Main Event
Day 1bc Started
2019 RunGood Poker Series Tunica
Main Event
Day: 1bc
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2019 RunGood Poker Series Tunica
Buy-in
$500
Entries
495
Level
25
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
60,000
Two More Starting Flights Saturday for the RGPS Tunica Main Event
The RGPS Tunica Horseshoe Main moves forward with two starting flights today. The first starts at noon and Day 1C is at 7 p.m.
So far 30 players have advanced to Day 2 with Sim Therrell bagging the chip lead with 238,500.
Here is some more information about the Main Event:
- Two starting flights on Saturday (1B: noon 1C: 7 p.m.)
- $575 buyin
- 20,000 starting chips
- 30-minute levels
- Unlimited reentry until the start of level nine
- Play 12 levels in Day 1 before bagging for Day 2 Sunday and noon
All players who make the final table of the RGPS Main Event in Tunica will receive an entry to a Poker After Dark satellite in Tulsa. The top two finishers in that event will win their way on to Poker After Dark as part of the RGPS Showbound season
You can keep up with all the action here on PokerNews.com.
Starting From the Bottom
"My name's on the bottom of that list," Connie Rice said, "we're gonna try again."
Rice was in the field for the first hand of Day 1B after bagging 30,000 in Day 1A.
Rice is one of the regulars the Tunica Horseshoe and may try and open it up today to top her Day 1A stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
20,000 | -10,000 |
Nassar Jaser Shoves When He Already Won the Pot
The flop was 
and Nassar Jaser called a bet of 600, as did three other players.
The turn was the 
and the action checked to Jaser on the button. He bet 4,000 and got one caller.
The river was the 
and Jaser's opponent just open mucked. Jaser pushed some chips forward and said, "all in," but his stack quickly ran into the pot the dealer was pushing his way.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
29,000 |
Ron Hubka v. Keith Ferrera
Ron Hubka was in the big blind and called an under-the-gun raise to 300 by Run Good ambassador Keith Ferrera.
The flop came 
and Hubka checked to Ferrera. Ferrera bet 400 and Hubka called.
The turn was the 
and both players checked.
The river was the 
and Hubka led for 800. Ferrera folded.
Hubka is a remodeler who plays poker when he has the time and patience.
"It's a patient game," he said.
He is from Murfreesboro, Tn.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
23,000 | 23,000 |
|
19,000 | 19,000 |
Photos by Hayley Hochstetler
RGPS Tunica Horseshoe Main Event Profile: Barry Schultz
Barry Schultz enjoys playing poker at the Horseshoe Tunica and says he'd like to play against Daniel Negreanu if he makes it onto Poker After Dark.
Schultz is a married father of one, who works in education. He's from Arlington, TN and hesitated before just saying he was from Memphis.
Schultz has $423,969 in career tournament winnings and his biggest score was a seventh-place finish at the 2008 World Series of Poker for $112,657.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
45,000 |
RGPS Tunica Horseshoe Main Event Profile: Rhonda Hart
Rhonda Hart is the head of the vascular lab at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and here at the Horseshoe Tunica "pretty much every weekend."
She makes the almost three-hour drive most weekends to play poker and is in the field today for Day 1B of the RGPS Horseshoe Tunica Main Event.
She has only a few cashes from tournaments, but three of the five are from here at the Horseshoe.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
14,000 | 14,000 |
RGPS Showbound Main Event Day 1B Photos by Hayley Hochstetler
Jay Crawford Wins With a Flush
Jay Crawford got all in on the flop holding 
against a player who flopped a set of fives.
Crawford made a flush and eliminated his opponent.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
42,000 |