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RunGood Poker Series Harrah’s North Kansas City: Joe Becchina Tops 1b, William McCracken Bags Biggest on 1c
- Updated: September 18, 2016
On the second day of the 2016 RunGood Poker Series in Harrah’s North Kansas City, both Day 1b and 1c were played. While the 1b flight started at noon, Day 1c started late in the evening to give players a final option to qualify for Day 2.
The Day 1b flight drew 86 entrants. After 12 levels of action, the field was trimmed to 20 surviving players moving on to Sunday’s Day 2 with Joe Becchina (photo, left) leading the field.
Becchina was hovering around the average stack entering the last orbit of play but went on a run winning the last seven hands in a row. He even woke up with pocket aces on the last hand against Thomas Houston to secure the chip lead.
The surviving stacks are a lot closer to normal compared to Friday night’s monster stacks bagging up. Friday had four players over the 200,000-chip mark but Saturday’s early flight saw just three other player players bag up six-figures – Steve Kim, Andy Ziskin and Travis …
