Craig Dick eliminated Justin Gardenhire when the two were all in preflop with Gardenhire holding pocket sevens. Dick had 
and hit an ace on the turn and the river to eliminate Gardenhire.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
415,000
243,500
|
243,500 |
|
Busted |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
420,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
415,000
215,000
|
215,000 |
|
346,000
133,500
|
133,500 |
|
295,000
107,000
|
107,000 |
|
237,000
237,000
|
237,000 |
|
184,000
-34,500
|
-34,500 |
|
154,000
15,500
|
15,500 |
|
147,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
|
132,000
48,500
|
48,500 |
|
94,000
-33,000
|
-33,000 |
|
|
93,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
Level: 14
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
The final stop of the RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) “Showbound” season will wrap up this weekend at Hard Rock Tulsa in Oklahoma.
The seven-day series will culminate with a $575 buy-in, $100K GTD Main Event, a tournament PokerNews will live report. Likewise, on Monday, May 6 the one-day invite-only RGPS Showbound Poker After Dark satellite will take place and also be live reported.
That satellite will award a pair of $5,000 Sit & Go seats to be on Poker After Dark in Las Vegas. Packages include an “airfare and hotel” travel stipend. Throughout the 2019 RGPS Showbound Season, powered by PokerGO, players had the chance to win invitations by either winning a side event or final tabling any Main Event.
The RGPS Hard Rock Tulsa will be the last chance for players to qualify for the Poker After Dark satellite. Here’s a look at those who qualified throughout the first four stops of the season.
| Council Bluffs | Downstream | Tunica | Bossier City |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan Steuer | Mike Spyers | Chase Turner | Dennis Meisinger |
| Ian Nelson | Shannan Roberts | Dan Martin | Keith Trosclair |
| Trevor Vidlak | Justin Gardenhire | Kastardo Asekun | Stephen Hart |
| Nick Burris | Chase Petree | Yousef Saleh | Ray Henson |
| Travis Gant | Kyle Kinder | Chris Brewington | Jeremy Tinsley |
| Eric Atchison | Lance Hendricks | John Therrell | Wadih Kaawar |
| Nick Stille | Li Wu | Faris Brooks | Stephen Bailey |
| Tai Phan | Papa Karn | Edward Allen | Tuan Van |
| Thadd Wolff | William McCracken | Kyle Cartwright | Matt Register |
| Shane Fuller | Matt Blackwell | Corey Hodgeman | Rodney Sermons |
| Jovan Sudar | Clyde Lorance | Dan Crossett | Chungchin Chen |
| Scott Lodes | Norm Glueckert | Jon Swift | Paul Cavell |
| Mike Childers | Hugh Bryan | Richard Bolden | - |
| Travis Lavine | - | Preston McEwen | - |
The official prizepool for the Run Good Poker Series Kansas City Main Event is out and the top 45 players will make the money for a min-cash of $1,015.
The first place prize is $49,390 and every player that makes the final table will earn a seat in the "Showbound' satellite for a shot at playing on Poker After Dark.
After an early position open to 8,000 and two shoves, one by Ryan Gregor, Nam Phan called 55,000 and the original opener folded.
Phan had 
against 
and 
.
The board ran out 
, giving Phan the lead on the flop, putting him behind on the turn, and giving him a straight on the river to eliminate both his opponents.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
370,000
227,500
|
227,500 |
|
|
200,000 | |
|
Busted |
"I lost a flip," Grant Hinkle said on his way out the door.
"King-king against king-jack."
Hinkle and Dan Martin were eliminated early in play today.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted | |
|
||
|
Busted | |
Level: 13
Blinds: 1,500/2,500
Ante: 2,500
The Run Good Poker Series Kansas City Main Event at Harrah's Kansas City is set to start Day 2 with 95 players remaining. Joe Walters leads the way with 284,000 after bagging the chip lead in Day 1B.
Several Run Good Ambassadors and other familiar faces to the RGPS have made it to Day 2. Mina Greco (89,500), Justin Gardenhire (60,000), Jamie Kerstetter (83,500), Dan Martin (99,000), Grant Hinkle (46,500), and Blair Hinkle (60,000) all made it to Day 2.
Mason Hinkle (188,000), Chris Horter (39,500), Rodney Spriggs (166,500) along with many others are entering Day 2 with a shot at the RGPS Kansas City title.
Play resumes at noon Sunday and the tournament will play down to a winner today. You can follow all the action throughout the day on PokerNews.com.
