Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
PokerNews will return at the beginning of Level 4 (approx 8:30 p.m.) of Day 1c to resume live coverage and updates from the final flight of the RunGood Poker Series Contenders Horseshoe Tunica $575 Main Event.
An assortment of counts from Day 1b have been provided below, with the official list set to be provided later this evening. Richard Bolden (291,500) appears to be the two-flight chip leader so far, though one flight still remains and will begin shortly at 7 p.m. local time.
Play has finished on the eight remaining tables, and players are in the process of coloring up T-100 chips and bagging thereafter. Stay tuned for chip counts from the end of the flight.
Rose Cooney saw action fold to her in the cutoff and open-jammed for 48,400. ClubGG Qualifier Matt Molsen called all in for 33,400 in the big blind.
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gave him top two pair. Needing only to fade running clubs for elimination or running straight cards for a chop, the latter remained a possibility on the turn
. However, the river
was safe and he scored the full double, leaving Cooney with just 15K after the pot was made right.
The tournament clock has been stopped with 10 minutes remaining in Level 12 and the final eight tables will be playing three more hands apiece before bagging and tagging. Sixty-four players appear to remain.
Josh Webb had 10,000 in front of him from early position and a player in the cutoff re-jammed for 10,200.
"All right," said Webb after receiving confirmation of the total, throwing in calling chips and tabling his hand.
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and remained in front as the turn
and river
completed the runout, earning him the pot and eliminating a player with less than
Tiffany Keathley of Conway, AR won her first RunGood $575 Main Event here at Horseshoe Tunica in August, 2019, earning a career-best score of $48,796 for navigating a field of more than 600. Now, she's back battling at the felt with her sights set on yet another title.
After being eliminated from play early in the day, Keathley was spotted once more after the most recent break continued, having chipped up to around 40K. Since then, she's continued to climb and now finds herself with around 120,000 in the final level of play for Day 1b, well above average for this point in the tournament.
Will Keathley be able to finish strong on Day 1b and take that momentum into Sunday? Keep following along as PokerNews brings more updates from the players and action that unfolds from here on out.
John Duke got his last handful of blinds into the middle preflop from the hijack, receiving action from the player on the button.
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, and it proved to be too many outs to miss as the turn
locked up the double for him and the river
made the hand official.
An all in and call were overheard as stacks got into the middle preflop with an under-the-gun player at risk for 49,000 against Rusty Wooten in the hijack.
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Wooten found himself in even better shape after the flop ![]()
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and left his opponent drawing dead after the turn
hit the felt. The river
completed the runout and the pot was shipped his way.
"How did I get so lucky?!" remarked Wooten of coolering his opponent, and he now has a six-figure stack with a handful of minutes remaining in Level 11.
Additionally, Richard Bolden was spotted at an adjacent table with a stack nearing a quarter-million. He appears to be the largest stack in the room among the nine tables now left in play.