If we kept the records for an all-time money list for RunGood Events, Mike Fouts would likely be in the top 10. He won the RGPS Main Event here in February 2018 for $36,780 and finished sixth in the RGPS Main Event in Kansas City for another $9,557. In all, Fouts has $49,292 in cashes at RunGood Events.
Fouts came up short in Flight A but is back in action today with his sights set on yet another final table.
RGPS Main Event Champion Jerry Moore has taken a seat in Flight B. Moore won the RGPS Old West Main Event at the Hard Rock in Tulsa in November of 2018, taking home $35,917. Moore hails from Omaha, Nebraska and hopes to put up a repeat performance on his home turf.
Elsewhere in the field, a number of players who fell short in flight A have returned to try again for a Day 2 seat, including: Dave Queen, Kelly Vande Mheen, Sarah Zeluf, Terry Gardner, Scott Buller, Eric Barkdoll, Mike Fouts, and Paul Strohm.
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The tournament director has gone over the rules and the clock has officially started for Flight B of the RunGood Poker Series Main Event at Horseshoe Council Bluffs.
The GPI-Award Winning Mid Major Tour of 2019, RunGood Poker Series continues Saturday with the final two starting flights of the $575 Main Event.
Though this tournament features a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool, the 114 entries from Flight A have already generated over half of that figure ($63,270). This means the guarantee is likely to be obliterated before the start of Flight C!
Of the 114 to join Flight A, Eric Atchison is the player to catch among the 23that advanced, finishing the day with 303,500 in chips. No other player finished Day 1a with more than 200,000; Atchison's closest competitor, Mark Lafata, bagged 180,500.
Flight B will see cards in the air at noon local time with players receiving 20,000 in starting chips. Twelve levels of 30 minutes each are on the docket, with 15-minute breaks at the completion of every four levels or two hours of play. The day will reach its conclusion at around 6:30 p.m. local time, just in time for Flight C’s 7 p.m. start time. Like the flights that came before it, Flight C will feature an identical structure as the final opportunity to advance to Day 2.
PokerNews will be on the floor covering all the action across both starting flights. Make sure to stick around.
$575 Main Event
Day 1bc Started
