Nick Rigby Wins RunGood Grand Prix Caesars Southern Indiana Main Event

Nick Rigby has shone in his moments of poker spotlight. He became a central focus during two separate World Series of Poker main event runs. Rigby’s claim to fame involved making the “dirty diaper,” 3-2 offsuit, part of the poker lexicon.

Rigby added to his list of greatest poker accomplishments this week by winning the RunGood Grand Prix Caesars Southern Indiana $800 no-limit hold’em main event. He defeated a field of 358 entrants to claim a first-place prize of $52,323. It’s the biggest prize Rigby’s earned for a tournament win, and sits just behind his WSOP main events runs in 2021 (52nd – $136,100) and 2023 (131st – $67,700) atop his list of career results.

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— Rigby (@GTO_Diaper) August 25, 2025

Being Aggressive

At the start of the final table, Rigby held a significant chip lead, and poured it on from there. He scored the first knockout of the final table in an unlikely boat-over-boat scenario. Rigby, who had J♦8♣, isolated Ryan Stephens. The short-stacked Stephens’ 5♦2♠ was drawing stone dead after a 10♦8♦8♥ flop, and the 5♥ turn and 5♣ river that gave both players a boat added salt to the wound.

Craig Welko picked off George Durham in eighth place when A♣J♥ held off Durham’s A♠10♦. Soon thereafter, Rigby got caught trying to steal blinds from the button. The perilously short-stacked Mike Talerico had 7♣7♦ to Rigby’s 8♣5♦, but that ultimately mattered. Little. The eight-high flop put Rigby ahead for good, and Talerico was out in seventh.

Rigby’s reign of terror continued. He opened to more than three times from the cutoff, Charles Rexroat three-bet from the button and Rigby called. The flop was A♥8♠4♥, Rigby check-called a 40% pot bet, and the turn was the 6♠. Rigby checked, Rexroat shoved for just under 20 big blinds and Rigby snapped it off with A♦4♠. Rexroat showed pocket tens, and the 7♦ river spelled his end in sixth.

The momentum finally swung against Rigby for a stretch, as short stacks Carl Masters and Justin Donato each doubled through him. Donato used those newfound chips to eliminate Ricky Fryer in fifth place, with A♠K♥ holding off K♣6♣.

Fighting Back, In Vain

Craig Welko took his turn to double through Rigby, with 7♦7♥ against K♠9♠. Masters doubled through Rigby again, dominating with A♠A♦ against A♣3♠. But Rigby’s overall aggression allowed him to keep taking pots and stay on top.

Masters was on the opposite side of aces a short time later. He ran K♦4♦ into Donato’s aces, and was drawing dead by the turn. The last of Masters’ chips went in in a battle of blinds. His A♠9♦ was up against Welko’s J♠2♠, and remained so on the A♥J♣5♥ flop. But the J♥ turn gave Welko trips, and the 6♥ river sealed Masters’ fate in fourth.

Donato and Welko each gave Rigby trouble three-handed. Donato made a massive, correct river hero call with king-jack high to take a big pot off of Rigby. But just as Donato closed the gap, both Welko and Rigby showed down massive bluffs against him.

The rise and fall of Donato was brisk. Rigby picked up his fourth elimination of the final table at Donato’s expense, with pocket tens against Donato’s A♥K♥. There were no cards over a nine on the runout, and Donato was down in third.

Welko was short at that point, and looked to pick up an early double heads-up. He was at risk and slightly behind with K♦J♥ against Rigby’s A♥4♥, but hit the K♠Q♥7♣ flop. Rigby stormed back on the A♣ turn, though, and the 3♦ river was the final card of the tournament.

Despite the brief dip three-handed, Rigby never relinquished the chip lead at the final table. In going wire-to-wire, he scored five of the eight eliminations on his way to victory.

Final Table Results

Photo credit: RGPS / Brian Patterson.