$600 Main Event
Day 1b Started
$600 Main Event
Day 1b Started
After 130 entries filled the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tulsa tournament area Friday night for Day 1a, the RunGood Series Tulsa $600 Main Event $100,000 guarantee is now guaranteed to be shattered on Saturday.
Saturday will see two more Day 1’s, with the opener at noon local time and the event's third and final flight beginning at 6 p.m. If a player busts the noon Day 1b flight, they will be able to enter Day 1c as well.
The number that players Saturday will be chasing is the 596,000 chips gathered by Marsha Adams, who bagged the biggest stack Friday night through 13 levels of play before the flight reached its 12.5 percent payout mark.
Play on Saturday will also be played down to that point with those players making the money and advancing on to Day 2 on Sunday at noon.
Place | Name | Chip Count |
---|---|---|
1 | Marsha Adams | 596,000 |
2 | Adam Higbee | 542,000 |
3 | Daniel Lowery | 411,000 |
4 | Jesse Jones | 342,000 |
5 | Gabriel Attoun | 296,000 |
6 | Rance Chalakee | 273,000 |
7 | Christopher Allen | 198,000 |
8 | Scott Robertson | 198,000 |
9 | Kaleb Dunn | 197,000 |
10 | John Millsap | 192,000 |
Just as it was in Day 1a, players will begin their journey with 30,000 chips at blinds of 100/200 with a 200 big blind ante. Registration will be open until the start of level 9, with unlimited reentry also available to that point in each flight. Players will receive 15-minute breaks after levels four and eight, then a 10-minute break every four levels after.
Play will continue with 30-minute levels until the field reaches that 12.5 percent threshold where they will then bag for Day 2. Entrants who play Day 1b may also play Day 1c even if they find a bag but must forfeit their shortest stack if they bag twice. They would however be awarded a second min-cash should they survive both flights.
Be sure to stick with PokerNews all day for coverage of both flights, and then again tomorrow for the thrilling conclusion from the beautiful Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tulsa.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
The shuffle up and deal command has been given with 80 entries on the tournament clock.
Combined with the 130 entries from Day 1a, the $100,000 guarantee has already been surpassed and will grow substantially throughout the day's pair of flights.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Travis Speck |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Mark Lafata |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Thomas Seaton
|
30,000 | |
Cedrric Trevino | 30,000 | |
Jeff Platt | 30,000 | |
Papa Karn |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Skyler Roberts | 30,000 | |
Megan Moore |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Preston Roberts | 30,000 | |
|
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Brazos Roberts
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Jeromy Hendon | 30,000 |
Marlon Gabriel managed to bag 124,000 in Friday's opening flight, but players do have the option to enter more than one flight and taking their largest stack forward to Day 2.
After losing a chunk of his stack early Saturday, he got some back in a recent pot with Michael Kilgore.
On a completed board of , Kilgore bet 2,600 from early position. Gabriel then raised to 8,000, and after some deliberation, Kilgore folded.
Gabriel flashed his for a flopped nut flush, showing his opponent the goods before dragging a pot to get him back near starting stack.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Marlon Gabriel |
26,000
-98,000
|
-98,000 |
Michael Kilgore
|
21,500 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 300
What started as a small enough pot grew huge with a three-way all-in on the flop that saw Donna Stewart nearly triple her starting stack.
After a bet from Phillip Brazel in early position on the board, Stewart raised to 11,000 in late position, and then Chip Petit moved all in from the button for a bit over 20,000. Brazel moved all in for more as did Stewart who was covered by Brazel.
Chip Petit:
Donna Stewart:
Phillip Brazel:
Stewart was in great shape with a set of kings versus Brazel's set of fives. Petit would need a non-pairing heart to make his nut flush draw.
The turn came with the and the river brought the , keeping Stewart's set of kings ahead for a pot that eliminated Petit and left Brazel short.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Donna Stewart
|
80,000
80,000
|
80,000 |
Phillip Brazel
|
8,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
Chip Petit
|
Busted |
While PokerNews is here offering live updates for the $600 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 Tulsa Series here at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tulsa.
Event #1: $200 Seniors (50+) NLH saw a field of 163 entries build a prizepool of $26,080, with the top 21 players making the money. An eight-way chop was agreed to at the final table with Ricky Gebhart of Siloam Springs, AR taking home $2,554 and the RunGood ring for first place.
Place | Name | Hometown | Prize |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Ricky Gebhart | Siloam Springs, AR | $2,554* |
2 | Ramona Jacobi | Edmond, OK | $2,554* |
3 | Nicholas Guglielmo | Chandler, OK | $2,554* |
4 | Miles Taylor | Tulsa, OK | $2,554* |
5 | Bradley Frazer | Sarcoxie, MO | $2,554* |
6 | Leon Hamerick | Tulsa, OK | $2,554* |
7 | Larry Smith | Bixby, OK | $2,554* |
8 | Randy Dack | Overland Park, KS | $2,553* |
9 | Christopher Wilson | Sapulpa, OK | $631 |
*Denotes deal |
With several thousand in the middle already on a flop of , Marlon Gabriel was in early position and decided to gamble for over 33,000 in a three-way all-in.
He was way behind his opponents though, including the big blind who he had slightly covered, but he was at risk against Andy Cruz in middle position.
Big Blind:
Marlon Gabriel:
Andy Cruz:
Gabriel would need his gutshot to come in or make running diamonds versus the big blind's set of queens and Cruz's top two pair.
The turn brought Gabriel some help with the flush draw, then the hit the river sending the chips sailing toward Gabriel who hit his draw to scoop the massive pot and leave Cruz short.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Marlon Gabriel |
109,000
83,000
|
83,000 |
Andy Cruz |
9,500
9,500
|
9,500 |