RGPS Bossier City Horseshoe Main Event: Todd Smith Leads Day 1a

Todd Smith won a huge hand toward the end of Day 1a of the RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) Horseshoe Bossier City to secure the chip lead (343,000) moving forward into Day 2. He had queens on an eight-high board, got it in three ways, and held to bag the big stack.

He leads the surviving 28 players, of 133 entries, from the first of three flights in the latest RGPS Showbound $575 Main Event. There are two more flights on Saturday at noon and at 7 p.m.

Run Good Ambassadors Chris Conrad and Ray Henson will be queuing up for the next flights after failing to make it through Day 1a. Meanwhile, LFG Podcast host Jamie Kerstetter (81,000) and Mina Greco (24,000) booked their tickets to the Day 2 restart Sunday at noon.

Mason "Uncle Ron" Hinkle, Chris Horter, Kris Burchfield, and Ben Mintz all failed to bag the first starting flight and will likely join the field at some point during either Day 1b or 1c.

All the updates will be right here on PokerNews.com all weekend as the RGPS moves one step closer to crowning its next Main Event champion, and sending ten more players to the Showbound satellite in Tulsa for a shot at playing on Poker After Dark.

Player	Chips	Progress
Todd Smith	343,000 23,000	23,000
Ashley Hine	249,000 116,000	116,000
Joe Simmons	226,000 6,000	6,000
Michelle Wolkomir	222,000 195,000	195,000
Derrick Contreras	133,000 13,000	13,000
Logan Hoover	124,000 124,000	124,000
Matthew Register	119,000 119,000	119,000
Cameron Douglas	118,000 118,000	118,000
Dewayne Warner	107,000 107,000	107,000
Jacob Seale	100,000 100,000	100,000
Chip Neighbors	95,000 95,000	95,000
Pedro Contreras	92,000 92,000	92,000
Bart Bogard	88,000 -3,000	-3,000
Anin Fontana	85,000 85,000	85,000
Jamie Kerstetter	81,000 5,000	5,000
Jeff Wyatt	73,500 53,500	53,500
Chung Chin Chen	64,000 64,000	64,000
Van Tuan	62,000 62,000	62,000
Michael Sampognaro	61,000 -12,000	-12,000
Glen Goldsmith	58,000 58,000	58,000
Rodney Sermons	49,000 -35,000	-35,000
Richard Couron	43,000 3,000	3,000
Cory Asbill	42,000 42,000	42,000
Mina Greco	24,000 -10,000	-10,000
Chris Lovelace	23,000 23,000	23,000
Cory Bermea	21,000 21,000	21,000
Eric Rivkin	20,000 18,200	18,200
Alan Misenheimer	18,000 18,000	18,000