The RunGood Poker Series "Game 7" season continues today with two more flights in the $675 buy-in, $100K GTD Main Event from Hard Rock Tulsa. Day 1b will get underway at noon local time with Flight C to follow at 7 p.m. The surviving players from each flight will then return at noon on Sunday to play down to a winner.
Players start with 20,000 starting chips and will play 12 30-minute levels in their opening flight before bagging for Day 2. Levels will increase to 45 minutes on Day 2 before going up to one hour once the final table is reached.
Friday's Day 1a attracted 111 runners, but after 12 levels of play, just 19 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.
This season at the RGPS is "Championship Ring" season and each winner of an RGPS event will win a Signature Championship Ring. The stop has already minted new ring winners in Brent Harrington, Chad Holloway, Katerina Lukina, Justin Gardenhire, and Daniel Lowery. We'll be bringing you mini-recaps of those tournaments here in the blog throughout the night.
The last time the RGPS visited the venue was back in May, which is when Blair Hinkle topped a 313-entry field to win the tournament for $35,985 and his first RGPS Main Event title. He's since added two more to his poker resume. Hinkle is expected to be in attendance to attempt a title defense. Others expected to fire are Survivor's "Boston" Rob Mariano, Lexy Gavin, Bob Mather, Matt Waxman, and Bernard Lee.
You can catch all the updates and photos for the entire event here on PokerNews.com. The action begins in an hour, so stay tuned.
