Truong Nguyen celebrates his win in the PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event
Truong “Tommy” Huynh is the last man standing in the 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas series – $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event
The tournament drew 1,879 entries over 10 starting flights, producing a total prize pool of $1,672,310. Huynh led one of those 10 starting flights, taking a top-five stack into Monday’s Day 2 with 150 players remaining.
Thirteen hours later, Huynh was one of nine standing, making the final table sitting third in chips. He fell to the bottom of the pack when play got short handed before beginning his ascent.
Huynh’s major defining moment of the final table came during four-handed play, when he got ace-three in for stacks against ace-king and hit a three on the river to double through then-chip-leader Cord Garcia. From there, he never looked back, eliminating all three remaining competitors within a 45-minute span.
The win is Huynh’s largest of his career. Before the final table began, he told the PokerAtlas Tour staff that his largest career score came at the Rio Las Vegas for 84k. He said his goal was to win the tournament, and he made good on that goal tonight.
Truong Huynh makes a set of fours and takes 10 million off Cord Garcia, who misses a flush draw, and chips up to 64 million.
Huynh open-jams on the button and Garcia calls for his last 8 million.
Garcia:
Huynh:
The board runs out — Garcia turns a flush draw, but the river bricks and Huynh’s ten kicker remains best to win the pot and eliminate Garcia, who becomes the runner-up of the inaugural 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas series – $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event.
Jason Bullock opens on the button to 750k and Truong Huynh calls in the small blind. Cord Garcia comes along from the big, and the three go to a flop.
Huynh checks and Garcia fires out 1 million. Bullock calls and Huynh check-raises to 7.5 million. Garcia gets out of the way and Bullock calls all in for slightly less.
Bullock:
Huynh:
Huynh puts Bullock in with top pair and runs into an overpair, putting the latter in commanding shape to double up to nearly 17 million. The turn is a safe , but the river gives Huynh two pair and knocks Bullock out in third place.
Level 32 . Ante 250k . Blinds 125k.150k. Entries 4.1879
Truong Huynh limps in from the cutoff and Cord Garcia raises to 900k on the button. Huynh limp-jams for 8.85 million and Garcia calls.
Huynh:
Garcia:
Huynh is in trouble before finding three chop outs on the flop. The turn adds wheel outs, all of which weren’t needed after the gives him two pair on the river and improves beyond Garcia’s better ace.
Huynh doubles to 18.375 million and Garcia is down to 28.5 million.
Level 32 . Ante 250k . Blinds 125k.150k. Entries 4.1879
The opening two hours of our PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event are down and players are on a short break. Here’s a look at updated chipcounts on break. Follow the TCH LiVE Stream above and you can see counts on each played hand.
Jael lewis raises to 500k in the cutoff and Cord Garcia three-bets to put her all in for 2.2 million effective. Lewis snap-calls.
Lewis:
Garcia:
The board runs out – Garcia picks up extra outs to a wheel on the flop before pairing his ace, which remains best through the river to eliminate Lewis from the tournament.
Jael Lewis – 5th place – $65,140
Cord Garcia – 22,500,000
After losing two-thirds of his stack when Cord Garcia flopped trip Sixes against his top pair, Eric Chang soon finds himself all-in preflop for 1.2 million.
Garcia raises to 2.6 million and Jason Bullock comes along to create a 2.8m sidepot.
The dealer fans and both players check, thy also check the turn, Garcia leading for 1 million on the river and Bullock lays down
Chang shows , Garcia showing the nut flush with his Mom and Dad of Spades, aka
Cord Garcia opens to 400k ;utg and Christopher Laieta three-bet shoves for 2.8 million in the hijack. Eduardo Cuaderes re-jams for 7.2 million on the button and everybody else folds.
Laieta:
Cuaderes:
The board runs out — Laieta hits his ace on the flop and looks poised to win the coin flip and double, only for a two-outer on the river to spell the end of his tournament run in seventh place.
Eduardo Cuaderes – 10,600,000
Christopher Laieta – 7th Place – $43,540
Dustin Schoonover moves all in preflop for 1.9 million and draws no callers, picking up the blinds and antes. A few hands later, Eric Chang opens for 300,000, Jason Bullock 3-bets to 750,000, then Schoonover moves in for 2.1 million.
Chang steps aside, Bullock asks for a count, and calls
Level 30 Ante 150k . Blinds 75k.150k . Entries 9.1879
After starting the day as the shortest stack with 1.35 million, Por Seak finds himself down to 650k in the small blind and three-bet shoves over an open to 300k from Eric Chang. Chang calls.
Seak:
Chang:
The flop comes , giving Chang a flush draw that could spoil Seak’s opportunity at a chopped pot. The turn is a safe , but the lands on the river to spell doom for Seak. The table wishes him condolences for how the runout finished, and he makes his way from the table.
Eric Chang – 7,750,000
Por Seak – 9th Place – $25,870
Level 30 Ante 150k . Blinds 75k.150k . Entries 9.1879
Cards are in the air for the final table of the 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas series – $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event. All nine players are guaranteed $25,870 and play is underway to determine who will earn the top prize of $258,010.
From a multi-flight starting field of 1,879 entries, Event 19 in the 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas series – $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event – is down to one single, final table of nine participants.
Cord Garcia leads going in to FT action, and we’re livestreaming this event starting at 6 pm at TCHLiVE. The top prize is $258,010, with the final table mincash at $25,870.
Truong Huynh opens to 500,00 on the button and action’s on Jeffrey Frye in the big blind.
Meanwhile, Cord Garcia has 3.7 million in front of him on a board and
Cord Garcia has a bet of 3.7 million in front of him, putting Eric Chang to a decision for the majority of his chips in a significant pot. Five minutes go by and Garcia calls clock, with Chang’s hand eventually being ruled dead.
“All in,” says Frye a second later. Huynh announces a call.
Frye:
Huynh:
The board runs out — Frye flops a pair of nines, but Huynh pulls back in front with a pair of aces on the turn and remains there to eliminate Frye in 10th place. With his elimination, the tournament clock stops with 54:02 remaining in Level 30 for the final nine players to take part in their second celebratory bag-n-tag of the tournament.
We will post a final table seat draw and chip counts shortly. Day 3 will begin at 5 p.m. on Tuesday and will be live-streamed on the TCH Live YouTube Channel at 6 p.m.
Cord Garcia chips up to above 12 million without showdowns after an orbit where he takes down every pot. He then opens to 330k in the hijack and Chris Akin defends his big blind.
The flop comes and Akin checks to Garcia, who continuation-bets 420,000. Akin check-raises to 1.1 million and Garcia thinks for a bit before putting in a three-bet to 2.6 million. Akin goes back into the tank, thinking about what to do with his stack of 7.66 million.
“All in,” says Akin, causing Garcia to turn over a flopped set with before slamming a stack of chips onto the felt in victorious fashion. Akin shows and needs to hit running cards to stay alive, which he cannot do as a turn and river finish the runout in the biggest pot of the tournament so far.
Akin’s elimination earns him $19,790 and brings us down to 10 players, just one elimination from calling it for the night. Play continues on two five-handed tables with no hand-for-hand play: the next two places each earn $25,870, meaning there’s no pay jump between 10th and 9th places.
Jael Lewis opens to 300k under the gun and Brendan Dornan three-bet shoves from the hijack. Action folds back to Lewis and she snap-calls.
Lewis shows and the air leaves Dornan as he tables .
The board runs out for Lewis to remain on top and win the pot. Dornan’ stack is counted to be 2.55 million and Lewis’s to 2.37 million, earning her the double and leaving Frye with just 180k behind.
Two hands later, Dornan is all in from the big blind, Truong three-bets over an open, making it 3.5 million and forcing an open-fold of two tens. Truong tables two kings, and Dornan’s queen-seven is only able to make one pair, ending his tournament run in 12th place.
Following the break, Tony Nguyen sees action fold to him on the button and he shoves for 495,000. Chris Akin looks him up from the small blind.
Nguyen:
Akin:
Nguyen’s situation goes from bad to worse after a jack on the flop, and he ends up drawing dead by the turn en route to a 13th-place finish, good for $15,430.
With Nguyen’s elimination 12 players remain, and everyone is guaranteed at least $19,790. Play. marches on until nine remain.
The final 13 players return from a 10-minute break to play another two hours or until four more eliminations occur.
Truong Huynh leads the field with 14.65 million, well clear of Chris Akin’s 10.115 million in second. Jason Bullock (8.175 million), Eric Chang (7.625 million) and Eduardo Cuaderes (7.48 million) round out the top five.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for complete counts from the remainder of the field.
Eduardo Cuaderes opens to 300k under the gun and Cord Garcia calls in the lojack. Eric Chang three-bets to 1 million in the hijack and only Cuaderes calls.
The flop comes and Cuaderes slides out 2 million. Chang thinks for a bit and jams around 2.7 million, causing Cuaderes to audibly sigh and announce a fold some 15 seconds later.
As this takes place, Jeffrey Frye gets all in for 1.115 million in the small blind against Jael Lewis, who’s on the button.
Frye:
Lewis:
The board runs out and Frye earns the double with two pair, aces and fours.
Eric Chang – 7,700,000
Eduardo Cuaderes – 7,150,000
Jeffrey Frye – 2,430,000
Jael Lewis – 1,700,000
Mazen Abdallah open-jams for 1.1 million in the lojack and action folds to Truong Huynh in the big blind, who looks down at his cards and announces a call.
Abdallah:
Huynh:
The board runs out — Huynh flops top pair, top kicker, but Abdallah picks up a backdoor draw to the nut flush on the turn. He’s eliminated when it misses on the river, bringing the field down to 13.
As it happens, Cord Garcia flops a flush against Chris Akin’s two pair and doubles. He then makes a straight and takes another chunk off of him.
Truong Huynh – 14,825,000
Chris Akin – 9,100,000
Cord Garcia – 6,600,000
Mazen Abdallah – Eliminated in 14th Place ($15,430)
Kamoru Yusuf opens to 300,000 in the lojack and Jason Bullock calls in the hijack, as does Jael Lewis in the small blind.
The flop falls and Lewis checks. Yusuf announces he’s all in and Bullock does the same, causing Lewis to quickly get rid of her hand.
Yusuf: (Royal Flush draw)
Bullock: (set of jacks)
Reactions ensue as the hands are shown and the tournament staff comes to sweat the runout. Yusuf pulls out his phone to sweat as well, turning it around to show his face on the screen and narrate his fate.
The turn is the . “Bam!” he says as he makes the nut flush. But the river comes behind to give Bullock a full house.
“Oh my God!” says Yusuf.
“Sorry man,” says Bullock, extending a fist for Yusuf to bump. Yusuf completes it and makes his way to the payouts, while Bullock takes down the pot.
Jason Bullock – 6,450,000
Kamoru Yusuf – Eliminated in 16th Place ($12,520)
Yong Zou open-jams for 1.89 million in the hijack and receives a call from Truong Huynh in the small blind.
Zou:
Huynh:
The exciting-window-card theme continues with an bringing hope for Zou, but the appears behind it to give Huynh a set of kings. A complete the runout and Huynh takes down the pot.
Truong Huynh – 10,800,000
Yong Zou – Eliminated in 17th Place ($12,520)
Jason Bullock opens to 210,000 UTG+1 and is called by Jeffrey Frye in the lojack. Joe Jaurigui three-bet jams for 935,000 on the button and Bullock re-jams, forcing Frye out of the pot.
Jaurigui:
Bullock:
An eight appears immediately on a runout, giving Bullock a set and leaving Jaurigui drawing dead before finds a meaningless set of his own on the river.
Jason Bullock – 4,100,000
Joe Jaurigui – Eliminated in 18th Place ($12,520)
Action folds around to Joe Jaurigui in the cutoff and he opens to 200k. Por Seak three-bets all in for 685,000 on the button and Jaurigui calls when it’s his turn to do so.
Seak:
Jaurigui:
Seak calls for a four and immediately finds one in the window of a flop. He fades a jack on the turn and river and locks up the double.
Cord Garcia opens to 200,000 in the hijack and Eric Chang three-bets to 480,000 in the cutoff. Christopher Laieta cold four-bets to 1.1 million on the button and Julian Gaines calls all in for 495,000 in the small blind. Garcia and Chang get out of the way, while the other two table their holdings.
Gaines:
Laieta:
Gaines is elated to see his ace-jack in such great shape, but the table’s reaction does a full 180 after Laieta flops the world on . He completes both draws on running , finishing with the nuts to eliminate Gaines from the tournament.
“Sick cold four(-bet) spot, huh?” says Garcia to Laieta. He wishes Gaines a good game, adding, “at least you lost against the nuts.”
With the elimination of Gaines, we are now down to 18 players and have reached the final two tables of the tournament. Play will continue until we make the final table of nine.
Christopher Laieta – 5,600,000
Julian Gaines – Eliminated in 19th Place ($10,210)
Nineteen return from break for the start of Level 27 after Angel Castro Pinto was eliminated on the last hand of Level 26 when his king-queen lost to Eric Chang’s ace-six. He earns $10,210 for his finish in 20th place.
Chris Akin leads the field with 10.9 million, joined on the podium by Eduardo Cuaderes (9.37 million) and Truong Huynh (8.825 million).
Two others sit above 5 million — Eric Chang (7.155 million) and Jeffrey Frye (5.74 million).
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for complete counts from the entire field.
Felix Sanchez moves in for his last 4 bb and draws Truong Huynh and Julian Gaines as callers.
Both players check the flop, Huynh moves in for 8 million plus on the turn and Gaines is flummoxed. He stares at the board and his cards for a few moments, then mucks, and likely is glad he did.
Huynh shows for a King-high straight, the river completes the elimination
Sanchez finishes in 21st place, cashing for $10,210.
Jeffrey Meuangkhot (pictured) shoves all in for 650,000 UTG+1 and action folds around to Chris Akin in the small blind, who re-jams and sees a fold behind.
Meuangkhot:
Akin:
The board runs out — Akin makes a straight on the turn but Meaungkhot makes a backdoor flush draw. It fails to hit, and he’s eliminated in 25th.
Moments later, Jalal Shamroukh and Mitchell Anderson also are eliminated from the tournament to bring the field down to 22. Their bust outs happen after a pay jump, earning them an additional $1,050 than Meuangkhot.
Chris Akin – 7,600,000
Jeffrey Meuangkhot – Eliminated in 25th Place ($7,360) Jalal Shamroukh – Eliminated in 24th Place ($8,410) Mitchell Anderson – Eliminated in 23rd Place ($8,410)
Jael Lewis opens to 140,000 in the hijack and Mitchell Anderson calls on the button. Dustin Schoonover three-bet jams for 520,000 in the small blind and Lewis calls, with Anderson folding behind.
Schoonover:
Lewis:
The board runs out , improving both players on the river. Lewis hits her pair of tens, but it gives Schoonover the nuts.
“Ten of diamonds, baby!” exclaims Schoonover. “I knew it was coming!”
Jael Lewis – 6,350,000
Mitchell Anderson – 2,700,000
Dustin Schoonover – 1,280,000
A heads-up pot brews between Cord Garcia in the hijack and Eric Chang in the cutoff, bringing a flop of . Garcia checks to Chang, who bets 250k, and Garcia check-raises to 650k. Chang calls.
The turn is the and both players check, bringing the on the river. Garcia thinks for a bit and bets 1.1 million. Chang confirms the amount and wastes no time calling, causing Garcia to shoot his cards straight to the muck.
Chang exchanges his face-down cards for the pot and chips up to 6.95 million, while Garcia now has 2.515 million.
Moments later, Kris Burchfield is eliminated in 27th place, bringing the field down to 26.
Down to the final three tables in the Title Event, let’s take pause at PokerAtlas Tour Executive Tournament director Justin Hammer and TD Kerry 🍔 complete the 27-player redraw.
Here’s the players listed by table, in seat-position order, with chipcounts included.
The final seconds tick off the clock in Level 25, and two eliminations immediately ensue as Bill Mai hits the rail and Mitchell Anderson eliminates Mo Arani.
Twenty-seven players remain with the clock paused at 58:06 in Level 26 to do a full redraw of the field. We will post an updated seat draw and entire counts from the field momentarily.
The following players were eliminated in 28th through 36th place.
The board reads with a small pile already in the middle and heads-up action between Angel Castro Pinto in the big blind and David Coker, who is under the gun.
Castro Pinto has checked and is facing a bet, which he check-jams for Coker’s effective 640,000. Coker calls.
Coker:
Castro Pinto:
Castro Pinto’s bottom two pair is dead against Coker’s set of jacks, and the falls on the river to confirm Coker’s double.
David Coker – 1,675,000
Angel Castro Pinto – 675,000
Jael Lewis takes a few more pots from her tablemates and chips up to 7.6 million in the first half of the level. She then opens to 110k in the lojack and sees Mo Arani three-bet jam for 925k in the hijack. She confirms the amount and calls.
Arani:
Lewis:
After winning round one with pocket eights, Lewis loses round two after the board runs out , giving Arani trips and earning him the double.
Three players go to a flop of and two checks ensue from Eric Chang, under the gun, and Julian Gaines in the cutoff. Bijan Rashidi goes all in for 355k and both players call, setting up a possible side pot.
The turn is the and Chang bets 350,000. Gaines folds, showing the as he does.
Rashidi:
Chang:
Rashidi is dead by the time the cards are on their backs after Chang turns a full house. The completes the runout, not the prettiest card in the deck this time for Rashidi, and he wishes the table a good game before making his way to the payouts.
Eric Chang – 3,550,000
Julian Gaines – 2,500,000
Bijan Rashidi – Eliminated in 32nd Place ($6,410)
Cord Garcia sits atop the counts through 24 levels in the $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event at TCH Dallas. He has 5.68 million and is joined by two others above 5 million (Jael Lewis – 5.26 million; Mitchell Anderson – 5.125 million).
Truong Huynh (4.7 million) and Kris Burchfield (4.5 million) round out the top five.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for complete counts from the entire field.
Kris Burchfield doubles with pocket kings versus the jack-ten of Balaji Ellur on a jack-high board. Ellur loses a little more shortly thereafter.
Burchfield then doubles again through Truong Huynh before Nguyen and Huynh play for stacks on a T-4-2-4 board.
Ellur has pocket twos for a full house, deuces full of fours, and Huynh has the . The case four comes on the river, causing the table to erupt, and Ellur is eliminated from the tournament.
Huynh now has 4.4 million. Burchfield has 4.2 million.
