$600 Main Event Day 1a | 2025 RGPS Grand Prix San Diego

11-21-2025 19:45 UTC-7

Hoang Doubles

Erick Torres

Level 2 : Blinds 200/300, 300 ante

Long Hoang and George Mossler played a big pot as chips were in the middle, with Hoang at risk as Mossler barely had him covered.

Long Hoang: A♥K♠ All in
George Mossler: 9♦9♠

The flop was a welcome sight for Hoang as it fanned out A♠7♣8♦ to pull Hoang well ahead of Mossler's pocket pair.

The Q♣ turn and the K♣ river awarded Hoang the pot, as Mossler was left with little to work with following the loss.

Player	Chips	Progress
Long Hoang	64,200 34,200	34,200
George Mossler	200 29,800	29,800

Tags: George Mossler Long Hoang

Level: 2

Blinds: 200/300

Ante: 300

11-21-2025 19:34 UTC-7

Patience is a Virtue

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Erick Torres

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

Robert Fortuno, a Chula Vista resident, has been playing as far back as elementary school, but he didn’t start learning how to play Texas Hold’em until he came to the United States in the late 1990s.

Fortuno shared that, like many players, he first began to play against his friends, but that soon was not enough as Fortuno began to peer elsewhere to push his boundaries and test his poker skills against a larger playing field.

“I wanted to try out how well I would do playing against other people, other than my friends. A lot of times I won against my friends. My punishment was to get the pizza for the next game.”

Perhaps he was simply tired of buying pizza, or it was the hunger for competition that drove him, but Fortuno stated that he began to journey to poker rooms and casinos to play cash and eventually tournaments.

Fortuno shared that he feels the game of poker has been more than just a competitive pursuit, but that the game has helped him develop life skills that he feels have translated into his professional and personal life.

“I think through playing poker I developed a lot of patience,” Fortuno said.

Fortuno shared that he works in controls and automation, and he felt that the game offered a chance to gain work on problem-solving and enhance skills that would aid him in his professional life, which has also been what continues to keep the game of poker appealing all these years after learning how to play.

“When you work in that kind of field, you have to be patient. How can I diagnose the problem? I have to test things and see what works with the equipment,” Fortuno said. “It’s the same with poker in terms of making decisions and trying to develop a game plan.”

11-21-2025 19:29 UTC-7

Early Entrants

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Erick Torres

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

A total of 43 entrants have taken their shot at the RGPS San Diego Grand Prix $600 Main Event here at the Jamul Casino Resort.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeremy Quinard	30,000 30,000	30,000
Di Wu	30,000 30,000	30,000
Randy Shamo	30,000 30,000	30,000
Gabriel Habbaba	30,000 30,000	30,000
George Kalfayan	30,000 30,000	30,000
Cody Bloom	30,000 30,000	30,000
Douglas Jones	30,000 30,000	30,000
Ronald Segni	30,000 30,000	30,000
Cristian Gastelum-Soto	30,000 30,000	30,000
Druce Gammon	30,000 30,000	30,000
Rip Fritzer	30,000 30,000	30,000
Nawid Ayobi	30,000 30,000	30,000
Phvieng Keokham	30,000 30,000	30,000
Yu Chen	30,000 30,000	30,000
Taylor Minshew	30,000 30,000	30,000
Justin Muse	30,000 30,000	30,000
Marc Tiberia	30,000 30,000	30,000
Blain Mueller	30,000 30,000	30,000
Robert Fortuno	30,000 30,000	30,000
John Scroggins	30,000 30,000	30,000
Celalettin Korman	30,000 30,000	30,000
Kenyell Deberry	30,000 30,000	30,000
Anastasiia Knapp	30,000 30,000	30,000

Bradley Miller	30,000 30,000	30,000
Ralph Castaneda	30,000 30,000	30,000

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11-21-2025 19:07 UTC-7

Cards in the Air

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Erick Torres

Level 1 : Blinds 100/200, 200 ante

After a short delay, play has begun in the RunGood Poker Series San Diego Grand Prix $600 Main Event.

Level: 1

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 200

11-21-2025 17:10 UTC-7

RunGood Poker Series Grand Prix San Diego Main Event Slated to Begin

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Erick Torres

RunGood Poker Series Grand Prix is making a stop at Jamul Casino Resort near San Diego, California, for a weekend of poker for the $600 RGPS Grand Prix Main Event featuring a $150,000 guarantee. This is the third time RGPS has stopped at Jamul Casino Resort this calendar year.

The last time RGPS came into town, it was Sebastian Acevedo who scored the first-place prize of $33,216 after agreeing to a three-way ICM chop with James Kozono and David Fernandez Sanchez to take home the crown at the San Diego Poker Classic.

2025 San Diego Poker Classic Final Table Results

Place	Player	Country	Prize (USD)
1	Sebastian Acevedo	United States	$33,216*
2	James Kozono	United States	$28,865*
3	David Fernandez Sanchez	United States	$26,431*
4	Patrick Wamsley	United States	$12,071
5	Silas Tooley	United States	$9,302
6	Tolga Gesli	United States	$7,703
7	Romeo Ebidag	United States	$6,455
8	Michael Kaplitz	United States	$5,285
9	Bradley Miller	United States	$4,115

* Denotes three-way deal

RGPS will now shift its focus to the final two stops of the Grand Prix 2025 Race to Gold as it will host a pair of events this weekend before the Dream Seat Invitational season finale. The RGPS Jamul Resort Casino Main Event will feature three starting flights with the first flight scheduled to begin tonight at 6 p.m. local time.

The final two flights will be hosted on Saturday, November 22, with Day 1b beginning at 11 a.m. and Day 1c slotted to begin at 6 p.m. local time. The qualifying players will reconvene on Day 2, which will begin on Sunday, November 23, at 12 p.m., where they will play until a winner is crowned.

Players will begin with a starting stack of 30,000 chips. Blind are scheduled for 30 minutes for the first eight levels and will bump up to 40-minute levels after that. Registration will remain open until the beginning of Level 9.

Players are entitled to unlimited re-entries, and they may play all Day 1 flights. Should a player qualify for Day 2 more than once, they will only be entitled to play the higher chip stack, as any lower stacks will be removed from play at the start of Day 2.

A total of 12.5% of players, rounded down from each flight, will be in the money and qualify for Day 2.

Stay tuned here at PokerNews for coverage of all starting flights and the eventual champion here at the RPGS Jamul Casino Resort San Diego Grand Prix.

Tags: Bradley Miller David Fernandez Sanchez James Kozono Michael Kaplitz Patrick Wamsley Romeo Ebidag Sebastian Acevedo Silas Tooley Tolga Gesli

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