh grade and got hooked on poker after watching the WSOP Main Event on ESPN.
"Poker fuels my competitive nature, much like sports and other competitive events I enjoy. My goal is to continue to improve, make deep runs in tournaments and be the best player I possibly can," says Campanello. "Currently, I am a part time student at UNT studying Political Science. I am trying to balance college and poker for now, because it is a goal of mine to obtain a college degree. The concept of having others tell me what to do or where to be at a specific time has never fit my personality. Poker gives me the opportunity to be my own boss and pick my own hours."
He went on to say: "I feel very lucky to have found this game at such a young age. I started playing more seriously online when I was 18 and was fortunate to also play quite a bit of live poker in 18+ casinos in Oklahoma and Florida. I realized poker can give me the opportunity not to work in an office and the freedom to travel the world whenever I want. In my young career, I have already played poker in Ireland, the Bahamas and across the United States. The combination of poker events, travel and working on my game has easily become the full focus in my life."
Campanello is in action here in Council Bluffs, so rest assured we'll be keeping an eye on him here in the live blog.
Shari Elder, a jeweler from Omaha who finished runner-up in the $200 buy-in pot-limit Omaha event on Wednesday night, raised to 10,000 only to have Scott Sharpe three-bet to 30,000 from the big blind. Elder had about 26,000 total and wasted little time in calling it off.
Elder:
Sharp:
Elder got it in good and was primed to double on the jack-high flop, but then the dealer burned and turned a to give Sharp a set. The river was a blank, and the good-natured Elder wished the table luck before taking her leave from the tournament.
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, Scott Sharpe bet 1,200 from the small blind and RunGood Ambassador Bryan Campanello called from the big. The 
turn saw Sharpe check-call a bet of 2,800, and then he checked for a second time on the 
river.
for a missed flush, and Sharpe tabled the 
for the win.
