Million Dollar Main Event Day 2 | 2023 RGPS Checkpoint Thunder Valley

07-30-2023 12:52 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Exequiel Fernando	Busted
James Thompson	Busted
Joe Toney	Busted
James Schipsi	Busted
Damon Underwood	Busted
Michael Loncar	Busted
Richard Green Jr	Busted
Asmare Bekalu	Busted
Jason Stoddard	Busted
Pedro Rodriguez	Busted
Jaime Haletky	Busted
George Waller	Busted
Ralph Topete	Busted
Thomas Riggs	Busted
Stephen Kujubu	Busted
Gregory Pincombe	Busted
Ryan Bechthold	Busted
Reginald Pears	Busted

Break Time!

Kirk Brown

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

The remaining players are now on their first 15-minute break of the day and will return to action shortly.

07-30-2023 13:36 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Paul Sampson	1,060,000 497,000	497,000

Michael Abratique	750,000 385,000	385,000
Adam Dunkle	550,000 14,000	14,000
Deven Cannon	510,000 387,500	387,500
Adam Hannula	465,500 59,500	59,500
Phatseluck Yang	465,000 77,000	77,000
John Kenner	400,000 225,000	225,000
Joseph Mussat	400,000 135,500	135,500
Jared Jaffee	375,000 19,000	19,000

Anubhav Jolly	375,000 153,000	153,000
Jeff Platt	363,500 203,500	203,500
Wesley Nally	362,000 222,000	222,000
Naga Kakumanu	353,000 160,500	160,500
Kevin O'Donnell	340,000 100,000	100,000
Ravi Udayakumar	325,000 -86,500	-86,500

Joseph Quaile	320,000 122,000	122,000
Ethan Yau	318,500 185,500	185,500

Richard Fifield	310,000 110,000	110,000
Mehran Moeinzadeh	302,000 122,500	122,500
Daniel Turner	300,000 -84,000	-84,000
Jasvinder Singh	290,000 74,500	74,500
Tongzu Ding	277,000 96,500	96,500
Sean Drake	273,500

Anthony Hernandez	272,000 33,000	33,000
Alexander Rodriguez	270,000 -25,000	-25,000

Mataya Tries to Trap Rampage

Kirk Brown

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Ethan "Rampage" Yau opened to 9,000 from the button and was then three-bet to 21,000 from Scott Mataya in the small blind.

Yau made the call and the two went heads-up to a flop of 3♦5♦9♥, which saw a continuation from Mataya for 26,000. Yau wasted no time in making the call and the duo saw the turn come the 2♦.

Mataya decided to slow down and checked to Yau who then fired for 35,000. This did not seem to bother Mataya as he made the call to see the 3♣ fall on the river.

Mataya checked once more and Yau quickly checked back, to which Mataya flipped over A♦7♦ for the ace-high flush. Yau smirked and tossed in his cards while the pot was pushed over to Mataya.

Player	Chips	Progress
Scott Mataya	270,000 92,500	92,500
Ethan Yau	239,000 -79,500	-79,500

Tags: Scott Mataya Ethan Yau

07-30-2023 14:02 UTC-7

Kolwalk Sent to Rail in Wretched Fashion

Kirk Brown

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Curtis Kowalk moved all in preflop for his last 66,500 and action folded to Daniel "Wretchy" Martin in the big blind made the call after some pause.

Curtis Kowalk: A♥10♠
Daniel Martin: 6♣6♥

Martin was a favorite going into this flip with his pocket pair, but those odds greatly increased when the flop came 6♦3♣2♠ to leave Kowalk drawing completely dead. The runout of 10♥Q♥ did nothing and Kolwalk was sent to the rail as Martin stacked his new chips.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Martin	220,000 68,000	68,000
Curtis Kowalk	Busted

07-30-2023 14:19 UTC-7

Yau Takes Down Big Pot; McKellar Bounces Back

Kirk Brown

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

On a heads-up completed board of 5♦8♣8♦6♣Q♦, there was already around over 175,000 in the pot when Pierce McKeller led out for 85,000.

The action was then on Ethan "Rampage" Yau who responded by moving all in for more, which prompted a disheartened fold by McKellar to award him the huge pot.

With this win, Yau's stack was boosted up to 380,000 while McKellar was left with around 55,000.

Luckily for McKellar, he was able to double up a few hands later when his ace-eight defeated the ace-jack of Scott Mataya.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ethan Yau	380,000 141,000	141,000

Scott Mataya	215,000 -55,000	-55,000
Pierce Mckellar	55,000 -163,500	-163,500

Tags: Pierce McKeller Scott Mataya Ethan Yau

Level: 13

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 4,000

07-30-2023 14:38 UTC-7

Duan Takes it at Showdown

Kirk Brown

Level 13 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

On a three-way flop of 5♠6♠10♥, Daniel Turner in the big blind checked to Tyler Patterson in middle position who bet 16,000 into the pot of 51,500. Bin Duan made the call from the hijack and Turner came along as well to see the turn 3♦.

All three players decided to check through to the river J♠ and they all checked once more. Duan then flipped over 10♣9♣ for a pair of tens and the other two quickly mucked to award him the pot.