Fri, May 19 - Sun, May 21
Buy-in: $600
Guarantee: $200,000
Structure
The final four participants in the $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payday – Event 2 in the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston – agree to alter the remaining payouts and bring the tournament to its conclusion.
Chipleader Drake Roetker earns the top cash payout of $20,610 and the uber-cool trophy.
Click over to the Results tab to see this event’s official results.
Level 22 . Ante 40k . Blinds 20k.40k . Entries 9.514
From a five-flight starting field of 514 entries, the $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payday at Texas Card House Houston is down to one single, final table of nine.
Players are on a 30-minute break, returning to have all final table action livestreamed on the TCH Live YouTube feed. We’ll disable the live updates from this point until the end of the event, so you can watch the stream uninterrupted.
Here’s the players in seat-position order with chip counts included.
Level 22 . Ante 40k . Blinds 20k.40k . Entries 9.514
Here’s the players earning a tournament cash by finishing in 19-27th place in Event 2 of the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston – $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payout.
$2,810 payouts
$2,390 payouts
$1,970 payouts
Here’s the players earning a tournament cash by finishing in 19-27th place in Event 2 of the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston – $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payout.
$1,690 payouts:
$1,430 payouts
$1,240 payouts
Chezz Romero, Brenda Clayton, Jeff Nowling, Michael Le, Brian Wee, Lawrence Lazar, Kamoru Yusuf, Jerry Brown, Deniel Zambrano
Level 19 . Ante 20k . Blinds 10k.20k . Entries 24.514
Here’s the players earning a tournament cash by finishing in 28-36th place in Event 2 of the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston – $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payout.
$1,050 payouts:
28. David Vu; 29. Ravee Sundara; 30. Trung Pham; 31. Tuan Nguyen; 32. Abdul Al Magableh; 33. Pejman Niyati; 34. Ricky Owens; 35. Derek Normand; 36. Niraj Kataria
Level 19 . Ante 20k . Blinds 10k.20k . Entries 25.514
Here’s the players earning a tournament cash by finishing in 37-54th place in Event 2 of the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston – $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payout.
$870 Payouts:
37. David Irish; 38. Julie Than; 39. Lawrence Wayne; 40. William Smith; 41. Phiet Ho; 42. Dejuante Alexander; 43. Genc Govori; 44. David Valden; 45. Thuy Beltran.
$720 Payouts:
46. Nick Toralba; 47. Max Moss; 48. Damien Franco; 49. Chris Hinchcliffe; 50. Robert Nguyen; 51. Thomas Rahlfs; 52. Craig Clement; 53. Sarang Ahjua; 54. Rodney Debrigny.
Level 17 . Ante 12k . Blinds 6k.12k . Entries 31.514
Ricky Owens opens for 31,000 and the runaway freight train otherwise known as Brandon Morrow bumps the action to 85,000. The rest of the table folds and Owens calls.
The flop goes Js . 8s . 8d, Owens announces all-in and Morrow – who eliminated Derek Normand just one hand earlier – snap-calls to place Owens at risk.
Owens calls for his one-time and the dealer proceeds to offer 2h . Ks. Owens misses and cashes in 34th place for $1,050 and no collected bounties.
Morrow makes a familiar trek for him now, over to the podium to draw his third and fourth bounty envelopes. There’s $1,000 in the first and $2,500 in the second. Morrow is now up to $16,000 in bounties – good for better than a third-place tournament finish.
Brandon Morrow – 2,050,000 (171 bb)
Level 16 . Ante 10k . Blinds 5k.10k . Entries 42.514
Brandon Morrow has two bounty chips to cash in, so he heads over to the podium to meet TD Justin Hammer and draw twice for prizes.
Morrow pulls two envelopes from the drum and steps back, opening the first envelope to see $000. That’s not a typo, it shows NO payout, no what’s up?
Well, you see, what happened was. The $000 means you’ve won one of the seven large payouts – ranging from $5,000 – $20,000 – and you advance to Drum No. 2 and draw again.
Before this happens, Morrow opens his second envelope and pulls a $2,500 winner.
Now, the next envelope … $10,000.
Morrow just won $12,500, only $850 less than a third-place tournament finish and there’s still 42 players remaining for to earn more bounty draws.
Level 15 . Ante 8k . Blinds 4k.8k . Entries 46.514
Sean Cha opens for 21,000, Niraj Kataria calls, then David Vu jams, with his next-door neighbor Max Moss calling off his stack. Cha and Kataria muck, and up go the cards.
