$600 Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2025 RGPS Mission RunGood Reno
$600 Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 2
2025 RGPS Mission RunGood Reno
Buy-in
$600
Prize Pool
$188,700
Entries
370
Level
23
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
60,000
Entries
44
Players Left
1
Level 23
: Blinds 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante
It was just two years ago when the RunGood Poker Series made its first stop at Atlantis Casino in Reno, Nevada. Since then, the tour and stop has grown and this $600 Main Event saw its biggest ever prize pool of $188,700, generated by 370 entrants over the course of four starting flights. Just 44 came into today with a chance to take down that title, but after eight hours of play, only one player remained.
Readers who have followed the poker circuit for years will be very familiar with the name Ian Steinman. A WSOP bracelet winner out of California with 14 years of live poker experience that includes massive final tables and tournament wins aplenty. Now he can add a RGPS Main Event title to his resume as he walked away with his second RGPS ring and $36,220 to boot.
“I’m pretty calm no matter what,” Steinman said when asked about the massive chip lead he maintained throughout the final table. “I’m ok even if I make a mistake. It’s a little bit more pressure with the chip lead because even then your odds of winning are still low. Even with that, I was still zoned in.”
Three-handed play ended rather quickly as Steinman, Art Tanimoto, and Yang Zhou all discussed and agreed to a deal that would see Steinman take the lion’s share and the ring while Tanimoto and Zhou finished in third and second for the same amount. Both of them finished with their highest ever RGPS Main Event finish, with Tanimoto having final tabled the Thunder Valley main event earlier. While Zhou played the full time, both Tanimoto and Steinman had max late-regged this event.
“Yeah so it was about 11 hours total of play,” Steinman joked along with Tanimoto.
“It’s cool to win a tournament,” Steinman said when talking about this win in the perspective of his career. “I’ve never won a tournament this big in Reno. I’ve been coming to Atlantis for 14 years and this is the first tournament I’ve won here. It’s hard to win tournaments, it’s hard to win hands as well.”
Steinman talked a little bit about his future poker plans.
“There haven't been a ton of tournaments around here and online is kind of dying. The WSOP will be here in less than two months. I’m going to go play the Peppermill series, go to the WSOPC tournament of champions in Commerce, but I’m taking most of May off.”
Steinman has played the dream seat invitational in the past at Thunder Valley, and this time around he is going to play it again.
“I’m excited about the Thunder Valley tournament series. I played it last time and we played a final table in the night club. I’m looking forward to it.”
With that the newly minted RGPS Reno Main Event champion took his new ring and money and exited the ballroom.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ian Steinman | Mountainview, CA | *$36,220 |
| 2 | Yang Zhao | Reno, NV | *$25,000 |
| 3 | Art Tanimoto | Elk Grove, Ca | *$25,000 |
| 4 | Shawn Van Asdale | Reno, NV | $11,690 |
| 5 | Ryan Awwad | Ann Arbor, MI | $9,010 |
| 6 | Ed Miller | Granite Bay, CA | $7,455 |
| 7 | Greg Paradero | Reno, NV | $6,255 |
| 8 | Adam Saven | Del Mar, CA | $5,125 |
| 9 | Johnny Ye | Salem, OR | $4,010 |
* Denotes three-way deal
Final Day Action
The final day of the Main Event started out with eliminations coming in a slower fashion. Lexy Gavin-Mather (44th-$960) was the first casualty of the day and a few more followed her out the door prior to the final three tables including WSOP bracelet winner Harley Brooks (40th-$960), Jordan Cushman (34th-$1,170), and her husband Bob Mather (31st-$1,170). The final casualty before the redraw became California tournament regular Victor Paredes (27th-$1,170) after his two pair was rivered by Mike Lancaster.
After the redraw, the pace of eliminations accelerated quickly as half of the field vanished within an hour. Ian Steinman became the executioner of five of the twelve that fell with Heather Mandell (27th-$1,385), Paul Hudson (26th-$1,385), Daniil Fedunov (23rd-$1,600) and Tom Zack (22nd-$1,600) in the same hand, and Joseph Mussat (17th-$2,370) all fell to his reign. He even dealt a crippling blow to fellow WSOP bracelet winner Dann Turner (12th-$3,380) to leave him with crumbs only to bust to Adam Saven shortly after. Antonio Ma (11th-$3,380) would also go out to Steinman in a straight over flush situation on the river which would give Steinman the overall chip lead.
At the other table it would be a duo of Shawn Van Asdale and Johnny Ye who would be doing the speedy dispatching of the other players. Van Asdale sent out two players at once in Blake Trent (25th-$1,385) and John Letos (24th-$1,600), then followed it up with elimination of California tournament regular Matt Boddorf (18th-$2,370). Ye would be the eliminator of Denis Lee (21st-$1,970), Josh Prager (19th-$1,970), and Mitchell Cogert (16th-$2,370).
After his son busted twelve places before him, Gennadiy Fedunov (10th-$3,380) would be the final casualty before the final table would be set. He would get in his short stack with pocket tens up against Saven’s aces and both players would flop a set but Saven’s would be superior and Fedunov would exit the tournament.