There’s a massive pot brewing on Table 9 between Jael Lewis in the hijack and Mo Arani, who’s on the button. The board reads and Lewis is all in for 1.875 and Arani announces a call.
Lewis shows for a set of eights, and it beats Arani’s , top two pair.
A tablemate wishes her a nice hand, and she thanks the player, adding that it was a “lucky setup spot” for her to be on the right side of.
Lewis wins another small one afterward and vaults to 5.25 million. Arani falls to 770k.
Balaji Ellur raises to 80k UTG+1 and Charles Draughon three-bet shoves for 400k in the cutoff. Ellur calls when action gets back to him.
Draughon:
Ellur:
The board runs out — the flop gives Ellur a set, leaving Draughon in need of hitting a ten or king to stay alive. He fails to do so and is eliminated in 44th place.
“I told you,” said Draughon to tablemate Truong Huynh. “He can’t miss.”
“Sorry buddy,” responds Huynh.
Ellur now has 3.8 million, and he’s not the only player at his table with a stack. Huynh has 3.1 million and is another one of the largest stacks in the room.
Kris Burchfield opens to 80k under the gun and Matt Newcombe three-bet jams on his direct left. Action folds back to Burchfield, who asks how much Newcombe is playing.
Newcombe tells Burchfield it’s about 15 big blinds as the dealer counts out 570,000, and Burchfield thinks for a bit before dropping in calling chips.
Newcombe:
Burchfield:
Newcombe has Burchfield dominated going to the flop, where Burchfield picks up the nut flush draw and adds eight extra outs. The turn is a safe one for Newcombe, but he can’t fade the river and is eliminated in 49th as a result.
There’s a legend ’round poker tournaments across the globe, one where players head out on dinner break in major tournaments, then come back feeling happy, satisfied, with full bellies and misclicking fingers.
The first level back from dinner removes from 18-25 percent of the overall field in most events, the payout window as busy as at most any stage in the tournament.
Dallas, y’all be just like everyone else, for we’ve lost 22 percent of the field since coming back from dinner.
Y’all done added to .. The Legend of the Food Coma.
Julian Gaines catches heat coming out of the break, having boosted his 2.185 million by at least 50%.
In a recent flurry of hands, Gaines has a bet of 300k in front of him in the lojack on a completed board of . There’s already roughly 1 million in the pot, and action is on Sean Lee in the big blind.
Lee goes into the tank for a while before calling and Gaines shows for top pair. Lee mucks.
On the next hand, Kim Stone open-jams UTG+1 for 180,000 and Gaines calls one seat over, the lone taker.
Stone’s improves to two pair on a runout to double through Gaines’s unimproved .
However, Gaines gets a bit back and more on the very next hand. He raises to 100k UTG+1 and Angel Castro Pinto defends his big blind.
Castro Pinto check-calls 200k on , and action checks through to showdown after running complete the board.
Castro Pinto flashes a and Gaines beats it with .
Gaines has a bit of a jumbled stack, but it looks to be around 3.35 million. Castro Pinto has 2.2 million, Lee 730k, and Stone 435k.
Marcus Taylor and Eric Chang build a 150,000 preflop pot, and that grows exponentially when both stacks get in the middle on the flop, Chang has Taylor covered and an extra 1.5 milly behind.
Taylor has for an overpair
CHang leads with for two pair
Chang maintains through the turn, but the board goes runner-runner Jacks, appears and saves Taylor’s Title Event experience.
Joe Jaurigui limps from the hijack and John Brown raises to 80,000 in the cutoff. Action folds back to Jaurigui and he calls.
The flop comes and Jaurigui checks. Brown continuation-bets 105,000 and Jaurigui calls.
The turn is the and Jaurigui checks again. Brown fires a second barrel for 250,000 and Jaurigui slides forward his stack of red 100k chips. Brown calls off the rest.
Brown:
Jaurigui:
After turning a flush, Brown sees he has just one out to a straight flush to stay alive against Jaurigui’s flopped full house, deuces full of sevens. The one outer doesn’t come as the lands, and Brown is eliminated in 56th place as a result.
Jaurigui, the start-of-day chip leader, now looks to be back at the top of the counts or very close to it. He has 2.925 million after taking down the pot.
So, after eating multiple Mr. Brisket meals throughout the week, we get another one thanks to the powers that be at the PokerAtlas Tour. And wow. This was my favorite meal from his smoker during my entire stay.
We resume play in Level 23, but I want to take just another quick second to thank the tour and house staff across the board for everything they did to put on such a successful series. Be sure to thank them if you agree. I know they’ll appreciate it.
Hopefully, players aren’t in too much of a food coma after the 30-minute dinner break to continue playing. Mitchell Anderson leads the field with 3.195 million, just ahead of Jack Peterson’s 3.1 million.
Balaji Ellur (2.71 million), Jael Lewis (2.705 million) and Yong Zou (2.65 million) complete the top five.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for complete counts from the entire field.
Joe Jaurigui opens to 35,000 in the hijack and Zachary Wolf three-bet jams for 320,000 in the cutoff. Robert Deupree four-bet shoves for 415,000, and Jaurigui goes into the tank for a minute before folding and saying he had ace-queen.
Wolf:
Deupree:
The board runs out — Deupree picks up outs to a flush on the flop, but it bricks out and Wolf earns the double.
Joe Jaurigui – 1,775,000
Zachary Wolf – 715,000
Robert Deupree – 105,000
Danny Croy is down to his last 125,000 and puts it forward onto the felt after action folds to him in the hijack. Bill Mai calls on the button as the lone taker.
Croy:
Mai:
The runout comes — Mai fl0ps a pair of jacks but Croy picks up four extra outs to an eight-high straight on the turn. Unfortunately for him, the river does him no favors and he’s eliminated in 67th place.
Level 21 comes to a close and TD Justin 🔨 announces a slight shift in the schedule. We will take a 10-minute break instead of our normal 15s and then play one level, instead of two. After that level, we’ll take a 30-minute dinner break with Mr. Brisket feeding the room.
With the change of plans, we will post complete counts for the field during the next, extended break.
Another two tables worth of players are eliminated from the tournament during Level 21, bringing the field down to 70 players on eight tables going into the second break of the day.
Recent eliminations are as follows, with all remaining players now guaranteed at least $4,050.
Sean Lee opens to 40,000 in the lojack and Nathan Hays three-bet shoves for 435,000 in the hijack. Angel Castro Pinto (pictured) jams over the top for a bit over a million from the cutoff and everyone else gets out of the way.
Hays:
Castro Pinto:
The runout comes and Castro Pinto’s ace remains the difference in the hand. He takes down the pot and jumps to 1.625 million while Hays bows out in 78th place.
All-in preflop for 25 bb, Caitlin Comeskey – from the wildly-popular Aceholes poker podcast – is called by PokerAtlas Tour Houston Title Event runner-up Kamoru Yusuf.
for Comeskey
for Yusuf, who slowrolls Comeskey by waiting until he can find his phone to record the action before tabling his hand.
The dealer runs out a board and Comeskey is eliminated in 82nd place, cashing for $3,480.
Por Seak opens to 40,000 in the cutoff and Spencer Cheng three-bets to 140,000 in the small blind. Seak announces he’s all in and Cheng thinks for a bit after seeing his 450k stack is the one potentially at risk.
“I call,” announces Cheng after some thought. He tables and sees Seak turn over .
Cheng needs to hit a king to stay alive, and he fails to do so as the board runs out resulting in his elimination from the tournament in 83rd place.
After taking down the pot, Seak finds himself with 1.46 milliion.
Andres Rodriguez jams for 35,000 under the gun and is called by UTG+2 and both blinds.
The small blind bets 40,000 on and clears the other two out.
Rodriguez shows for a gutshot straight draw and is up against . He calls for a queen and spikes it on the river as complete the runout — and his straight draw.
Zachary Baron raises to 30,000 in the hijack and Sherri Title three-bets all in for her last 65,000. Christian Ramirez cold-calls in the big blind and Baron calls, giving Title a shot at tripling her stack.
Ramirez bets all three streets for 35k, 95k and 125k on a runout of and Baron calls all the way to showdown.
Ramirez tables and Baron sends his cards to the muck without showing. His pair of kings beats Title’s and she is eliminated in 102nd place, good for a $3,050 cash.
Meanwhile, Ramirez is up to 970k after the scooped pot and Baron is down to 570k.
Players return from the first break of the afternoon with 117 players remaining. Jack Peterson (pictured above) leads the field with 2.805 million, one of only players above 2 million. The other is Day 1 overall chip leader Joe Jaurigui (pictured below), who has built up to 2.095 million.
Others in the top five are Mitchell Anderson (1.63 million), Kris Burchfield (1.6 million) and Matthew Colley (1.485 million).
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for complete counts from the entire field.
All of the chips go into the middle preflop between Trevor Lewis in the big blind and Mazen Abdallah, who’s under the gun. Lewis at risk for his stack of 259k.
Lewis:
Abdallah:
The runout changes nothing, coming , and Lewis secures the double at Abdallah’s expense.
Ryan Page opens to 24,000 under the gun and Tiep Bui three-bet jams for 181,000 UTG+2. Action folds back to Page and he calls for two-thirds of his stack.
Bui:
Page:
Bui calls for a five before the flop hits the felt. The adds four Broadway outs for Page, but the dealer grants Bui’s request with a river to make his double official.
Bui is the all-time cash leader at TCH Dallas with 12 scores at the venue. Will this be lucky number 13?
Level 18 comes to a close, and the field is down to 132. All surviving players have already climbed two rungs on the payout ladder, and those less fortunate have been eliminated as follows.
Action folds around to Christopher Laieta in the cutoff and he open-shoves for 160,000. Zachary Baron announces a three-bet to 300,000 in the small blind and Kasey Mills folds her big blind to get out of the way.
Laieta:
Baron:
An ace appears in the window, but the runout brings Laieta quads and scores him the easy double.
Christopher Laieta – 340,000
Zachary Baron – 940,000
We pick up action over at Table 27 with the board complete, a big ole’ pile of betting units in the middle, and the uber-aggressive Truong Nguyen has a stack-covering river bet in front of him, putting Michael Jagroo to the test for Jagroo’s final 424,000.
The board reads and Jagroo eventually has the clock called on him by Nguyen.
Jagroo finds a way to call off his stack and Nguyen immediately lets him know the call was a good one.
Jagroo shows for two pair, Tens and Sevens
Nguyen shows for a lesser two pair, Sevens and Deuces
Pedro Fernandez open-jams for 89,000 under the gun and Dwayne Evans puts in an isolation-raise to 200,000 in the cutoff, resulting in three folds behind.
Fernandez:
Evans:
The board runs out — Fernandez makes a pair of jacks on the flop but it results in Evans’ three outs being traded for four new ones to Broadway. None come, and Fernandez ships the RayHensonFullDouble.
Multiple bets go into the middle preflop, resulting in Sai Krishna Venigalla all in for 251,000 against Paul Saranec, two to his left.
Venigalla:
Saranec:
Venigalla asks to hold and results in a happy chuckle from his flopped top set. The removes any backdoor possibilities for Saranec, leaving him drawing dead before the completes the runout.
Sai Krishna Venigalla – 517,000
Paul Saranec – 95,000
Welcome back to #liveupdates for Day 2 of the 1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event at TCH Dallas.
Ten flights have played down to 8% apiece, bringing 150 players back from a field of 1,879 entries. These 150 will play for their share of a prize pool greater than $1.67 million, with Day 2 set to run into the wee hours of the morning as players set their sights on making the final table.
Play resumes with 2:46 remaining in Level 17 with blinds of 4k-8k and an 8k ante. Levels will increase to an hour in length starting in Level 19, and we’ll play until nine remain.
Joe Jaurigui bags the biggest of BigBags, topping not just Flight J but all flights in the Title Event, moving forward a massive 1,676,000 stack on to Monday’s 2 pm Day 2 Restart.
THere’s 25 players who earned a Day2Bag from this flight.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for all Day 2 Qualifiers from this flight
Players return from break to the beginning of Level 16 with 56 players remaining, 17 away from the money. Sang Le remains atop the counts with 583,000, just ahead of David Diaz’s 567,000.
Two others have above half a milly — Samir Bhatia (521,000) and Andrey Semikin (506,000). Mazen Abdallah (466,000) is in fifth.
Fifteen levels down, how many more to go? We’re looking at another long day of coverage tomorrow as 150 players will return to play down to a final table of nine, and we’ll need to resemble something human throughout the day. As such, blog coverage from the final Day 1 flights will conclude after 15 hours, and we’ll be back tomorrow from start to finish.
Check back in the morning for results from Flight J, including in-the-money finishers and final chip counts for all who bagged.
We’ll also post the seat draw in the early a.m. Thanks for following. We’ll see you tomorrow before cards go in the air at 2 p.m.
On the last hand before the end of the level and a 15-minute break, Hoan Nguyen opens to 12,000 UTG+1 and Alem Girma calls in the hijack. David Respaldiza three-bet shoves for 49,000 on the button and Nguyen four-bets to 112,000.
“Oh, you raised!” realizes Girma. “You’re putting me all in!”
“Is that a call?” asks the dealer, briefly misunderstanding what Girma has said. He responds that it isn’t and folds the , saying it was a hand to crack aces with.
Neither have aces, though. Respaldiza shows and has three outs against Nguyen’s .
“I had two overs, too,” adds Girma. The runout comes and Respaldiza wins with queens up to double to 112.5k, while Hoan drops to 293.5k.
Meanwhile, Chan Pelton cracks pocket queens with queen-seven on another table and yells to an empty room on break about it being how you enjoy life and that he doesn’t give a you-know-what. Like I said – what goes up must come down. It just doesn’t mean it must stay down.
Jonathan Bennett opens to 10,000 in the hijack from the nine-seat, putting action on Chan Pelton on the other side of the dealer. Pelton stands up to get a better look at Bennett’s stack and announces he’s all in for a little under 300k.
Bennett calls when action gets back to him and shows , flipping against Pelton’s .
The flop brings action, falling to give Pelton a set of eights and Bennett the nut flush draw.
“Oh Mylanta!” says Pelton. The turn is the , putting Bennett in front with the nut flush and leaving him in need of fading the board pairing on the river to stay alive. The river falls in his favor to score the double.
Bennett’s stack is counted to be 172,500, and the double brings him up to 357k. Pelton is at 114k after being at 400k not long ago. Gravity.
Brian Turck goes all in for his last 10,500 in the hijack and Chan Pelton announces he’s all in over the top from the button. Bradford Hartzell wakes up with a calling hand in the big blind.
Turck:
Pelton:
Hartzell:
“I’ll be honest with you,” says Pelton to Turck. “I hope you win the main pot, and I win the outside.”
Hartzell nervously sweats the runout and sees a safe flop of hit the felt. It all turns downhill from there, with running improving both players beyond his two queens.
“I knew it,” says Hartzell. Pelton’s side-pot stack is counted out to 200.5k and Hartzell finds himself with 12.5k back after paying it off. Pelton goes up to 401k and Turck to 37.5k.
“I told you,” Pelton repeats to Turck. “I hope you win the main, and I win the outside. I’m not trying to be greedy. I’ve been greedy my whole life.”
“What the…?” says tablemate Truc Nguyen to his neighbor with a laugh.
A player open-jams for 30,000 in the hijack and Dwayne Evans makes the call after looking down at his cards in the big blind.
Evans has and his ahead of his opponent’s .
“I got $100 on king-queen, any takers?” says tablemate Chan Pelton, who moments earlier open-jammed just shy of a quarter-million from early position and tabled the eight-three offsuit. There are no takers, and Evans holds through the runout to win the pot with a pair of aces.
Nestor Garcia’s Tens hold against Herbert Montalbano – who tried to get 75o through on the Bag-bubble but did not succeed – and Flight I comes to a close with 33 players advancing to Monday’s 2pm labor Day restart.
Jack Peterson – as he’s done since midway through this flight – leads the charge with a 1,573,000 bag. He’s followed by Mitchell Anderson (1,269,000) Balalj Ellur (997,000) Nestor Garcia (914,000) and Matthew Colley (876,000) making up the top five stacks in the room.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for all Day 2 Qualifiers from this flight.
The final flight of the tournament takes its first post-reg break with 88 players remaining, and Sang Le is on top of the counts with 536,000.
Chan Pelton is next closest with 314,000, followed by Bharath Vellanki with 301,500. Below them, eight players sit within 10 bigs of one another between 243k and 262.5k. Jordan Lowery (262,500) and Brant Jolly (254,000) complete the top five.
Play will continue for three more levels before taking another break. If we make it to the final 39 in that time, all remaining players will earn at least a $1,400 min-cash. Flight J will conclude when 25 players remain, all of whom will join the Day 2 roster with a quick turnaround for tomorrow’s 2 p.m. restart time.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for a full list of counts from the field.
Flight I Level 19 . Ante 12k . Blinds 6k.12k . Entries 36.410
Back from their final break of the night, the 36 remaining Flight I Title Event players have a bit more work to do before 25 earn Day2Bags.
Jack Peterson is the first person to make a serious run at Kris Burchfield’s top Day 2 stack of 1,641,000. up to tis point, no one was within 400k of Burchfield.
Well, that was then and this is Peterson, who is at 1,630,000 and he some time to run up more.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for all counts.
Registration is closed in Event 19 of the 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas series – $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event – and the scoreboard shows 1,879 entries.
The players create a prize pool valued at $1,672,310, paying 242 players, with 150 of those players advancing to Monday’s 2 pm Labor Day restart.
The tournament winner is slated to receive the top cash prize of $258,010
Alexander Holmes and George Karvounis get their stacks all in on the Flight I bubble, and this could pop the bubble.
Queens for Holmes
Jacks for Karvounis and Holmes has Karvounis covered
Pot expanded to 225,000 from their back-and-forth action, and the board runs out all blanks, until the river, that is, as Karvounis spikes a Jack to remain in the event.
Karvounis moves to 420,000, Holmes down to 95,000
Meanwhile, after this played out, David Shaw was eliminated on an adjacent table when he runs Jacks into Kings – and the bubble does pop, sending 52 into the money and in search of one of the 33 coveted Day2Bags.
Ya’ll know there’s one additional tournament at TCH Dallas during this series, right? And y’all know there’s some brisket goodness as a MAJOR reason to be here with betting units in action, amirite?
Welcome to the Finger Licker, aka Event 21 in the 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Series, a $25,000 Guaranteed $500 starting at 2 pm Monday – that’s Labor Day to you and me – with 30,000 stacks, unlimited entries, and a complimentary BBQ buffet from 6:15-6:45 pm inside the TCH Dallas tournament arena.
