$125 Taiwanese Poker
Level 7: 700/point
Players Remaining: 88 of 158
Since it’s inception, Run It Up Reno live events have steadily grown in attendance and have now become one of the more popular stops in the poker world. There are now players that make trips all the way from Europe to take part in the festivities.
Deb Swift, on the other hand, has been here since the beginning. As the kids say, she’s an ‘OG.’
Swift picked up her first RIU Reno cash at the very first installment of the event in October of 2015. She cashed in the $125 no-limit hold’em survivor tournament for $818 and she’s been hooked ever since. The New Mexico native makes a point to come to Reno and has been at nearly every stop since the beginning.
Coming into the seventh RIU Reno, the loyal RIU warrior had seven cashes in RIU Reno. She kicked off the seventh RIU Reno on the right foot as well, finishing 28th in the $440 Mini Main Event for her eighth career RIU cash. She’s now battling it out in the Taiwanese event and is sitting at the same table as RIU founder, Jason Somerville.
Somerville’s resume is much longer than Swift’s, but Swift is off to a better start in this specific event. Coming back from the first break of the day, Swift is returning to a stack of 34,000 from her 10,000-chip starting stack. While Somerville is just below a starting stack with 9,500.
This is the first of two Taiwanese poker events on the RIU schedule with the second coming with a double board variant to it on the final day of the series.
