The RunGood Resort has made its dwelling this week in Cleveland, Ohio at JACK On line casino. 9 occasions have been all through the journey right here, with the flagship being The $1,000 buy-in RGPS Major Occasion, which noticed three flights over three days. The 510 gamers got here out to smash the assure and create a prize pool of $474,962. At first of the day, solely 67 gamers have been assured money, and from that beginning subject, gamers have been whittled down over 13 hours till there was only one standing.
On the finish of all of it, Dane Miller was the newly topped champion and the recipient of a career-best reside event rating of $98,607.
Coming into the day on the quick finish with simply 24 massive blinds, Miller scraped his strategy to the ultimate desk.
“I actually couldn’t make any arms in any respect, no flushes…didn’t have aces a single time, however once I would get quick, I might simply win all of my flips,” Miller instructed PokerNews.
He then mirrored on the defining hand that allowed him some manoeuvrability on the remaining desk.
“Yeah, I used to be one of many shortest stacks, after which I scoop an enormous pot, and unexpectedly, I can truly play.”
The second the Pittsburg native knew he was destined to win the event occurred just a little later in opposition to Kyle Grupp. Miller held ace-king in opposition to the pocket threes of Grupp when the flop got here out ace-king-seven, however the flip was three to offer Grupp the lead with a set, however then a miracle ace appeared on the river to offer Miller a much bigger full home to soar to the highest of the counts.
“Yeah, I’m on a little bit of a solar run.”
RGPS Cleveland Major Occasion Closing Desk Outcomes
Day 2 Motion
The day obtained off to a semi-hot begin as solely 20 gamers had hit the rail earlier than the primary break, however it rapidly picked up steam afterwards. Notable gamers like Keven Stammen, William Kopp, Greg Harris and Renmei Liu made their exit throughout this time. As soon as they have been reduce all the way down to the ultimate 27, native staples like Sam Delio (Twenty sixth-$2,905), Michael Barlow (Twenty fifth- $2,905), and William Masters (Twenty third-$3,420) hit the rail. ClubWPT Golden Passport Factors leaders Vitaliy Neyman (Twenty first-$4,125) and Matthew Park (Nineteenth-$4,125) each made deep runs earlier than exiting and coming into into the $1,000 PLO Championship.
Play then slowed down considerably, and so they have been caught at 13 gamers for fairly some time earlier than Xing He, who had been chip-leading for a lot of the event, misplaced a sequence of big arms in a row (two of them with aces) and ultimately busted out to finish the stagnancy. Then it was Brett Stevens who exited in tenth place when he tried to get an enormous bluff by way of on the flip with five-high however was finally referred to as by Gregory Brletich who to ship him out on the ultimate desk bubble.
The gamers have been then reseated on the remaining desk, and the stress was on!
Closing Desk
On one of many first few arms on the remaining desk, an enormous hand obtained underway as Day 1b chip chief Shane Swank moved all in with queen-jack, adopted by each Dane Miller with kings and Andrew Manchen with queen. Miller emerged victorious, whereas Swank was eradicated in ninth place.
Subsequent to go was David Berman who fell to Thomas ‘Beau’ Grey when his ace-three couldn’t maintain as much as the ace-ten of Grey and in seventh was Greg Bletich who exited in the identical method when his ace-eight was overwhelmed by the ace-queen of Kyle Grupp.
In sixth place was Michael Valore who obtained it in with ace-nine however couldn’t win the flip in opposition to Manchen’s pocket sevens. However Valore was removed from upset as this was a cherry on prime of a stellar sequence as he received Occasion #2: $350 Opener and obtained tenth within the Ambassador Bounty, cementing his spot on the prime of the ClubWPT Golden Podium Leaderboard.
Subsequent to go was fan favourite Katie Kopp who was one of many solely gamers with a rail that consisted of her brother and her mother who cheered her on each likelihood they obtained. She fought exhausting all event lengthy however ultimately fell when she pushed with ace-four however couldn’t enhance in opposition to the pocket sevens of Grupp.
Grupp himself, who had held the chip lead for some time earlier than struggling a brutal cooler to Miller, exited the very subsequent hand when he shoved with pocket fives however ran proper into the pocket nines of Manchen to ship him out in 4th.
After practically an hour of three-way motion, it was Manchen who fell when he obtained quick and shoved three-four offsuit into the king-three suited of Grey and failed to enhance, sending him out in for a third-place podium end.
The heads-up battle between Grey and Miller featured a number of massive pots, together with one the place Grey admitted to folding a set on the flip when Miller put him all in on a straight and flush board.
Quickly after that, Miller four-bet jammed on Grey with ace-queen, who made the decision with pocket eights to place his event life on the road. Sadly for Grey, a queen appeared on the flop and on the flip to safe Miller’s win, whereas Grey was eradicated because the event’s runner-up.
Miller was then adorned with the RGPS Championship ring and awarded the good-looking payday of $98,607.
