$2,500 Season Finale ($1,000,000 Guaranteed) Day 1a | 2022 RunGood Poker Series Season Finale

12-03-2022 19:28 UTC-8

Player	Chips	Progress
Chad Burum	195,000 5,000	5,000
Michael Ludwick	186,000 121,700	121,700
JC Tran	165,000 12,000	12,000

Jack Surwald	160,000 43,000	43,000
Benjamin Underwood	108,000 13,000	13,000
Megan Thomson	83,700 4,700	4,700
Brandon Zuidema	81,500 34,500	34,500
Greg Jennings	81,500 61,700	61,700
Bob Mather	71,000 2,000	2,000
Michael Rossitto	64,500 14,500	14,500
Kyle Kitagawa	33,500 6,500	6,500
Kevin O'Donnell	Busted

Kumar Finds Aces at the Perfect Time

Mike Patrick

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

Jasthi Kumar raised on the button and was met with an all-in raise from his opponent in the big blind, who had his 26,500 chip stack barely covered.

Kumar called and was at risk, but was in terrific shape to survive.

Jasthi Kumar:
Big Blind player:

Kumar's aces were well ahead of his opponent's ace-ten and the runout brought no help anywhere, sending a much-needed double up to Kumar.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jasthi Kumar	55,000

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12-03-2022 19:04 UTC-8

Jacobson Over 200k With Overbet Bomb on River

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Mike Patrick

Level 7 : Blinds 500/1,000, 1,000 ante

With approximately 25,000 in the pot on a flop of , the small blind and a player in middle position checked to Lane jacobson in the hijack, who bet 8,000.

The small blind folded, but the middle position player called to see the on the turn.

The player checked again and Jacobson bet 10,000, which again was called.

Jacobson was checked to a final time on the river, and this time, he bombed the river, shoving a stack of orange T-5,000 chips forward that covered his opponent's roughly 100,000 chip stack.

After a couple of minutes of deliberation, Jacobson got a fold which sent the healthy pot his way as he is now among the chip leaders in the final two levels of play.

Player	Chips	Progress
Lane Jacobson	245,000 245,000	245,000

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Level: 7

Blinds: 500/1,000

Ante: 1,000

12-03-2022 18:33 UTC-8

Final Break of the Day

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Mike Patrick

Level 6 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Just 117 players remain from the 207 total entries throughout the day.

Those players have been sent on their final 15-minute break of the day before they play two more levels and bag up for the night.

12-03-2022 18:31 UTC-8

A Few More Counts Before Break

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Mike Patrick

Level 6 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Richard Peloquin	221,000 4,000	4,000
Chad Burum	190,000
Papa Karn	53,000 46,400	46,400
Paul Richardson	49,500 34,500	34,500
Sasha Sabbaghian	39,500
Dylan Wilkerson	12,000 1,200	1,200

Francis Anderson	Busted

Scott Stewart	Busted

12-03-2022 18:20 UTC-8

Bob Mather Wins Event #6: $500 Pot-Limit Omaha

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Mike Patrick

Level 6 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

While PokerNews is here offering live updates for the $1,000,000 guaranteed Contenders Series Season Finale 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 here at the beautiful Thunder Valley Casino Resort.

Event #6: $500 Pot-Limit Omaha saw a field of 45 entries build a prizepool of $20,240, with the top 6 players making the money.

In the end, it was Bob Mather who took home the first prize money of $7,890, entry into the RunGood Pro-Am later this month at the PokerGO studio in Las Vegas, and the prestigious RunGood ring.

Event #6: $500 Pot-Limit Omaha Final Table Results

Place	Name	Prize
1	Bob Mather	$7,890
2	Jasthi Kumar	$4,655
3	Michael Runnels	$2,835
4	Willie Smith	$2,025
5	Richard Crawford	$1,620
6	Kris Burchfield	$1,215

Tags: Bob Mather Jasthi Kumar Richard Crawford Willie Smith

12-03-2022 18:15 UTC-8

Players in the field

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Joe Garrett

12-03-2022 18:11 UTC-8

More Updated Chip Counts

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Mike Patrick

Level 6 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Brett Murray	164,000 68,000	68,000
Tyler Patterson	116,500 70,500	70,500

Andrew Ostapchenko	106,300 22,300	22,300

Ray Henson	96,200 8,800	8,800

Bryant Miller	79,000 40,500	40,500
Jose Cruz	72,000 2,500	2,500
Ben Ludlow	43,000 30,200	30,200
Jeff Platt	38,500 14,700	14,700
Stephen Song	23,500 17,500	17,500

Jac Weber	Busted

12-03-2022 18:01 UTC-8

Johnnie Moreno Eliminated in Swingy Three-Way All-In

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Mike Patrick

Level 6 : Blinds 400/800, 800 ante

After Joseph Ricardo opened to 1,800 in middle position, Johnnie Moreno moved all in for his last 11,800 from the hijack.

Joshua Steiner called in the cutoff, and once action folded back to Ricardo, he moved all in for his last 18,900, which Steiner also called, giving himself the chance at a double elimination.

Johnnie Moreno:
Joseph Ricardo:
Joshua Steiner:

Steiner's kings started the hand in great shape to score that double elimination, but the flop gave Ricardo the lead.

The case on the turn however gave Steiner the lead back in the unlikeliest of fashions, but the card gave Ricardo a flush draw and Moreno a gutshot Broadway draw.

Ricardo's flush came in on the river with the , giving him more than a double up, while sending the popular vlogger and entrepreneur to the rail.