Main Event
Day 1a Started
Main Event
Day 1a Started
It's time for the finale of the GPI-Award Winning Mid Major Tour of 2019 Run Good Poker Series Main Event at the Hard Rock Tulsa. The tour has already crowned five main event champions this season and will send a total of about 80 players to the "Showbound" satellite Monday.
Each season the RGPS has a theme and this season they teamed up with PokerGO to give players a chance to play on Poker After Dark at the PokerGO studio in Las Vegas. The final table of this main event will join the satellite field for a shot at two seats into a $5,000 Sit-n-go, as well as hotel and flight accommodation.
First things first, the main event. Friday at 7 p.m. Day 1A kicks off with 12 30-minute levels. The players will have 20,000 chips and unlimited reentry into the $675 Main Event until the start of level nine. As usual on the RGPS, there is no dinner break.
The next two flights will be Saturday at noon and 7 p.m. before the Day 2 restart Sunday at noon. All the updates and photos from the event will be on PokerNews.com.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 0
The weather is a bit rough outside and the field is starting play with about 30 players for Day 1A.
There are four tables running in Day 1A and Mason and Grant Hinkle joined RGPS Council Bluffs Champion Nick Burris and Cash Carpenter at their starting table.
The group is part of the Monday Night Poker weekly poker game in Kansas City. Paul Strohm, another member of the group, is also in the field.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Papa Karn | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Mason Hinkle | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Blair Hinkle
|
20,000 | |
Grant Hinkle
|
20,000 | 20,000 |
Cash Carpenter | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Nick Burris | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Jerry Moore | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Paul Strohm | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Julie Cornelius | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Dan Lowery | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Mark Lafata | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Heather Alcorn | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Marty Kinder and his son Kyle have made the trip to Tulsa Hard Rock for the Run Good Poker Series Main Event. Kyle won the RGPS Downstream Main Event for $42,781.
Marty is in Day 1A and Kyle plans on playing Day 1B.
Marty is the Senior Vice President of Town and Country Bank and has been working in commercial lending for 20 years. The two drove five-and-a-half hours from Imperial, MO.
Kyle has already booked his seat in the Showbound Satellite and Marty is going to do his best to join him for a shot at playing on Poker After Dark.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Marty Kinder | 20,000 | 20,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 100
Travis Baker was born and raised in Tulsa and plays many of the tournaments that come through the Tulsa Hard Rock.
He is a general contractor who owns his own company and has been working in construction for more than 30 years. He's married to Dana and together the couple has five kids and six grandkids.
Baker won the 2015 World Series of Poker $1,000 Seniors Event for $613,466.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Travis Baker
|
9,900 | 9,900 |
Larry Cooper is a regular at the Tulsa Hard Rock poker room and in the field today for Day 1A.
He's an Army veteran who served in Vietnam. He is from McAlester, OK.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Larry Cooper
|
18,000 | 18,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Rodney Spriggs | 31,000 | |
Mason Hinkle | 29,500 | 9,500 |
Blair Hinkle
|
27,500 | 7,500 |
Jerry Moore | 27,400 | 7,400 |
Marty Kinder | 22,800 | 2,800 |
Chris Conrad | 19,200 | |
Rania Nasreddine | 17,700 | |
Julie Cornelius | 16,800 | -3,200 |
Grant Hinkle
|
11,000 | -9,000 |
Heather Alcorn | 7,500 | -12,500 |