The RunGood Poker Series is heading to The OG Clubhouse in Oak Grove, Kentucky, for six days of tournament action from November 17 to 22, as part of the Golden Expedition season. The festival's most eye-catching number is the $600 Main Event with a guaranteed $100,000 prize pool, but the more interesting story is how the schedule is structured to reach players at almost every budget.
The entry points are where the series makes its strongest case. Ten ring events are on offer, with buy-ins starting at $120. The $600 Main Event runs four starting flights across three days, and players who want a cheaper path can use $150 Mega Satellites on Thursday and Friday or $100 Flip & Go satellites on demand over the weekend. That ladder matters. A festival that only offered a high-stakes headline would serve a narrow group of grinders. This one gives recreational players a reason to book a flight, a satellite, and a few days of play.
The variety is also a point in its favor. The Seniors Event, Tag Team competition, Pot-Limit Omaha and the $250 Women's Championship with a $5,000 guarantee all widen the field beyond the standard no-limit hold'em crowd. Organizers who add formats instead of repeating one tournament over and over are making a deliberate bet that players want something different each day. I think that bet is a sound one.
Points are the other hook. Players can earn toward the 2026/27 RunGood Player of the Year race and the PokerNews PowerStack Leaderboard, which gives a week of cashing and entering a longer-term reason to keep returning. Series players tend to value that kind of season-long incentive, and it turns a single trip to Oak Grove into a step in a larger campaign.
The festival deserves credit for making its structure clear. Start times, flight schedules and the Sunday noon restart for Main Event survivors are all spelled out, and PokerNews will provide live coverage from the Main Event. Players planning travel should read that schedule closely, since the Day 2 timing and qualifying windows leave little slack. For a series trying to build a loyal Kentucky crowd, clarity of that kind is worth as much as any guarantee.