| First Name | Last Name | Chip Count | Table | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herbert | Summers | 80,000 | 6 | 1 |
| Jonathan | Fain | 39,500 | 6 | 2 |
| Garrett | Bergmann | 51,500 | 6 | 3 |
| Rodney | Spriggs | 166,500 | 6 | 4 |
| William | Fisher | 23,500 | 6 | 5 |
| Ryan | Barton | 39,000 | 6 | 6 |
| Charles | Jorgensen | 74,000 | 6 | 7 |
| Papa | Karn | 30,000 | 6 | 8 |
| Daniel | Yi | 104,500 | 6 | 9 |
| Russell | Hummontrey | 60,500 | 6 | 10 |
| Jesse | Mull | 97,000 | 7 | 1 |
| Tony | Birney | 74,500 | 7 | 2 |
| Ronald | Green | 13,500 | 7 | 3 |
| Michael | Kusgen | 52,000 | 7 | 4 |
| Thomas | Bowler | 44,000 | 7 | 5 |
| Jeff | Fiedler | 87,000 | 7 | 6 |
| Grant | Illig | 134,000 | 7 | 7 |
| Craig | Dick | 171,500 | 7 | 8 |
| Shawn | Quinzer | 21,500 | 7 | 9 |
| Brian | Dewey | 218,500 | 7 | 10 |
| Brock | McCoy | 184,500 | 8 | 1 |
| Jacob | Seale | 127,000 | 8 | 2 |
| Jason | Darland | 182,000 | 8 | 3 |
| Joseph | Walters | 284,000 | 8 | 4 |
| Javier | Terrazas | 212,500 | 8 | 5 |
| Roger | Bennett | 146,000 | 8 | 6 |
| Terry | Gardner | 168,000 | 8 | 8 |
| Tim | Woodson | 65,500 | 8 | 9 |
| Shannan | Roberts | 92,000 | 8 | 10 |
| Robert | Redman | 95,000 | 9 | 1 |
| Jon | Taylor | 163,000 | 9 | 2 |
| Keith | Murrell | 78,000 | 9 | 3 |
| Michael | Jensen | 120,500 | 9 | 4 |
| Blair | Hinkle | 60,000 | 9 | 5 |
| Jeff | Tebben | 66,500 | 9 | 6 |
| Danny | Padilla | 203,500 | 9 | 7 |
| Joel | Johnson | 67,500 | 9 | 8 |
| Ron | Cain | 110,000 | 9 | 9 |
| Eric | Medved | 112,000 | 9 | 10 |
| Garrett | Riley | 99,000 | 10 | 1 |
| Daniel | Isenhour | 78,500 | 10 | 2 |
| Nancy | Girton | 92,000 | 10 | 3 |
| Scott | Caldwell | 96,500 | 10 | 4 |
| Matthew | Dougherty | 96,500 | 10 | 5 |
| Justin | Gardenhire | 60,000 | 10 | 6 |
| Grant | Hinkle | 46,500 | 10 | 7 |
| David | Akins | 54,500 | 10 | 8 |
| David | Hengen | 21,500 | 10 | 9 |
| Joshua | Hatfield | 88,500 | 10 | 10 |
| Shaun | McBride | 22,500 | 11 | 1 |
| Charles | Hansuld | 126,500 | 11 | 2 |
| Tim | Sire | 88,000 | 11 | 3 |
| Jeremy | Tinsley | 143,500 | 11 | 4 |
| William | V | 87,500 | 11 | 5 |
| Jamie | Kerstetter | 83,500 | 11 | 6 |
| James | Herderhorst | 124,000 | 11 | 7 |
| Vinodkumar | Paddolkar | 179,000 | 11 | 8 |
| David | Rudder | 41,500 | 11 | 9 |
| Mark | Lafata | 153,500 | 11 | 10 |
| Jon | Stanfield | 101,000 | 12 | 1 |
| David | Hasan | 133,000 | 12 | 2 |
| JJ | Winston | 34,000 | 12 | 3 |
| Larry | Plummer | 90,000 | 12 | 4 |
| Nicholas | Burris | 93,500 | 12 | 5 |
| Alan | Widman | 65,000 | 12 | 7 |
| Clay | Herbison | 59,500 | 12 | 8 |
| Dave | Queen | 24,500 | 12 | 9 |
| Joshua | Ohlmeier | 62,500 | 12 | 10 |
| Mason | Hinkle | 188,000 | 13 | 1 |
| Paul | Strohm | 79,500 | 13 | 2 |
| Shane | Fuller | 138,500 | 13 | 3 |
| Nikhil | Behl | 185,000 | 13 | 4 |
| Amitkymay | Patel | 66,500 | 13 | 5 |
| Ryan | Gregor | 60,500 | 13 | 6 |
| Nam | Phan | 142,500 | 13 | 7 |
| Dan | Martin | 99,000 | 13 | 8 |
| Jason | Joerling | 81,000 | 13 | 9 |
| Henry | Gingerich | 65,000 | 13 | 10 |
| James | Mackey | 97,000 | 14 | 1 |
| Chris | Horter | 39,500 | 14 | 2 |
| Shawn | Dedrick | DNR | 14 | 3 |
| Chui Foy | Lieu | 75,000 | 14 | 4 |
| Oscar | Rye | 64,000 | 14 | 5 |
| Jeffrey | Copeland | 80,500 | 14 | 6 |
| Eric | Cortez-Zelaya | 44,000 | 14 | 7 |
| Jordan | DeGrenier | 147,000 | 14 | 8 |
| Michael | Adams | 38,000 | 14 | 9 |
| Mike | Fouts | 55,000 | 14 | 10 |
| Duster | Ellis | 36,000 | 15 | 1 |
| Mina | Greco | 89,500 | 15 | 2 |
| Mike | McAdams | 59,000 | 15 | 3 |
| Brian | Watts | 27,000 | 15 | 4 |
| Daniel | Pigago | 55,000 | 15 | 5 |
| Patrick | Dixon | 66,500 | 15 | 6 |
| Beau | Wilshire | 116,000 | 15 | 7 |
| Mary | Martin | 83,500 | 15 | 8 |
| John | Moore | 54,000 | 15 | 9 |
| Jeff | Brin | 49,000 | 15 | 10 |
