RGPS Cleveland Main Event Day 1b Set to Build on Impressive Opening Flight
Welcome to Day 1b of the RunGood Poker Series Cleveland $800 Main Event. Today’s flight is the second of three opening days of the tournament, and if yesterday’s action is an indicator of what’s to come, the Jack Cleveland Casino is in for another incredible day of poker.
Anthony Carbone bagged the biggest stack of Day 1a, earning 500,000 chips to take into Sunday’s Day 2 after winning a massive pot at the end of the night that could have seen Connor Zhu take a nearly 800,000 chip stack to Sunday had his ace-queen not run into Carbone’s aces.
RGPS Cleveland Top Ten Day 1a Chip Counts
| Rank | Name | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthony Carbone | United States | 500,000 |
| 2 | Joe Gugliotta | United States | 457,000 |
| 3 | Shawn Gaffney | United States | 427,000 |
| 4 | Kuo Peng | Taiwan | 384,000 |
| 5 | Sean Troha | United States | 357,000 |
| 6 | George Mohan | United States | 280,000 |
| 7 | Connor Zhu | China | 256,000 |
| 8 | James Pisano | United States | 242,000 |
| 9 | Brent Wheeler | United States | 242,000 |
| 10 | Keith Schwartz | United States | 230,000 |
Day 1b will get cards in the air at 12:15 p.m. local time with 15 40-minute levels scheduled, however, after the fast and furious action in Day 1a, the alternate ending of 15 percent of the field remaining easily hit early in Level 13. Should today’s field reach its final 15 percent prior to the end of Level 15, that again would be the case.
Players will start their day with 30,000 chips at opening blinds of 100/200 with a 200 big blind ante. Registration will remain open until the start of Level 10 and re-entries are unlimited.
Players will have a 15-minute break after every third level, with a 60-minute dinner break at the end of Level 9.
The tournament has a $250,000 guarantee, and after 186 entries on Day 1a, a similar total in this flight would send the event past that number already, even before Saturday’s final opening flight.
Players who survive Day 1b with a short stack will have the opportunity to play in Day 1c in hopes of accumulating a bigger stack to take to Day 2 instead.
Be sure to stay with PokerNews for live reporting from each day of action until the first-ever RGPS Cleveland Main Event champion is crowned.
and Ivy continued for 5,000. Augustine accidentally called out of turn, with the middle position player and the hijack then folding. 
fell on the turn. Ivy now check-called a bet of 10,000 from Augustine, leaving himself approximately 17,000 behind.
river, Ivy flicked out a bet of 5,000 and Augustine moved all in. Ivy called to see Augustine's 
for quad tens. Ivy showed 
and left the table as his chips were pushed to Augustine.
, Pagan bet 20,000 and was raised all-in by Anderson for a bit less than 40,000. 
for a rivered full house to take down Anderson's 
, which had turned Broadway, but got cracked on the river by Pagan's full house.
, giving Odom a set of queens, but Bahhur had plenty of outs with a flush draw and a gutshot straight draw.
on the river gave Odom quad queens to win the hand and send Bahhur to the rail.
Chris Meyers put a stack of brown T-5,000 chips forward which appeared to just cover his opponent who had checked in the small blind.
for a flopped two pair. The small blind mucked his hand, then counted down his stack which indeed was just covered by Meyers, who dragged the huge pot to put himself among the larger stacks in the room.
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turn.
turn brought no help, but after Stone called for one more diamond, in it slid with the 
on the river to give Stone the unlikely pot.
, Chad Stone moved all in from the big blind for 81,000.
and river 
