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The 50th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event is in full sprint in Las Vegas, Nevada with RunGood Ambassador Bryan Campanello bagging up the Day 1A chip lead with 417,500. With nearly all of the RunGood team in Vegas competing for bracelets, we thought it might be fun to highlight a few.
Chris Conrad - Twitter: @fsuconrad
Chris Conrad made the trek from Peachtree City, Georgia to Las Vegas for his first event of the summer, the $500 BIG 50 NLH, only to find himself playing in a storage room. Unfazed, he went out 1,130th out of a field of 28,371. Conrad went on to make the final table of the $1K PLO event, going out in seventh. The two-time WSOPC ring winner has accumulated $750,198 in lifetime WSOP/WSOPC winnings, with his first final table of the summer adding $31,130 to that total.
Sidenote: There are a handful of players at this summer's WSOP named Chris Conrad. For the record, the WSOP database has the RG Ambassador listed as Christopher Conrad. (In other words, the Chris Conrad who busted on Day 1A of the Main Event was someone else.)
| Event | Date | Place | Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|
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$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (Event #30) $1,000 buy-in |
2019/06/12 | 7th | $31,130 |
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$600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack (Event #25) $600 buy-in |
2019/06/10 | 22nd | $6,604 |
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BIG 50 - $500 No-Limit Hold'em (Event #3) $500 buy-in |
2019/05/30 | 1130th | $1,953 |
Lexy Gavin - Twitter: @ChipTrick11
Lexy Gavin of Long Beach, New York is one of the latest additions to the RG team. Best known for her work as the VP of marketing for the non-profit organization Charity Series of Poker, Gavin has claimed $107,811 in WSOP/WSOPC prize money. While her WSOP resume only goes back to 2015, she has been tearing through the fields this summer with eight cashes for a combined $40,146 in winnings. Her best finish was a final table appearance at the $1K NLH Ladies event. She also spent some time on the feature table during Day 1A of the Main Event, broadcast on ESPN2. Unfortunately, Gavin's good run didn't extend to the Main Event as she busted before the bags came out.
| Event | Date | Place | Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|
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$1,000 Mini Main Event (Event #69) $1,000 buy-in |
2019/07/01 | 766th | $1,499 |
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$888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold'em (Event #64) $888 buy-in |
2019/06/28 | 1465th | $1,330 |
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$600 No-Limit Hold'em DEEPSTACK CHAMPIONSHIP (Event #59) $600 buy-in |
2019/06/25 | 741st | $984 |
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$1,000/$10,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em (Event #47) $10,000 buy-in |
2019/06/20 | 6th | $27,643 |
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$1,000 Double Stack No-Limit Hold'em (Event #34) $1,000 buy-in |
2019/06/14 | 420th | $2,393 |
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$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (Event #30) $1,000 buy-in |
2019/06/12 | 112th | $1,891 |
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$600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack (Event #25) $600 buy-in |
2019/06/10 | 74th | $2,157 |
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Millionaire Maker - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em (Event #19) $1,500 buy-in |
2019/06/07 | 1320th | $2,249 |
Ray Henson - Twitter: @ray_henson
Houston, Texas resident Ray Henson is no stranger to Vegas summers. He earned a payday of $308,761 back in 2015 for finishing third in the $565 Colossus NLH event, but not even that is his biggest lifetime cash. Henson just missed a Main Event final table in 2007 when he went out twelfth, collecting a consolation prize of $476,926. In all, Henson holds four WSOPC championship rings for a combined $1,848,377 in WSOP/WSOPC tournament winnings, but a bracelet is still on his bucket list.
Henson is once again grinding it out on the desert felt this summer, with an impressive seven cashes and $27,901 in combined winnings.
| Event | Date | Place | Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|
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$888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold'em (Event #64) $888 buy-in |
2019/06/28 | 310th | $3,862 |
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$1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or Better (Event #60) $1,500 buy-in |
2019/06/25 | 40th | $5,588 |
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$2,500 Mixed Big Bet (Event #43) $2,500 buy-in |
2019/06/18 | 9th | $9,234 |
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$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (Event #30) $1,000 buy-in |
2019/06/12 | 150th | $1,746 |
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Millionaire Maker - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em (Event #19) $1,500 buy-in |
2019/06/07 | 876th | $2,699 |
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$1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed (Event #16) $1,500 buy-in |
2019/06/05 | 90th | $3,748 |
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BIG 50 - $500 No-Limit Hold'em (Event #3) $500 buy-in |
2019/05/30 | 2486th | $1,024 |
Chance Kornuth - Twitter: @ChancesCards
RunGood Ambassaor and Chip Leader Coaching co-founder Chance Kornuth started off his summer with a splash, finishing sixth for $251,128 in the $50K NLH High Roller, but he bested that with a fourth-place finish in the $10K Short Deck NLH event just three days later. Kornuth pulled in a handful of smaller cashes in June, and will be looking for another deep run in the Main Event.
The two-time bracelet winner has collected $1,841,465 in WSOP events going back to 2010.
| Event | Date | Place | Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|
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$888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold'em (Event #64) $888 buy-in |
2019/06/28 | 445th | $3,013 |
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$1,000 Double Stack No-Limit Hold'em (Event #34) $1,000 buy-in |
2019/06/14 | 878th | $1,499 |
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Millionaire Maker - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em (Event #19) $1,500 buy-in |
2019/06/07 | 705th | $3,113 |
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$1,500 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed (Event #16) $1,500 buy-in |
2019/06/05 | 177th | $2,411 |
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$10,000 Short Deck No-Limit Hold'em (Event #8) $10,000 buy-in |
2019/06/02 | 4th | $93,593 |
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High Roller - $50,000 No-Limit Hold'em for the 50th Annual (Event #5) $50,000 buy-in |
2019/05/31 | 6th | $251,128 |
As the Main Event of the WSOP in Las Vegas progresses, we'll bring you further updates on the RunGood Ambassadors who reach Day 2 and beyond.
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