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 |