Gardy & Montana Bills Bag Big as 18 Survivor Day 1a of RGPS Hard Rock Tulsa
Day 1a of the RunGood Poker Series "Game 7" $675 buy-in, $100K GTD Main Event from Hard Rock Tulsa attracted 111 runners, but after 12 levels of play just 18 remained. Leading the pack with 289,000 is Justin Gardenhire.
Others to bag big stacks were Montana Bills (273,000), Keith Ferrera (191,500), Jared Ward (157,000), and Blair Hinkle (156,500), who round out the top five.
They were joined by the likes of Perry Chupp (151,000), Michael Sanders (146,500), Reggie Tynes (91,000), Shawn McCracken (55,5000, and Shelly Wise (33,000).
For Bills, he steadily amassed chips throughout the night before hitting a big hand in the penultimate level. It happened when Jerry Jones got his last 40,000 all in holding ace-jack and was looking to survive the nine-eight suited of Bills. That didn’t happen though as the latter flopped a queen-high diamond straight flush to score the elimination.
Of course, not everyone was as lucky as Bills. Among those to fire and fall on Day 1a were Daniel Lowery, Cash Carpenter, Cody Coffman, Rodney Spriggs, Sandra Main, Papa Karn, Tom Hudson, and World Series of Poker bracelet winner Bryan Campanello.
On Saturday, Day 1b and 1c will take place at Noon and 7 p.m. local time respectively. The surviving players from each flight will then return at noon on Sunday to play down to a winner.
to give Bills a straight flush and leave Jones drawing dead.
turn and 
river was run out to make Jones' elimination official.