We might even let players from Day 2 in the Title Event join in for BBQ goodness. Yeah, I think they also earn BBQ.
Registration is closed in Flight H of the $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event, and the scoreboard shows 312 entries.
The players contribute $277,680 to the prize pool. The combined field is unofficially at 1,879 entries and the prize pool, unofficially, is a few buy-ins shy of $1,675,000
Play continues tonight until the final 25 players Bag-a-Stack, both making the money and also advancing to Monday’s 2 pm Day 2 restart.
Players finishing tonight in 26-39th place all earn a Day 1 tournament cash but do not advance to Day 2. Players finishing in 26-32nd cash for $1,500, while 33-39th cash for $1,400.
This officially closes tournament registration, we’ll be back soon with final official numbers.
PlkerAtlas Tour Executive Tournament Director Justin Hammer pauses the play clock here in Level 17, peeling two minutes per hand until one more player is eliminated and the final 52 make the money in Flight I of the Title Event.
Play continues post-bubble until 33 bag-a-stack, advancing to Monday’s Labor Day restart at 2 pm.
That was some run on entries over the last hour as Flight J soars past the 300 mark, with registration about to close on the entire Title Event in a few moments.
Emmanuel Ignacio has the lead right now with a 259,500 stack, followed by Senhao Cao (224,500), Bharath Vellanki (195,000) Sang Le (193,000) and Bradford Hartzell (186,500) making up the top five stacks in the room.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for all live stacks.
Jiancheng Han opens to 15,000 UTG+1 and action folds around to William Linden in the big blind, who three-bet jams for 86,000. Han calls.
Linden:
Han:
Linden needs his eights to hold to stay alive and acknowledges the bad news as the flop comes . He stands up to see the turn give him eight open-ended outs, but he needs none of them as he hits a set on the river to re-improve to the best hand and get the RayHensonFullDouble.
“There we go,” says Linden with a chuckle. “Had to stand up for it.”
With the double, Linden has 181k while Han drops to 340k.
Seven tables remain in play in Flight I of the PokerAtlas Tour $1,500,000 Guarantee $1,000 Title Event.
Players return from break number five to see Balaji Ellur still atop the counts with 814,000. His next closest competitors are Brian Le (627,000), Alfredo Garza (599,000), Ryan Page (575,000) and James Galloway (573,000).
Fifty-two players will make it into the money, meaning we’re 11 eliminations from hitting that milestone. We’ll go hand-for-hand when one away from the money and continue play once the bubble pops. The final 33 players will bag up and come back tomorrow at 2 p.m. for Day 2.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for a complete list of counts from the field.
Action is three handed with the board reading and action checks to Mazen Abdallah on the button, who jams for 22,600, an overbet to the pot. Jamal Hopkinson calls under the gun and the lojack folds.
Abdallah tables for an open-ended straight draw and needs to hit against the of Hopkinson. He fails to do so as the river brings a board-pairing and Hopkinson takes down the pot.
Action folds to Richard Gebhart in the cutoff and he limps, prompting an all-in raise from Miki Murzi on the button. Gebhart calls once it’s his turn to do so, and the two are off to the races.
Murzi:
Gebhart:
The flop does no favors for Murzi, but the brings his total outs up to 10. The completes the board, giving Murzi a pair of aces and earning him the double.
One hand after four-flushing Chan Pelton out of Flight I, Daniel Baik minclicks the 11,000 preflop bet from James Gonzales, and Gonzales adds 11k move to cover the raise.
Gonzales moves all in for 62,500 on the flop, Baik calling rapidly.
for Gonzales for a flush draw and an over.
for Baik
Maik remains ahead on the turn, but the river is a winner for Gonzales.
Gonzales moves to 185,000, Baik backs up to 265,000
All of the chips go into the middle preflop in a three-way pot with the big blind having a shot at tripling his stack up to about 35,000. Salvador Cervantes is also all in for 21k more on top from the small blind, and James Beers has both covered from the lojack.
Big Blind:
Cervantes:
Beers:
The board runs out — the big blind flops top pair, still behind Cervantes’ two kings which find a third on the turn. However, Beers picks up an open ender as a result, giving Cervantes a sweat to the clean river for the scoop.
Ronnie Robinson flops top pair on a board, Guillermo Martinez comes along, then moves all-in for 115,000 over-the-top of Robinson’s 21,000 turn bet when the appears.
Robinson calls, showing
Martinez flips
River and Martinez earns the RayHensonFullDouble, moving to 295,000, Robinson down to 305,000
Flight J players have returned from their second break of the day, and we’re into Level 7 with the field looking to push 250 entries by the time late reg closes next break.
Emmanuel Ignacio leads the field with 212,500, the only player above 200k. Pedro Fernandez (172,000), Alem Girma (159,000), Eric Salazar (152,000 and Jordan Lowery (148,800) complete the top five.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for a full list of counts from the field.
Eluid Lopez limps UTG+2 and sees a raise to 10,000 in the hijack. Matthew Russell three-bet shoves for 41,500 in the small blind and Lopez limp-jams, forcing the hijack out of the pot.
Russell:
Lopez:
An ace drops right away on the runout, ultimately leaving Russell dead by the turn to eliminate him from the tournament.
Mitchell Anderson opens for 6,500, Shawn Rice moves in for 55,000 and Anderson takes a considerable amount of time debating – as the dealer counts down Rice’s hand – before committing one-seventh of his stack.
Rice shows
Anderson quietly turns over
The flop is uneventful, but Rice scores the turn when the dealer peels . The river is and Anderson’s temper boils over. He slams his fist down onto the felt, the chips he was holding in his hand fly out and onto the floor.
The board reads with around 20,000 already in the middle of a three-way pot. Emmanuel Ignacio checks in the small blind and Dat Nguyen bets 10,000 UTG+1. The cutoff calls and Ignacio check-raises for the minimum value of 20,000.
Nguyen thinks for a bit and shoves for 34,500, resulting in a tank-fold from the cutoff and a snap-call from Ignacio.
Nguyen shows for top pair, top kicker, and he’s drawing dead as Ignacio tables for the nuts. The river finishes the runout — Ignacio no longer has the nuts, but his ten-high straight is still good to boost him to 235,000 and send Nguyen to the rail.
We are early in Levels 6 and 13, and a quick look at each scoreboard confirms more than 600 total entries today alone, pushing the prize pool comfortably past the $1,500,000 Guarantee, on its way shortly to pass $1.6 and continue to grow, for Flight J registration and its unlimited-entry period doesn’t close until 9:15 pm.
Flight I continues to progress with roughly three-quarters of the field down through 12 levels of play. Balaji Ellur leads with 704,500, nearly 200k clear of second-place James Galloway, who has 506,500.
Ryan Page is third, just below the half-milly mark with 493,000, and Jo Liu (428,000) and Ronnie Robinson (365,500) complete the top five.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for a full list of counts from the field.
The board reads with 4,500 in the middle and three-handed action. Samuel Brown checks in the small blind and Susan Couron bets 2,000. The player on the button calls and Brown check-raises to 7,300. Only Couron calls.
Action goes heads up to the turn and Brown checks. Couron throws out a bet, Brown immediately check-shoves, and Couron calls just as quickly.
Immediately after calling, Couron shows for the turned nuts, causing Brown to shrink in his seat before tabling for his top pair with a straight draw to chop. The river bricks and Couron scores the double.
Jason Hickey rips preflop and Tony Ho makes the call, then exclaims a whoops as the cards are revealed.
for Hickey
for Ho
Another exclamation from Ho on the flop, this time for the fact he came from behind to assume the lead. The board pairs on its way out, two pair for Ho and he barely has Hickey covered, eliminating his challenger and moving to 125,000
We’re one-third of the way through the registration period of the final Title Event flight, having surpassed the tournament’s $1.5 million guarantee during the first frame of levels.
During that frame, Venkata Narahari amassed triple what he started with and leads the field with 122k.
The field is bunched below him, with Christopher Odom (99,500), Gary Sixkiller (97,400), Viet Dinh (95,000) and Lonny Weitzel (94,300) at the top of the pack.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for a full list of counts from the field.
We still have the Title Event and the Finger Licker BBQ buffet at TCH Dallas, plus the rescheduled $500 Big O on Labor Day at TCH Las Colinas to complete the series.
We thank each and every one of you for your support of both poker rooms and the Poker Atlas Tour.
Yesterday, we talked about Craig Varnell winning the last tournament before Covid. Today, let’s discuss the first major tournament of the poker world in 2021. Yes, the eight-handed tables, sanitize-every-chair-and-rail-and-Plexiglas era of poker.
Walk with me back to January 2021 when the World Poker Tour went to Seminole Hard Rock for the Lucky Hearts Poker Open. Throngs of poker players came out, resulting in a 1,573-entry field with a prize pool north of $5 million.
Long story short, Muradi qualified from a satellite and parlayed it to a first-place finish, good for $620k and forever having his name on the WPT’s Mike Sexton Champions Cup.
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Now, let’s get back to today. Muradi is involved in a pot with around 12,000 in the middle on a board reading . He’s on the button against Phu Vo, UTG+2.
Vo checks to Muradi and calls a bet of 6,000, bringing the river. Vo checks again, Muradi bets 7,500, and Vo thinks for a bit before calling.
Muradi shows him a flopped set with , and Vo cedes a face-up . Muradi chips up to 65k and Vo drops to 17k.
Mazen Abdallah has his way with Table 25 lately, raking three consecutive pots, including the last one against Nick Pupillo.
Abdallah opens is fourth consecutive pot, this one for 4,500, and Pupillo – from the bb – the the only participant to join in.
The dealer fans the All-Clubs and neither challenger offers a betting unit. Same action for the turn, Pupillo leading on the river. Abdallah cuts out calling chips, put cannot find a way to release them from his hand and Pupillo rakes.
Both players are at 63,000
Hey Nick, happy first birthday to the wee one, say hi to mom from all of us.
Did anyone actually think that we would get overlay here at TCH Dallas for the inaugural PokerAtlas Tour $1,500,000 Guarantee $1,000 Title Event?
Labor Day is a tough sell for any large tournament, but Texas is a big draw. And as we know, everything is bigger in Texas. The PokerAtlas staff took an aggressive line by putting $1.5 million on a guarantee, and it paid off.
Sure, the chance of overlaying is an exciting prospect for the players out there; but is anybody mad about even more money up for grabs? We didn’t think so.
Touching on the numbers, we entered today with 1,150 entries, needing 1,687 to meet the tournament’s guarantee. The 11 a.m. Flight I added 410 entries, bringing the total up 1,560, and we just passed the mark in the final moments of Level 2 during Flight J.
The scoreboard continues to rise, now displaying 126 entries for Flight J and an unofficial 1,693 for the tournament.
Registration is open for another seven levels plus breaks, closing at 9:15 tonight when Level 10 begins. The sky is the limit now — good luck to everyone in contention.
Kelly Wyatt limps, Dien Le completes, then Michael Moyer moves in for 24,500 from the bb. Wyatt confirms, then completes the bet, while Le steps aside.
for Moyer
for Wyatt
The dealer fans , different backdoor straight draw for both players. the turn gives Moyer a gutter to a Queen and all his paint in live.
Barry Greenstein sends Moyer out of Flight I, he has until 9:15 pm to purchase an entry in this tournament’s final starting flight.
There’s a pile of chips in the middle on a completed board of and Shani Roozbeh is all in for 15,000 from the cutoff.
Maury Solano is in the hijack and immediately drops in calling chips, showing the nuts with . Roobzeh’s is tabled, a no-good two pair, and he is one of the first few to find the rail in the final flight of the $1,500,000 Guarantee $1,000 Title Event at TCH Dallas.
Registration will remain open until 9:15 p.m. tonight with unlimited re-entries.
Registration is closed in Flight H of the $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event, and the scoreboard shows 410 entries.
The players contribute $364,900 to the prize pool. The combined field is unofficially at 1,567 entries and the prize pool, unofficially, is a few buy-ins shy of $1,400,000
Play continues tonight until the final 33 players Bag-a-Stack, both making the money and also advancing to Monday’s 2 pm Day 2 restart.
Players finishing tonight in 34-52th place all earn a Day 1 tournament cash but do not advance to Day 2. Players finishing in 34-42nd cash for $1,500, while 43-52nd cash for $1,400.
All players – whether in possession of a Day2Bag, a Day 1 Cash or eliminated before the money – are eligible to play all 10 Title Event flights, for the PokerAtlas Tour is a Best Stack Forward tour. Bag more than one stack and the BigStack goes in play Monday, while the smaller bag(s) cash out as a Day 2 mincash.
Sunday’s final flight is running now. This tournament officially closes for registration Sunday at 9:15 pm, c’mon down, y’all.
Level 10 . Ante 1.5k. Blinds 1k.1.5k . Entries 202.410
The third break of the day comes to an end, bringing with it the closing of registration for Flight I with an unofficial 410 entries.
Balaji Ellur leads the field with 272,500. He’s joined by Mitchell Anderson (235,500), Trevor Argue (255,000), Ryan Page (222,500) and Sherri Title (208,000) in the top five.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for a complete list of counts from the field.
Level 9 . Ante 1.2k. Blinds 600.1.2k . Entries 201.400
There’s a raise to 3,000 UTG+1 and a call from UTG+2 before Kennii Nguyen announces he’s all in from the hijack.
“Gamble! I didn’t even Look!” says Nguyen. A player on his left thinks for a bit, and Nguyen continues, “I just wanna rebuy!”
Eventually, it folds back to the original raiser, who asks for a count. Nguyen has 30,300 and it’s too much for either of the remaining players to call.
Play has begun for Flight J of the PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Series – $1,500,000 Guarantee $1,000 Title Event at TCH Dallas – and this is the final starting flight for the tournament.
Blinds begin at 100.200 with 40,000 starting stacks. The first nine levels last 30 minutes apiece with breaks after 90 minutes of play … with registration and unlimited re-entries through the end of the third break. Registration closes at 9:15 p.m. at the start of Level 10, with blinds bumping up to 40 minutes in length at that time.
One-in-eight players will make it into the money tonight, with play continuing until 8 percent of the starting field remains. Those who make it to the celebratory bag-n-tag will get to return for Monday’s 2 p.m. Day 2 restart.
This is a best-stack forward tournament, meaning we don’t discriminate when accepting additional entries. Feel free to join as many times as you’d like, from as many flights, regardless of how well you do or don’t do. Additional Day 2 bags earn a Day 2 min-cash for each stack removed from play.
Charles Barker open for 5,000, Derek Normand moves in for 26,000, Emmanuel Ignacio moves in for 76,000 and Barker folds.
A.3 for the Louisianimal
for the good-read Ignacio
The dealer fans and could there be a chop? nope, river and Ignacio gets there FTW, Normand to the cage for a new entry in either this flight or the soon-to-start Flight J – aka the final flight.
Level 8 . Ante 1,000. Blinds 500.1k . Entries 218.385
We saw Florida’s Joel Deutsch around the room at TCH Dallas yesterday for the first time of the series, and he’s in the action today looking to find a Day 2 bag.
Deutsch has more than two dozen live cashes in 2023 according to his database on The Hendon Mob, including a WSOP Circuit ring in South Florida in February in an $1,100 event, good for $58k.
He’s also had success in Texas, with his largest career score coming in 2021 at a certain place about four hours south of Dallas. The PokerLiveUpdates team was there for that event, and we’re here once more to provide you updates as the tournament unfolds.
Deutsch currently has around 15k, seated on Caitlin Comeskey’s direct left. If you missed our feature on her yesterday, check it out here.
We were actually just standing at the bar to grab two waters to go along with the Lyari Cafe samosas we picked up on break, when we hear “one player all in, two players on the side.”
Hey, y’all gonna lay a hand in front of us, we’ll give details.
Shawaiz Chowhan and Alexis Cruz build a 32,600 sidepot preflop to go along with both involved in the 24,000 main pot.
The dealer fans , 6,000 from Cruz, a call from Chowhan.
Turn is Qc and Cruz moves in for 27,900, a snap-call from Chowhan .. and an immediate gasp as well.
Chowhan shows for two pair, top kicker
Cruz shows for trips, causing said gasp from Chowhan.
River is an improved two pair for Chowhan, a boat for Cruz, the short-stack shows for a lesser kicker and Cruz rakes while scoring the knockout
The field hits tree fiddy on break, bringing us to an official 1,500 entries and counting as Level 7 begins. Registration is open until 4:15 with unlimited entries and re-entries.
Houston’s Sonny Sundara (174,800) vaults to the top of the counts, just ahead of Guillermo Lupercio (173,700).
Neal Son (161,100), David Shaw (154,500) and Trevor Argue (153,200) retain their positions from the Level 4 chip update, still sitting three-four-five in the counts on both breaks of the afternoon.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab at the top of the page for complete counts from the field.
There’s a bit over 9,000 in the center on a flop of , and four players are in action. Leonard August checks in the lojack and Al Wilson bets 5,000 in the lojack. Daniel Baik jams for 16,100, the player on the button folds, and August re-jams for around 33,000. Wilson calls both jams.
The turn adds a flush draw to August’s outs, but it all bricks on the river and Wilson’s aces hold for the double knockout.
Wilson is looking to continue a heater from the summer, having taken down the WSOP Circuit Seniors event in Cherokee last month for $50k.
“I’m hoping to win two tournaments this summer!” adds Wilson as he stacks his chips. He’s up to 166k, while Baik and August will have to re-enter if they want to have another shot at this event.
Ya’ll know there’s one additional tournament at TCH Dallas during this series, right? And y’all know there’s some brisket goodness as a MAJOR reason to be here with betting units in action, amirite?
Welcome to the Finger Licker, aka Event 21 in the 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Series, a $25,000 Guaranteed $500 starting at 2 pm Monday – that’s Labor Day to you and me – with 30,000 stacks, unlimited entries, and a complimentary BBQ buffet from 6:15-6:45 pm inside the TCH Dallas tournament arena.
We might even let players from Day 2 in the Title Event join in for BBQ goodness. Yeah, I think they also earn BBQ.
Kelly Wyatt raises to 1,000 in the hijack and Darryl Sample three-bet jams for 4,900. Ricardo Arechiga cold-calls in the big blind and Wyatt calls as well.
Arechiga and Wyatt check through the runout and everybody tables their hands.
Sample: (pair of nines)
Arechiga: (king high, jack kicker; missed backdoor flush draw)
Wyatt: (king high, ten kicker)
Sample’s nines hold versus both players’ overcards and he scores the triple.
