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

12-04-2022 15:59 UTC-7

Jeffrey Lennon Wins Event #1: $1,000 RunGood Take 1

Mike Patrick

Level 3 : Blinds 200/400, 400 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 #1: $1,000 RunGood Take 1 saw a field of 456 entries build a prizepool of $410,400, smashing its $250,000 guarantee, with the top 70 players making the money.

In the end, it was Jeffrey Lennon who took home $78,040 and the RunGood ring for first place.

Event #1: $1,000 RunGood Take 1 NLH Final Table Results

Place	Name	Prize
1	Jeffrey Lennon	$78,040
2	Stuart Tuvey	$54,685
3	Joshua Prager	$35,110
4	Deborah Sternberg	$25,005
5	Feiyue Wu	$19,035
6	Samoua Wang	$15,660
7	Miles White	$13,055
8	Casey Sandretto	$10,385
9	Brian Borst	$7,765

Tags: Brian Borst Casey Sandretto Deborah Sternberg Feiyue Wu Jeffrey Lennon Joshua Prager Miles White Samoua Wang Stuart Tuvey

Level: 4

Blinds: 300/500

Ante: 500

12-04-2022 16:20 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts and Some New Faces

Mike Patrick

Level 4 : 300/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Cornel Cimpan	151,000 112,400	112,400

Paul Richardson	143,800 16,800	16,800
Scott Stewart	102,000 32,500	32,500
Richard Troendly	73,000 73,000	73,000
Charles Moore	63,000 16,800	16,800
Dylan Wilkerson	52,000 52,000	52,000

Joe Stapleton	40,000 40,000	40,000
Michael Loncar	40,000 5,000	5,000
Jesse Hollander	37,500 37,500	37,500
Jasthi Kumar	37,000 37,000	37,000
Stephen Song	35,900 -4,100	-4,100

Brock Wilson	31,500 31,500	31,500

Mark Egbert	10,500

12-04-2022 16:34 UTC-7

Miller Puts Saltzman to the Test

Mike Patrick

Level 4 : 300/500, 500 ante

With approximately 13,000 in the pot on a completed board of , Bryant Miller checked to Bryan Saltzman, who bet 6,000.

Miller then check-raised enough to put Saltzman all in for his remaining 34,700.

Saltzman gave his decision some thought but then opted to fold, sending a pot to Miller that put him over the 100,000 mark.

Player	Chips	Progress
Bryant Miller	105,300 43,300	43,300
Bryan Saltzman	34,700

Tags: Bryan Saltzman Bryant Miller

12-04-2022 16:50 UTC-7

Updated Chip Counts and New Entries

Mike Patrick

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Xai Vang	180,200 180,200	180,200
Paul Richardson	151,700 7,900	7,900
Peter Thao	89,500 41,400	41,400
Angela Jordison	84,000 35,400	35,400
Joe Nguyen	76,000 43,000	43,000
Justin Saliba	40,200 40,200	40,200

Kris Burchfield	39,000 39,000	39,000
Donald Landwirth	25,300 -3,100	-3,100
Victor Paredes	19,000 -21,300	-21,300

Johnnie Moreno	11,000 -45,000	-45,000
Aaron Messmer	Busted

12-04-2022 17:01 UTC-7

Darrell Cain Wins Event #3: $135 Ambassador Bomb Pot Bounty

Mike Patrick

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 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 #3: $135 Ambassador Bomb Pot Bounty saw a field of 164 entries build a prizepool of $16,400, with the top 21 players making the money.

In the end, it was Darrell Cain who took home $4,320 and the RunGood ring for first place.

Event #3: $135 RunGood Ambassador Bomb Pot Bounty NLH Final Table Results

Place	Name	Prize
1	Darrell Cain	$4,320
2	Nelson Lickey	$2,855
3	Ben Primus	$1,685
4	Alexander Bailey	$1,025
5	Ruben Soliz	$790
6	Francisco Campos	$655
7	James Johnson	$565
8	Sean McCormack	$495
9	Adan Barajas	$430

Tags: Adan Barajas Alexander Bailey Ben Primus Darrell Cain Francisco Campos James Johnson Nelson Lickey Ruben Soliz Sean McCormack

12-04-2022 17:12 UTC-7

Wild Pot Sees Tanimoto Top 100k

Mike Patrick

Level 4 : Blinds 300/500, 500 ante

Maybe the most exciting pot of the day just took place as three players were all in and a fourth made a disciplined fold to keep his tournament alive.

Preflop, David Ong raised to 2,200 in early position and was called by Arthur Tanimoto in middle position, Conrad Bowman in the cutoff, and Mark Egbert in the small blind.

The flop came and Egbert moved in for just under 16,000. Ong made the call, but then Tanimoto moved over top all-in for just under 40,000.

Bowman went into the tank before moving all-in as well for slightly more.

Seeing all the action behind his original jam, Egbert actually left the table and had to be called back by the floor staff who threatened to kill his hand.

He returned to see Ong now in the blender with the two further all-ins behind his original call.

With no further action possible, Ong folded face up to save his last 17,500 chips, which proved to be a wise decision as the hands were revealed.

Mark Egbert:
Conrad Bowman:
Arthur Tanimoto:

Tanimoto's set of eights was ahead versus a pair of flush draws, with Egbert only drawing live to a straight flush.

The dealer completed the board with the on the turn and the on the river to send the huge pot to Tanimoto, while Egbert was instantly eliminated and Bowman was sent packing shortly after as the was left with crumbs.