Nines for Vu
Ah . 3h for Moss
The board runs out T . 2 . 6 . 6 . 4 and Moss is eliminated in 47th place, cashing for $720.
Vu heads to the bounty drum and draws a $400 bounty payout.
Level 15 . Ante 8k . Blinds 4k.8k . Entries 52.514
David Shaw and Dara Taherpour score the first two Day 2 eliminations in the Mystery Payday, each draws a $1,000 bounty prize.
52 envelopes remain, one $20,000, two $10,000 and four $5,000 are in there.
Level 14 . Ante 6k . Blinds 3k.6k . Entries 54.514
From a five-flight starting field of 514 entries, the $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payday at Texas Card House Houston is down to 54 players – all in the money – as Day 2 begins.
Every player is bounty-draw eligible. Eliminate a player and you receive a bounty chip, turn that is and draw a mystery envelope with a cash prize ranging from $400 up to $20,000.
There’s $159,340 in the Payouts Pool and $102,800 more in the Bounty Pool.
TD Justin Hammer is giving players final instructions right now.
Level 14 . Ante 6k . Blinds 3k.6k . Entries 54.514
We have seven Turbo players to add in, and here’s the seat assignments for the 47 players advacning from Friday and Saturday into today’s Day 2 Final of the Mystery Payday at Tesxas Card House Houston.
Level 14 . 9:40 Left . Ante 6k . Blinds 3k.6k . Entries 514
Registration is closed in Event 2 of the inaugural PokerAtlas Tour series – $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payday at Texas Card House Houston – and the field comes in at 514 entries.
The players created an overall prize pool of $262,140, paying the final 54 competitors. A total of $159,340 goes in to the Payout Pool, with an additional $102,800 in the Bounty Pool.
Here’s the Payout Pool and the Bounty Breakdown.
Payouts:
Bounties:
Level 11 . Ante 3k . Blinds 1500.3k . Entries 30.63
Down to 30 players in the Turbo, playing until the final 7 move their stacks across to the 3:20 pm Day 2 Final.
Brent Pollack and Cord Garcia are among the grinders.
Level 9 . Ante 1500 . Blinds 1k.1500 . Entries 63
Registration is closed in the fifth of five starting flights of Event 2 in the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston – $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Playday’s Last Chance Turbo – and the scoreboard shows 63 total entries.
The players unofficially contribute $19,530 to the payout pool and $12,600 to the bounty pool, for a total prize pool contribution of $32,130.
Play continues today until down to 7 players who Cash-n-Bag, both making the money and advancing to this afternoon’s 2:30 pm Day 2 Final restart.
Level 14 . 9:40 Left . Ante 6k . Blinds 3k.6k . Entries at least 47
Here’s a look at the 47 players who already have a live stack for Day 2 in the $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payday at Texas Card House Houston, and their staff-verified chip counts.
There’s still today’s Turbo to come, finishing around 1:30 – 2 pm, with Day 2 starting at 2:30 pm.
Level 6 . Ante 800 . Blinds 400.800 . Entries 41
That’s one hour to go in registration and the unlimited-entry period for today’s Texas Card House Houston Last Chance Turbo into Event 2 of the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour – $200,000 Guarantee-covered $600 Mystery Payday.
Unofficially, the field is eight entries away from 500 total, and unofficially has surpassed $250,000 for the total prize pool
Level 3 . Ante 400 . Blinds 200.400 . Entries 30
We’re mid-way through the third 15-minute level in this morning’s Last Chance Turbo and the scoreboard shows 30 entries. Players have until 11:10 am to grab a 30,000 stack and make a run at their first – or second, as the case may be – Day2Bag.
Play is likely to wrap up between 1:30-2 pm, with the Day 2 Final kicking off at 2:30 pm.
Level 1 . Ante 200 . Blinds 100.200
Cards are in the air for the $600 Last Chance Mystery PaydayTurbo.
Players open with 30,000 stacks and play 15-minute levels the entire event. Registration and the unlimited-entry period is available until about 11:10 am when Level 9 begins.
Play continues until the money bubble pops, sending the final 10 percent of the field off for a short break, then back to the felt at 2:30 pm for the start of the Day 2 Final.
Level 16 . Ante 10k . Blinds 5k.10k . Entries 16.160
From a starting field of 160 entries, Flight D comes to a close at Texas Card House Houston with Jonathan Russell (753,000) bagging the top Mystery Payday stack.
Here’s a look at the 16 Day 2 Qualifiers and their verified counts.