That steady flow of entries and re-entries here in Flight 9 of 10 beings the likes of Shawn Rice, Derek Louisianimal Normand, Jared Ingles, (Derek’s school-years buddy) Bradley Coultas (He hit the $50k Mystery Payday top prize), Aaron (not Allen) Kessler, Nestor Garcia (Hey Nestor, nice to see you, your friends at TVPokerRoom miss you), Sonny (Master Blaster Contender) Sundara, Will Givens (He won the last $1k where we covered his play in Colorado) and Sergio Braga (thanks for the compliments on your winner’s photo, sir)
We’re about to move past the $1,300,000 mark as the race to the guarantee shrinks and the Flight I field tops 300 entries.
Registration in this flight and its unlimited-entry period is open until 4:15 pm – the final Last Chance Flight begins at 4 pm with registration and its unlimited-entry period open until 9:15 pm.
The board reads with 4,000 in the middle in a three-way pot. The small blind has 10,000 in front of him and action is back on him, facing two all ins from the under-the-gun Michael Orozco and the UTG+1 Marcus Taylor. Orozco barely has Taylor covered with 33,600.
Some time passes, and another player calls a clock. TD Kerry 🍔 comes over and starts the timer, which lasts for less than 15 seconds before a fold takes place.
“I have a set,” announces Orozco as he shows . Taylor confirms it’s good, drawing dead with his bottom two pair , and the river makes the hand official.
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Three levels are in the books for Flight I of the $1.5 Million Guaranteed PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event, and we’re up to 272 entries.
Kelly Wyatt leads the field with 142,300, and chips are flying with eight players above 100k. Mehdi Daruwala (134,000), Neal Son (119,400), David Shaw (115,200) and Trevor Argue (111,900) make up the top five.
Late reg with unlimited re-entries remains open until the start of Level 10 at 4:15 p.m. We also have Flight J — the tournament’s final starting flight — at 4 p.m. Registration for that flight closes at 9:15.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab at the top of the page for complete counts from the field.
The entry list keeps creeping upward, a steady stream of players moving from the registration cage over to Kerry 🍔 to obtain a seat assignment among the vast array of TCH Dallas tournament arena tables.
That’s 225 early in Level 3, the overall field sitting at 1,375.
Three players hold cards with on the board. The lojack checks and so does Campbell Davis in the hijack, prompting Ashburn Bywaters to go all in for 7,700. Only Davis calls.
Bywaters: (pair of aces)
Davis: (pair of kings)
Bywaters needs to fade jacks for a chop and the two remaining kings to double up. The turn is safe, but the river improves Davis to trips and sends Bywaters to the rail.
“Nice hand, sir,” says a tablemate.
“It was my first hand!” responds Davis. “I just walked in the door.”
Action goes heads up to a flop of with 7,100 in the middle from preflop betting. Donald Sawyer checks in the lojack and Jalal Shamroukh bets 3,600 in the hijack. Sawyer calls.
Both players check the turn and the river is the . Sawyer looks back at his holdings for a moment and drops 1,400 onto the felt.
“I want to see,” says Shamroukh as he calls.
“I missed,” says Sawyer, showing for a pair of deuces and an unmade open ender. Shamroukh mucks, and Sawyer’s tutus are good for the pot.
“What do you mean, missed?” jokes another player at the table.
We are midway through the opening stanza in Flight I, do come along with me for a leisurely saunter among the tournament arena here at Texas Card House Dallas to see who has a stack in action.
Among the players I see is Maddie Robinson, Caitlyn Comesky, Bonnie Weitzel, Eunice Choung, Daphne Turner, Susan Couron, Craig Varnell, Mazen Abdullah, Jeremy Ross, Steven Gribin, Emmanuel Ignacio, Guillermi Lupercio, Hieu Dang and Ryan hardin.
Y’all playing 30-minute levels while registration is open, 40-minute levels when level 10 begins and registration closes at 4:15 pm, moving to hour-levels on Day 2 when Level 19 begins.
Kerry 🍔 just put cards in the air, players have 40,000 betting units in front of them, dealres are pitching and the clock is running.
Welcome to Flight 9 of 10 in the $1.5 Million Guaranteed PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event.
We’re here with wire-to-wire coverage until a winner is declared Tuesday night.
I’m @HoldemMedia_Dan, joined by @Hill_Kerby, send us a note via the TwitterX and be sure to give @PokerAtlasTour a follow also, help us build this out.
The highlight of the 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas is down to its final starting day – eight flights down and two more today in the 10-flight $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event.
The 11 am and 4 pm flights offer 10 total starting flights. Day 2 is on Monday because that’s the Labor Day holiday, and the final table livestream takes place Tuesday. There’s already more than 1,000 entries and more than $1 Million in the prize pool toward the guarantee.
Players open competition in this Best Stack Forward tournament with 40,000 stacks, playing 30-minute levels while registration is open, 40-minute levels when level 10 begins and registration closes, and moving to hour-levels on Day 2 when Level 19 begins.
Opening flights play until the money bubble pops, paying 1-in-8 entries. Play continues until the final 8 percent of each flight Bag-n-Tag, advancing to Monday’s Day 2 Restart at 2 pm.
Day 2 plays down to the final table, that action begins Tuesday at 6 pm.
Flight H Level 17 . Ante 8k . Blinds 4k.8k . Entries 20.159
Table 16 has had the most action of the three tables in play throughout the last hour, and it’s fitting stacks would get in on that table once more after Andrew Esposito open-jams on the button.
“Can I get a count?” asks Jordan Lowery, looking to Esposito with a laugh, referencing the recent lamenting over the lack of action elsewhere and the possibility of another big pot ensuing. Esposito has 104K and Lowery puts his stack into the middle.
The other two tables finish and it’s time to turn up the hands in this classic coin-flip situation.
Esposito:
Lowery:
The board runs out with five bricks, and Lowery’s nines hold. The dealer counts his stack to be 111,000, covering by 7k to eliminate Esposito on the bubble.
All remaining players are now in the money: 17-20th places earn $1,400, and 14-16th receive $1,550. The top 13 advance to Monday’s Day 2.
Flight H Level 16 . Ante 6k . Blinds 3k.6k . Entries 22.159
We almost just had three bust outs in two hands on Table 16.
Hand #1:
Zozimo Cardenas gets all in for his last 88k shortly after the break with from UTG+1. David Carter has him at risk from the hijack with .
The board runs out — Cardenas flops top pair and is elated to see the king on board, only to have running wheel cards come to re-improve Carter to the best hand and send Cardenas to the rail in 23rd, two eliminations from the money.
Hand #2:
On the next hand, action folds to Chen Yang in the hijack and Andrew Esposito three-bets all in for 81,000 on the button. Jordan Lowery cold four-bet jams in the small blind for 188,000 and Yang calls all in for 8k less.
Esposito:
Lowery:
Yang:
Yang has a chance to knock out two and burst the bubble with no hand-for-hand play. Unfortunately for him, the board runs out to give Esposito the triple and Yang the side pot, leaving Lowery on fumes with zero eliminations when all is said and done.
Andrew Esposito – 263,000
Chen Yang – 208,000
David Carter – 280,000
Jordan Lowery – 8,000
Zozimo Cardenas – Eliminated
Flight H Level 16 . Ante 6k . Blinds 3k.6k . Entries 23.159
Twenty-three return after the fifth break of the night for the start of Level 16. Trevor Lewis wins a massive pot just before the break with ace-nine to nine-seven on a board that contained the other two sevens in the deck, knocking out Primo Niyati in the process. He now has 993,000 after having just 65k three levels ago.
Jael Lewis (672,000), Austin Holland (544,000), Rubin Chappell (498,000) and Zachary Baron (442,000) are also in the top five.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for a complete list of counts that we’ve tracked throughout the tournament.
Flight H Level 15 . Ante 5k . Blinds 2.5k.5k . Entries 25.159
Zozimo Cardenas open-limps UTG+1 and Rubin Chappell limps in the lojack. Action folds to Jordan Lowery in the small blind and he pumps it up to 22,500, only to see Brian Barker three-bet jam for 102,000 in the big blind.
Cardenas goes into the tank for a minute and lets his hand go. Moments later, Chappell announces he’s all in for around 200K effective, forcing Barker out of the pot.
Barker:
Chappell:
The flop gives Chappell top pair, top kicker, leaving Barker with four immediate gutshot outs to stay alive and two chances at hitting. He goes two-for-two, as running finish the runout and earn him the double.
Flight H Level 15 . Ante 5k . Blinds 2.5k.5k . Entries 27.159
Eric Chang gets his stack of 50k into the middle preflop on the button against Kelli Herd, who’s UTG+1.
Chang has the goods, tabling , and is way ahead of Herd’s .
The board runs out and Chang’s aces remain best over Herd’s pair of eights.
“Always a sweat,” says Chang of his opponent’s flopped pair.
We’re now down to three full tables in play and seven eliminations from making the money. The top 20 finishers will cash, and the top 13 will advance to Day 2 on Monday at 2 p.m.
From a starting field of 290 entries, Flight G comes to a close with 23 players advancing to the Labor Day Monday Day 2 Final in our $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event.
Robert Provine (898,000) bags the top stacks, followed by Trang Dang (857,000) and a roughed-up-the-last-level Cord Garcia (746,000).
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for all Day 2 Qualifiers and their respective chip counts.
Flight H Level 14 . Ante 4k . Blinds 2k.4k . Entries 29.159
Action folds to Jason Hickey on the button and he opens to 8,000. Travis Twitty three-bets to 23,500 in the small blind and Hickey comes over the top to put Twitty all in for around 80k. Twitty wastes no time calling.
Twitty:
Hickey:
The board runs out — the paired flop gives Twitty three more outs at a counterfeit two pair, and the third spade on the turn adds flush outs to the tally before the red deuce on the river sends him to the rail.
Flight H Level 13 . Ante 3k . Blinds 1500.3k . Entries 39.159
That’s 12 levels down and 19 away from the money, Flight H players are making their way back to put betting units in action once again.
Austin Holland (554,500) leads the way, followed up Chipcount Mountain by Marquis McCain (350,500), Juan Mend0za (335,000), Caibin Ai (292,500) and Zozimo Cardenas (287,500).
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for full counts for the full field.
Level 19. Ante 12k. Blinds 6k.20k . Entries 37.290
All of the chips get into the middle on a flop between Seyed-Ali Jafari in the small blind and Anil John in the hijack.
John: (pair of kings)
Jafari: (top two pair, kings and nines)
The runout finishes and Jafari takes down the pot. His stack is totaled to 160,000 and John’s to 151,000, resulting in John being eliminated from the tournament as the Flight G Bubble Boy. Jafari is up to 345k.
The remaining 37 players are all in the money with the top 23 players advancing to Day 2 on Monday. Places 31-37 earn a $1,400 min-cash and places 24-30 take home $1,550.
With the bubble popping, we will now shift coverage over to Flight H. Stay tuned for continuing coverage throughout the night, including final Flight G results once the celebratory bag-n-tag takes place.
Just as it was one hour ago, Flight G is one the money bubble, the players just now returning from a 15-minute break.
Cord Garcia, as he’s done since Level 4 WAY back when the sun was out, leads the field. He’s up to a monster 1,455,000 and now 800k clear of his challengers.
Take a look at how the other stacks are surviving the bubble, and surviving the onCordslaught, by checking out the Chip Counts tab above.
Level 18 . 08:00 Left . Ante 10k . Blinds 5k.10k . Entries 38.290
Hand-for-hand play continues with Level 18 nearing the homestretch, and Cord Garcia is making the most of his opportunity as the chip leader.
Garcia opens UTG+1 and is called by Robert Provine in the hijack, who has one of the largest stacks in the room as well. The flop comes and Garcia bets 60,000. Provine calls. He announces another 180k on the turn and Provine looks up at him.
“What’s the worst that can happen?” says Garcia. Provine calls and the river is the .
“All in,” says Garcia.
“Nice hand,” responds Provine as he folds face up.
“Is that a fold?” asks Garcia to confirm. Provine says yes, and Garcia shows a bluff with after missing his two overcards and flush draw.
Level 18 . 32:00 Left . Ante 10k . Blinds 5k.10k . Entries 38.290
Action folds to Kasey Mills in the small blind and she goes all in for Event #14 champion Bradley Hall’s effective 93k in the big blind. Hall calls.
Hall shows
Mills shows
The flop comes , giving Hall top pair, top kicker. However, Mills is live with seven outs to a straight. The turn is the , removing the top end of her draw and culling her outs to four, none of which come as the river completes the runout.
Level 18 . 38:00 Left . Ante 10k . Blinds 5k.10k . Entries 38.290
The play clock pauses early in Level 18 with 38 left, two minutes per hand peel until one more elimination is recorded, sending 37 into the money.
Welcome .. to the bubble.
Let’s see if all-in players can resist the Flight G urge demonstrated repeatedly today to move in and immediately start texting. That’s a bad look, y’all, it looks as though you’re texting what your hand is … while your hand is live.
Resist temptation, leave your phone alone when you have a live hand.
Registration is closed in Flight H of the $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event, and the scoreboard shows 159 entries.
The players contribute $141,510 to the prize pool. The combined field is unofficially at 1,157 entries and the prize pool, unofficially, is slightly more than $1,030,000
Play continues tonight until the final 13 players Bag-a-Stack, both making the money and also advancing to Monday’s 2 pm Day 2 restart.
Players finishing tonight in 14-20th place all earn a Day 1 tournament cash but do not advance to Day 2. Players finishing in 14-16th cash for $1,500, while 17-20th cash for $1,400.
All players – whether in possession of a Day2Bag, a Day 1 Cash or eliminated before the money – are eligible to play all 10 Title Event flights, for the PokerAtlas Tour is a Best Stack Forward tour. Bag more than one stack and the BigStack goes in play Monday, while the smaller bag(s) cash out as a Day 2 mincash.
Sunday’s two final flights begins at 11am and 4 pm. This tournament officially closes for registration Sunday at 9:15 pm, c’mon down, y’all.
Level 10 . Ante 1.5k. Blinds 1k.1.5k . Entries 74/159
Level 9 comes to a close, and players take their third break of the night, the mark for late registration to close in Flight H. The scoreboard displays 159 entries with 74 remaining, and Juan Mendoza leads the field with 280,000.
The final five also include Zozimo Cardenas (247,500), Andrew Esposito (215,000), Jason Fitzpatrick (210,000) and Jael Lewis (191,000).
Level 9 . Ante 1,200. Blinds 600.1200 . Entries 75/150
Jason Fitzpatrick raises to 3,000 in the lojack and Jalal Shamroukh three-bets all in for 21,100. Derek Normand is in the small blind and puts in a four-bet that quickly results in Fitzpatrick folding face up.
As for the other two, they’re off to the races with Shamroukh’s ahead of Normand’s .
The flop comes , causing remarks about Fitzpatrick’s fold after he would have flopped a set. Just like that, the turn comes the to give Shamroukh a set of his own. Shamroukh only needs to fade Normand’s four outs to Broadway, and a jack is nowhere to be found as the completes the runout.
We pick up action with all the preflop betting concluded, Cory Smith all-in for 41,500, Shanmukh Madavarapu all-in for an additional 10,500, and Craig Varnell with the call to both at risk, holding an additional 75,000 behind.
for Smith
for Madavarapu
aka Mom and Dad, for Varnell
The dealer fans Barry Greenstein (), Smith is eliminated, and Madavarapu scoops, moving to 145,500.
Level 8 . Ante 1,000. Blinds 500.1k . Entries 88/142
Caitlin Comeskey has been spotted in Flight H of the $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event, making her way up from Austin’s cash games to take part in this weekend’s festivities.
In addition to being a fierce competitor at the felt, Comeskey is known for her fun personality, as evidenced by her YouTube channel, Caitlin From Texas Poker. ICYMI, her content earned her a 2023 GPI Award as the Rising Star in Content Creation.
Comeskey is the co-host of the Aceholes Podcast alongside Nikki Limo, which has brought guest stars like Chris Moorman, Katie Lindsay, Joey Ingram, Darren Elias, Landon Tice, and more. She’s also appeared on others’ podcasts like Matt Berkey’s Solve For Why and Thinking Poker, hosted by Andrew Brokos.
Comeskey’s largest scores of her tournament career are $60k and $55k, both coming from second-place finishes in Austin. We’ll see if she can top that this weekend.
Level 7 . Ante 800. Blinds 400.800 . Entries 91/134
Players return from their second break of the day to play the last three 30-minute levels during the late reg period. Registration with unlimited re-entries will remain open through the next break, closing at 9:15 when Level 10 begins.
OMG, it’s variance — Wayne Harmon holds the chip lead on break with 174,300. He’s just ahead of Andres Rodriguez (166,800) and Sonny Sundara (143,400) on the podium.
Bless your heart, Derek Normand is in fourth with 125,900, and Zozimo Cardenas sits just behind him in fifth with 125,000.
Level 6 . Ante 600. Blinds 300.600 . Entries 92/128
Houston legend Ravee “Sonny” Sundara is in action during Flight H and has just chipped up above 100K.
In the hand, Sundara is in the hijack facing an under-the-gun raise to 1,500 from Mohammed Munaf and a call from the lojack. He three-bets to 5,400 and only UTG calls.
Both players check on and , bringing the to complete the board. Munaf checks a third time and Sundara bets 5,000. Munaf opts to call.
Sundara announces a queen, showing for two pair, kings and queens. Munaf mucks.
Sundara is known being active on the tables. We even got intel that he was one of the individuals on a list that helped prompt Tour Management to create the “Master Blaster” award. If you haven’t seen it in the room yet, you’re probably not eligible to win it.
Flight G Level 13 . Ante 3k . Blinds 1500.3k . Entries 71.290
Flight H . Level 6 . Ante 600. Blinds 300.600 . Entries 125
Here’s the players earning a Day 1 tournament cash through the first six flights in Event 19 of the 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Series – $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event.
Level 13 . Ante 3k . Blinds 1.5k.3k Entries 77.290
El Paso’s Maury Solano is a familiar face across the American Southwest with $632K in Hendon Mob live earnings, mostly from Texas, Vegas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Arizona. He’s also one of the nicest guys you’re going to find in the room.
Solano has been seen in a few shirts that are FunTour 2.0-approved throughout the week, but today’s might be my favorite.
He has a comfortable 135k in front of him early in Level 13.
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before – tell me if you’ve heard this one before. Cord Garcia retains the chiplead for the third consecutive Flight G break.
