RG Weekend Poker Open at Hard Rock Tulsa Day 1A

Flight A of the $235 RunGood Weekend Poker Open at Hard Rock Tulsa started off on a nice note with 69 players right at noon. Entries climbed to 143 by end of registration setting the pace for a large prizepool as Flight B is set for Saturday at 12PM. With the $20,000 guaranteed prizepool blown past, Saturday should have a strong showing of players looking for a Day 2 bag.

Local grinder, Phillip Teel, leads the charge with a massive stack of 395,000 chips as bags came out at the end of Level 12. Others that joined the poker fun this weekend includes out of towners, Jeff Martin from Memphis, TN (82,000), Thomas Houston from Topeka, KS (149,500), and David Lewis Nixa, MO (87,500). Here are your Flight A chip counts:

Name	Hometown	Chip Count
Phillip Teel	Tulsa, OK	395,000
William McGee	Oklahoma City, OK	213,000
Carl Lampley	Checotah, OK	169,000
Steve Lamphear	Grove, OK	150,500
Thomas Houston	Topeka, KS	149,500
Johnny Johnson	Eufala, OK	145,000
Jonathan Wilson	Tulsa, OK	135,000
Kenneth Sullivan	Broken Arrow, OK	131,500
RC Foster	Ft. Worth, TX	123,500
John Benanzer	Catoosa, OK	116,500
Frank McKeon	Owasso, OK	110,000
John Millsap	Broken Arrow, OK	107,000
Frank Stephen	Wagoner, OK	101,000
David Lewis	Nixa, MO	87,500
Melinda Hettick	Catoosa, OK	82,000
Jeff Martin	Memphis, TN	82,000
Lyle Florence	Parsons, KS	78,000
Cheryl Baugus	Sand Springs, OK	77,500
Gary Kuykendall	Ft. Smith, AR	76,500
Janie Patterson	Sapulpa, OK	75,500
Brandon Fletcher	Springdale, AR	59,000
Treven Cramer	Parsons, KS	58,500
Sun Hwang	Tulsa, OK	52,500
Sam Lee	Jennings, OK	52,000
Ryan Victory	Chelsea, OK	35,500