$575 Main Event | RunGood Poker Series Downstream

10-27-2019 12:39 UTC-5

Player	Chips	Progress
Justin Gardenhire	201,000	-8,000
Matt Donaldson	182,000	-19,500
Marvin Donaldson	181,000	34,000
Greg Jennings	166,000	78,000
Ted Forshey	156,000	32,000
John Lopez	125,000	13,500
Jesse Jones	121,000	-40,000
Charles Cooper	110,000	-2,500
Vincent Ramirez	86,000	-18,500
Mark Lafata	86,000	6,500
Marty Kinder	68,000	68,000
Kurt Haiss	55,000	16,000
Scott Dattel	48,000	-14,500

Joey McCaig and Jeff Tebben Out

Brentharrington

Level 13 : 2,000/3,000, 3,000 ante

Joey McCaig four-bet shoved aces preflop for his last 40,000 and Sandra Main called with .

Main flopped trips and held on to eliminate McCaig.

Jeff Tebben also busted in the last few minutes. According to Paul Strohm, Tebben got in jacks against tens and lost his roughly 60,000 stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sandra Main	240,000	56,500
Joey McCaig	Busted
Jeff Tebben	Busted

Tags: Jeff Tebben Joey McCaig Paul Strohm Sandra Main

10-27-2019 12:16 UTC-5

Big Stacks Seated Together

Brentharrington

Level 13 : 2,000/3,000, 3,000 ante

Two of the bigger stacks remaining are Tommy Smith and Phillip Teel. They are both seated at the same table and Teel has position on Smith.

Smith opened from middle position to 7,000 and Teel reraised to 21,000 on the button. Smith folded and Teel showed two queens.

With almost 600,000 chips between them, there is plenty to keep an eye on at this table which also includes Travis Speck, Jeff Tebben, and Terry Gardner.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tommy Smith	309,500	-10,000
Phillip Teel	221,000	-48,000

Tags: Jeff Tebben Phillip Teel Travis Speck

10-27-2019 12:12 UTC-5

Tim Black Eliminated

Brentharrington

Level 13 : 2,000/3,000, 3,000 ante

Larry Scharnhorst opened to 7,000 and Tim Black shoved his remaining 58,500 stack from middle position.

Scharnhorst called with and was ahead of the of Black.

The board ran out and Black was eliminated.

Player	Chips	Progress
Larry Scharnhorst	131,000	57,500
Tim Black	Busted

Tags: Tim Black Larry Scharnhorst

10-27-2019 12:03 UTC-5

Day 2 Underway

Brentharrington

Level 13 : 2,000/3,000, 3,000 ante

Cards are in the air for Day 2. The levels are now 45 minutes long.

Level: 13

Blinds: 2,000/3,000

Ante: 3,000

10-27-2019 11:08 UTC-5

Championship Sunday: RGPS Downstream Main Event Day 2 Starts at Noon

Brentharrington

RunGood Poker Series RGPS Game Seven Rings

Tommy Smith (319,500) leads a field of 62 remaining players in the RunGood Poker Series Downstream $575 Main Event. The field has been whittled down from 332 players over three starting flights. The winner of the tournament will win $38,179 and the Signature Championship ring.

Before that, they must work their way through the field of remaining players. Some of them you may recognize from other RGPS stops like Jacob Seale, who has two second-place finishes in RGPS Main Events and has cashed at all the stops on the tour outside of Downstream and Oklahoma City, which was only recently added to the schedule. Seale enters the day with 96,500.

In order for Seale to add the Downstream Main to the list of events he's cashed in, he must make it to the final 36 players. Today's min-cash is worth $1,245.

Phillip Teel enters the day as another one of the big stacks. Teel bagged 269,000 in Day 1b. Devin Arnone (284,000), Patrick Brown (250,000), and Justin Gardenhire (209,000) make up the rest of the top-five chip stacks entering the day.

The action resumes Sunday at noon and PokerNews.com will bring you all the photos and updates throughout the day as the RGPS crowns its newest champion here at the Downstream Casino.

Tags: Devin Arnone Jacob Seale Justin Gardenhire Patrick Brown Phillip Teel

$575 Main Event

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