Garcia (600,000) leads Trung Tran (375,000), Daniel Marx (374,500), Jianmin Xu (366,000) and Trang Dang (320,000), this group making up the top stacks in the room.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for full-field counts.
There’s over 15k in the middle on with three players in action. Basil Punnus bets 5,300 from the small blind and Viet Dinh raises all in for 22,200 under the gun. Ilyas Muradi folds on the button and Punnus calls the remainder.
Dinh has for top pair, top kicker, but Punnus shows an overpair with and has Dinh in need of improving to win the pot. Running leave the situation unchanged and Punnus sends Dinh to the rail.
Three levels down for Flight H of the $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event at TCH Dallas, and we’re up to 91 entries as players return from their first break of the day.
Jeffrey Martensen (104,500) leads the pack with the only six-figure stack on break. Andres Rodriguez (81,200), Juan Mendoza (80,700), Caibin Ai (79,000) and Simon Webster (73,600) make up the top five.
Late reg is open until the start of Level 10 at 9:15 pm, and we have two more flights to follow on Sunday.
Flight G Level 11. Ante 2k . Blinds 1k.2k . Entries 99.290
Brent Wheeler opens for 4,500 and his next-door neighbor Robert Provine pauses for a few clicks before moving in for 42,500. Action folds back to Provide who debates, then calls and immediately grimaces.
for Provine
for Wheeler
The dealer fans , eliciting an I-had-a-Jack groan from a non-competitor, and Provine earns the double, Wheeler down to 39,000.
Five players commit 800 into the middle preflop, and the dealer fans out . Action checks to Alem Girma UTG+2 and he bets 3,500. Only Satheesh Francis calls, doing so from the big blind.
Francis check-calls 3,500 on the and another 7,000 on the to take the hand to showdown.
After the final call, Girma shrugs as he shows for the bluff. Francis slams down for a flush and takes down the pot.
Flight G Level 11 . Ante 2k . Blinds 1k-2k . Entries 115/290
Thomas Neville open-shoves for 16,000 under the gun and Gregory Ouzoonian calls all in for less from the cutoff, totaling 14,500. Action makes its way to Syed-Ali Jafari in the big blind, who confirms the amount.
“Let’s see,” says Jafari as he checks his cards. He calls with .
Neville has and Ouzoonian has .
The board runs out and Ouzoonian makes a pair of jacks to triple up. Jafari takes the 3K side pot and Neville is eliminated.
Registration is closed in Flight G of the $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event, and the scoreboard shows 290 entries.
The players contribute $258,100 to the prize pool. The combined field is unofficially at 998 entries and the prize pool, unofficially, is slightly more than $888,000
Play continues tonight until the final 23 players Bag-a-Stack, both making the money and also advancing to Monday’s 2 pm Day 2 restart.
Players finishing tonight in 24-37th place all earn a Day 1 tournament cash but do not advance to Day 2. Players finishing in 24-30th cash for $1,500, while 31-37th cash for $1,400.
All players – whether in possession of a Day2Bag, a Day 1 Cash or eliminated before the money – are eligible to play all 10 Title Event flights, for the PokerAtlas Tour is a Best Stack Forward tour. Bag more than one stack and the BigStack goes in play Monday, while the smaller bag(s) cash out as a Day 2 mincash.
The 4 pm Flight H is live now, Sunday’s two final flights begins at 11am and 4 pm. This tournament officially closes for registration Sunday at 9:15 pm, c’mon down, y’all.
Sometimes you recognize a face out of the corner of your eye, and sometimes the universe confirms two seconds later that it’s someone you know.
That was the case for Fort Collins, Colo.’s Maddie Robinson, who I played with two weeks ago back home. Moments later, she confirms that she knows the entire #FunTour2Point0 team from other events we’ve covered.
“I’m fresh off the plane,” says Robinson. “Got here like an hour ago.”
Now, Robinson’s here at Texas Card House for the first time, adding that she’s loving it and wishes we had something like that in Colorado.
Robinson’s poker history dates back around a decade, having learned the game from her dad. She remembers the day that he allowed her to take a seat at the game. She also remembers the day he told her, “I think you’ve surpassed me.”
In order to make a run in the tournament, she’ll need to surpass 92% of Flight H and find a bag for Monday’s Day 2.
Keep following along to see how Robinson and the rest of the field fare on this fine Saturday from in the Lone Star State.
Registration is about to close in Flight G – there’s quite a few players in line and that line is open until 4:15 pm, if you’re in line when cards go in the air, you’re good, you have a seat and a stack.
Meanwhile, for those already with a stack, Cord Garcia is punishing this flight, already up to 417,500 and he has a huge lead over No. 2 stack Jeffrey Conroy (281,600) and the rest of the field, including Schuyler Thornton (242,000), Shanmukh Madhavarapu (208,000) and Jared Ingles (195,000) who make up the room’s top-five stacks.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for full-field counts.
Play has begun for Flight H of the PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Series – $1,500,000 Guarantee $1,000 Title Event at TCH Dallas.
And we’ve already got over 1,000 entries in the tournament.
Flight G’s entries brings the unofficial total to 998 for the tournament as Flight H starts with late reg and unlimited re-entries available until 9:15 tonight. Of course, tomorrow brings two more flights our way. And if Saturday’s Labor-Day-Weekend 11a flight is challenging 300 runners, how big is Sunday gonna be?
While that question can’t be answered for another 24 hours, we can sure tell you more about Flight H.
Blinds begin at 100-200 with 40,000 starting stacks. The first nine levels last 30 minutes apiece with breaks after 90 minutes of play with registration and unlimited re-entries through the end of the third break. Registration closes at 9:15 p.m. at the start of Level 10, with blinds bumping up to 40 minutes in length at that time.
One-in-eight players will make it into the money tonight, with play continuing until 8% of the starting field remains. Those who make it to the celebratory bag-n-tag will get to return for Monday’s 2 p.m. Day 2 restart.
This is a best-stack forward tournament, meaning we don’t discriminate when accepting additional entries. Feel free to join as many times as you’d like, in as many flights, regardless of how well you do or don’t do. Additional Day 2 bags earn a Day 2 min-cash for each stack removed from play.
This is flight number seven-of-ten, and we expect the prize pool to hit a milly during Flight H. Keep following along to see how we progress toward the $1.5 million guarantee.
Ya’ll know there’s one additional tournament at TCH Dallas during this series, right? And ya’ll know there’s some sticky-sweet goodness as a MAJOR reason to be here with betting units in action, amirite?
Welcome to the Finger Licker, aka Event 21 in the 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Series – a $25,000 Guaranteed $500 starting at 2 pm – with 30,000 stacks, unlimited entries, and a complimentary BBQ buffet from 6:15-6:45 pm inside the TCH Dallas tournament arena.
We might even let players from Day 2 in the Title Event join if for BBQ goodness. Yeah, I think they also earn BBQ.
Well, my personal O/U for Flight G was 275, and there’s 45 minutes left for the overs to win. Ya’ll only need 2 entries for them overs-folk to succeed.
Levels move to 40-minute increments at 4:15 pm, staying there the rest of the day today. Monday’s Day 2 plays two 40-minute levels before the hour-levels kick in … that’s right HOUR-long levels in a 1k!
Will Givens and Matt Bond are among the most recent original entries in Flight G of our $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event at TCH Dallas.
Givens is making his first series appearance., He said opening weekend’s $500 Dallas Duel that ended up with a $1.239 million prize pool is what enticed him to come to Dallas for the pokers.
Givens knows how to win big-field $1k’s, for thats what his first WSOP Bracelet was in – a tournament where I did his first interview after being awarded his bracelet. Bracelet-legend Loren Klein and Duy Ho were among those at his FT>
Bond is an international-traveling poker player who hails from right down the road in Irving, so this is a chance to play among family and friends.
Poker Live Updates Founder Dan Ross with Chef Tiffany Derry at Roots Southern Table
Bag up and have a day off in the Dallas/Fort Worth area during the tournament series? Well here are some suggestions for you to enjoy that day off in the surrounding areas of TCH Dallas and Las Colinas. Your first and closest option would be the downtown Dallas area. A good first stop would be the observation deck atop Reunion Tower to get an overview of the city before you explore (there is a restaurant and bar at the top as well).
The Sixth Floor Museum chronicles the infamous assassination of President John F. Kennedy from the room where it happened. It chronicles his presidency, the assassination on that fateful November day, and the myriad conspiracy theories surrounding the event. You can also wander the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza after the museum visit. If you want some other museum options that touch on lighter material then the best stops would be the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, and Crow Collection.
If fine dining is your thing, then look no further than the restaurant at the Mansion on Turtle Creek, which is famous for its tortilla soup and lobster tacos.
The #FunTour2Point0 crew also highly recommends Roots Southern Table brought to you by chef Tiffany Derry. The duck fat fried chicken, crab fried rice, and the most interesting take on shrimp and grits we’ve ever seen were all fantastic, and the service was second to none as well, be sure to ask for Keanon to serve you. If you want some nightlife options in Dallas after dinner head towards the West End Historic District and Deep Ellum neighborhood.
If you have the time, a drive over to Fort Worth is well worth a day-trip if you want to take in the cowboy culture that made Texas famous. The sister city of Dallas used to be an epicenter of the cattle drives that have been featured in books and television shows like Lonesome Dove and 1883. The Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District still has daily cattle drives that come down the middle of the street.
And if the timing aligns you can catch a Texas Rangers or Dallas Cowboys game over at their massive stadiums in Arlington. Daily tours of both modern coliseums are available as well when the teams are on the road. Enjoy your bag up and chill day off, and we will see you back at the PokerAtlas Tour stop in Dallas when you’re done relaxing maxing and ready for more poker.
Six levels in the books, 253 entries recorded, and the OG of Colossus – Cord Garcia – leads the field with a 230,000 stack.
Following Colossus Cord up Chipcount Mountain is Schuyler Thornton (229,100), Mauricio Solano (165,000), Brendan Dornan (156,200) and Trang Dang (125,400) making up the top five stacks in the room.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for full-field counts.
Richard Gebhart limps UTG and action folds to Sonny Sundara on the button – who never passes up a chance to raise – and he bumps the action to 2,000. The blinds surrender and Gebhart stops texting to call the bet.
The dealer fans , 2,000 more from Sundara and a check-call from Gebhart.
Turn is and the always-aggressive Sundara moves the betting value to 6,400, with a check-fold from Gebhart
Craig Varnell – winner of the FINAL poker tournament in the world before the pandemic kicked in – drops in this afternoon to be part of our $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event.
Varnell says he enjoys being able to come to TCH Dallas, as he has friends in the area, making Texas poker tournaments easy for him to place onto his travel schedule.
Walk back in time with me, if you will, to when we started hearing stories about this mysterious flu-like virus going around. A large group of us are in San Jose, CA, putting on one of the world’s most popular tournaments, the Bay 101 Shooting Star, a former WPT tour stop.
People were already calling the room in early March, asking if the tournament would take place due to this Corona thing. Assured the tournament is running, players from across the globe traveled to northern California, 50 miles from San Francisco, to play in this prestigious event.
As the first day of play begins to end, television monitors throughout the room begin moving form sports programming to news flashes about worldwide concerns this virus is ever-expanding, becoming what some fear could be a pandemic.
All this happens with cards in the air for opening day of Shooting Star. Tournament Director Matt Savage and crew immediately begin putting plans in play to complete or suspend the poker tournament, and poker room management begin receiving word of countywide reductions in how many people can gather in any public area.
A decision is made to reduce Day 2 play from 90 to 60-minute levels, adding two more hours of play and eliminating the final day’s plans for extended play – reducing the event to just two more days.
By the time cards go in the air for Day 2, gatherings of no more than 250 are allowed in the county. That number is reduced to no more than 50 beginning the next day, and the tournament is set to keep playing that next day, March 13.
Day 2 plays all the way down to a 10-handed final table, with Varnell as chipleader, and the players are offered by Savage their ICM numbers, just in case the county decides all public activities have to stop and the poker room has to close.
The player do not vote to stop, choosing to return on the morning of the 13th to play down to a winner.
Well, you see, what happened was … on the morning of the 13th, one of the 10 remaining players arrived wearing a mask, isolating from the other nine, and coughing rather consistently.
With no one at that time knowing how the virus was transmitted, or how lethal is could be, the other nine immediately opt to take the ICM, bring the event to a close, and leave Santa Clara County – the first county in the world to go into full lockdown – and that lockdown took place just 18 hours after the official tournament end.
Varnell collected his $159,710, topping Kristen Foxen, Tyler Patterson, Ant Zinno, et al, and all left the area.
I flew out of San Jose at 3 pm on a Friday – a time time that is normally one of the world’s busiest airports. I walked through and onto a plane with just 7 other passengers as the world closed behind us a few hours later.
Six of the 10 Title Event starting flights are complete and Kris Burchfield has established a Top Stack for Day 2 that is going to be exceptionally hard to catch.
Burchfield demolished his flight, bagging a monster 1,641,000 stack. There’s six additional MillyStacks, but no one within 400,000 of Burchfield at this moment.
While Level 4 is moving along right now, we harken back to near the end of Level 3 where today’s ActionTable – Table 14 – keeps putting wild hands onto the felt.
There’s an open to 770 UTG, the cutoff calls, then Anwesh Baisyat repops to 4,700, UTG jams for 35,500 and Baisyat calls.
for the challenger
for Baisyat
A set for Baisyat on the flop, and while the challenger hits the turn, Baisyat follows up with quads on the river for the KO and an 81,100 stack at that moment.
This recap brought to you by felt-side reporter Anwesh Baisyat.
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Players are back from their first break of the day, and as we look up to the Chip Counts tab, we see Cory Smith (98,500) is leading the field, followed by Jeffrey Turnton (89,000) Jonathan Bennett (88,300) Suju Abraham (85,800) and first-bustout-winner Nicholas Gwynn (82,000)
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Please refer to the Chip Counts tab and see all counts.
The first 15-minute break of the day kicks in, and we’ll be back post-break with chip counts for every player in the tournament, because that’s how we roll.
Among those with a 40,000 stack in action in Flight G is Craig Varnell, Cord Garcia, Adrian Curry, Bryan Broussard, Yung Hwang, James Maddux, Kenneth Fults, Rahul Smith, Kasey Mills, Juli Black, Eunice Choung, Susan Couron, Dina Min, Kelly Wyatt, Jeremy Sparkman, Hieu Dang, Mstr Lynch, Tony Ho, Rohith Sontireddy, McCall Bohnsack, Dat Ho and Scott Gordon.
The first two 30-minute registration-era levels are complete and the scoreboard shows 150 entries in Flight G – the sixth of 10 starting flights in our $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event at TCH Dallas.
Registration and the unlimited-entry period is available until 4:15 pm when Level 10 begins. Play continues through when the money bubble pops at 1-in-8 entries, all the way down to the final 8 percent of the field advancing to Monday’s Labor Day restart at 2 pm.
We offer three additional starting flights, with starts today at 4pm, Sunday at 11am and the final flight kicking off Sunday at 4 pm.
We take a short pause in our tournament reporting to bring you this important announcement coming in to our newsroom.
Cash Games today at TCH Las Colinas add the excitement of Meet-Up Games – with the Poker Atlas staff jumping into the games and splashing pots with PokerAtlas swag.
Be part of the fun today from Noon – 6 pm, be the first in the Meet-Up Games to win a pot while holding 7.2 and we’ll put you in a PokerAtlas hoodie. The house already adds Bad Beat Bacon if your Aces Full get cracked, you KNOW some additional swag gets tossed your way if you are served your bacon.
Jon Friedberg and Justin Hammer are among those hosting games this afternoon at the Las Colinas location. C’mon out, y’all and get your game on.
We’re experiencing a pretty big Saturday over here at TCH Dallas for Flight G in our Title Event, so to help with having enough tables, the final 2 pm 5-seats-guaranteed $150 satellite is shifting to the Texas Card House Las Colinas location, just a short jaunt across town.
Fireworks over at Table 14, where Carlos Hurtado and Nicholas Gwynn are building a massive pot. The flop isn’t even out and Hurtado’s 39,300 stack is in the middle, and it appears Gwynn has a few more betting units in his stack
for Hurtado
for Gwynn, so Hurtado has slim flush hopes to both his Kings
The dealer fans and Hurtado is down to two outs.
Turn river and there’s a Level 1 elimination and a double-stacked chipleader in Nicholas Gwynn.
Now I’m not saying there were few people here the first couple’a days – there’s 708 entries before registration began for the four weekend flights – but we’re already with more players than we had for three of the flights, and Level 1 isn’t finished this morning.
The highlight of the 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas is now – six flights down and two more today in the 10-flight $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event.
There’s two flights – at 11 am and 4 pm today AND Sunday, offering 10 total starting flights. Day 2 is on Monday because that’s the Labor Day holiday, and the final table livestream takes place Tuesday.
Players open competition in this Best Stack Forward tournament with 40,000 stacks, playing 30-minute levels while registration is open, 40-minute levels when level 10 begins and registration closes, and moving to hour-levels on Day 2 when Level 19 begins.
Opening flights play until the money bubble pops, paying 1-in-8 entries. Play continues until the final 8 percent of each flight Bag-n-Tag, advancing to Monday’s Day 2 Restart at 2 pm.
Day 2 plays down to the final table, that action begins Tuesday at 6 pm.
Satellites
You can win your way in to the Title Event through one of MANY TCH Dallas $150 satellites, and here’s the remaining schedule of $150’s.
There’s a final 2 pm satellite today at TCH Las Colinas
There’s the Last Chance 9 pm Satellite at TCH Dallas
Ten players turn to eight in the blink of an eye. Evan Hu is eliminated by Srinivasa Vadlamudi in 10th place after his ace-king loses to pocket jacks, leaving Vadlamudi with around 650K.
The nine remaining players condense onto one table, and Dustin Foster raises in the cutoff. Hoan Nguyen three-bet shoves for around 200k from the small blind and Foster calls.
Nguyen:
Foster:
The runout comes and Foster eliminates Nguyen in ninth place with 2:46 remaining in Level 17. This becomes the shortest-running flight of the tournament, finishing 30 seconds earlier than Flight A.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for Day 2 Qualifiers from this flight. Here’s the Day 1 Tournament Cashes from this flight.
And remember: if you didn’t tip your dealer last night on the way out, tonight is another chance for you to do so. Even if you did tip last night, tonight is another chance to do it again. G’night, y’all.
Three players go to a flop of and action checks to Arun Balasubramanian, who bets 25,000 on the button. Austin Holland check-shoves for 103,000 in the big blind. Balasubramanian thinks for a bit once action is back on him, and he makes the call.