Final Table Action
Steinman would begin the final table with a commanding chip lead, but a few hands would see Art Tanimoto overtake him. He would double through Saven in a sizable pot with a set, and then take another big pot off of Zhou to soar up the counts.
By the beginning of the final table, Ye had lost most of the chips he accumulated on the outer table and he found himself a victim of Tanimoto’s stack. He got in his chips with ace-jack up against Tanimoto’s jack-ten and the flopped king-high straight would give Tanimoto the pot while Ye would exit in ninth for $4,010.
Three main event final tables in a row is quite a rare feat, but one that was accomplished today by Saven. His run ended shorter than he would have liked as he jammed his final chips in with ace-queen over Ed Miller’s raise. Miller called with kings and held up to send the tournament regular out of the tournament in eighth place for $5,125.
Steinman would resume his role as judge, jury, and executioner after this as he raked in multiple massive pots to pad his chip stack quite significantly. The first of his eliminations came against Greg Paradero when he jammed ace-queen against Paradero’s kings. The turn brought a pair of aces for Steinman to send out Paradero in seventh place for $6,255, two places better than his finish at last October’s Reno Main Event.
After that it would be a clash with Miller that would propel Steinman even further into the lead. Miller would jam with ace-queen against Steinman’s open and Steinman would look him up with pocket tens. The flop rolled out with a queen on it, but the turn brought a ten to lock things up for Steinman while Miller would collect $7,455 for his finish.
Ryan Awwad would be the next to go in fifth place. Yang Zhou would move all in from the small blind holding pocket sixes and in the big blind Awwad would call with ace-eight, but find no help on the runout. Zhou would jump up to second place while Awwad would collect $9,010 for his finish.
As Steinman continued to apply pressure, his stack grew to taking over half of the chips in play. He would open a pot with nines from the button and Van Asdale would call in the big blind with jack-seven and check-jam on a king-high board with a seven on it. Steinman would call and the nines held up for Steinman to take nearly 70% of the chips in play while Van Asdale’s run came to an end in fourth place for $11,690.
The final three players began talking about the ICM numbers and the three of them came to a deal. Steinman would take more than ICM as well as first place for $36,220, which would leave Yang Zhou to take second place for $25,000, and Art Tanimoto finish in third place for $25,000.
Thank you for reading along here with PokerNews. Be sure to check back in with the RunGood Poker Series as it travels to Tunica Mississippi next week.
Level 23
: Blinds 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante
The final three players have agreed to a deal, with these chip stacks and placements.
1. Ian Steinman - 6,720,000 (112 bb) - $36,220
2. Yang Zhou - 2,210,000 (36 bb) - $25,000
3. Art Tanimoto - 2,170,000 (36 bb) - $25,000
With this, Steinman takes home his second RGPS ring.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for a full recap shortly to come.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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11,100,000
4,380,000
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4,380,000 |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
Level 23
: Blinds 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante
Ian Steinman raised to 120,000 in the cutoff and in the big blind Shawn Van Asdale defended.
The flop rolled out K?5?7? and Van Asdale checked over to Steinman who bet 70,000. Van Asdale raised to 325,000 and Steinman jammed for 330,000 effective total and Van Asdale called.
Ian Steinman: 9?9? 
Shawn Van Asdale: J?7?
The board ran out 10?3? and the nines held up for Steinman to take down the pot and bring the field down to three handed.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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6,720,000
2,010,000
|
2,010,000 |
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|
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Busted | |
Level 23
: Blinds 30,000/60,000, 60,000 ante
Yang Zhou moved all in from the small blind and in the big blind Ryan Awwad called for his last 600,000.
Ryan Awwad: A?8?
Yang Zhou: 6?6?
The board ran out 7?9?K?Q?K? and the kings and sixes were good for Zhou to eliminate Awwad from the tournament.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
2,810,000
875,000
|
875,000 |
|
Busted |
Level: 23
Blinds: 30,000/60,000
Ante: 60,000
Level 22
: Blinds 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
4,710,000
410,000
|
410,000 |
|
|
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|
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2,750,000
350,000
|
350,000 |
|
|
1,935,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
1,300,000
240,000
|
240,000 |
|
|
605,000
335,000
|
335,000 |
Level 22
: Blinds 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante
The players have gone on a 15-minute break.
Level 22
: Blinds 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante
Ian Steinman raised to 100,000 in first position and in the hijack, Ed Miller moved all in for 610,000 which saw only Steinman call.
Ed Miller: A?Q?
Ian Steinman: 10?10?
The board ran out K?Q?7?10?5? and the set of tens on the turn was good for Steinman to take down the pot and eliminate Miller from the tournament.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
4,300,000
500,000
|
500,000 |
|
|
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|
Busted | |
Level 22
: Blinds 25,000/50,000, 50,000 ante
Ian Steinman raised to 100,000 in the hijack and Greg Paradero three-bet to 250,000 in the cutoff. Action folded back around to Steinman who moved all in for 610,000 effective and Paradero called.
Greg Paradero: K?K?
Ian Steinman: A?Q?
The board ran out 8?6?6?A?10? and the ace-queen paired up on the turn to eliminate Paradero from the tournament.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
3,800,000
1,110,000
|
1,110,000 |
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Busted | |
