December 07, 2022
Mike Patrick
The RunGood Contenders Season Finale started with a celebration of its first-ever $1,000,000 assured predominant occasion and concluded with one other occasion ambiance as associates Brett Murray and Tyler Patterson concluded the occasion with a spirited, playful heads-up match that noticed Murray take dwelling the title and the $172,835 first prize.
Murray, who’s the all-time main event cash winner on the Thunder Valley On line casino Resort, defeated Patterson after a light-hearted 90-minute-long match that noticed them play for the ultimate $10,000 of the prize pool, the RunGood Contenders Collection championship ring, and a seat into the RunGood ProAM later this month in Las Vegas.
In the long run, it was Murray’s king-jack taking down the RunGood Ambassador’s pocket jacks to say the title.
RGPS Contenders Season Finale Remaining Desk Outcomes
| 1 | Brett Murray | $172,835 |
| 2 | Tyler Patterson | $156,835 |
| 3 | Toan Nguyen | $88,250 |
| 4 | David Ong | $61,140 |
| 5 | Michael Loncar | $46,930 |
| 6 | Trevor O’Donoghue | $39,120 |
| 7 | Lam Le | $32,570 |
| 8 | Joe Nguyen | $26,070 |
| 9 | Arthur Tanimoto | $19,580 |
RGPS Contenders Season Finale Remaining Desk
A Day of Close to-Comeback Tales
The day started with 32 remaining contenders, and for some time, it regarded as if an inconceivable comeback story could possibly be the spotlight of the day as Stephen Tune, who began the day with simply 5 massive blinds made an inconceivable run to the chip lead.
Nevertheless, he would lose a crucial pot to Arthur Tanimoto after appropriately calling off with high pair on the flip versus Tanimoto’s flush draw, however Tanimoto would hit his flush to take a sizeable chunk from Tune’s rebuilt stack.
The WSOP bracelet winner couldn’t recuperate from that hand and fell in eleventh place.
Stephen Tune
One other unimaginable comeback story was brewing on the remaining desk as Day 2 chip chief Toan Nguyen, who got here into the day with extra chips than the second and third largest stacks mixed misplaced all however half an enormous blind price of his stack to David Ong when five-handed.
Nguyen then got here again with repeated double-ups to carry a wholesome stack once more and make it to three-handed play earlier than lastly being eradicated by Murray.
That left Murray and Patterson heads-up, and whereas Murray started the match with an amazing 6-to-1 chip lead, Patterson clawed again due to a double-up on the primary hand of play and a few unimaginable play together with an accurate name with simply queen-high.
In the end, Murray would bounce again to retake his important lead and eventually declare the title.
Phrases From the Winner
As talked about, the heads-up match was a light-hearted affair as soon as Murray and Patterson struck a deal. Murray instructed PokerNews that it was probably the most enjoyable heads-up match he’d ever performed.
“It was, it was loads of enjoyable. The entire day was loads of enjoyable. After the chop, it relieves loads of stress, so we may form of simply go for it a bit extra. I imply, I needed the additional 10k and the ring after all, but it surely positively relieves the stress of enjoying for sixty thousand fairly than ten.”
On the ultimate hand, Murray determined to gamble a bit, calling Patterson’s all-in with king-jack, later saying that whereas he clearly nonetheless needed to win, he form of needed to finish the match at that time too.
“I used to be simply so completely happy taking one-hundred and sixty-two (thousand) already, I used to be simply able to get it over with. I imply, I used to be positively nonetheless going to attempt, however I don’t know, I used to be simply prepared for it to finish. I used to be simply able to river the king and simply have it accomplished and make it simple.”
Thunder Valley is Murray’s dwelling on line casino, and his success right here is well-known. When requested what being the all-time main event cash winner right here meant to him, the jovial Murray admitted that it certainly meant so much to him.
“It’s good. It’s positively a superb feeling. I’ve run actually good right here and it’s near dwelling, so it’s an incredible place to run nice.”
RGPS Contenders Season Finale Facet Occasion Winners
| Sunday, November 27 | $1,000 RunGood Take 1 NLH ($250,000 assured) | 456 | $410,400 | Jeffrey Lennon | $78,040 |
| Sunday, November 27 | $300 RunGood Knockout Bounty NLH | 125 | $20,000 | Pedro Rodriguez | $5,795 |
| Monday, November 28 | $135 RunGood Bomb Pot Ambassador Bounty NLH | 164 | $16,400 | Darrell Cain | $4,320 |
| Wednesday, November 30 | $255 RunGood Fifty-5 NLH ($55,000 assured) | 429 | $92,235 | Richard Troendly | $18,355 |
| Friday, December 2 | $600 RunGood PokerGO Studio Ticket NLH ($100,000 assured) | 350 | $183,750 | Henry Acain | $38,270 |
| Friday, December 2 | $500 Pot-Restrict Omaha | 45 | $20,240 | Bob Mather | $7,890 |
On To the 2023 Season
The 2022 RunGood season will now conclude with the RunGood ProAM on the PokerGo Studio in Las Vegas on December fifteenth, with bulletins on particulars of the 2023 RunGood schedule to return within the close to future.
This concludes PokerNews protection of the historic $1,000,000 assured RunGood Contenders Collection Season Finale from the gorgeous Thunder Valley On line casino Resort in Lincoln, California.
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Mike Patrick