Level 16 . Ante 10k . Blinds 5k.10k . Entries 17.160
Niraj Kataria jams the King-high, two-Hearts flop and Kamoru Yusuf calls to put Kataria at risk.
“Well, it looks like I am the bubble,” Kataria exclaims as he shows Kh . 5d and sees Yusuf show Kc . Qc.
The turn Qh is TopTwo for Yusuf, but it also means the sweat is real.
The 3h river gives Kataria runner-runner FTW and he remains alive on the Flight D money bubble.
Carry on and play more of the pokers.
Level 15 . Ante 8k . Blinds 4k.8k . Entries 17.160
The play clock pauses with time to get in one more hand at 4k/8k/8k, down to 17 and needing one more elimination before end-of-play.
Welcome to the Flight D money bubble at Texas Card House Houston, home to the inaugural PokerAtlas Tour.
We’ll return soon with final chipcounts for the 16 Day 2 Qualifiers from this flight.
Players have one final, last chance this morning to find a Day2Bag in the $200,000 Guarantee-already-covered $600 Mystery Payday.
Cards go in the air at 9 am in the Turbo. Players open with 30,000 stacks and play 15-minute levels the entire event. Registration and the unlimited-entry period is available until about 11:10 am when Level 9 begins.
Play continues until the money bubble pops, sending the final 10 percent of the field off for a short break, then back to the felt at 2:30 pm for the start of the Day 2 Final.
Any player who earns their second tournament bag cashes out the smallest stack for a tournament mincash – and also earns a Mystery Payday envelope for “busting” their own smallest bag. The BigBag goes into play for Day 2.
Level 14 . Ante 6k . Blinds 3k.6k . Entries 23.160
There’s a limp to slowly begin action at Table 15, a call from Niraj Kataria, then Drake Roetker bumps the action to 27,000. The blinds muck, as does the original limper, with Kataria coming along.
The flop goes 2h . 8h . 9d, Roetker goes 30,000 and Kataria check-calls.
Turn is a 5 and both player’s check, with Kataria leading out for 40,000 on the river 7, Roetker opting to abandon pursuit of the pot.
Niraj Kataria – 455,000 (76 bb)
Level 13 . Ante 5k . Blinds 3k.5k . Entries 23.160
You no longer have to wait, for it is the midnight hour in Flight D at Texas Card House Houston. The countdown shows seven more eliminations before the end-of-play arrives, sending the final 16 both into the money and on to Sunday afternoon’s Day 2 Final.
Level 12 . Ante 4k . Blinds 2k.4k . Entries 32.160
1-in-2 of the remaining field earns a Day2Bag in Flight D, let’s take pause to look at the updated chip counts.
Jonathan Russell (515,000) sits atop Chipcount Mountain, followed by Jerry Brown (321,000) and Kamoru Yusuf (291,000).
Head over to the Chip Count tab to see how everyone is faring at this stage in the event.
Level 9 . Ante 1500 . Ante 1k.1500 . Entries 160
Registration is closed in the fourth of five starting flights of Event 2 in the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston, and the scoreboard shows 160 total entries.
The players unofficially contribute $49,600 to the payout pool and $32,000 to the bounty pool, for a total prize pool contribution of $81,600. This puts the unofficial field at 451 entries and the combined prize pool unofficially at $230,010 with one flight remaining.
Play continues tonight until down to 16 players who Cash-n-Bag, both making the money and advancing to Sunday’s 2:30 pm Day 2 Final restart.
All players are eligible to play and earn a coveted Day2Bag in all five starting flights, for TCH Houston is a Best Stack Forward house.
You still have the 9am Sunday Last Chance Turbo remaining.Bag more than once and you earn a Day 2 mincash and a mystery envelope for each small bag, playing ONLY the BigBag on Day 2.
Level 8 . Ante 1200 . Blinds 600.1200 . Entries 150
Houston poker players know PLO, we know Houston poker players know PLO, that’s why we’re offering the $100,000 Guarantee $400 PLO Payday. There’s seven starting flights running from Sunday evening through Wednesday evening, with the Day 2 Final on Thursday.
There’s a $1,500 Double Bag Bonus in this one, encouraging the PLO fan to bag in more than one flight.
Play in each starting flight continues until the money bubble pops, advancing 15 percent of the starting field on to Thursday’s Day 2. Everyone is handed $600 for making Day 2 when they bag-up their chips, with additional payouts taking place on Thursday based on where y’all bust out.
Here’s the scheduled for the event.
