Nektarios Vasilakis defeats John Mulloy heads-up for the trophy, winning the $25,000 Guarantee $400 Giant Stack – Event 3 in the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston.
The final 13 players agreed to divide up equally the vast majority of the remaining payouts, leaving a bit up to to play for, and awarding the trophy to the tournament winner.
It seems somewhat fitting that Vasilakis – who is Greek – earns the trophy depicting the Greek God Atlas.
The final 13 players leave a nice pot up top, 2nd – 13th place taking an even amount and reducing the levels in half to bring the event soon to its conclusion.
We’ll return soon with the winner posing with the winner’s photo. $6,570 to the winner, $3,000 to 2-13th.
I know y’all may not believe this, but Iain The TD just managed to get 19 poker players to agree on something.
OK, so Iain did not bring up the idea, but he polled all 19 after one table asked if they could pay the bubble $500 and not go hand-for-hand. Iain went to the other two tables, asked and received unanimous affirmatives, so …
Put the clock back on, pay the bubble $500, peel $500 from first and get playing again.
Registration is closed in Event 3 of the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston – $25,000 Guarantee $400 Giant Stack – and the scoreboard shows 143 entries. The players create a prize pool valued at $47,190, paying the final 18 participants.
Tonight’s winner takes home the top cash prize of $12,640 and one of the 12 inaugural PokerAtlas Tour handcrafted trophies.
The first eight Giant Stack levels are complete at Texas Card House Houston and Leonardo Basanta (270,500) has the chiplead, with registration closing when cards go back in the air to start Level 9.
Gregory Bassett (220,000), Aleta TheHammer Chapman (212,500), Joe Eckford (169,000) and David Butler (166,000) makes up the tournament’s Top-5 stacks at this stage of the competition.
Flip over to the Chip Count tab to see how everyone is progressing in the event.
John Schnake (162,200) sits atop ChipCount Mountain after the first four Giant Stack levels at Texas Card House Houston, followed by the likes of Chris Bello (121,500), Jeremy Evans (114,700) and the players who have yet to advance to owning 6-figure tournament stacks.
Check the chip count tab for full-field chip updates on every tournament break in this and every PokerAtlas Tour series event.
Among those with a giant 50,000 stack in action so far is Phillip Welch, KC Panjwani, Zachary Vuong, John Velasquez, Pouvan Kazemi, My Nguyen, Jackson White, Jiang Yu, David Summers and Takehiko Kanazawa, et al.
The first 30-minute registration-era level is complete and the scoreboard shows 37 entires for the $25,000 Guarantee $400 Giant Stack.
Registration and the unlimited-entry period is available until the start of Level 9 a few minutes after 4:30 pm. 1-in-8 earns a tournament cash in this single-day competition.
Cards are in the air for Event 3 in the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston – $25,000 Guarantee $400 Giant Stack.
Players open with gigantic 50,000 stacks, playing 30-minute levels throughout this single-day event. Registration and the unlimited-entry period is available until the start of Level 9 at about 4:30 pm.
1-in-8 entries earns a tournament cash, the winner taking home – along with the top cash prize – the unique and creative Atlas trophy.
This event is not scheduled to have a livestreamed final table, for today’s Day 2 of the 561-entry Mystery Payday’s final table is likely to overlap this one.
Event 3 in the May 2023 PokerAtlas Tour series at Texas Card House Houston is a $25,000 Guarantee $400 NLH Giant Stack, starting today at Noon.
Players open with gigantic 50,000 stacks, playing 30-minute levels throughout this single-day event. Registration and the unlimited-entry period is available until the start of Level 9 at about 4:30 pm.
1-in-8 entries earns a tournament cash, the winner taking home – along with the top cash prize – the unique and creative Atlas trophy.
This event is not scheduled to have a livestreamed final table, for the Mystery Payday’s final table is likely to overlap this one.
