End of Day 1b, 23 Players Bag
With the field cut down to 23, play has stopped as the players in Day 1b have bagged up to return tomorrow at noon for the Day 2 restart.
With the field cut down to 23, play has stopped as the players in Day 1b have bagged up to return tomorrow at noon for the Day 2 restart.
A player moved all in preflop and Todd Nichols made the call to put him at risk on the stone bubble.
Player: A♠3♦
Todd Nichols: K♠2♦
The at-risk player started off ahead with his ace-high, but the flop of A♥2♣2♥ was brutal as it gave Nichols trip deuces for a big lead.
The runout of 4♣K♠ failed to provide another ace for the player and he was eliminated on the bubble as Nichols further improved to a full house.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Todd Nichols | 619,000 | |
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With the elimination of a player, the field has now been thinned to 24 which means they are on the stone money/bag bubble. Hand for hand is now in effect until one more player is eliminated.
The remaining 25 players have returned from break in Flight 1b and will go hand-for-hand once they lose one more player.
Level: 15
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
Last time in Tulsa, Brian Winter won the Flip 'n' Go ring event before he jumped into the Pot Limit Omaha ring event with just moments left in registration. He went on to win that tournament and claim his second ring of the afternoon.
Winter’s other 2023 RGPS rings include a win in the One Day Ring Event in St. Louis, two events in Tunica, and a $16,760 prize in the $250 Deepstack in last January’s Tulsa event.
The big year gives Winter a sizable lead in the RGPS Player of the Year Race, which will run in partnership with the Global Poker Index.
How it works:
Rank | Player | POY Points |
---|---|---|
1 | Brian Winter | 1490.27 |
2 | Shaun Emery | 802.88 |
3 | Walker Miskelly | 639.83 |
4 | Jason Simon | 639.47 |
5 | Daniel Hughes | 576.15 |
6 | David Prociak | 533.55 |
7 | Loi Hoang | 529.2 |
8 | William Stanford | 505.88 |
9 | John Koo | 503.04 |
10 | Kevin Grinder | 497.62 |
The players remaining in Day 1b are now on a quick 15-minute break and will return shortly.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Casey Hindman |
520,000
315,000
|
315,000 |
Ricky Gebhart |
485,000
-95,000
|
-95,000 |
Clayton Soliz |
480,000
122,000
|
122,000 |
Jared Ward | 470,000 | |
Duster Ellis |
365,000
331,000
|
331,000 |
On a heads-up turn of 10♥3♣5♦9♣, Tyler Burke checked to Brandon Wall who bet 20,000. Burke made the call to see the 5♣ peel off on the river and checked once more to Wall.
Wall then thought for a second before setting out a bet of 50,000, which sent Burke into the tank.
"Ooo, forward motion!" tablemate Clayton Soliz joked when a chip accidentally fell off of Burke's stack and rolled across the line.
"Hah, I kind of wish. That would make this decision easier," Burke admitted and after a few more seconds he made the call.
Wall flipped over 9♦9♥ for a rivered full house and Burke shook his head and mucked his cards while the pot was pushed the other way.
Fortunately for Burke, he got it all in the very next hand with A♥J♥ against K♠Q♣ and doubled up when he spiked an ace on the flop.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Brandon Wall |
355,000
325,000
|
325,000 |
Tyler Burke |
120,000
120,000
|
120,000 |
Level: 14
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000