After a preflop betting war, Kenneth Nicoletti moved all in and James Traber made the call to put him at risk in a massive pot.
Kenneth Nicoletti: A?K?
James Traber: Q?Q?
The flop came out 10?3?Q? to give Traber top set of queens for a big lead, and the runout of 9?2? bricked out for Nicoletti to send him out in tenth place.
After doubling up Duster Ellis with ace-jack versus jacks, Chris Stewart was left with less than a big blind when he got it all in against the same adversary.
Stewart held Jx9x while Ellis tabled Ax3x. The flop came out Ax3x9x to give Ellis two pair and the runout of 5x10x changed nothing to award Ellis the pot, sending Stewart to the exit.
After a preflop betting war, Landon Von Wood, David McFeely, and Chris Baumhoer got all their chips into the middle, with McFeely covering.
Landon Von Wood: K?J?
Chris Baumhoer: 10?10?
David McFeely: 10?10?
Von Wood was in a great spot with two overs against his opponents, but unfortunately the runout did him no favors and he was sent to the rail while the other two chopped up the pot.
Action was reported to PokerNews and according to James Haver, he moved all in from the button with Ax9x and ran into the AxAx of the player in the big blind. The board failed to help him and was thus sent to the payout desk in 14th place.
In 19 stops throughout the country, the RunGood Poker Series paid out just over $1.4 million in prizes to its winners in 2023.
The biggest win of the year went to Tyler Patterson,who beat out a field of 477 entrants in the $2,500 Checkpoint Season Finale at Thunder Valley in July.
The big score of $200,422 is the current record for the largest RGPS cash to date.
Another standout was RGPS Reno winner Stacey Berger, a newcomer to the poker scene that beat out a field of 359 to win $39,655 in the second Main Event she had ever played. Berger, a realtor in Reno by trade, won the title after she came back from just two big blinds in the middle part of Day 2.
Check out a list of the 2023 RGPS Main Event winners:
