Robyn Berry outduels Jason Faircloth heads up to earn the $21,690 top prize, playing out the $50,000 Guarantee $300 Kickoff all the way to completion early Friday morning at Texas Card House Houston.
Berry is the first person to ever claim a PokerAtlas Tour title, winning the 411-entry tournament that more than doubled its guarantee, the prize pool coming in at $102,000.
The single-day event marks a very successful start for the inaugural tour event, filling every table at TCH Houston on an early Thursday evening.
Final-table action began with Berry sitting as the short-stack, here 575,000 equaling just 12 of the 250 bb in play. She slowly worked her way through the field, moving to a dominant stack 5-handed as she eliminated Niraj Kataria, holding her place atop the chip counts for most of the time until play concluded.
Faircloth was the other short stack to start final-table play, his 605,000 a slightly-better 12 bb stack. Berry and Faircloth began final-table action by combining for fewer than 10 percent of all the bb in play. Faircloth briefly had a slight chiplead heads up, with Berry leading the vast majority of their competition.
Well played, Robyn Berry, congrats on becoming the first EVER PokerAtlasTour champion. Check the Results tab to see the official results.
Watch final table action in the $50,000 Guarantee $300 Kickoff – Event 1 in the PokerAtlas Tour Series at Texas Card House Houston. The live updates blog now goes silent, so you can watch the stream without further interruption from the guy typing away on the keyboard.
From a starting field of 411 entries, the first-ever PokerAtlas Tour event – $50,000 Guarantee $300 Kickoff at Texas Card House Houston – is down to one single, final table of nine participants.
Here’s the players listed in seat-position order with chipcounts included. The livestream – that can be viewed at the TCH Live YouTube page, begins just before 4:30 am.
Here’s the players earning a tournament cash by finishing in 10-18th place in Event 1 of the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston.
10. Herrera Barragan, $1,810; 11. Terance Perez, $1,810; 12. Joe Ayala, $1,810; 13. Paul Cannon, $1,540; Varadajan Iyengar, $1540; 15. Robert Smith, $1,540; 16. Thomas Linnerooth, $1,270; 17. JOhn Montgomery; 18. Jackson White, $1,270.
Andrew Bonu spent the last hour adding 1.2 million to his stack, moving to the top of Chipcount Mountain at 1,720,000 with 15 players remaining in the $50k GTD $300 Kickoff. Many of the stacks are leveling each other at this stage, the clock flipping past 3 am, but Bonu’s is the one cutting down stack after stack.
Herrera Barragan opens for 120,000 and action folds around to Thuy Beltran in the BB who takes a decent amount of time before opting to call.
Beltran checks the 9h . 6c . Kd flop, Barragan double-fists two stacks on blues, 200,000 total, leaving himself 150,000 behind. Beltran takes a look at her 575,000 remaining stack and opts to release.
Here’s the players earning a tournament cash by finishing in 19-27th place in Event 1 of the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston.
19. Jason Duke, $1,090; 20. Drake Roetker, $1,090; 21. Vinh Tran, $1,090; 22. Keith Lewis, $920; 23. Matt Molsberry, $920; 24. Shane Monda, $920; 25. John Velasquez, $800; 26. Anti Marttinen, $800; 27. KC Panjwani, $800.
Here’s the players earning a tournament cash by finishing in 28-52nd place in Event 1 of the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston.
$680 Payouts
28. Wayne Lengyel; 29. John Smith; 30. Daniel Chaky; 31. Thomas Stinson; 32. Chris McCauley; 33. Schyler Oliver; 34. Andrew Mockler; 35. Nathan Cummings; 36. John Brooks.
$580 Payouts
37. Lorenzo Gonzales; 38. Jalen Williams; 39. Jiang Yu; 40. Mike R; 41. Adedayo Fadeyi; 42. Andrew Boyce; 43. Nekta Vasilakis; 44. Tobin Dreher; 45. Timothy Lang.
$500 Payouts
46. Miguel Sanchez; 47. Pete Torres; 48. Jacob Edwards; 49. Otis Harrell; 50. William de Havilland; 51. Daniel Iorns; 52. William Heuer; 52(t). Christopher Hall.
We’re back from break and it is David Respaldiza as the only player in the $300 Kickoff who has a stack of more than a milly. Respaldiza’s 1,080,000 is well clear of the field as we’re just about to move to the final three tables in the event.
