Day 1a of 2015 RunGood Poker Series Council Bluffs Main Event, the first stop of four on the Road to the RunGood Cup, drew 80 runners for $675 apiece. When it was all said and done, 15 of them advanced to Sunday's Day 2 after 13 levels of play.
Tour-sponsored pro Ryan Tepen bagged the biggest stack with 176,500. Tepen has accumulated more than $688,000 in cashes over a live poker career stretching back to 2008. His home tour has been kind to him as he finished 10th at a different RunGood event here earlier this year for $4,298 and got fifth at RunGood Downstream a month prior to that for $9,635.