Tulsa, OK: The “Road to the RunGood Cup” has reached a new development by finalizing its championship stop at the end of the season in Harrah’s New Orleans December 10th – 13th. The Championship stop will be priced at $675 with a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. It will be open to the public with Flight A starting Thursday December 10th at 12:00PM. Flight B and C will have the same start time on Friday and Saturday.
In less than two weeks, the RunGood Poker Series will be starting the second stop along the road to the RunGood Cup at Hard Rock Tulsa. The series kicks off Wednesday, September 16th with a $180 RG Deep Stack event featuring two starting flights and a $20,000 Guarantee. Thursday will host Day 2 along with a $230 RG PLO Rebuy tournament and a 20-seat guaranteed 7PM $160 Satellite. Every non-satellite preliminary event will award a $2000 RunGood Championship package.
“We are excited to see the turn out in a couple of weeks for those chasing the RunGood Cup. We just got the trophy in our room today and it’s huge. This partnership has been a great success for us here at Hard Rock.” – Byron Long, Poker Director for Hard Rock Tulsa.
The tour has teamed up with vacation experts, Blaycation, to create 2K-worth packages to the Championship Stop in December that include; $300 Travel Cash, Three Night Hotel Stay in New Orleans, One Main Event Championship Seat, Two Tickets to the private Champions Dinne Thursday, Two Tickets to the Pelicans vs Wizards game Friday, and Two Tickets to a VIP Ghost/Pub Crawl Tour Saturday.
The $675 Re-Entry Main Event will have three starting flights, Friday, September 18th at 7PM and Saturday, September 19th at 12PM and 7PM. A $100,000 guarantee will be placed on the event along with each of the Final Nine to be awarded a RunGood Championship package. Pros expected to be in attendance are Jordan Morgan, Daniel Lowery, Samantha Abernathy, Ross Bybee, Clint Tolbert, Rob Salaburu, Dan Martin, Justin Gardenhire, Ben Reasons, and newly minted RunGood Pro Ray Henson!
Ray’s fame to the game has been well known for quite a while. Stemming from his deep run in the WSOP Main Event in 2007 to his recent accomplishments winning WSOPC Choctaw’s biggest re-entry event and tapping out third in the history making WSOP Colossus tournament.
“We cannot be more thrilled for the addition of Ray’s charisma and decorated poker history to the team.” – Tana Karn, Founder and CEO of RunGoodGear.com
Here is the full upcoming schedule:
Wednesday, September 16th
- 12 p.m. $180 RG DeepStack 1A 20K GTD
- 7 p.m. $180 RG DeepStack 1B 20K GTD
Thursday, September 17th
- 11 a.m. RG DeepStack Day 2 – Added 2K RG CUP PKG to winner
- 12 p.m. $160 RG Main Event Satellite – 10 Seats GTD
- 4 p.m. $230 RG PLO $100 Re-Buys – Added 2K RG Cup PKG to winner
- 7 p.m. $160 RG 20 Seat GTD Main Event Satellite
Friday, September 18th
- 12 p.m. $40 All-In or Fold Main Event Satellite w/ $20 Rebuys
- 4 p.m. $160 RG Turbo Main Event Satellite – 10 Seats GTD
- 7 p.m. RunGood Main Flight A ($675 buy-in/$100,000 Guarantee)*
Saturday, September 19th
- 12 p.m. RunGood Main Flight B ($675 buy-in/$100,000 Guarantee)*
- 4 p.m. $160 RG Turbo Main Event Satellite – 10 Seats GTD
- 7 p.m. RunGood Main Flight C ($675 buy-in/$100,000 Guarantee)*
Sunday, September 20th
- 12 p.m. RunGood Main Event Restart
- 1 p.m. $100 RunGood Cup PKG Satellite – 1 PKG GTD
*All Events are Re-Entry up until registration ends
*2K RG CUP PKG to Final 9 will be taken out of prizepool
*The 2K RG CUP PKG by Blaycation includes: Travel allowance, Hotel stay, VIP Events, and RG Championship Seat
Hard Rock Tulsa has provided $89 dollar rooms with promo code “POKERSEP2015”. Call 1-800-760-6700 to book now!
About RunGoodGear.com: RunGoodGear.com is poker’s premier online-store for apparel. Their mission is to provide poker players with stylish and comfortable clothing for their daily grind on and off the felt. RunGoodGear.com went live during the 2012 World Series of Poker and was featured at the WSOP Main Event Final Table through Poker Pro Rob Salaburu. RunGoodGear.com continued its WSOP presence with Jay Farber’s finish in the 2013 WSOP Main Event, and on the fan rail of Jorryt Van Hoof, William Tonking, and Dan Sindelar during the 2014 WSOP Main Event. As of today, RunGood Gear has earned a strong following among tournament grinders and has been seen on Pokernews.com, BLUFF Magazine, ESPN, FOX Sports Net, Live at the Bike, the WPT, and the WSOP.