RGPS Paid Out Over $1.4 Million to Main Event Winners in 2023
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: Blinds 15,000/25,000, 25,000 ante
In 19 stops throughout the country, the RunGood Poker Series paid out just over $1.4 million in prizes to its winners in 2023.
The biggest win of the year went to Tyler Patterson,who beat out a field of 477 entrants in the $2,500 Checkpoint Season Finale at Thunder Valley in July.
The big score of $200,422 is the current record for the largest RGPS cash to date.
Another standout was RGPS Reno winner Stacey Berger, a newcomer to the poker scene that beat out a field of 359 to win $39,655 in the second Main Event she had ever played. Berger, a realtor in Reno by trade, won the title after she came back from just two big blinds in the middle part of Day 2.
Check out a list of the 2023 RGPS Main Event winners:
| Month | Event | Winner | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | RGPS Tulsa | Pete Petree | $62,911 |
| February | RGPS San Diego | Rafi Azam | $52,820 |
| March | RGPS Tunica | Kevin Broadway | $46,804 |
| March | RGPS Graton | Pe Kyaw | $90,330 |
| April | RGPS Jacksonville | Antwan Prince | $92,796 |
| April | RGPS Joplin | Dakotah O'Dell | $63,647 |
| April | RGPS Council Bluffs | Joshua Kopp | $68,799 |
| May | RGPS Reno | Stacey Berger | $39,655 |
| May | RGPS Kansas City | Andre Allen | $86,550 |
| July | RGPS Thunder Valley | Tyler Patterson | $200,422 |
| September | RGPS Baltimore | Ari Katz | $47,724 |
| October | RGPS St. Louis | Keith Heine | $88,506 |
| October | RGPS Tulsa | Tyler Barnes | $52,692 |
| October | RGPS Kansas City | William McCracken | $83,099 |
| October | RGPS Graton | Anne Bui | $87,425 |
| November | RGPS Cleveland | Louis Ganser | $102,225 |
| November | RGPS Tunica | Jack Keller | $62,826 |
| November | RGPS San Diego | Derrick Yamada | $31,565 |
| November | RGPS Iowa | Cody Bartlett | $63,305 |