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

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 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
Paul Richardson	151,700	7,900
Peter Thao	89,500	41,400
Angela Jordison	84,000	35,400
Joe Nguyen	76,000	43,000
Justin Saliba	40,200	40,200
Kris Burchfield	39,000	39,000
Donald Landwirth	25,300	-3,100
Victor Paredes	19,000	-21,300
Johnnie Moreno	11,000	-45,000
Aaron Messmer	Busted

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
Bryan Saltzman	34,700

Tags: Bryan Saltzman Bryant Miller

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
Paul Richardson	143,800	16,800
Scott Stewart	102,000	32,500
Richard Troendly	73,000	73,000
Charles Moore	63,000	16,800
Dylan Wilkerson	52,000	52,000
Joe Stapleton	40,000	40,000
Michael Loncar	40,000	5,000
Jesse Hollander	37,500	37,500
Jasthi Kumar	37,000	37,000
Stephen Song	35,900	-4,100
Brock Wilson	31,500	31,500
Mark Egbert	10,500

Level: 4

Blinds: 300/500

Ante: 500

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

12-04-2022 15:46 UTC-7

Big Raise and Flop Bet Leads to Big Pot

Mike Patrick

Level 3 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Florencio Arguelles opened to 2,200 in early position and was called by the hijack and Michael Lin on the button.

On the flop, Arguelles bet 8,000 into the 7,600 chip pot.

The hijack folded, but Lin called for his last 7,900 to put himself at risk.

Michael Lin:
Florencio Arguelles:

The players both had the same hand, to chop the pot after each added another queen on the runout.

Player	Chips	Progress
Florencio Arguelles	37,000	37,000
Michael Lin	11,500	11,500

Tags: Florencio Arguelles Michael Lin

12-04-2022 15:36 UTC-7

Stewart Has it on Nice Board

Mike Patrick

Level 3 : Blinds 200/400, 400 ante

Picking action up on a flop of with 3,300 in the middle, the small blind checked to Scott Stewart in the big blind who bet 2,000.

Vijay Ramani called on the button and the small blind called as well.

The turn brought the , double pairing the board. Action was again checked to Stewart, who bet another 2,000.

Ramani called but the small blind folded.

The river brought the putting a full house of nines full of sixes on the board. This time Stewart sized up to 16,500 and after some brief thought, Ramani called.