Holland:
Balasubramanian:
Holland has all the outs in the world with flush and gutshot straight draws against Balasubramanian’s top pair. Unfortunately for him, the runout completes and his draws are left dry. He’s eliminated in 11th place, good for $1,400. Carl Lee and Dean Baranowski also were eliminated since the bubble burst, and we’re two bust outs away from the celebratory bag-n-tag.
Players return from break, and moments later, Andres Rodriguez is eliminated from the tournament to bring us to 14. Hand-for-hand play is now in effect as we have reached the bubble, one elimination away from a $1,400 min-cash.
Chris Akin (546,000) leads the field coming back from break. Arun Balasubramanian (487,000) is second, followed by Evan Hu (420,000). Jiayi Yao (390,000) and Jordan Richard (379,000) round out the top five.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for a full list of counts from break.
Level 15. Ante 5k . Blinds 2.5k.5k . Entries 15/103
A single-raised pot preflop sees stacks get in on a flop of with Dustin Foster all in for 130K on the button versus Orez Mokedi in the cutoff.
“Do you have a set?” a tablemate asks Foster. He nods as he shows for middle set, way ahead of Mokedi’s . The turn and river complete the runout and Foster scores the double at Mokedi’s expense.
Jordan Richard opens to 13,000 in the hijack and Martin Vostry three-bets to 41,500 in the big blind. Richard announces he’s all in and Vostry thinks for a bit before calling to put his remaining 140,000 at risk.
Vostry:
Richard:
“Come on!” says Richard upon seeing Vostry’s holdings. The flop comes and puts Vostry out in front, causing Richard to let out an expletive before asking why to nobody in particular. The emotional swing continues as running roll onto the felt to give Richard Broadway and earn him the pot and KO.
“Just relax!” says tablemate Andres Rodriguez to Richard with a laugh. “It’s never easy!”
With Vostry’s bust out, we’re one off the bubble and two away from making it into the money. Buckle up, baby!
Jordan Richard – 325,000
Martin Vostry – Eliminated
Flight F Level 13 . Ante 3k . Blinds 1.5k.3k . Entries 19/102
Dean Baranowski raises to 7,000 under the gun and Blue Rannefeld three-bet shoves from the cutoff. David Coker asks for a count from the small blind, which is totaled to 49,000, and he announces a call. The big blind and Baranowski get out of the way and cards are turned on their backs.
Rannefeld:
Coker:
Rannefeld’s situation goes from bad to worse on the flop, but the turn gives him four gutshot outs to Broadway.
“Stupid,” says Rannefeld during the runout, which completes with a meaningless , and he’s sent to the rail in 20th place.
Players take another 15-minute break and return nine away from making the money. c is the clear chip leader with 592,500, more than double all but two other players in the field. Those two, Jiayi Yao (494,000) and Evan Hu (333,500) round out the top three with Chris Akin (273,000) and Orez Mokedi (242,500) making up the top five stacks.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for a complete list of counts from the break.
The last hand of Flight E sees Keith Carter get around 250K into the middle preflop from the small blind against Truong Huynh in the hijack.
Carter has
Huynh has
The board runs out and Huynh’s aces remain best, eliminating Carter in 15th place. With his elimination, the final 14 players now advance to Day 2 with Huynh’s 1.234 million the likely top stack from the flight.
We’ll post complete end-of-flight shortly along with taking you into the wee hours of the morning as Flight F plays to its conclusion.
Here’s the players earning a Day 1 tournament cash by finishing in 15-22nd place in Flight E of Event 20 in the 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Series – $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event
Counting down a Friday in Dallas with 16 remaining in Flight E and 28 in Flight F of our $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event, but fear not, this is NOT your final opportunity to put a stack in play, we guarantee it.
There’s 11 am and 4 pm flights both Saturday and Sunday as we take full advantage of Monday being the Labor Day Holiday to push Day 2 over there.
40,000 stacks, 30-minute registration levels and 40-s the rest of your opening day – c’mon down and get the pokers on this weekend.
Flight F Level 11 . Ante 2k . Blinds 1k.2k . Entries 30.103
Matthew Arista opens to 5,500 under the gun and Eunice Choung calls UTG+1. Action folds to Arun Balasubramanian in the big blind and he three-bets to 22,000. Arista thinks for a bit and folds before Choung announces she’s all in.
Arista pats himself on the back as Choung pushes around 100K forward. Balasubramanian pauses for a moment and then calls.
Choung has
Balasubramanian has
The flop keeps Choung out in front, but she sees doom on the turn. No jack is in sight as the dealer brings the on board to complete the runout and she’s sent to the rail by Balasubramanian.
After spending most of the day in the top five of the counts, Emmanuel Ignacio finds himself as Flight E’s Bubble Boy.
Ignacio gets all in preflop with from the cutoff against Christian Ramirez’s from the lojack.
The board runs out and Ignacio is eliminated from the tournament in 23rd place.
Christian Ramirez – 575,000
All 22 remaining players are now in the money and guaranteed at least $1,400. Play will conclude when we reach the final 14, all of whom will bag-n-tag their chips and advance to Monday’s Day 2.
With the bubble bursting, we will conclude Flight E coverage and shift over to Flight F, which has 33-of-103 players remaining and pays the top 13.
We will publish in-the-money finishers and Day 2 chip counts upon the completion of Flight E.
Mykel Comroe is down to his last 37,000 and rips it in from the lojack. Christian Ramirez confirms the amount, looks down at his cards and slams a stack onto the felt as Comroe tells his tablemates he doesn’t want a call.
Comroe has
Ramirez has
The board runs out and Comroe finishes with aces full, earning the easy double as the bubble plays on.
Registration is closed in Flight F of the $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event, and the scoreboard shows 103 entries.
The players contribute $91,670 to the prize pool. The combined field is unofficially at 708 entries and the prize pool, unofficially, is slightly more than $630,000
Play continues tonight until the final eight players Bag-a-Stack, both making the money and also advancing to Monday’s 2 pm Day 2 restart.
Players finishing tonight in 9-13th place all earn a Day 1 tournament cash but do not advance to Day 2. Players finishing in 9-10th cash for $1,500, while 11-13th cash for $1,400.
All players – whether in possession of a Day2Bag, a Day 1 Cash or eliminated before the money – are eligible to play all 10 Title Event flights, for the PokerAtlas Tour is a Best Stack Forward tour. Bag more than one stack and the BigStack goes in play Monday, while the smaller bag(s) cash out as a Day 2 mincash.
Players are coming back from the registration break with Orez Mokedi leading the Flight F players. Mokedi (224,500) sits atop a flight including the likes of Evan Hu (207,500) Jiayi Yao (185,000) Dean Baranowski (182,500) and Chrsitopher Akin (159,000).
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for all counts and all busted individuals through 9 levels of action.
Flight E Level 16 . Ante 6k . Blinds 3k.6k . Entries 26.174
Players in Flight E return from break just four eliminations for Day 1 tournament payouts and 12 from the end of the night when 12 become Day 2 Qualifiers.
We take a look above at the Chip Counts tab – where you can see all live stacks right now – and it appears Sean Lee (510,000 is the chipleader, followed by George Abi-Zeid (489,000) and Dylan Duran (440,000)
Cash Games Saturday at TCH Las Colinas adds the excitement of Meet-Up Games with the Poker Atlas staff jumping into the games and splashing pots with PokerAtlas swag.
Be part of the fun from Noon – 6 pm, be the first in the Meet-Up Games to win a pot while holding 7.2 and we’ll put you in a PokerAtlas hoodie. The house already adds Bad Beat Bacon if your Aces Full get cracked, you KNOW some additional swag gets tossed your way if you are served your bacon.
Jon Friedberg and Justin Hammer are among those hosting games Saturday afternoon at the Las Colinas location. C’mon out, y’all and get your game on.
Flight E Level 15 . Ante 4k . Blinds 2k.4k . Entries 36.174
There’s an open from Peter Lockwood, a raise to 27,000 from Greg Fishberg, a 4-bet to 80,000 from Robert Deupree, Lockwood undershoves for 52,000, then Fishberg calls the 80k so we can move to a flop.
No side action on the flop, the dealer flips up a turn and Fishberg moves in for 135,000. Deupree debates calling from his 190,000 stack, but opts to retain his betting units.
Lockwood shows for an overpair
Fishberg shows that was drawing to two outs postflop, only to get there on the turn
River is , eliminating Lockwood, Fishberg moving to 360,000
Flight F Level 7 . Ante 800 . Blinds 400.800 . Entries 84
The first six registration-era levels are complete – registration and the unlimited-entry period closes at 9:15 pm when Level 10 begins – in Flight F of the Title Event.
As the players return from break, we take pause to look across the report with every live stack listed, and we see Evan Hu (128,100) as the chipleader, followed by David Sim (121,000) Sean Cha (113,900) Orez Makidi (112,200) and Tiep Bui (105,000) as the top five stacks in the room.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for all the chip counts and all the eliminations in this field.
Flight E Level 13 . Ante 3k . Blinds 1,500.3k . Entries 49.174
Down to 49 with 22 making the money in Flight E, we see Truong Huynh maintaining his lead, up to 526,000 over the likes of Emmanuel Ignacio (312,000), George Ebi-Azid (286,000), Robert Deupree (259,500) and Sean Lee (237,000).
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for all the chip counts and all the eliminations in this field.
Flight F Level 4 . Ante 400 . Blinds 200-400 . Entries 58/71
Tiep Bui has 2,000 in front of him in the lojack and is facing a three-bet jam from Lonny Weitzel in the cutoff for 27,500. Bui covers by 8,000 and is left with a decision for most of his stack. He decides to call, and he doesn’t look happy about it.
He’s even less happy after seeing his is up against Weitzel’s . That is, until a ten appears in the window. The runout finishes with a board displaying , and his set of tens wins the pot and sends Weitzel to the rail.
“I asked for it,” says Bui after the runout. Ask and you shall receive.
Flight E Level 12 . Ante 2,500 . Blinds 1,500.2,500 . Entries 55/174
There’s a pile of chips in the middle with three players holding cards and a board reading . The small blind checks and Alex Nguyen bets 30,000 from the big blind. Truong Huynh raises to 125,000, enough to put both players all in, and the small blind quickly folds.
Nguyen counts out his stack of 80,000 behind and thinks for a bit, audibly wondering what Huynh can have before making the call and tabling the . He’s shown the bad news, with Huynh showing .
“Ugh,” says Nguyen. “Nice hand.”
The river is the and Huynh beats Nguyen, letting out a verbal celebration after taking down the massive pot.
Flight F Level 4 . Ante 400 . Blinds 200-400 . Entries 56/64
The first break comes and goes in Flight F of the $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event with eight players joining the field during the 15-minute hiatus. We’re now up to 64 entries with reg open until 9:15 p.m. tonight when Level 10 starts.
Evan Hu is the first to crack six figures, amassing 113,600 over the first 90 minutes of play. Only two other players — David Sim (89,400) and Jamie Brown (80,700) have more than two starting stacks, with Song Yi (76,500) just short of that mark.
For the rest of the field, refer to the Chip Counts tab above.
Flight E Level 11 . Ante 2,000 . Blinds 1,000-2,000 . Entries 70/174
Christian Ramirez opens to 4,500 under the gun and receives a call from Youn Noh in the cutoff.
Action goes heads up to a flop of and Ramirez announces a bet of 9,000. Noh slides a covering stack forward and Ramirez wastes no time calling all in for 41,000.
Ramirez:
Noh:
Ramirez is ahead with top pair and fades another club on the runout to secure the double.
Flight F Level 2 . Ante 200 . Blinds 100-200 . Entries 34/36
The field continues to grow inside TCH Dallas for Flight F of the PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Series – $1,500,000 Guarantee $1,000 Title Event. Timothy Sullivan, Trevor Argue, Dean Baranowski, Christopher Meza, Blue Rannefeld, Grace Soria-Hwang and Stephan Thom are among those already in action.
Registration will remain open until approximately 9:15 p.m. this evening with unlimited re-entries during that time.
Registration is closed in Flight E of the $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event, and the scoreboard shows 174 entries.
The players contribute $154,860 to the prize pool. The combined field is unofficially at 605 entries and the prize pool, unofficially, is slightly more than $535,000
Play continues tonight until the final 14 players Bag-a-Stack, both making the money and also advancing to Monday’s 2 pm Day 2 restart.
Players finishing tonight in 15-18th place all earn a Day 1 tournament cash but do not advance to Day 2. Players finishing in 19-22th cash for $1,500, while 12-14th cash for $1,400.
All players – whether in possession of a Day2Bag, a Day 1 Cash or eliminated before the money – are eligible to play all 10 Title Event flights, for the PokerAtlas Tour is a Best Stack Forward tour. Bag more than one stack and the BigStack goes in play Monday, while the smaller bag(s) cash out as a Day 2 mincash.
Flight E . Ante 1500 . Blinds 1k.1500 . Entries 174
That sound you hear is the collective echo of players making way back into TCH Dallas for the end of registration in Flight E.
Gerald Irvin leads the parade with a 204,000 stack, following along in marching order is Robert Dupree (182,500), Parker Schultz (175,000), Emmanuel Ignacio (174,000 and Davad Cadaoas (165,000).
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for full-field numbers.
Flight F Level 1 . Ante 0 . Blinds 100-200 . Entries 13
The sixth of 10 flights has begun for the PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Series – $1,500,000 Guarantee $1,000 Title Event at TCH Dallas.
Blinds begin at 100-200 with 40,000 starting stacks. The first nine levels last 30 minutes apiece with breaks after 90 minutes of play with registration and unlimited re-entries through the end of the third break.
Registration closes at 9:15 p.m. at the start of Level 10, with blinds bumping up to 40 minutes in length at that time.
One-in-eight players make it into the money tonight, with play continuing until 8 percent of the starting field remains. Those who make it to the celebratory bag-n-tag return for Monday’s 2 p.m. Day 2 restart.
This is a best stack forward tournament, meaning we don’t discriminate when accepting additional entries. Feel free to join as many times as you’d like, in as many flights, regardless of how well you do or don’t do.
Additional Day 2 bags earn a Day 2 min-cash for each stack removed from play.
Keep it here for all the action throughout all 10 flights in this event.
There’s just shy of 30 minutes remaining in registration for Flight E – Flight F begins at 4 pm – but E has registration through the break to close at 4:15 pm.
1-in-8 entries cash today and in each opening flight, the final 8 percent Bag-n-Tag.
Truong Huynh jams preflop to push four players off a hand, and he’s back in action the next hand, calling from the sb a 2,500 preflop UTG bet from Kenneth Detina, with Michael Crow also coming along.
The flop goes , Detina makes it 3,000, Huynh check-raises to 10,000, Crow check-folds and Detina pauses, then calls.
Turn is to complete a potential flush, Huynh jams and Detina flips out a chip to call with nearly-identical stacks.
Huynh holds visible but does not expose his second card for a bit of time, slowroll-peeling back for top pair and a flush draw
Detina quickly shows for a bigger pair and a better flush draw
River and the stacks count down.
Detina is at 51,400, Huynh is at about 1,800 shy and the stack ships across.
Poker Live Updates Founder Dan Ross with Chef Tiffany Derry at Roots Southern Table
Bag up and have a day off in the Dallas/Fort Worth area during the tournament series? Well here are some suggestions for you to enjoy that day off in the surrounding areas of TCH Dallas and Las Colinas. Your first and closest option would be the downtown Dallas area. A good first stop would be the observation deck atop Reunion Tower to get an overview of the city before you explore (there is a restaurant and bar at the top as well).
The Sixth Floor Museum chronicles the infamous assassination of President John F. Kennedy from the room where it happened. It chronicles his presidency, the assassination on that fateful November day, and the myriad conspiracy theories surrounding the event. You can also wander the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza after the museum visit. If you want some other museum options that touch on lighter material then the best stops would be the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, and Crow Collection.
If fine dining is your thing, then look no further than the restaurant at the Mansion on Turtle Creek, which is famous for its tortilla soup and lobster tacos.
The #FunTour2Point0 crew also highly recommends Roots Southern Table brought to you by chef Tiffany Derry. The duck fat fried chicken, crab fried rice, and the most interesting take on shrimp and grits we’ve ever seen were all fantastic, and the service was second to none as well, be sure to ask for Keanon to serve you. If you want some nightlife options in Dallas after dinner head towards the West End Historic District and Deep Ellum neighborhood.
If you have the time, a drive over to Fort Worth is well worth a day-trip if you want to take in the cowboy culture that made Texas famous. The sister city of Dallas used to be an epicenter of the cattle drives that have been featured in books and television shows like Lonesome Dove and 1883. The Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District still has daily cattle drives that come down the middle of the street.
And if the timing aligns you can catch a Texas Rangers or Dallas Cowboys game over at their massive stadiums in Arlington. Daily tours of both modern coliseums are available as well when the teams are on the road. Enjoy your bag up and chill day off, and we will see you back at the PokerAtlas Tour stop in Dallas when you’re done relaxing maxing and ready for more poker.
Flight E Level 7 – Ante 800 . Blinds 400.800 . Entries 133
There’s still two hours remaining in registration for Flight E and the field is now at more than 130 entries.
With a quick look up at the Chip Counts tab – where full-field counts and all recorded bustouts live – we see Gerald Irvin has soared past the 200k ceiling, landing at 223,600 as flight chipleader.
Following Irvin up Chipcount Mountain is Six Smith (173,300), Matthew Newcombe (155.900), Pedro Herrera (141,800) and Emmanuel Ignacio (126,100), making up the top-five stacks in the room.
David Shaw – No. 2 in chips on first break, is having a Master Blaster roller-coaster of a morning and afternoon, currently on page 2 of the Leaderboard.
We’re enjoying the climate-controlled atmosphere of TCH Dallas on this fine Friday afternoon, and also gathering images of a few of the folk with a stack in play in each of the 10 starting flights of our $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event.
Please refer to the Photos tab for images from today and earlier in the event.
Seen in poker tournaments across the globe, and hailing from right down the road in Irving, Matt Bond is one of the latest to drop in at TCH Dallas and enter the $1.5 Milly GTD $1k Title Event.
With more than $2 million in career tournament winnings, Bond is frequently running deep in major events.
Among his most recent 6-figure scores is a victory in a PokerGo High Roller for $153,000 and a $115,000 score in Houston a little more than a year ago.