Level 6 . Ante 800 . Blinds 300.600 . Entries 109
The play clock shows there’s 109 entries already in Flight D, pushing the overall field to 400 and that – ladies gentlemen and poker players alike – means the prize pool now tops the $200,000 guarantee in the $600 Mystery Payday.
Level 16 . Ante 109k . Blinds 5k.10k . Entries 12.116
Derek Normand (678,000) bags the top stack among the 12 Flight C players moving on to Sunday afternoon’s Day 2 Final in the $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payout.
Here’s a look at all 12 Day 2 Qualifiers from this flight and their verified chip counts.
Level 4th Break . Entries 15.116
So – when the Flight C players came back from 3rd break – I posted that was likely the final break of the day, with just 12 eliminations left until end-of-play.
Well, you see, what happened was, only 9 hit the rail, so off the field goes for another break, three eliminations from end-of-play. There’s no stack with fewer than 20 bb, so play may last a wee bit after break.
Level 4 . Ante 500 . Blinds 300.500 . Entries 88
Among those to place a 30,000 Flight D stack in play today is Julie Than, Nada Siddik, Robyn Berry, Rachelle Park, Thuy Beltran, Jerry Brown, Ravee Sundara, William Lahti, Michael Le, Phillip Welch, Dave Ali, Dennis Brand, Deniel Zambrano, Amir Soleymani, Sascha Walter, Aclee Dudley, Tobin Dreher, Niraj Kataria, Cord Garcia and KC Panjwani.
Level 3 . Ante 400 . Blinds 200.400 . Entries 82
Pop the money bubble in your flight and you move on to Sunday’s Day 2 Final starting Sunday at 2:30 pm – playing for Mystery Payouts of up to $20,000 and the tournament cashes as well.
We’re very close to establishing who the qualifiers are from Flight C, let’s take a look at everyone who qualified Friday during flights A and B.
Flight A
Flight B
Level 14 . Ante 6k . Blinds 3k.6k . Entries 18.116
That smell of burning rubber wafting through Texas Card House Houston is the smell of the brakes firmly applied in Flight C, as only six players are eliminated in the past hour.
We came back from break with 12, playing down to 12, and 18 still remain. This is the most pedestrian pace so far of the three Mystery Payday flights.
Six eliminations until the Day 2 Qualifiers are determined.
Level 2 . Ante 300 . Blinds 200.300 . Entries 37
The first 30-minute registration-era levels is in the books and the scoreboard shows 37 players at Texas Card House Houston, playing Flight D of the $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payday.
9:30 pm is close-of-registration, leaving Sunday’s 9 am 15-minute-levels Turbo as the final chance to earn a Day2Bag.
Level 3rd Break . Entries 24.116
The remaining 24 Flight C players are on what is likely their final break of their day’s festivities, as play concludes with 12 left.
Sarang Ahuja (369,000) leads the way, with Joshua Hill (304,000) and Brian Wee (282,000) rounding out the top three.
That, folks, means 50 percent of the field moves on to Day 2, 1-in-2 are gettin’ paid tomorrow starting at 2:30 pm AND the Mystery Payouts – up to $20,000 – also begin Sunday afternoon.
Level 1 . Ante 200 . Blinds 100.200 . Entries 15
Cards are in the air for Flight D of the Mystery payday, playing 30-minute levels and starting with 30k stacks.
Registration and the unlimited-entry period available until the start of Level 9 – that’s a few minutes after 9:30 pm. Play 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.
Level 11 . Ante 3k . Blinds 1500.3k . Entries 26.116
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Level 9 . Ante 1500 . Blinds 1k.1500 . Entries 45.116
Houston poker players know PLO, we know Houston poker players know PLO, that’s why we’re offering the $100,000 Guarantee $400 PLO Payday. There’s seven starting flights running from Sunday evening through Wednesday evening, with the Day 2 Final on Thursday.
There’s a $1,500 Double Bag Bonus in this one, encouraging the PLO fan to bag in more than one flight.
Play in each starting flight continues until the money bubble pops, advancing 15 percent of the starting field on to Thursday’s Day 2. Everyone is handed $600 for making Day 2 when they bag-up their chips, with additional payouts taking place on Thursday based on where y’all bust out.
Here’s the scheduled for the event.
Level 9 . Ante 1500 . Ante 1k.1500 . Entries 116
Registration is closed in the third of five starting flights of Event 2 in the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston, and the scoreboard shows 116 total entries.
The players unofficially contribute $35,960 to the payout pool and $23,200 to the bounty pool, for a total prize pool contribution of $59,160. This puts the unofficial field at 291 entries and the combined prize pool unofficially at $116,970 with two flights remaining.
Play continues today until down to 12 players who Cash-n-Bag, both making the money and advancing to Sunday’s 2:30 pm Day 2 Final restart.
All players are eligible to play and earn a coveted Day2Bag in all five starting flights, for TCH Houston is a Best Stack Forward house. You have tonight’s 5 pm flight and a special 9am Sunday Turbo remaining. Bag more than once and you earn a Day 2 mincash and a mystery envelope for each small bag, playing ONLY the BigBag on Day 2.
Level 8 . Ante 1200 . Blinds 600.1200 . Entries 105
We catch the action as Flavio Palalon places his final 25,000 in the middle postflop and he draws a single caller.
Palalon shows Aces, his challenger flips up Tens on a 9 . 4 . 2 flop and a cooler is taking place.
The board goes 6 . 3 and the pot goes to Palalon, his challenger departs the tournament scene on hand later.
Flavio Palalon – 64,000 (54 bb)
Level 7 . Ante 1k . Blinds 500.1k . Entries 98
Among the latest to place a 30,000 starting stack in action for Flight C is Robyn Berry – winner of the $300 Kickoff – along with Nada Siddik, Cord Garcia, Julie Than, Derek Normand, Chander Jain, John Mulloy and George Abdallah.
Level 5 . Ante 600 . Blinds 300.600 . Entries 80
Jerry Brown crushes the opening four levels of Flight C, his 135,700 is far in front of the field with 80 entries recorded, and four levels left in registration for this flight.
Julian Botello (81,000), Sascha Walter (79,900), Aleta Hammer Chapman (77,600) and Karim Bevans (72.500) make up the room’s top-five stacks.
Check the Chip Count tab to see how everyone progressed through the opening levels today.
Level First Break . Entries 60
Y’all gotta love the Houston poker-player crowd.
First break is underway in Flight C of the $200k GTD $600 Mystery Payday and Texas Card House Houston has a crowd gathered around Table 3, cheering as though their favorite horse is coming down the stretch.
Welcome to Single Table Sweats, the PokerAtlasTour version.
Players set down $60 – once there’s 10 in, the leader pitches two cards, and all hands stay face DOWN. Out comes the flop, the turn is face DOWN and the river goes up.
The first player peels cards until a made hand exists, then the next, and the next, and so on … the best hands now seating that face-down turn card to see who wins .. a $600 entry into this Mystery Payday.
Four sweats took place on break, get your Gambol Gambol on and get your flips going. We’ll have a TON of them during Main Event weekend.
Level 4 . Ante 500 . Blinds 300.500 . Entries 57
We check out the action at Table 14 and see four to a flop of 4s . 8h . Th.
There’s a 2,00 bet from The Hammer, aka Aleta Chapman. She draws calls from Daniel Iorns and Karim Bevans. Bevans is the only player to call a 3,000 bet from Chapman on the Kd turn, both players check the Kd river and Chapman shows Ts . 9s for two pair.
Bevans check his hand, and mucks, Chapman nails the winning hand.
Aleta Chapman – 61,000 (122 bb)
Level 3 . Ante 400 . Blinds 200.400 . Entries 53
The PokerAtlas Tour tracks every player’s chipcounts from start-to-finish for every event, with counts updated every tournament break, and faster at the final table.
Check out how those chip counts – at the end of the event – help create the PokerAtlas Playback™️, showing everyone, and showing when stacks go from small to big to owning every chip in the entire event.
Take a look at our Twitter account – and follow @PokerAtlasTour while you’re at it – to see how it looked in Event 1 when Robyn Berry won the first-ever PokerAtlas Tour event, the $50,000 Guarantee $300 Kickoff.
Level 3 . Ante 400 . Blinds 200.400 . Entries 45
The first two 30-minute registration-era levels are complete and the Texas Card House Houston scoreboard shows 45 entries. Registration and the unlimited-entry period is available until 3:30 pm when Level 9 begins.
Level 2 . Ante 300 . Blinds 200.300 . Entries 36
Among the early arrivals with a 30,000 starting stack in play is Sonny Sundara, Aleta ‘the Hammer’ Chapman, William Lahti, Adedayo Fadeyi, Carl Nece, David Irish, Victor Lee, KC Panjwani, Jacob Edwards, Jason Nelson, Sang Ngo, Paul Saranec and Nektarios Vasilakis.
Level 1 . Ante 200 . Blinds 100.200 . Entries 26
Pop the money bubble in your flight and you move on to Sunday’s Day 2 Final starting Sunday at 2:30 pm – playing for Mystery Payouts of up to $20,000 and the tournament cashes as well.
Here’s a look at everyone who qualified Friday during flights A and B.
Flight A
Flight B
The fourth of five $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payday flights begins today at 5 pm.
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 a few minutes after 9:30 pm. Play 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, the smallest envelope pays $00, with a top envelope containing $20,000.
There’s one additional flight, 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.
Level 1 . Ante 200 . Blinds 100.200 . Entries 10
Cards are in the air for the third of five $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payday flights.
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 to you and me.
Play 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, the smallest envelope pays $00, with a top envelope containing $20,000.
There’s two additional flights – 5 pm today and 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.
Level 16 . Ante 10k . Blinds 5k.10k . Entries 12.113
Here’s the chipcounts for the 12 Flight B players earning a coveted Day2Bag, returning Sunday at 2:30 pm to play for Mystery Payouts and tournament cashes.
Two more flights tomorrow, 11 am and 5 pm and a 9am Sunday Turbo still to come.
Level 16 . Ante 190k . Blinds 5k.10k . Entries 13.113
So, remember way back to an hour ago when hand-for-hand play began on the money bubble?
Well, you see, what happened was
The field burned off the remainder of Level 14 AND all of Level 15, A player falling on the very final hand of the level.
We’ll return soon, no really, I promise, with chipcounts for the 12 remaining players.
Level 14 . Ante 6k . Blinds 3k.6k . Entries 13.113
13 remain, 12 move on to Day 2, we’ve arrived at hand-for-hand on the money bubble, with Justin Hammer peeling two minutes per hand from the play clock until the final 12 are established.
We’ll return with final chipcounts for the 12 advancing to Sunday.
Level 12 . Ante 5k . Blinds 3k.5k . Entries 16.113
Five away from bagging and action picks up at Table 5.
Chris Hinchcliffe opens for 10,000, Dara Taherpour calls, Cord Garcia makes it 35,000, Chris calls, Dara jams for 177,000, Cord calls off his 155,000 and Chris hesitates, then steps aside.
A . K For Dara
A . J for Cord
Q . 3 . 6 . 6 . 6 goes the board and Cord is out, 4 away now from the end of play for Flight B.
Dara Taherpour – 380,000 (76 bb)
Level 11 . Ante 3k . Blinds 1500.3k . Entries 26.113
Howard Xu moves in preflop for 40k and finds one caller in Gunther Nguyen.
Xu keeps his cards face down until Nguyen shows Eights, then two Aces are displayed by Xu.
Karma arrives with an 8 in the window, two fours are added by the river and Gunther goes Boat for the Nguyen, eliminating Xu 14 away from bagging.
Level 10 . Ante 2k . Blinds 1k.2k . Entries 31.113
Ronald Hemen is all in preflop, both Howard Xu and David Shaw call, while Lawrence Wayne barks about folding A . J and how he should play rather than fold.
Fours for Hemen
A . K for Xu
A . K for Shaw
Wayne’s woe-is-me carries throughout the room and grows exponentially louder where there’s a Jack in the window, explaining why A . J is superior when up against A . K.
No Ace, no King, Hemen triples, Carry on and play the pokers. Two hands later and Wayne continues to explain to a demonstrably-uninterested Xu how Xu should play and bet each hand.
Level 10 . Ante 2k . Blinds 1k.2k . Entries 36.113
1-in-3 cash at this point, it is Trung Pham (287,000) leading the way, with David Shaw (224,500) the only other player to top 200k after the first 8 levels tonight.
Click over to the Chip Count tab and see how everyone in Flight B is progressing.
Level 9 . Ante 1500 . Blinds 1k.1500 . Entries 40.113
We’re into #TheGrindIsReal time, better than 1-in-4 earn a Day 2 Bag from this Mystery Payday flight.
Among the grinders is Chris Hinchcliffe, David Shaw, Cord Garcia, Wes Cutshall, Derek Normand, Andrew Bonu, Dara Taherpour, Lawrence Wayne and Jason Fitzpatrick.
Level 9 . Ante 1500 . Blinds 1k.1500 . Entries 48.113
There’s three more chances to earn your first (or second, or third, or) Day2Bag in the $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payout before Day 2 begins Sunday at 2:30 pm.
Tweet your friends, send them the link to the updates, follow the @PokerAtlasTour twitter feed and c’mon down to earn that bag.
