Level: 8
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 1,200
2022 RGPS San Diego
$600 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
2022 RGPS San Diego
Buy-in
$600
Entries
460
Level
26
Blinds
50,000 / 10,000
Ante
10,000
Entries
84
Players Left
11
Lipton Hits Runner-Runner
Level 7
: Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
Chad Lipton moved all in from under-the-gun and action folded to the button who quickly made the call, putting Lipton at risk.
Chad Lipton: 
Button Player: 
Lipton found himself way behind his opponent's pocket aces, but the board runout of 
gave him a runner-runner two pair to crack the aces and win the hand.
"I knew the king-ten was coming, I just knew it," Lipton said as he was pushed the chips for a double-up.
Meanwhile, his opponent was left with a short stack and busted the very next hand with ace-eight versus ace-nine.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
35,000 |
Connors Soars Ahead With Massive Chip Lead
Level 7
: Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante
After a raise under-the-gun to 2,000, the middle position player then shipped his stack of 40,000 and was quickly called by big stack Bill Connors. The rest of the players got out of the way and the cards were tabled, with the middle position player at risk.
Middle Position: 
Bill Connors: 
The middle-positioned player was slightly ahead going into the flip, but the flop of 
quickly changed that as it gave Connors top two-pair. His opponent could still hit a four or a five to win, but the runout of 
sealed his fate and he was eliminated. Meanwhile, Connors was pushed the huge pot to boost his already large stack to almost 250,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
247,000
247,000
|
247,000 |
Level: 7
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
Ellison Gets There with Miracle River.
Level 6
: Blinds 400/800, 800 ante
On a heads-up flop of 
, Tom Ellison and Rip Fitzer got all the money in the middle, with Ellison at risk.
Tom Ellison: 
Rip Fitzer:
Fitzer had Ellison heavily dominated with his superior kicker, and the turn kept him in the lead, but the river 
was brutal as can be as it gave Ellison two-pair to win the pot.
Fitzer was then left with only 10,000 and he busted a few hands later.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
53,000 | |
|
|
Busted |
Level: 6
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 800
PN Podcast: Hall of Fame Poker Room, Hellmuth's Bad Picks & Guest Chad Eveslage
Level 5
: Blinds 300/600, 600 ante
On the latest episode of the PokerNews Podcast, Chad Holloway, Jesse Fullen, and Connor Richards talk about the opening of the Hall of Fame Poker Room at Bally's (soon to be Horseshoe Las Vegas), actor Vince Vaughn taking on former Main Event champs, and the FTX crypto crash.
They also highlight winners from the PokerStars WCOOP, APPT Cambodia, and Bar Poker Open before talking about Phil Hellmuth's crappy record in his NFL "Pick of the Week." However, it's not all bad news as Houston's Mattress Mack won $75 million thanks to the Astros winning the World Series. It was the largest sports-betting win in history!
Finally, this week's guest is Chad Eveslage, who in the last 18 months has won two WPT titles and his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet. Eveslage, who has $6,725,332 in career tournament earnings, recently won WPT Five Diamond for $1,042,300 and before that the WPT Venetian for $910,370 in June 2021. Find out more about one of poker's hottest players in this exclusive interview.
Speaking of the WPT, don't miss out on hearing about this week's ClubWPT Qualifier, who punched their ticket to the upcoming $15M GTD WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.
Alsup Triples Up
Level 5
: Blinds 300/600, 600 ante
Rich Alsup raised to 2,000 from middle position and was called by Monte Hardinger in late position. Then Taylor Howard in the cutoff raised the price of poker to 7,000 and action folded back around to Alsup.
Apparently this amount was still not enough as Alsup then ripped it all in for 18,800 and Hardinger followed suit for less. Howard quickly made the call and the cards were tabled, with Howard covering.
Monte Hardinger:
Rich Alsup:
Taylor Howard: 
Alsup was a favorite going into this matchup, and the board of 
kept him in the lead as he scored a big triple up as Hardinger was eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
70,000 | |
|
|
55,000 | |
|
|
Busted |
Level: 5
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
Break Time
Level 4
: Blinds 300/500, 500 ante
The players are now on their first 15-minute break of the night and will return shortly.