$675 Main Event
Day 1bc Started
2019 RunGood Poker Series Hard Rock Tulsa
$675 Main Event
Day: 1bc
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1bc
2019 RunGood Poker Series Hard Rock Tulsa
Winner
Buy-in
$675
Prize Pool
$223,200
Entries
372
Level
25
Blinds
25,000 / 50,000
Ante
50,000
Entries
261
Players Left
52
Welcome to Day 1b of the RGPS "Game 7" Hard Rock Tulsa Main Event!
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.
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Familiar Faces in Flight B
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Welcome to the Party
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Poker Personality Bernard Lee Looking for a Signature Ring
Bernard Lee is no stranger to poker and the RunGood Poker Series. The RGPS Ambassador has been around the poker world ever since he finished 13th in the 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event for a career-high $400,000.
Other highlights on his poker résumé, which includes nearly $2.4 million in earnings, include a win in the 2006 World Poker Finals $5,000 NLH for $368,919, first in the 2007 World Poker Finals $2,000 NLH for $239,143, and a pair of WSOPC gold ring events.
Back in 2014, he also topped a 344-entry field to win the first-ever RGPS Downstream $675 Main Event for $47,555.
Aside from being an accomplished poker player, Lee is also a poker media personality. He’s a Boston Herald columnist, contributes to ESPN, has released several books, and since 2007 has hosted “The Bernard Lee Poker Show,” which is a part of the PokerNews Family of Podcasts.
Lee is in action here in the Day 1b flight looking to capture his first Signature Ring of the “Game Seven” season.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Side Event Recap: Chad Holloway Wins Inaugural Poker Industry Championship
Leading into the RGPS Hard Rock Tulsa stop was the inaugural Poker Industry Championship. On Tuesday,, PokerNews' own Chad Holloway bested a small field of 15 entrants to take down the inaugural $330 buy-in Poker Industry Championship title, which was hosted by the RunGood Poker Series here at Hard Rock Tulsa. Holloway, co-host of the LFG Podcast as well as PokerNews Head of Live Reporting North America, also claimed a custom Signature Ring, and a cash prize of $2,250.
It marked the second "industry" title for Holloway. Back in 2013, he topped a field of 898 runners to win the World Series of Poker Event #1: $500 Casino Employees for nearly $85,000 and a gold bracelet.
"It feels good to be the first winner of the Poker Industry Championship," Holloway said after the win. "It was fun to battle it out with folks I usually work either with or alongside, and I want to thank RunGood and Hard Rock Tulsa for putting it on. I look forward to trying to defend in next year's event."
Holloway arrived late, chipped up early, and didn't hit a rough patch until after the money bubble had burst. Among those to compete in the tournament were photographer Katerina Lukina, poker veteran Johnny "Wuads" Wenzel, tournament director Bill Bruce, and PokerNews contributor Bernard Lee, who hosts The Bernard Lee Poker Show.
When three-handed play began, runner-up Thomas Bowler went on a run, winning pot after pot, knocking out third-place finisher [Removed:309], and amassing a significant chip lead. When heads-up play began, Holloway was at a nearly 4:1 chip disadvantage.
However, Holloway consistently held the best hand by the river in heads-up play and battled into the lead before finishing it off flopping top pair to Bowler's middle pair. Bowler was equal to Holloway's skill and desire, but at the end of the match, the run good was clearly in Holloway's favor.
Poker Industry Championship Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
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| 1 | Chad Holloway | $2,250 |
| 2 | Thomas Bowler | $1,350 |
| 3 | [Removed:309] | $900 |
Main Calls with a Lady
Six players each committed 300 preflop to see a flop of 
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One by one the half dozen players checked and then did the same on the 
turn.
When the 
completed the board on the river, William Donnelly checked from the small blind and Sandra Main bet 300 from the big. Action folded to Mark Burgess, who called from the cutoff, and then Donnelly woke up with a check-raise to 1,400.
Main wasted little time in making the call and Burgess ditched his hand. Donnelly indicated that he was bluffing and mucked after Main tabled the 
for a rivered pair of queens.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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22,000 | 2,000 |
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18,000 | -2,000 |
RGPS Downstream Champ in the Hard Rock House
Guy Shoves the Turn
Chris Conrad raised to 500 from early position and Stephan Guy called from the cutoff. The player on the button came along before Jacob Lewis three-bet to 1,500 from the small blind.
Conrad called, as did Guy, and the button got out of the way to make it three-way action to the 
flop. Two checks saw Guy bet 3,000 and only Lewis called to see the 
turn.
Lewis checked and then folded when Guy moved all in for his last 6,300.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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19,000 | -1,000 |
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15,000 | 5,000 |