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 TeelĀ | Tulsa, OK | 395,000 | |||||
| William McGee | Oklahoma City, OK | 213,000 | |||||
| Carl LampleyĀ | Checotah, OK | 169,000 | |||||
| Steve Lamphear | Grove, OK | 150,500 | |||||
| Thomas HoustonĀ | Topeka, KS | 149,500 | |||||
| Johnny Johnson | Eufala, OK | 145,000 | |||||
| Jonathan WilsonĀ | Tulsa, OK | 135,000 | |||||
| Kenneth SullivanĀ | Broken Arrow, OK | 131,500 | |||||
| RC Foster | Ft. Worth, TX | 123,500 | |||||
| John Benanzer | Catoosa, OK | 116,500 | |||||
| Frank McKeonĀ | Owasso, OK | 110,000 | |||||
| John MillsapĀ | Broken Arrow, OK | 107,000 | |||||
| Frank Stephen | Wagoner, OK | 101,000 | |||||
| David LewisĀ | Nixa, MO | 87,500 | |||||
| Melinda Hettick | Catoosa, OK | 82,000 | |||||
| Jeff MartinĀ | Memphis, TNĀ | 82,000 | |||||
| Lyle FlorenceĀ | Parsons, KS | 78,000 | |||||
| Cheryl Baugus | Sand Springs, OK | 77,500 | |||||
| Gary Kuykendall | Ft. Smith, AR | 76,500 | |||||
| Janie PattersonĀ | Sapulpa, OK | 75,500 | |||||
| Brandon Fletcher | Springdale, ARĀ | 59,000 | |||||
| Treven CramerĀ | Parsons, KS | 58,500 | |||||
| Sun HwangĀ | Tulsa, OK | 52,500 | |||||
| Sam Lee | Jennings, OK | 52,000 | |||||
| Ryan VictoryĀ | Chelsea, OK | 35,500 | |||||