Joe Becchina Wins Last Seven Hands for Chip Lead in Day 1B
The second flight of the RunGood Poker Main Event at Harrah's North Kansas City drew 86 entrants. After 12 levels of action the field was trimmed to 20 surviving players moving on to Sunday's Day 2 with Joe Becchina leading the field.
Becchina was around the average stack entering the last orbit of play but went on a run winning the last seven hands in a row. He even woke up with pocket aces on the last hand against Thomas Houston to secure the chip lead.
The surviving stacks are a lot closer to normal after Friday night's monster stacks bagged up. Friday had four players over the 200,000-chip mark but Saturday's early flight saw just three other player players bag up six-figures - Steve Kim, Andy Ziskin and Travis Burch.
It wasn't a good flight for RunGood Pros with Jonathan Gaviao, Ray Henson and Clint Tolbert hitting the rail.
The evening flight just kicked off and they'll play to about 1:30 am.