Jackson White is crushing the in-the-money time here in the $50k GTD $300 Kickoff. Sitting 18/72 after 14 levels with a cool quarter-milly stack, White adds a half-milly since then, now up to 750,000 and the overall chiplead with four tables left in the tournament.
Take a look at the Chip Count tab and you can see how every one of the 256 unique entries progressed through the field today in the $50k Guarantee $300 Kickoff at Texas Card House Houston.
For example, co-chipleader Jacob Edwards was at 48,100 on the first break, down to just 10,000 on the registration break, vaulting to 376,000 by the end of Level 14. The other co-leader – Varadarajan Iyengar – came in on first break with a 30k stack, moving to 69,500 on the reg break, joining Edwards with 376,000 at the end of Level 14.
Everyone’s progress – or decline, as happens to all but the eventual winner – is tracked break-by-break, tournament-by-tournament, for the entire series.
One the sixth hand of money-bubble play, two different Texas Card House employees – Chris Bell and Bill Heuer – find themselves all in and at risk.
Neither player’s hand improves and each one is eliminated on the bubble, chopping one $500 payout and sending the remaining 51 players on to their own PokerAtlas Tour tournament cashes.
The play clock pauses just as Level 17 begins, Mike and Justin peeling two minutes per hand until one more player finds the rail, sending the remaining 52 in to the money in the $300 Kickoff.
Welcome to the first-ever money bubble in the history on the PokerAtlas Tour.
Tonight’s tournament pays the final 52 competitors, and there’s 65 seats filled right now, so we’ve reached #TheGrindIsReal stage of the $50k Guarantee-crushed $300 Kickoff.
Remember to check the Chip Count tab shortly after each break and see how everyone has progressed through the tournament.
The final nine play on a livestream tonight, we’ll switch from live updates on the blog to y’all following along on the TCH Live stream when we reach that stage.
Today is only the beginning – the beginning of the inaugural PokerAtlas Tour – so let’s take a look at what tomorrow brings
The first two flights in the $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payday launch at 11 am for Flight A and 5 pm for Flight B.
Players open with 30,000 stacks and play 30-minute levels, with registration and the unlimited-entry period available until the start of Level 9 – that’s 3:30 pm for Flight A and 9:30 pm for Flight B. Play in each flight continues until the money bubble pops, moving the final 10 percent of the field on to Sunday’s 2:30 pm Day 2 Final restart.
Everyone who makes Day 2 on Sunday plays for Mystery Paydays for everyone they eliminate from the tournament. $200 from each entry goes into the bounty pool for Sunday.
There’s three additional flights – 11 am and 5 pm starts on Saturday plus the Gambol-Gambol Special, a 15-minute-levels Turbo Sunday starting at 9 am.
All players can play all flights, for Texas Card House Houston is a Best Stack Forward house. bag more than once, and you earn a Day 2 micnash – and a bounty payday envelope – for each of the smallest bags, with only the largest bag remaining in play Sunday afternoon.
We’re down to just about 1-in-2 players earning a tournament cash tonight, and we have special bonus coverage once the field is down to one single, final table of nine.
Texas Card House Houston switches to a livestream for the final table, so you can watch live – on delay – to see how the event comes to its conclusion.
TCH Live hosts the stream with special guest commentary. We’ll embed the stream here into the blog, and the updates come to a stop until final results post – so everyone can watch the action.
We have special hotel rates for anyone coming to Houston for this inaugural PokerAtlas Tour series, guests staying down the street at aLoft – a Marriott hotel.
Just click on the link here and book your dates now with the special Texas Card House Houston rate.
Registration is closed in Event 1 of the PokerAtlas Tour Texas Card House Houston series – $50,000 Guarantee $300 Kickoff – and the scoreboard shows 411 total entries, with 256 unique players and 155 re-entries.
The players create a prize pool valued at $102,750 – that’s MORE than double the gurantee – paying the final 52 participants, the winner scheduled to receive $21,690.
Event 1 comes in at 411 entries, more than doubling the guarantee. We don’t have ALL the information for you, however, as we’re a few moments away from the entire Pay Table going live to show what first place is going to be, and the official prize pool.
My guesstimate has the final 52 earning a tournament cash.
William de Havilland opens for 2,000, Wayne Lengyel and Corey Roepken call, then Richard Margolin jams for 26,000 from the SB. The BB folds, as does de Havilland. Lengyel calls, then Roepken moves in for an additional 21,000 and Lengyel calls to put everyone at risk.
