$600 Main Event
Day 1a Started
2023 RGPS San Diego
$600 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
2023 RGPS San Diego
Buy-in
$600
Prize Pool
$155,480
Entries
299
Level
27
Blinds
75,000 / 125,000
Ante
125,000
Entries
90
Players Left
12
RGPS Jamul Main Event Day 1a Kicks off at 6 p.m.!
The next RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) champion will be crowned this weekend as the RGPS Jamul Casino Main Event in San Diego is about to get underway. The $600 buy-in tournament kicks off today at 6 p.m. local time with Day 1a.
This Main Event has a guaranteed prize pool of $150,000 and is expected to surpass that as players have three starting flights to choose from. Day 1b will commence on Saturday, November 18 at 11 a.m., while Day 1c will get underway later that evening at 6 p.m.
Players will begin with a stack of 30,000 chips and blind levels of 100/200/200. Blind levels will last for 30 minutes during Day 1 and will increase to 45 minutes on Day 2. The tournament allows for unlimited re-entry up until the start of Level 9.
Play will continue until 12.5 % of the field remains, at which point the players will be in the money and will bag up to return for Day 2.
The eventual winner will earn the lion’s share of the prize pool, as well as an exclusive invitation and travel package to the Dream Seat invitational at Thunder Valley in two weeks.
A handful of RunGood ambassadors will be taking their shot in this tournament, including David Tuchman, Caitlin Comeskey, Nikki Limo, Daniel Hughes, and Taylor Howard.
Stay tuned as the PokerNews live reporting team is on-site and ready to bring readers updates of Day 1a action in the RGPS Jamul Casino Main Event.
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Shuffle Up and Deal!
Cards are in the air and chips are flying as Day 1a of the RGPS Jamul Main Event is officially underway!
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
Yamada Moves in
Level 1
: Blinds 100/200, 200 ante
On a completed board of 6♥3♣2♦8♥6♦, there were around 23,000 chips in the middle when Maurice Thomas checked to Derrick Yamada who then proceeded to move all in for 19,500.
Thomas then thought about it for a few moments but ultimately decided to let it go to award Yamada the nice pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
42,500
42,500
|
42,500 |
|
33,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 300
Margers Flops a Set
Level 2
: Blinds 200/300, 300 ante
On a heads-up completed board of A♦2♥10♥8♠Q♥, Tavish Margers announced he was all in for 14,600, swelling the pot to over 55,000 and the action was then on his opponent, Amy Devaudreuil. After thinking about it for just a few moments, she shrugged and slid her stack in to put him at risk.
Tavish Margers: 10♠10♣
Amy Devaudreuil: A♣K♠
"Yeah, I just knew you had a set, but I couldn't fold," Devaudreuil sighed, shaking her head as Margers raked in the big pot.
Left with only 600 after that exchange, she moved all in the very next hand and Margers called to put her at risk.
Margers held J♣9♣ while she tabled 4♠5♥ but no miracles came as the board ran out K♥K♣K♠8♣J♦ to give Margers a full house and Devaudreuil was sent to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
72,000
72,000
|
72,000 |
|
Busted |
Level: 3
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
'Atta Boy!
Level 3
: Blinds 200/400, 400 ante
Before the flop, short-stacked Afzal Atta moved all in for his last 5,000 and was called by Sammy Bouakham to put him at risk.
Afzal Atta: A♠6♠
Sammy Bouakham: A♣7♣
"Chop it up," someone at the table commented, even though Bouakham was ahead with his seven-kicker.
None of that mattered, however, as the board ran out 3♠J♥5♥6♦5♦ to pair Atta's six on the turn to give him the win for the double-up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
61,000 | |
|
10,500 |