Among the most recent to join the Flight E field is Bradley Beetz, David Cadaoas, Jeffrey Lo, Nicholas Rivas, Cord Garcia, TJ Cloutier, Luis Angel, Arnold Block, Eunice Chung, Danny Croy, Khoueng Souvoravong, Aaron Hohenstein and Philip Wylie.
Flight E Level 4 . Ante 400 . Blinds 200.400 . Entries 96
Christian Ramirez opens for 1,000 and action folds to Michael Burns in the sb who comes along, while Noah Sandler releases his bb and we’re two to a flop.
The dealer backflips and both players check. The turn is , Burns leads for 1,200 and Ramirez joins.
River , 3,200 more from Brown and Ramirez gives up his pursuit.
Flight E Level 4 . Ante 400 . Blinds 200.400 . Entries 94
Players are back from their first registration-era break, the scoreboard showing 94 entries now, and the Chip Counts tab showing Emmanuel Ignacio and David Shaw as the first two players to buts through the 100,000-chip ceiling.
Ignacio (115,200) and Shaw (102,000) lead a pack including Kelli Herd (97,600), Christopher Akin (84,200) and Matthew Newcombe (82,500) making up the top five stacks in the room.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for full-field chipcounts through three levels of competition.
Among the recent arrivals placing a 40,000 stack in play for Flight E is James Carroll, Matthew Newcombe, Denise Whitson, Trevor Parks, Eric Bray, Hung Pham, Theresa Moniger, David Shaw, Dwayne Evans, Victoria Stuart, Mark Wong, Thomas Neville and Bryan Rice.
Flight E Level 2 . Ante 200 . Blinds 100.200 . Entries 55
The first 30-minute registration-era level is complete and the scoreboard shows 55 entries for the fifth of 10 flights in the $1.5 Milly GTD $1k PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event.
Levels remain at 30-minute increments until registration closes at 4:15 pm when Level 10 begins and the lengths move to 40-minutes the remainder of the tournament.
We have a 4 pm flight today, with two more opening-flights Saturday AND Sunday – 11am and 4pm
The highlight of the 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas is now – four flights down and two more today in the 10-flight $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event.
There’s two flights daily – at 11 am and 4 pm today, Saturday AND SUNDAY, offering 10 total starting flights. Day 2 is on Monday because that’s the Labor Day holiday, and the final table livestream takes place Tuesday.
Players open competition in this Best Stack Forward tournament with 40,000 stacks, playing 30-minute levels while registration is open, 40-minute levels when level 10 begins and registration closes, and moving to hour-levels on Day 2 when Level 19 begins.
Opening flights play until the money bubble pops, paying 1-in-8 entries. Play continues until the final 8 percent of each flight Bag-n-Tag, advancing to Monday’s Day 2 Restart at 2 pm.
Day 2 plays down to the final table, that action begins Tuesday at 6 pm.
Satellites
You can win your way in to the Title Event through one of MANY TCH Dallas $150 satellites, and here’s the remaining schedule of $150’s.
There’s 2 pm satellites today and Saturday at TCH Las Colinas
It is now 3 am and the Blog night comes to a close with 10 players remaining, two away from the end-of-play and establishment of the eight Day 2 Qualifiers.
Please return to the Flight D blog after sunrise for the final numbers for this flight.
We return at 11 am for Flight E. Drive safe, remember to tip your dealer on your way out.
James Thompson gets his short stack into the middle preflop with pocket jacks against chip leader Kamoru Yusuf’s pocket treys. He’s poised for a double through the ten-high runout, but a three lands on the river to spell the end of his night in 11th place.
With the pot, Yusuf is now the first player in Flight D to reach a milly a milly a milly.
Kamoru Yusuf – 1,100,000
James Thompson – Eliminated in 11th place ($1,550)
A pair of Daniels — Cai and Baik — have taken 13th and 12th place respectively in the moments following Rebecca Merkin’s elimination. Both receive $1,400 for their efforts.
With 11 remaining, the next three eliminations will each earn $1,550, and we’ll reach the celebratory bag-n-tag when eight players remain.
Dani Dayan limps in from the lojack and Rebecca Merkin shoves all in for 39,000 on the button. Stuart Wilkinson calls in the big blind and Dayan calls as well, creating an empty side pot for all future action.
The flop lands and Wilkinson checks to Dayan, who bets 120,000.
“How much do you have behind?” asks Wilkinson. Dayan reveals 116,000 behind and Wilkinson thinks for a few moments before raising to put Dayan all in. She wastes no time calling.
Merkin:
Dayan:
Wilkinson:
Dayan’s top two pair is way ahead, leaving only a ten or running cards to spoil her knockout and scoop. Her hand remains best through the runout.
Dani Dayan – 585,000
Stuart Wilkinson – 300,000
Rebecca Merkin – Eliminated in 14th place ($1,400)
Phu Vo opens to 15,000 in the cutoff and Stuart Wilkinson calls on the button. Daniel Baik calls in the small blind and William Smith three-bet shoves for 111,000 in the big blind. Only Wilkinson calls.
Smith:
Wilkinson:
Nothing changes on a runout of and Wilkinson holds to eliminate Smith in 15th place. All remaining players are now in the money and guaranteed at least $1,400.
The clock is back to running, and we march on until eight remain.
Stuart Wilkinson – 735,000
Phu Vo – 188,000
Daniel Baik – 126,000
William Smith – Eliminated
The final 15 players in Flight D return from their fifth break of the night, still on the money bubble. One more elimination is needed before everyone locks up at least $1,400.
Kamoru Yusuf leads the field from break with 822,000. The top five also include Stuart Wilkinson (445,000), Jessica Richards (409,000), Ross Fernandez (358,000) and Ryane Nhan (344,000).
Check out the Chip Counts tab above for full counts from the field.
Ray Henson stands up to engage with a few players at the other table and give his ears a break from the constant table talk of Eden Michaeli on his direct right. Moments later, Michaeli is all in and all out, his no good on the board against Kamoru Yusuf’s .
Yusuf fills in the details, saying he raised to 15,000 under the gun and got three calls, one from Ross Fernandez in the big blind and another from Michaeli UTG+1.
Once Fernandez checked, Yusuf checked as well. Michaeli bet 18,000, Fernandez called, and Yusuf check-raised to 60,000. Michaeli came over the top for around 200k and Yusuf happily called with the best hand, which held to take Michaeli’s remaining stack..
Another elimination ensues moments later, and we’re down to 15 with hand-for-hand play now in effect on the direct bubble. Bless your heart, Ray Henson. And your ears.
Kamoru Yusuf – 860,000
Ross Fernandez – 222,000
Ray Henson – 215,000
Eden Michaeli – Eliminated
From a starting field of 130 entries, and from a flight that began 13.5 hours ago with a unimaginable 62 bubble hands included, Flight C of our $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event comes to a close with 10 players advancing to Monday’s Day 2 Labor Day Restart at 2 pm.
Trung Pham (1,100,000) tops the field.
Here’s the players who earned a Day 1 tournament cash by finishing in 11-18th palce but did not score a coveted day2Bag.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for all 10 Day 2 Qualifiers and their respective stacks.
The board reads with three players holding cards. Eden Michaeli bets 25,000 in the big blind and Wilbern Hoffman shoves for 139,500 under the gun. Ryane Nhan calls for the majority of his stack and sends Michaeli into the tank for a while before folding.
Hoffman:
Nhan:
Nhan sees his aces are behind, with Hoffman needing to fade an ace, ten or spade to stay alive. The dealer does not comply, bringing the to finish the runout and give Nhan the nut flush. He slams the felt in celebration, while Hoffman exclaims in the opposite manner before making his way from the tournament area.
Brendan Eline open-jams for 175,000 UTG+1 and Eric Graziano calls all in for 120,000 in the cutoff.
Eline shows and sees Graziano pip him with .
The uneventful runout leaves Graziano on top for the easy double, taking him up to 170,000 while Eline is left on fumes with 50k.
Flight C now has 16 players remaining as play has taken us into Level 20 with increased blinds of 10k-15k and a 15k ante. We’ll be back shortly with final flight results, including in-the-money finishers and Day 2 baggers.
Level 19, 6:00 left . Ante 12k . Blinds 6k.12k . Entries 17.130
Nikola Mircetic wanders off into the sunset, or moonlight as the case may be, who is the one soul unable to survive 62 hands on the Flight C money bubble and earn a cash.
Mircetic the Merciful ends the 2 hours, 35 minutes of bubble action by being eliminated in 18th place, sending 17 into the money, playing until 10 remain.
Action folds to Jeffrey Early in the cutoff, who commits his last 60,000. Mo Arani calls on the button and the players table their hands once play finishes on the adjacent table.
Early:
Arani:
The board runs out and Early fades running hearts to stay alive. The bubble continues after 61 hands of hand-for-hand play.
Ravee “Sonny” Sundara puts his last 18,000 into the middle under the gun and Daniel Baik calls in the lojack. All remaining players fold.
“Is my queen live?” asks Sundara as he shows .
‘Uh, yeah” responds Baik, tabling .
The board runs out and the dealer pushes Baik the pot. The table wishes Sundara a good game as he pauses, realizing the runout was not what he thought.
“I thought I had a flush!” says Sundara with a laugh before making his way from the table.
“There’s a $5-$10 PLO game at Las Colinas,” says Baik. “I’ll join you in shortly.”
“GG Sonny,” adds tablemate Jessica Richards. “Go get ’em, plair.”
A total 46 hands ago, 2 full hours ago, 18 friendly-looking souls began an adventure, an adventure into the depths of Bubbleville that no one could imagine.
Time ceased to matter, hands mattered even less, maybe it was the aroma of Mr. Brisket pulling up outside. Whatever the case, these fine folk are now on milk cartons across the state, infamously listed as the Texas Bubble 18.
Returning from a break to begin play one single, solitary hand from the All-Time PokerAtlas Tour record for number of hands on a bubble – already in possession of total time played on the bubble by almost 30 minutes, we present to you the Texas Bubble 18.
Please refer to the Chip Counts Tab for updated counts on the TB18 and all recorded bustouts, the last one just after 9 pm.
Some people started folding and stalling, not knowing why they were.
And, they’ll continue forever, just because
This is the bubble that never ends…
That’s 5 hands down, 10 hands down, 15 hands down, 20 hands down, 30 hands down and now FORTY hands played on the money bubble, and they are STILL playing in Flight C of the $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,o00 Title Event
Jason Bullock open-jams under the gun for 198,000 and action folds to Eduardo Cuaderes in the big blind, who calls.
Bullock shows and Cuaderes tables .
The race is over after the flop on a runout of , causing a raucous from the table due to Bullock’s flopped quads. We are now approaching hand number 40 of hand-for-hand play.
Jason Bullock – 411,000
Eduardo Cuaderes – 375,000
An early-position player limps and Jose Montes jams for 76,000 in the cutoff. Brian Green calls in the small blind and the original limper folds.
Montes:
Green:
Montes needs to improve to win the coin flip and fade becoming the Flight C Bubble Boy. The flop keeps him behind, but the lands on the turn. The river comes the and Montes wins the pot with jacks up, scoring the double on the final hand of the level.
Flight D Level 11 . Ante 2k . Blinds 1k.2k . Entries 37,105
Matthew Newcombe opens for 5,000, Kamoru Yusuf joins, then Eden Michaeli rather colorfully, excitedly, announces a raise to 30,000 while rapidly sliding his cards back-and-forth across the felt as though he’s trying to rub the face off of them – or light a fire.
The blinds fold, Newcombe moves in to 48,000, Yusuf shrugs and mucks, Michaeli calls while announcing he’s ahead.
Newcombe shows
Michaeli shows and rapidly changes his tune about his hand advantage
“Ace,” calls Michaeli, the dealer fans
“Ace,” calls Michaeli, the dealer offers
“Ace on the river,” Michaeli quotes Barry Greenstein, the dealer offers
Action is heads up on a completed board of , and Mo Arani checks from the big blind to put action onto the UTG+2 Trung Pham. Pham slides out a bet of 110,000 and Arani thinks for a bit before check-jamming.
Pham requests a count, and it’s totaled to 339,000. He goes into the tank and eventually puts out chips to call.
Arani tables for a flush, and it’s good against Pham’s . He earns the double and vaults to the top of the counts in the process.
Registration is closed in Flight D of the $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event, and the scoreboard shows 105 entries.
The players contribute $93,4500 to the prize pool. The combined field is unofficially at 431 entries and the prize pool, unofficially, is slightly more than $380,000
Play continues tonight until the final eight players Bag-a-Stack, both making the money and also advancing to Monday’s 2 pm Day 2 restart.
Players finishing tonight in 9-14th place all earn a Day 1 tournament cash but do not advance to Day 2. Players finishing in 9-11th cash for $1,500, while 12-14th cash for $1,400.
All players – whether in possession of a Day2Bag, a Day 1 Cash or eliminated before the money – are eligible to play all 10 Title Event flights, for the PokerAtlas Tour is a Best Stack Forward tour. Bag more than one stack and the BigStack goes in play Monday, while the smaller bag(s) cash out as a Day 2 mincash.
Flight D – Level 10 . Ante 1500 . Blinds 1k.1500 . Entries 105
Players in Flight D of the 10-flight Title Event return from break, and the industry-leading, innovative PokerAtlas system identifies Douglas Driess and his 220,000 betting units as leader of this pack.
Charging fast from behind is a group including Daniel Baik (202,000), Ross Fernandez (199,000), Daniel Cai (175,000) and Gary Sixkiller (160,000)
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for full-field chipcounts in this 105-entry field.
TD Kerry Burger pauses the play clock early in Level 16, peeling two minutes per hand until there’s one additional elimination, moving 17 into the money in Flight C, coming to a stop when down to 10.
Players return from their fifth break of Flight C in the PokerAtlas Tour $1.5 Million Guaranteed Title Event with the scoreboard showing 20 remaining players from a field of 130.
In the last three hours, Trung Pham took his stack from 117K to 561K, putting him atop the counts. Mo Arani (409,000), Mark Dunavin (387,000), Trevor Argue (369,000), and Eduardo Cuaderes (365,000) all have above tree fiddy.
Complete counts can be found in the Chip Counts tab above.
Facing three limps, Dani Dayan jams all in for 25,000 from the big blind. The first limper calls from the lojack and both other players get out of the way.
Dayan:
Hijack:
Dayan connects on the flop of a runout and earns the easy double with her top pair.
“You called me with ace-nine. That’s like a f-you-I-don’t-respect-you call,” says as she collects her chips.
Flight D – Level 8 . Ante 1k . Blinds 500.1k . Entries 98
Once upon a time, there was a PokerAtlas Tour Series in Houston, at TCH Houston, in fact, and it was the first PokerAtlas Tour series ever held, its inaugural series.
Kamoru Yusuf played heads-up against Praise Ogwo for the title, Yussuf earning $64,690 as runner-up in the Title Event.
Yusuf has an 80,000 stack today late in Level 8 in Flight D.
Flight D of the PokerAtlas Tour $1.5 Million Guaranteed Title Event at TCH Dallas has returned from its second break with 61 players in the field from a total of 93 entries and counting. Registration will remain open for three more levels, closing before the beginning of Level 10 at around 9:15 p.m.
Eden Michaeli holds a commanding chip lead with 233,700, nearly double Alem Girma’s 138,000 second-place stack. Ravee Sundara (125,300), Ross Fernandez (115,700) and Ryan Lincks (112,000) round out the top five.
Cord Garcia raises under the gun and action folds to Christopher Akin three-bets to 20,000 on the button. The big blind calls and Garcia slides out a four-bet of 159,000. Akin thinks for a bit and announces he’s all in, prompting a quick fold from the big blind before Garcia calls off the rest.
Akin shows and is flipping against Garcia’s for his stack of 204,000.
The runout comes clean and Akin earns the double, leaving Garcia with about 70,000 for a quick second. Moments later, someone else is in Garcia’s seat as the field reaches 27 with three full tables in play.
Christopher Akin – 431,000
Cord Garcia – Eliminated
Jared Ingles has been active during the inaugural PokerAtlas Tour, having recorded three in-the-money finishes since the series began. He made the final two tables of the opening $500 Dallas Duel $1M Guaranteed event, earning $7,840, and has also cashed in Event #5 ($500 PLO) and Event #9 ($600 Mystery Payday).
Ingles started the year hot with two second-place finishes in Colorado and Iowa, both good for six-figure scores. He’s slightly above the starting stack through four levels of play, sitting on the direct right of Event #2 winner David Shaw. Shaw has 84,000.
Thirty-six players return from the fourth break in Flight C of the PokerAtlas Tour $1.5 Million Guaranteed Title Event at TCH Dallas.
JB O’Daniel vaults to the top of the counts, ballooning up to 450,000, well ahead of the next closest competitor in Trevor Argue (351,000). Eleven players have 200K or more, with Tony Love (261,500), Joshua Marzioli (259,000) and Christopher Akin (255,000) completing the top five.
The bubble will burst when 17 players remain, and the top 10 will advance to Monday’s Day 2.
Players return from their first break for the beginning of Level 4. Eden Michaeli leads the field with 148,000, more than three-and-a-half starting stacks after 90 minutes of play.
Ryan Lincks (122,300) and Alem Girma (101,500) also have six-figure stacks. Srikanth Cholleti (87,600) and Shanmukh Madhavarapu (87,400) round out the top five.
Registration remains open until the start of Level 10 at around 9:15 tonight.
There’s a raise to 4,000 UTG+1 and Jose Montes calls in the cutoff. The player on the button three-bet jams for 51,000 and action quickly folds back to Montes, who asks for a count. He wastes no time calling upon hearing the total, and the two are off to the races.
All-In Player:
Montes:
The runout comes — Montes finds himself picking up queens to sweat after the flop. Hearts join him after the turn, but the deuce of spades comes safely to earn him the knockout.
Three players go to a flop of and Thomas Curci checks from the big blind. Victoria Vandigriff checks under the gun and Chen Yang bets 1,500 in the cutoff. Both players call.
The turn brings the and Curci checks again. Vandigriff bets 3,500 and receives two calls, taking all three players to the board-completing . Curci checks again and Vandigriff fires 5,600 into the middle. Yang quickly folds and Curci remarks to Vandigriff with a chuckle as he follows suit.
After winning, Vandigriff shows that she turned the nuts with and the pot is shipped her way.
Among the first to place a 40,000 Title Event stack in action for tonight’s Flight D is Jason Fitzpatrick, Marquis McCain, Bradley Beetz, Nathan Kewney, Chen Yang, Rebecca Merkin, Gary Sixkiller, David Coker and Douglas Drees
Tiep Bui’s name can be found atop the list for all-time cashes at TCH Dallas, having made the money in 12 events dating back to 2021. He’s also eighth on the venue’s lifetime tournament earnings leaderboard with more than $131,000.