Level 9 . Ante 1500 . Blinds 1k.1500 . Entries 113
Registration is closed in the second of five starting flights of Event 2 in the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston, and the scoreboard shows 113 total entries. The players unofficially contribute $35,030 to the payout pool and $22,600 to the bounty pool, for a total prize pool contribution of $57,630. This puts the combined prize pool unofficially at $89,250 with three flights remaining.
Play continues today until down to 12 players who Cash-n-Bag, both making the money and advancing to Sunday’s 2:30 pm Day 2 Final restart.
All players are eligible to play and earn a coveted Day2Bag in all five starting flights, for TCH Houston is a Best Stack Forward house. Bag more than once and you earn a Day 2 mincash and a mystery envelope for each small bag, playing ONLY the BigBag on Day 2.
Level 7 . Ante 1k . Blinds 500.1k . Entries 100
Triple-digit entries with a bit more than an hour remaining in registration for Flight B of the Mystery Payout.
Cord Garcia joins the field, seated right in front of a big screen playing the Celtics/Heat game, so he’s more than slightly distracted right now. Andrew Bonu – 8th last night in the Kickoff – also joins Flight B.
Level 5 . Ante 600 . Blinds 300.600 . Entries 74
Gary Chui (106,800) sits atop Chipcount Mountain after the first four 30-minute levels in Flight B of the $200k GTD $600 Mystery Payday.
Bryan Broussard (100,500) is the only other player to reach a 6-figure stack at this stage of the night’s festivities.
Take a look at the Chip Count tab and see how everyone is running in Flight B.
Level 14, 9:40 Left . Ante 6k . Blinds 3k.6k . Entries 7.62
Lawrence Lazar (439,000) runs it up in the final 30 minutes today, bagging the top stack among seven Day 2 Qualifiers in Flight A of the $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payday – Event 2 in the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House, Houston.
The seven players return – all in the money – Sunday at 2:30 pm to play for Mystery Paydays as large as $20,000 and the tournament cashes as well.
Here’s the final seven and their verified counts
Level 14, 9:40 Left
Ante 6k . Blinds 3k.6k . Entries 7.62
Aleta Chapman moves in for her final 50k, Daniel Romero calls, then Lawrence Lazar jams, having Romero covered. Romero folds and up go the cards, with Chapman at risk on the Flight A money bubble.
Jacks for Chapman
Queens for Lazar
The board runs out A . 6 . 2 . 2 . K and Chapman is eliminated on the bubble, the remaining seven players advancing to Sunday’s Day 2 Final, playing for the Mystery Payouts.
We’ll be back soon with verified counts on the final seven.
Level 3 . Ante 400 . Blinds 200.400 . Entries 48
Wes Cutshall, Jason Fitzpatrick, Derek Normand and DJ Alexander are among the recent arrivals for Flight B tonight in the $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payday.
Level 13 . Ante 5k . Blinds 3k.5k . Entries 9.62
Lawrence Lazar opens for 11,000, Viet Vo and Nic Vu come along.
The flop goes 9h . Js . 3h and Vo makes it 23,000. Vu calls, Lazar jams and Vo snap-undershoves, drawing a groan from Vu.
Vu folds Kd . Jd face up, let’s see the other cards.
Q . J for Lazar
Kh . 5h for Vo
Vu continues to groan, the board runs out Ad . 2d and Vo is out, Lazar rakes and the field moves to one table, two eliminations away from end-of-play.
Level 3 . Ante 400 . Blinds 200.400 . Entries 35
The first two 30-minute registration-era levels are complete and the scoreboard shows 35 entries so far in Flight B of the Mystery Payday.
Registration and the unlimited-entry period is available until a bit after 9:30 pm when Level 9 begins.
Level 1 . Ante 200 . Blinds 100.200 . Entries 12
Action is underway for today’s second flight in the $200k GTD $600 Mystery Payday, leaving three additional flights after today concludes.
30,000 stacks, 30-minute levels, unlimited entries until Level 9 begins wee bit after 9:30 pm, the final 10 percent BagUp.
Level 10 . Ante 2k . Blinds 1k.2k . Entries 21.62
Down to 21 players in Flight A, and the final seven make the money, so we’ve reached the stage where 1-in-3 of the remaining field gets a Day2Bag and a shot at the Mystery Payouts in this $200,000 Guarantee $600 at Texas Card House Houston.
The second of five $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payday flights begins today at 5 pm.
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 a few minutes after 3:30 pm. Play 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, the smallest envelope pays $00, with a top envelope containing $20,000.
