After greater than 12 hours of play within the Downstream On line casino Ballroom, RunGood Poker Sequence ambassador Daniel Lowery emerged victorious, defeating Justin Dreiling heads-up to say the highest prize of $74,398 and the coveted RGPS Predominant Occasion ring.
With over $3.7 million in profession poker earnings and 18 WSOP Circuit rings to his identify, Lowery is not any stranger to the winner’s circle—however conquering a 496-entry discipline within the Predominant Occasion made this win really feel a bit extra particular.
Though Lowery already held a number of RGPS rings, this marked his first Predominant Occasion victory—one thing he mirrored on after the win. “It feels good. I’ve been shut a whole lot of instances in these RunGood Predominant Occasions, so to lastly win and have that as an accolade is cool,” he mentioned. He additionally touched on what it meant to earn the title as a sequence ambassador: “Any win feels good, however having the ability to characterize our model, have a good time right here all weekend, and end robust—it simply feels actually good.”
RGPS Joplin Predominant Occasion Last Desk Outcomes
Clean Crusing on Day 2
Lowery entered Day 2 second in chips out of the 60 returning gamers, after bagging the Day 1B chip lead—simply 6,000 chips shy of the general lead. When requested about his mindset heading into the ultimate day with an enormous stack, he mentioned, “They often count on me to be going off, so I do not actually attempt to get entangled too rapidly,” earlier than including, “However finally, I am attempting to construct. I understand how to make use of an enormous stack—I am used to having an enormous stack, and it is the place I really feel most snug.”
Lowery executed his recreation plan to perfection, patiently constructing his stack in the course of the early levels of Day 2. A pivotal hand helped him separate himself from the sector when his pocket jacks held robust in a double knockout towards Scotter Clark, who held ace-king, and Daniel Ocain, who held ace-queen.
Lowery, who nonetheless held the chip lead on the time of the three-table redraw, continued to choose his spots and construct on his benefit. He eradicated Tyler Barnes (twenty fourth), Timothy Black (twenty second), Invoice Hayes (18th), Iman Alsaden (fifteenth), and Charles Deatherage (eleventh), heading into the ultimate desk with almost 1,500,000 extra chips than the subsequent closest participant.
Last Desk
The momentum didn’t cease for Lowery as soon as he reached the ultimate desk, as his pocket deuces held as much as remove Joshua Brower in ninth place.
After Keith Murrell exited in eighth and Justin Brevik adopted in seventh, Lowery encountered his first actual roadblock of Day 2. Reflecting on that stretch after his win, Lowery mentioned, “I really feel like I went wire to wire right now — I had the chip lead the entire time, aside from about 45 minutes.”
Throughout that 45-minute stretch, with six gamers remaining, Lowery misplaced two sizable pots to eventual runner-up Dreiling and located himself in the midst of the pack. That’s when he determined to shift gears, saying, “There was some extent the place I felt like I wanted to completely placed on the brakes and wait till we have been 4 or 5 handed earlier than I went again to work.” He added, “I simply felt like I wanted to alter the dynamic a bit, as a result of it wasn’t working six-handed after I misplaced the chip lead.”
Though Lowery could not have had his foot on the fuel in his traditional vogue, he rapidly halted his slide whereas nonetheless six-handed. His pocket kings held robust towards Dreiling’s flopped open-ended straight draw, permitting him to double up and retake the chip lead — the one time he was all-in and in danger on Day 2.
Lowery continued to choose his spots fastidiously six-handed and solely momentarily misplaced the chip lead after fellow RGPS Ambassador Jeffrey Copeland received an enormous flip to remove Colin Arnold in sixth place.
From there, issues as soon as once more went in accordance with plan for Lowery. He regained the chip lead with 5 gamers remaining, and after Connor Hayward exited in fifth place, Lowery added a pair extra knockouts to his tally. He eradicated Todd Tucker in fourth place, regardless of Tucker having him dominated preflop.
Shortly after, Lowery and fellow RGPS Ambassador Copeland went to off to the races, with Lowery holding pocket jacks towards Copeland’s ace-queen. The flop introduced a queen to present Copeland the lead, however the flip accomplished a straight for Lowery, sending Copeland to the rail in third and establishing a heads-up match with Dreiling.
Heads-Up Battle
To begin heads-up play, Lowery held a commanding chip lead, with roughly 10,000,000 of the 14,900,000 chips in play. Nonetheless, the momentum shifted early when Dreiling flopped journeys towards Lowery’s pair of nines. Lowery paid him off on the river after Dreiling moved all in, night the chip counts between the 2.
Regardless of the setback, Lowery continued to use strain, successful a number of small pots to rebuild his lead. However he hit one other pace bump when he known as a big river guess, solely to see that Dreiling had made quads—momentarily giving Dreiling the chip benefit. Lowery, nevertheless, remained unfazed. He rapidly recovered, retaking the lead and lengthening it to a good larger margin than when heads-up play started.
Dreiling managed to seek out one double-up to remain alive, however shortly afterward, he moved all in with king-three suited. Lowery made the decision with pocket threes, and when the board ran out with no assist for Dreiling, it was Lowery who emerged victorious. Dreiling completed because the runner-up, incomes $44,123 for his efforts.
After the victory Lowery talked about how he felt concerning the state of his recreation saying, “I felt actually good, and felt centered right now, I’ve been for the previous few months”. He is hoping to have the ability to hold the identical type coming into the WSOP this summer season, however talked about he hopes to attend the RGPS cease in Kansas Metropolis.
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