Margolin has Ah – Qs
Lengyel has Sixes
Roepken shows Ad – Td
That’s Roepken rushing to the lead with a Ten in the window, followed by 5 – 4. There’s an 8 on the turn, giving Lengyel a gutter to any 7 FTW. The river is a Queen, however, and Margolin zooms to the top, earning a triple to move to 80,000.
Roepken gets the sidepot, going to 42,000 and Lengyel now shows 125,000 in his stack.
EVERY tournament break, EVERY tournament, the PokerAtlas Tour provides you with EVERY chipcount for EVERY player.
Adrian Kidd’s 176,800 is the biggest stack after first break in the $300 series Kickoff.
Doe you want to see where you stand, or a friend, or maybe needle a friend who busted? Take a look at the Chip Count tab at the top of this page and take a look at all 207 recorded entries as first break hit.
We’re already at 319 entries now, so there’s a LOT of entries coming on next break.
Rachelle Park limps in, joined by Duc Le, while Nathan Cummings in the small blind elects to complete and Austin Amoroso checks his option from the BB.
The flop goes Jd – 8h – 6c and action folds around to Le, who offers the minimum of 600, with Amoroso and Park check-calling.
Another 600 from Le on the Qc turn, only Amoroso check-calls this one.
River is 7s and Amoroso leads for 2,000, a quick call from Le and Amoroso declares, “you’re good.”
Houston came out BIG for Event 1 in the PokerAtlas Tour Houston Series – and there’s still 2.5 hours to get a stack in play for the $50,000 Guarantee $300 at Texas Card House Houston.
Speaking of the guarantee – yeah, that’s already covered. Well played, HTown.
Among those with a 30,000 starting stack in play for tonight’s $50,000 Guarantee $300 at TCH Houston is Sonny Sundara, Laura Hoppe, Levi Asher, Brandon Johnson, Gloria Davila, Nick Toralba, Andrew Bonu, Wayne Lengyel, Aleta Chapman, Xavier Guzman, Eric Nguyen, Josiah Saxe, Bassel Asi, Doug Ngo, Austin Amoroso, Trung Pham, KC Panjawani, Dusty Pinkert, Thach Vo, … and a whole poker room more …
Remember way back to 15 minutes ago, when the field was at 15 tables – as the PokerAtlasTour Twitter account noted.
Houston, we have liftoff! 🚀 Our @PokerAtlas Tour has officially launched at @TCHHouston with our $300 Buyin $50K GTD Kickoff NLH Event. 15 tables strong and a registration line out the door….still with 3 hours left to enter. pic.twitter.com/2mt1iyuv6P
The players keep filing in as the workday finishes up and cars pull in to the Texas Card House Houston parking lot here on Westheimer Road. The scoreboard shows 150 entries asa TD Justin Hammer bumps the levels to 200/300/300.
You want to be part of this $50,000 Guarantee $300 – don’tcha? I thought so, c’mon down, y’all.
The first 25-minute registration-era level is in the books and the scoreboard shows 94 entries in the $50,000 Guarantee PokerAtlas Tour Houston Series $300 Kickoff.
We’re here with live updates and tournament information today through the final hand of the final series event on May 30.
Registration and the unlimited-entry period is available until about 9:15 pm when Level 10 begins, 1-in-8 entries earns a tournament cash and the final table is being livestreamed later this evening.
Cards are in the air for Event 1 in the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at TCH Houston. Players open with 30,000 stacks and play 25-minute levels throughout this one-evening inaugural series tournament.
Registration and the unlimited-entry period is available until about 9:15 pm when Level 10 begins, 1-in-8 entries earns a tournament cash and the final table is being livestreamed later this evening.
We are 45 minutes away from the first-ever event in the inaugural PokerAtlas Tour – a $50,000 Guarantee $300 Kickoff at Texas Card House Houston. starting at 5 pm. This tour stop features more than $1,000,000 in total guarantees, extending from tonight through May 30.
Players compete tonight with 30,000 starting stacks and 25-minute levels, with registration and the unlimited-entry period available until about 9:15 pm when Level 10 begins. A livestream kicks off once the tournament is down to the final table, 1-in-8 entries tonight earns a tournament cash.
We’re here tonight and for every PokerAtlas Tour Houston series event, bringing your tournament information, live updates and full-field chipcounts for EVERY tournament player on EVERY tournament break in EVERY tournament.
