$400 Super Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 20: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante Players Remaining: 47 of 798
Event 1 is moving right along and nearly down to five tables with a lot of action after the break. They have 47 players and another pay jump on the horizon when they get to 45.
Nicholas Bennett is making the most of the fast play, running his Day 2 returning stack from 288,000 up to 1,112,000 and our first player with a seven-digit castle.
$400 Super Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 20: 6,000/12,000 with a 12,000 ante Players Remaining: 54 of 798
Catching up with some paperwork as the pace picks up after the first break. The field is quickly down to the last six tables and here’s a look at who cashed already including two-time WSOP bracelet winner Loni Hui and Eric Polirer picking up his two payout tickets for the tournament.
73rd: Ronald Johnston – $692 74th: Julio Delgado – $692 75th: Matthew Bretzfield – $692 76th: Jeffrey Silverstein – $692 77th: Peter Horenstein – $692 78th: Daniel Velasco – $692 79th: David Williams – $692 80th: Jonathan Marcu – $692 81st: Ricardo Velasco – $692
82nd: Eric Polirer – $635 83rd: Loni Hui – $635 84th: Pierre Armster Jr – $635 85th: Errol Massey – $635 86th: Papa Karn – $635 87th: Abilio Rocha – $635 88th: Shamica Lamar – $635 89th: Leroy Grant – $635 90th: Richard Whitebrook – $635
91st: Steven Karp – $578 92nd: Justin Lerner – $578 93rd: Hagai Stein – $578 94th: Joseph Murphy – $578 95th: Rudy Vazquez – $578 96th: Shawn Ali Mauvais – $578 97th: Courtland Twyman – $578 98th: Solange Lucas – $578 99th: Mark Cannon – $578
100th: Athanasios Polychronopoulos – $524 101st: Eric Polirer – $524
$400 Super Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 19: 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 ante Players Remaining: 72 of 798
There was a quick break after Level 18 to keep the field on schedule and it gave us a chance to check out the stacks after 45 minutes of play.
Chad Summers came back for Day 2 with a stack slightly above average at 218,000. But now he sits at the top of the counts with 705,000 to lead after the break. Carlos Rojas is second with 700,000 followed by James Salmon’s 678,000 and Francois Gagne’s 686,000.
They will play four more levels before getting another break.
$400 Super Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante Players Remaining: 79 of 798
Jonathan Marcu was down to 94,000 and open-shoved from middle position. Carlos Rojas took a minute on the button, he called with his big stack, and the blinds folded.
Rojas: Marcu:
It was a race and Marcu needed to improve to double up. The board ran out , no help for Marcu, and he was eliminated in 80th place.
Marcu is coming off a nice run in Hollywood when he cashed three times in their Poker Showdown series with two final tables, both resulting in third place finishes.
Carlos Rojas – 690,000 (86 bb) Jonathan Marcu – Eliminated in 80th Place ($692)
$400 Super Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante Players Remaining: 84 of 798
As expected, a lot of short stacks hit the payout desk when they were unable to spin it up. Mark Cannon and Solange Lucas began Day 2 with less than a starting stack and dropped early but David Williams is sticking around for a little longer.
He saw Joseph Murphy move all in from early position for about 60,000 and Akeelo Rhoden came along with the bigger stack. Williams was sitting in the big blind with only 13,000 after paying the ante and called at risk.
Murphy: Rhoden: Williams:
Williams needed to catch something to triple up and flopped an open-ended straight draw on the flop that got there on the turn. The river finished the board to improve Rhoden for the bigger side pot. Williams tripled and Rhoden made a nice addition despite having the second-best hand.
David Williams – 45,000 (6 bb) Akeelo Rhoden – 145,000 (18 bb) Joseph Murphy – Eliminated
$400 Super Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante Players Remaining: 100 of 798
Cards are back in the air for Day 2 of RunGood Event 1 with 100 players remaining and everyone in the money. They are all guaranteed at least $524 but aiming for the $46,250 top prize.
The action will be very fast at the restart with short stacks making moves to double or pick up a payout slip. The big stacks will try to pick them off.
$400 Super Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante Players Remaining: 100 of 798
We kicked off the 2022 RunGood Poker Series with a big, multi-flight event and it was a huge success. The $400 buy-in Super Stack tournament drew 798 entries over three starting levels to turn the $100,000 guarantee into a prize pool worth $259,350.
We had 101 players advance to Day 2 this afternoon in the money but only 100 will start the day because we have a min-cash already. Eric Polirer bagged in two different flights so he will make $524 for the smaller bag and put the bigger stack in play at the start.
Francois Gagne took the chip lead halfway through Flight C and returns with the biggest stack to start Day 2. James Salmon is second with Christopher Barnes, Raynner Martinez, and Jarom Best rounding out the top five returners.
Action gets back underway with 15:49 remaining in Level 17 and the average stack is about 200,000 (33 bb).
It will be a fun day in the poker room with some big money awarded including the $46,250 top prize and seat in the RunGood All-Stars ProAM in Las Vegas.
$400 Super Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante Players Remaining: 100 of 798
* – Eric Polirer bagged twice and will receive a min-cash for the smallest bag then play the biggest.
* – Please note: Table 5 will break before the start of play
$400 Super Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante Players Remaining: 100 of 798
* – Eric Polirer bagged twice and will receive a min-cash for the smallest bag then play the biggest.
* – Please note: Table 5 will break before the start of play