RunGood’s Golden Expedition Sets Joplin Stop for Sept. 15-20
The Missouri-area stop features a $700 Main Event with a $150,000 guarantee, plus a $25,000-guaranteed PowerStack and PokerNews live coverage.
RunGood Poker Series is taking its Golden Expedition to Downstream Casino Resort for RGPS Golden Expedition Joplin, a Sept. 15-20 stop built around a $700 Main Event with a $150,000 guarantee.
It will be on site to live report the Main Event action in Joplin.
The series opens on Sept. 15 with a $300 Seniors Ring Event and a $300 Opening Day Ring event.
The $300 PokerNews PowerStack begins its first of three flights on Sept. 17 and carries a $25,000 guarantee. The $700 Main Event also starts on Sept. 17, with four starting flights on the schedule, and it plays down to a winner on Sept. 20.
The closing day also includes a $400 Black Chip Bounty NLH Ring Event, which wraps the festival. A $150 Flip and Go is listed on demand throughout the series as well.
The Joplin stop comes after an earlier RGPS Passport Joplin Main Event drew 752 runners and generated a $379,760 prize pool. Cody Hughey beat William Romine heads-up there to win $67,940 and his first RunGood title, while Kyle McConnell, William Margo and Jeff Copeland were among the final-table finishers noted in the earlier report.