The PokerNews PowerStack Leaderboard is a season-long competition running across the RunGood Poker Series Passport season, with points awarded at designated PokerNews PowerStack events at every stop.
The top ten finishers on the leaderboard at season’s end will earn a $1,100 RGPS Passport Thunder Valley Main Event seat, plus two nights’ accommodation.
Chris Grove was under the gun and ended up getting it all in preflop with the covering stack against the player in the big blind who had 52,000.
Big blind: 9♣9♥ 
Chris Grove: A♥A♦
Grove's aces remained in the lead all the way, as the board ran out K♠10♠5♦10♥6♦.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
180,000
180,000
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180,000 |
Action went heads-up to a flop of 10♥J♣10♦ in a hand between Jeffrey Proctor in the cutoff and the player in the big blind.
Both players checked to the J♦ turn, where the big blind led out with a bet of 4,000. Proctor called and the river fell the 4♦.
The big blind bet again, this time for 16,000, and Proctor called, tabling A♣10♣ for a full house to best the 9♥7♦ of the big blind.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
158,000
79,500
|
79,500 |
With late registration now closed, the floor has announced that of the 44 entries for Day 1a, 6 players will bag up and advance to Day 2 on Sunday.
Currently, 24 players remain in contention.
Level: 10
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000
Players have been sent on a 45-minute dinner break and will return to blinds at 1,000/2,000/2,000 at approximately 6:40 p.m. local time.
Late registration will close before the start of the next level.
Yaser Al-Keliddar raised to 3,000 in the hijack and the player on the button flatted.
The flop came K♦9♣5♠ and Al-Keliddar check-called a bet of 5,000 from his opponent.
The 8♥ turn and 3♥ river both went check-check and Al-Keliddar tabled the winner with A♦J♦ for ace-high.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
41,600
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
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Action went three-ways to a flop of 3♠6♠3♣ in a hand between Mariya Persanova in the cutoff, the player in the small blind, and Chris Bourassa in the big blind.
It checked to Persanova, who bet 6,200, and only Bourassa stuck around to see the A♦ turn. He check-called a bet of 10,000 from Persanova and the 10♠ fell on the river, which completed any flush draws.
Both players checked and Persanova tabled K♠3♥ for trips, besting the A♠J♣ of Bourassa.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
100,000
8,500
|
8,500 |
|
|
42,500
25,000
|
25,000 |
After seven Day 1 starting flights and a lengthy Day 2 battle on the felt, the Dallas stop of the RunGood Poker Series Passport Season officially came to a close with Daniel Lowery claiming victory to capture his twelfth RGPS title, and the top-prize of just over $100,000.
The $1,200 Main Event drew 468 entries, with only 56 players returning for the final day of action looking to capture a six-figure score.
Lowery bagged big on Day 1c and entered Sunday as the overall chip leader with over 100 big blinds. He carried his momentum all the way to the end, defeating Thao Tran after a back-and-forth heads-up match to earn the lion's share of the $500,000 prize pool.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Lowery | United States | $100,007 |
| 2 | Thao Tran | United States | $66,618 |
| 3 | Ryan Albert | United States | $49,149 |
| 4 | William Berry | United States | $36,715 |
| 5 | Sophie Le | United States | $27,693 |
| 6 | Mason Vieth | United States | $21,114 |
| 7 | Karanvir Singh | United States | $16,273 |
| 8 | Sharon Aloor | United States | $12,681 |
| 9 | Charles Keisling | United States | $9,992 |
Level: 9
Blinds: 1,000/1,500
Ante: 1,500
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