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• On Mother's Day, Jeri Sieber, a mother of two, won the 2016 RunGood Hard Rock Tulsa Main Event.

In a fitting ending, Jeri Sieber, a mother of two, won the 2016 RunGood Hard Rock Tulsa $675 Main Event for $44,458 after chopping with RunGood team pro Justin Gardenhire within the wee hours of Mother's Day. The 2 took $40,000 apiece, including their respective shares of a $10,000 seat to the arena Series of Poker Main Event, and Sieber prevailed heads up against Gardenhire for the rest of the prize pool $4,458, a trophy, and a plaque at the RunGood Champions Cup.

Final Table Results

Place Player Prize

1	Jeri Sieber	$44,458*
2	Justin Gardenhire	$40,000*
3	Rodney Spriggs	$19,328
4	Michael Sanders	$13,480
5	Vic Harris	$10,110
6	Sam Abernathy	$7,929
7	Mina Greco	$6,701
8	Ron King	$5,551
9	Cherie Baber	$4,778

*Denotes a heads-up deal.

The tournament drew 336 runner across three starting flights, with 74 advancing to Saturday's Day 2. Thirty-six of these can be paid, and the cash bubble burst a couple of hours into play. Ahead of that, Sieber got her last 10 big blinds or so all in with the against the of Michael Sanders, surviving after neither player improved. Both players would see plenty more of one another once they each made the overall table.

Before that, 27 players busted out within the money. Among them were Greg Jennings (28th), Olivier Busquet (24th), Terry Karn (21st), Duma Lowery (19th), Chris Conrad (18th), and Tripp Kirk (16th).

Busquet came into the day because the overwhelming chip leader, but faltered after running hot initially. After Rodney Spriggs three-outed him with against in a large pot, Eric Bunch finished him off by flopping a suite of threes against Busquet's aces.

Sieber was the second-shortest stack when the overall table kicked off, with RunGood pros Sanders and Samantha Abernathy leading the way in which. However, with six players left, Sieber had worked her strategy to second place partly way to a lucky win with ace-ten against the ace-queen of Cherie Baber.

Then, an enormous pot went down between Abernathy, who have been leading many of the final table, and Sieber that modified the process the tournament.

In Level 24 (20,000/40,000/5,000), Abernathy opened for a raise and called a three-bet to 300,000 from Sieber, who had already three-bet her a couple of times. The flop came , and Abernathy checked. Sieber shoved for roughly 1 million effective, just covering Abernathy, who tanked somewhat and called with the . Sieber showed down the and took the pot after a turn and river.

That gave Sieber about 40 percent of the chips five-handed, and she or he eliminated Vic Harris next. Then, Sanders fell to a three-outer from his fellow RunGood pro Gardenhire, and that left Sieber, Gardenhire, and Spriggs, the RunGood regular.

Spriggs got it in good with bottom set on a flop, but Sieber's found a at the river to make a winning straight and send him packing.

After that, Sieber and Gardenhire wasted little time before striking their deal, and heads-up play was a handy guide a rough affair. Gardenhire lost a piece to Sieber when she flopped trips with the on a board, after which he tried check-shoving with the after a flop. Sieber called with the and held up at the turn and river.

"Congratulations," Gardenhire told her. "You played great."

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