$800 Main Event
Day 1b Started
$800 Main Event
Day 1b Started
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.
Rank | Name | Country | Chip Count |
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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.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
Day 1b is underway with 120 entrants starting the day with 30,000 chips.
After the RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) wraps up the currently underway RGPS Cleveland, it will head south to Mississippi for RGPS Tunica, which will feature a $600 buy-in RGPS Tunica Main Event with a $100,000 guarantee. In addition to the Main Event, RGPS Tunica, which will take place at Horseshoe Tunica Casino Oct. 4-9, will feature a handful of Ring Events, including Guest Bounty and Pot-Limit Omaha events.
The $100,000 guaranteed Main Event will feature three starting flights, the first of which will get underway on Oct. 7. The next two flights will both play out the next day and surviving players will return on Oct. 9 for Day 2, which will play down to a winner. For players who don’t want to ante up the $600 buy-in, there will be a number of satellite options, including a $145 Mega Satellite awarding ten seats and a $145 Turbo Satellite awarding five seats. PokerNews will be on-site to cover the RGPS Tunica Main Event, so be sure to check back in for that coverage.
RGPS Tunica will kick off on Oct. 4 with a $200 Seniors Ring Event available for players ages 50 and older, followed by a $165 Flip and Go Ring Event and a $165 Opening Night Guest Bounty Ring Event later that day. The next day will see two flights of the $250 PokerGO Studio Ticket Ring Event taking place, which will award a seat to the 2022 All-Stars ProAM Event at the PokerGO Studio in December, as well as another Flip and Go event. Other events in the series include a $300 Pot-Limit Omaha Ring Event and a Two Green Chip Bounty Ring Event, both of which will take place on Oct. 6. Later in the series, there will be a $200 Ladies Ring Event and a $250 Closer Black Chip Bounty Ring Event, which will close out the series on Oct. 9. After Tunica, the RunGood team will head to Hard Rock Casino in Tulsa, Oklahoma for RGPS Hard Rock Tulsa, which will also feature a $600 Main Event.The full schedule for RGPS Tunica is available in the table below.
DATE | TIME | EVENT |
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Oct. 4, 2022 | 10:00 AM | Seniors Ring Event (AGE 50+, Buy-in $200) |
Oct. 4, 2022 | 2:00 PM | FLIP and GO Ring Event* FLT A ($165 buy-in, On Demand) |
Oct. 4, 2022 | 7:00 PM | OPENING NIGHT Guest Bounty Ring Event (Buy-in $165) |
Oct. 5, 2022 | 12:00 PM | PokerGO Studio Ticket Ring Event FLT A (Buy-in $250, $50,000 GTD Prizepool) |
Oct. 5, 2022 | 2:00 PM | FLIP and GO Ring Event FLT A ($165 buy-in, On Demand) |
Oct. 5, 2022 | 4:00 PM | Turbo Satellite (Buy-in $145, 5 seats GTD into the $100,000 GTD Main Event) |
Oct. 5, 2022 | 7:00 PM | PokerGO Studio Ticket Ring Event FLT B (Buy-in $250, $50,000 GTD Prizepool) |
Oct. 6, 2022 | 12:00 PM | PokerGO Studio Ticket FINALS |
Oct. 6, 2022 | 1:00 PM | ONE DAY NLH RING EVENT (Buy-in $200, $10,000 GTD Prizepool) |
Oct. 6, 2022 | 2:00 PM | FLIP and GO Ring Event FLT A ($165 buy-in, On Demand) |
Oct. 6, 2022 | 3:00 PM | POT LIMIT-OMAHA RING EVENT (Buy-in $300) |
Oct. 6, 2022 | 7:00 PM | TWO GREEN CHIP BOUNTY RING EVENT (Buy-in $200) |
Oct. 7, 2022 | 11:00 AM | Mega Satellite (Buy-in $145, 10 seats GTD into the $100,000 GTD Main Event) |
Oct. 7, 2022 | 1:00 PM | Flip and Go Ring Event Day 2 |
Oct. 7, 2022 | 7:00 PM | RUNGOOD Main Event FLT A (Buy-in $600, $100,000 GTD Prizepool) |
Oct. 8, 2022 | 9:00 AM | Turbo Satellite (Buy-in $145, 5 seats GTD into the $100,000 GTD Main Event) |
Oct. 8, 2022 | 12:00 PM | Turbo Satellite (Buy-in $145, 5 seats GTD into the $100,000 GTD Main Event) |
Oct. 8, 2022 | 2:00 PM | Ladies Ring Event (Buy-in $200) |
Oct. 8, 2022 | 4:00 PM | Turbo Satellite (Buy-in $145, 5 seats GTD into the $100,000 GTD Main Event) |
Oct. 8, 2022 | 7:00 PM | RUNGOOD Main Event FLT C (Buy-in $600, $100,000 GTD Prizepool) |
Oct. 9, 2022 | 12:00 PM | MAIN EVENT FINALS |
Oct. 9, 2022 | 1:00 PM | TURBO NLH RING Event (Buy-in $165) |
Oct. 9, 2022 | 4:00 PM | NLH CLOSER BLACK CHIP BOUNTY RING EVENT (Buy-in $250) |
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Dean Schultz | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Joseph Hanna | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Shane Pierce | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Papa Karn | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Nicholas Rigby | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Peter Vitantonio | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Chris Tryba
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
John Michalak | 30,000 | 30,000 |
James Kennedy | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Edward Mogilnicki | 30,000 | 30,000 |
Nathan Walter | 30,000 | 30,000 |
After Darnell Ward raised to 400 and a player in the lojack called, Nicholas Rigby three-bet to 2,300. Only Ward called to see a flop of .
Ward checked dark and Rigby bet 3,000. Ward then check-raised to Rigby all-in, and the king of the "dirty diaper" called with the exact opposite of his infamous junk hand.
Nicholas Rigby:
Darnell Ward:
Ward wouldn't have to wait long to fill his straight as the came in on the turn, with the inconsequential falling on the river.
Rigby went immediately to the rail for a fresh 30,000 chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Darnell Ward
|
62,000 | 62,000 |
Nicholas Rigby | 30,000 |
After a raise to 1,100 in middle position, and a call from the hijack, Albert Augustine called on the button.
DeMarcus Ivy then three-bet to 2,600 from the small blind and got calls from all three of his opponents.
The flop came and Ivy continued for 5,000. Augustine accidentally called out of turn, with the middle position player and the hijack then folding.
Augustine's call stayed in the pot and the fell on the turn. Ivy now check-called a bet of 10,000 from Augustine, leaving himself approximately 17,000 behind.
On the 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.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Albert Augustine
|
82,000 | 82,000 |
DeMarcus Ivy
|
Busted |
Level: 2
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 300
While PokerNews is here offering live updates for the $800 Main Event, we’d be remiss if we didn’t tell you about some of the side events that awarded RGPS rings over the past week for the RunGood Cleveland Series here at Jack Cleveland Casino.
Event #1: $420 Opener saw 392 entries create a $139,160 prize pool that was paid out to the top 45 players and in the end, it was Jack Corrigan who captured the RunGood ring, along with a $30,735 payday.
Place | Name | Prize |
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1 | Jack Corrigan | $30,735 |
2 | Ryan Mayer | $18,925 |
3 | Michele Iacovone | $13,775 |
4 | Joseph Ebanks | $10,155 |
5 | Shane Pierce | $7,650 |
6 | Linda Eisenstein | $5,840 |
7 | Joseph Stachowiak | $4,590 |
8 | Robert Randell | $3,615 |
9 | Cem Sarioglu | $2,640 |