Day 1a saw 125 players pony up $675 and push the 2015 RunGood Poker Series Hard Rock Tulsa Main Event prize pool to over 80% of the $100,000 guarantee, with two starting flights still to play.
After 12 levels of play at 30 minutes per, it was Jesse McVicker with a substantial chip lead, as he bagged a healthy 254,000. Other notables to advance to Sunday's Day 2 are Tony Lay (140,000), Dan Lowery (119,000), Ross Bybee (106,000), and Ryan Tepen (35,000).
Many notables tried and failed to get through Day 1 on their first attempt, including Dan "Wretchy" Martin, Lauren Kling, Bryan Campanello, and Jonathan Gaviao. Nevertheless, they'll all have chances to fire again on subsequent starting days.
In all, 30 players did advance and will combine with survivors of Saturday's two flights to play Day 2, which starts at noon local time on Sunday. Be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews as we will bring you coverage from an expected busy Saturday all the way through to crowning a champion on Sunday.
Rodney Spriggs opened to 4,300 from middle position and the player in the cutoff called. The player on the button reraised all in to 11,300 and Spriggs four-bet to 23,300, with his other opponent shipping all in. Spriggs snap-called and tabled . The original shover tabled and the five-bettor showed .
They were looking for clubs or diamonds but got nothing but heartache when the flop all but sealed it for Spriggs. The board completed with and Spriggs is up over 100,000.
The RunGood Poker Series is making its second stop at the Hard Rock Tulsa and is expecting big turnouts, hoping to match the success of a recent stop in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where they saw 426 entrants across three days destroy the $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. Henry Gingerich took home a good chunk of the $250,000+ prize pool, banking $39,083 and a WSOP main event seat.
The same $100,000 guarantee is in place here in Tulsa, as is the $10,000 WSOP seat for the winner. The first of three day-one flights will kickoff shortly at 7 p.m. local time. Saturday should provide the bulk of the field with flights scheduled at Noon and 7 p.m. The expectation is to play 12 30-minute levels, with level times increasing on Sunday when the survivors will combine for Day 2.
Many of the RunGood Ambassadors have converged on Tulsa to play in the preliminary events and are expected to play the main event, including: Dan "Wretchy" Martin, Justin Gardenhire, Lauren Kling, Jonathan Gaviao and Amanda Baker.
Stay with us, as PokerNews will be providing live reporting of the Main Event throughout the next three days here at Hard Rock Tulsa.
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. The original shover tabled 
and the five-bettor showed 
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flop all but sealed it for Spriggs. The board completed with 
and Spriggs is up over 100,000.