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.
Level 9 . Ante 1500 . Blinds 1k.1500 . Entries 24.62
Aleta Chapman opens UTG for 4,000 and piques the curiosity of David Shaw, who accelerates the preflop betting to 8,000 and Chapman is the lone caller.
Chapman check-call’s Shaw’s 4,000 bet on the Jc . 2s . Kh flop, and neither players makes a play as the Ac lands on the turn.
River is 4h, a 10,000 bet from Chapman and Shaw seems to reluctantly call.
ATcc for Champan
AThh for Shaw
The dealer divides the betting units is equal stacks and slide stacks to the competitors. Nothing to see here, folks, you are free to move about the poker room, your mileage may vary, try the veal and remember to tip your dealers.
Level 9 . Ante 1500 . Blinds 1k.1500 . Entries 27.62
Erin lee (184,500) and Viet Vo (160,500) are the chipleaders as cards go back in the air with registration closed in Flight A of the five-flight $200k GTD $600 Mystery Payday.
Check the chip Count tab after every break of every tournament and see how every unique entry progresses – EVERY event, EVERY break, EVERY chip count.
Check this flight’s Chip Count and you’ll see all 49 uniques and where they sit after eight levels.
Level 9 . Ante 1500 . Blinds 1k.1500 . Entries 62
Registration is closed in the first of five starting flights of Event 2 in the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston, and the scoreboard shows 62 total entries. The players contribute $19,220 to the payout pool and $12,400 to the bounty pool, for a total prize pool contribution of $31,620.
Play continues today until down to seven players who Cash-n-Bag, both making the money and advancing to Sunday’s 2:30 pm Day 2 Final restart.
All players are eligible to play and earn a coveted Day2Bag in all five starting flights, for TCH Houston is a Best Stack Forward house. Bag more than once and you earn a Day 2 mincash and a mystery envelope for each small bag, playing ONLY the BigBag on Day 2.
Level 8 . Ante 1200 . Blinds 600.1200 . Entries 59
Among those who placed a 30k stack in action so far in the first of five Mystery Payday flights is Viet Vo, Brenda Clayton, Kamoro Yusef, Lawrence Wayne, Wayne Lengyel, Nick Torabla, Jerry Brown, Tuan Le and the aforementioned Jess, David and Genc.
Level 6 . Ante 800 . Blinds 400.800 . Entries 52
We’re midway through level 5 and I’m not saying the room volume is going to increase specifically due to who just walked in, but Jessica Richards has been known to accelerate the fun aspect of poker on the felt.
Jess and David Shaw are the latest to exchange $600 for a 30,000 starting stack in Flight A of the Mystery Payout.
And, well, maybe I was right, as Jess has a group gathered around her right as I am about to post this. NOTE: y’all can join me and Jess across the street at BB’s Tex-Orleans for crawfish on any tournament break.
Level 5 . Ante 600 . Blinds 300.600 . Entries 44
The first 15-minute break concludes, Genc Govori and friends return for more 30-minute levels of fun in Flight A of the $200k GTD $600 Mystery Payday.
Moving forward, here’s the Mystery Payday schedule.
Level 4 . Ante 500 . Blinds 300.500 . Entries 31
The first three 30-minute registration-era levels are complete and the scoreboard shows a rather pedestrian pace to the morning flight, with 31 entries at this stage.
Registration and the unlimited-entry period is available until the start of Level 9, a wee bit after 3:30 pm.
The final 10 percent of this field earns the designation of Cash-n-Bag, both making the money and advancing to Sunday’s 2:30 pm Day 2 Final restart.
We’ll be back at the end of this level with full chip counts for the entire field.
Level 1 . Ante 200 . Blinds 100.200 . Entries 5
Cards are in the air for the first of two flights today in the five-flight $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payday.
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 a few minutes after 3:30 pm. Play 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, the smallest envelope pays $00, with a top envelope containing $20,000.
There’s four additional flights – 5pm today, 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.
The first two flights in the $200,000 Guarantee $600 Mystery Payday launches today, 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, the smallest envelope pays $00, with a top envelope containing $20,000.
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.
Day 2 Chip Counts – Scroll Down for Day 1 Chipcounts by Flight
Final Turbo Flight Chip Counts – Scroll Down to see Flights A-D
Flight D Chip Counts – Scroll Down for Flights A/B/C
Final Flight C Chip Counts – Scroll down for Flights A and B
Final Flight B Chip Counts – Scroll Down for Flight A
Final Flight A Chip Counts – Unique Entries Only