Bui won $72,330 of that in May 2022 when he took down the $600 buy-in $250K guaranteed Payday Event. He’s since hit a few scores north of $5K and can do even more damage with a deep run in the PokerAtlas Tour $1.5 Million Guaranteed Title Event.
Bui sat just outside the top five in stacks on the last break but saw his count drop during Level 10. He currently sits at around 75,000 early in Level 11.
Flight D Level 2 . Ante 200 . Blinds 100.200 . Entries 44
The first 30-minute registration-era level is complete and the scoreboard shows 44 entries for the first of 10 flights in the $1.5 Milly GTD $1k PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event.
Levels remain at 30-minute increments until registration closes at 9:15 pm when Level 10 begins and the lengths move to 40-minutes the remainder of the tournament.
Two more opening-flights tomorrow, Saturday AND Sunday – 11am and 4pm
Registration is closed in Flight C of the $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event, and the scoreboard shows 130 entries.
The players contribute $115,700 to the prize pool. The combined field is at 326 entries and the prize pool, unofficially, is just shy of $300,000
Play continues tonight until the final 10 players Bag-a-Stack, both making the money and also advancing to Monday’s 2 pm Day 2 restart.
Players finishing tonight in 11-17th place all earn a Day 1 tournament cash but do not advance to Day 2. Players finishing in 11-13th cash for $1,500, while 14-17th cash for $1,400.
All players – whether in possession of a Day2Bag, a Day 1 Cash or eliminated before the money – are eligible to play all 10 Title Event flights, for the PokerAtlas Tour is a Best Stack Forward tour. Bag more than one stack and the BigStack goes in play Monday, while the smaller bag(s) cash out as a Day 2 mincash.
The fourth flight has begun for the PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Series – $1,500,000 Guarantee $1,000 Title Event at TCH Dallas.
Blinds begin at 100-200 with 40,000 starting stacks. The first nine levels last 30 minutes apiece with breaks after 90 minutes of play with registration and unlimited re-entries through the end of the third break. Registration closes at 9:15 p.m. at the start of Level 10, with blinds bumping up to 40 minutes in length at that time.
One-in-eight players will make it into the money tonight, with play continuing until 8% of the starting field remains. Those who make it to the celebratory bag-n-tag will get to return for Monday’s 2 p.m. Day 2 restart.
This is a best stack forward tournament, meaning we don’t discriminate when accepting additional entries. Feel free to join as many times as you’d like, in as many flights, regardless of how well you do or don’t do. Additional Day 2 bags earn a Day 2 min-cash for each stack removed from play.
Keep it here for all the action throughout all 10 flights in this event.
We’re only into the third of 10 starting flights for the PokerAtlas Tour $1.5 Million Title Event. The fourth flight is set to begin with outside temperature reading a balmy 99, and field sizes are larger than yesterday’s first two flights.
So are today’s satellites, which provide an opportunity to jump into the $1,000 buy-in Title Event at a discount. Satellites are $150 and award one seat for every eight players.
The 2 p.m. satellite has 20 minutes remaining in late registration, closing at 4:30. It currently has an even 100 entries and will award at least 12 seats to the Title Event. This morning’s 9 a.m. event drew 88 entries and gave away 11 seats.
We’ve got you covered with a third satellite later tonight, starting at 9 p.m. Registration closes at 11:30.
Friday and Saturday will run satellites at 2 p.m. and 9 p.m., too. Giddy up.
Three players get stacks in on a flop of after Justin Allen calls all-in bets from Eduardo Cuaderes and Rees Scruggs.
Cuaderes shows as the shortest stack, 29,800. His two pair is behind Scruggs’ top two pair with , and Allen’s needs an ace or queen for the double knockout.
“I was worried about that,” Cuaderes tells Scruggs. The turn changes nothing, and Scruggs calls for a five. Unfortunately for him, the lands on the river and improves Cuaderes to a full house, tens full of jacks.
“Ten!” remarks Cuaderes while hitting the felt with a fist. “Got it!”
Scruggs takes the side pot, while Allen is left with crumbs that are dusted off moments later. Meanwhile, Event #20 runner-up Cord Garcia takes a seat at the table and will look to find a one-bullet bag as the day continues.
Flight C – Level 7 . Ante 800 . Blinds 400.800 . Entries – 74/108
Flight C is over 100 entries as players return from their second break of the afternoon, and registration remains open until the beginning of Level 10 at 4:15 p.m.
David Peters leads the field with 153,200, tripling his stack over the last 90 minutes of play. Stuart Wilkerson (130,900), Joshua Marzioli (124,000), Jason Bullock (123,600) and Jacob Phillips (122,500) round out the top five.
A full list of players can be found on the Chip Counts tab.
Poker Live Updates Founder Dan Ross with Chef Tiffany Derry at Roots Southern Table
Bag up and have a day off in the Dallas/Fort Worth area during the tournament series? Well here are some suggestions for you to enjoy that day off in the surrounding areas of TCH Dallas and Las Colinas. Your first and closest option would be the downtown Dallas area. A good first stop would be the observation deck atop Reunion Tower to get an overview of the city before you explore (there is a restaurant and bar at the top as well).
The Sixth Floor Museum chronicles the infamous assassination of President John F. Kennedy from the room where it happened. It chronicles his presidency, the assassination on that fateful November day, and the myriad conspiracy theories surrounding the event. You can also wander the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza after the museum visit. If you want some other museum options that touch on lighter material then the best stops would be the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, and Crow Collection.
If fine dining is your thing, then look no further than the restaurant at the Mansion on Turtle Creek, which is famous for its tortilla soup and lobster tacos.
The #FunTour2Point0 crew also highly recommends Roots Southern Table brought to you by chef Tiffany Derry. The duck fat fried chicken, crab fried rice, and the most interesting take on shrimp and grits we’ve ever seen were all fantastic, and the service was second to none as well, be sure to ask for Keanon to serve you. If you want some nightlife options in Dallas after dinner head towards the West End Historic District and Deep Ellum neighborhood.
If you have the time, a drive over to Fort Worth is well worth a day-trip if you want to take in the cowboy culture that made Texas famous. The sister city of Dallas used to be an epicenter of the cattle drives that have been featured in books and television shows like Lonesome Dove and 1883. The Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District still has daily cattle drives that come down the middle of the street.
And if the timing aligns you can catch a Texas Rangers or Dallas Cowboys game over at their massive stadiums in Arlington. Daily tours of both modern coliseums are available as well when the teams are on the road. Enjoy your bag up and chill day off, and we will see you back at the PokerAtlas Tour stop in Dallas when you’re done relaxing maxing and ready for more poker.
Players in Flight C are back from first break and Rudolph Johnson – as he did a few times yesterday – sits atop the chipcounts.
Johnson (109,300) leads a pack including JB O’Daniel (107,300) Eric Graziano (104,200) Joshua Marzioli (95,700) and Jason Bullock (90,500) making up the top-five stacks in the room.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for full-field counts and all recorded eliminations.
New arrivals for Flight C of the $1.5 Milly GTD $1k Title Event include Kamoru Yusuf (more on him in a bit), Brian Green, Brant Jolly, Garrett Jones, Alan Cummins, Bradley Coultas, Stuart Wilkinson, Jeffrey Early, Nikola Mircetic, Daniel Saad, Yimi Soto, Mark Toulouse, and Arkaduisz Podsiadlo
Among the first to place a 40,000 betting-unit stack in play for Flight C is Ali Bahrami, Dora Coyle, Gil George, Rudolph Johnson, Gerald Henderson, Joel Woods, Trevor Argue and Herbert Montalbado.
Nice start to the day, with 22 seated when cards started being pitched, up to 53 now and expected to to 100 by end-of-reg at 4:15 pm
The first 30-minute registration-era level is complete and the scoreboard shows 49 entries for the first of 10 flights in the $1.5 Milly GTD $1k PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event.
Levels remain at 30-minute increments until registration closes at 4:15 pm when Level 10 begins and the lengths move to 40-minutes the remainder of the tournament.
Flight D begins today at 4 pm, registration until 9:15 pm
The highlight of the 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas is now – two flights down and two more today in the opening two flights of the $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event.
There’s two flights daily – at 11 am and 4 pm through the weekend. That’s right, y’all, opening flights on SUNDAY also, offering 10 total starting flights. Day 2 is on Monday because that’s the Labor Day holiday, and the final table livestream takes place Tuesday.
Players open competition in this Best Stack Forward tournament with 40,000 stacks, playing 30-minute levels while registration is open, 40-minute levels when level 10 begins and registration closes, and moving to hour-levels on Day 2 when Level 19 begins.
Opening flights play until the money bubble pops, paying 1-in-8 entries. Play continues until the final 8 percent of each flight Bag-n-Tag, advancing to Monday’s Day 2 Restart at 2 pm.
Day 2 plays down to the final table, that action begins Tuesday at 4 pm.
Satellites
You can win your way in to the Title Event through one of MANY TCH Dallas $150 satellites, and here’s the remaining schedule of $150’s.
Level 18, 39:29 Left . Ante 10k . Blinds 5k.10k . Entries 8.97
Kris Burchfield krushes the final levels of Flight B, not only bagging 3x his nearest competitor, but he posts a number that shall be exceptionally difficult to match as the Title Event moves along.
Are you sitting down, y’all?
Burchfield bags 1,641,000 – simply a Master Blasterful performance.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for all eight Day 2 Qualifiers and their respective stacks.
Floor staff pause the play clock midway through Level 15 with 14 competitors engaged in chip battle, awaiting one additional removal before 13 cash and the final 8 bag-up for the night.
Welcome, to the bubble.
We’ll return soon with the final Day 1 payouts and the Day 2 qualifiers.
Flight B Level 13 . Ante 3k . Blinds 1500.3k . Entries 23.97
Three’s likely only one more 15-minute break coming before Flight B closes for the night at 8 players moving on.
Just back from break, we see Ying Xiong as flight leader with a 472,500 stack, followed by Terry Morales (412,500), Jason Fitzpatrick (406,500), Jacob Allen (303,000) and Amir Alpert (266,000) as the top-five stacks in the room.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for full-field counts.
Flight A – Level 17 . Ante 8k . Blinds 4k.8k . Entries 8.99
Play in the inaugural flight of the inaugural PokerAtlas Tour Dallas series Title Event comes to a close with eight players moving on to Monday’s Day 2 Restart at 2 pm.
Joshua Mountain owned this flight, leading from 2nd break on to its conclusion, bagging a monster 1,173,000 stack.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab to see all eight players and their official Day 2 Bags.
Flight A – Level 17 . Ante 8k . Blinds 4k.8k . Entries 8.99
Here’s the players earning a Day 1 Tournament cash by finishing in 9-13th place in Flight A of the $1.5 Million Guaranteed 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas $1,000 Title Event.
Registration is closed in Flight A of the $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event, and the scoreboard shows 97 entries.
The players contribute $86,330 to the prize pool.
Play continues tonight until the final eight players Bag-a-Stack, both making the money and also advancing to Monday’s 2 pm Day 2 restart.
Players finishing tonight in 9-13th place all earn a Day 1 tournament cash but do not advance to Day 2. Players finishing in 9-10th cash for $1,500, while 11-3th cash for $1,400.
All players – whether in possession of a Day2Bag, a Day 1 Cash or eliminated before the money – are eligible to play all 10 Title Event flights, for the PokerAtlas Tour is a Best Stack Forward tour. Bag more than one stack and the BigStack goes in play Monday, while the smaller bag(s) cash out as a Day 2 mincash.
Flight B – Level 10 . Ante 1500 . Blinds 1k.1500 . Entries – 97
Flight B is at 97 entries as registration closes and cards go back in the air. This flight’s players are back from break, so let’s take pause and observe the full-filed chip counts under the Chip Counts tab above.
Jacob Allen (285,000) is the leader, with Aakash Karki (252,000) Paul Saranec (168,000) Amir Alpert (159,000) and Jack Peterson (155,500) making up the top five in the room.
Flight A Level 16 . Ante 6k . Blinds 3k.6k . Entries 14.99
Kerry Burger pauses the play clock with 27:23 remaining in Level 16 with 14 players left in Flight A, peeling tow minutes per hand from the clock until one finds a Jackrabbit Hazy IPA Railbird and 13 make the money.
There’s 10 total starting flights in our $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event taking place at TCH Dallas.
There’s 11 am and 4 pm through the weekend. That’s right, y’all, opening flights on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and SUNDAY also. Day 2 is on Monday because that’s the Labor Day holiday, and the final table livestream takes place Tuesday.
Players open competition in this Best Stack Forward tournament with 40,000 stacks, playing 30-minute levels while registration is open, 40-minute levels when level 10 begins and registration closes, and moving to hour-levels on Day 2 when Level 19 begins. How’s THAT for a BIG $1k structure.
Opening flights play until the money bubble pops, paying 1-in-8 entries. Play continues until the final 8 percent of each flight Bag-n-Tag, advancing to Monday’s Day 2 Restart at 2 pm.
Day 2 plays down to the final table, that action begins Tuesday at 6 pm.
Satellites
You can win your way in to the Title Event through one of MANY TCH Dallas $150 satellites, and here’s the remaining schedule of $150’s.
Flight B – Level 7 . Ante 800 . Blinds 400.800 . Entries – 78
Flight B is up to 78 entries – that’s 177 total for 2 flights with registration open for another 90 minutes. This flight’s players are back from break, so let’s take pause and observe the full-filed chip counts under the Chip Counts tab above.
Ruben Galvan (171,000) is the leader, with Aakash Karki (165,500) Keyavash Hemyari (120,000) Terry Morales (111,500) and Gary Sixkiller (103,300) making up the top five in the room.
Flight A Level 14 . Ante 4k . Blinds 2k.4k . Entries 19,.99
One hand after betting big preflop from the bb to snag an uncontested pot, Jafar Kamarei opens preflop from the sb for a 500-chip shy of 4x and DJ Alexander pauses for a bit before calling from the bb.
Both players check the flop, Kamarei goes 10,000 on the turn with Alexander check-calling.
River is and Kamarei makes it 18,000 to go.
Alexander pauses, contemplates, and calls.
Kamarei shows for Ace-high
Alexander chuckles as he shows for the chop and the players rake back their own bets to add to their stacks of 177,000 for Alexander, 108.000 for Kamarei.
Flight A . Level 14 . Ante 4k . Blinds 2k.4k . Entries 20.99
Flight B . Level 6 . Ante 600 . Blinds 300.600 . Entries 71
When you are named after the tournament – or when the tournament is named after you – well, you get your photo in the blog, that’s how we do the PokerAtlas Tour Title Event with Sherri Title here.
Please refer to the Photos tab all event long for additional images of Faces in the Crowd.
Flight B – Level 5 . Ante 500 . Blinds 300.500 . Entries 69
Jacob Allen opens by limping UTG, Kyle Birdwell raises to 1,300, Thang Hoang calls from the bb and Allen completes the action.
An action flop of sees Birdwell open the betting for 2,000, a check-call from Hoang, then Allen raises to 6,000. Birdwell senses a trap and departs, Hoang opts to see another card.
The likely-unconnected falls, Hoang checks again, Allen bets 50 percent of all his chips – 16,000 – and Hoang mucks.
Flight A – Level 13 . Ante 3k . Blinds 1500.3k . Entries 26.99
Half of the remaining field earns a cash today in the opening Title event flight. Among those 26 participants, Joshua Mountain has a substantial lead, sitting with a 405,500 betting-unit stack.
Attempting to close the gap on Mountain is Joshua Adcock, Rudolph Johnson, Sean Lee and Sai Venigalla who make up the top0-five in the event.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for full-field chip counts and eliminations.
Flight B – Level 4 . Ante 400 . Blinds 200.400 . Entries 56
Christopher Rau opens for 1,100 and his only caller is James Mattingly from the bb.
Rau makes it 2,000 on the flop, Mattingly check-calls.
Both players check the turn, Mattingly assumes the aggression and puts out a stack of all but his six 5k chips. The stack, wehen you look at it closely, is only 1,700, but it looks impressive, i mpresive enough for Rau to snap-fold.
Flight A – Level 12 . Ante 2500 . Blinds 1500.2500 . Entries 27.99
Down to 27 players – with 13 cashing and 8 bagging – in Flight A of the $1.5 Milly GTD $1k Title Event. Let’s take a look at the new table layouts as the final three tables are in action.
Flight B Level 4. Ante 400 . Blinds 200.400 . Entries 52
Coming back from first freak in tonight’s Title Event Flight B and we see two players – Terry Morales and Chase Edgar – cracking the 100k chip ceiling after just three levels of action.
Morales (104,500) and Edgar (100,300) lead a field including Mark Toulouse (73,000) Gary Sixkiller (72,500) and Kiran Suresh (62,700) making up the top five stacks in the room.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for full-field counts and all eliminations.
Flight A – Level 12 . Ante 2500 . Blinds 1500.2500 . Entries 31
Down to 31 players in the first of 10 flights, Wes Tucker, Suju Abraha, Peter Lockwood, Jose Terrones, Joshua Mountain, Rudolph Johnson and friends are aiming to be one of eight to find a coveted Day2B from this flight.
Flight A Level 10 . Ante 1500 . Blinds 1k.1500 . Entries 44.99
PokerAtlas Tour TD Justin Hammer has established the baseline payouts of $1,400 and $1,550 for each Day 1 Flight in the $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 Dallas Title Event.
For today’s Flight A, than means 9-10th place cash for $1,500, while 11-13th earn $1,400.
Day 1 tournament cash earners complete their performance with a payout and are eligible to enter as many of the remaining flights as they want, for TCH Dallas and the PokerAtlas Tour are Best Stack Forward entities.
Flight B Level 2 . Ante 200 . Blinds 100.200 . Entries 31
We are early in Level 2 for Flight B, come along with me on a leisurely saunter among the TCH Dallas tournament tables and let’s see who has a live stack in action for the Title Event.
Among those I spy with my little iPad Jordan Richard, Jack Peterson, Christopher Meza, Travis Bone, Grayson Norwood, Gary Sixkiller, Kasey Mills, Paul Sarnec and Keyavash Hemyari
Registration is closed in Flight A of the $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event, and the scoreboard shows 99 entries.
The players contribute $88,110 to the prize pool.
Play continues tonight until the final eight players Bag-a-Stack, both making the money and also advancing to Monday’s 2 pm Day 2 restart.
Players finishing tonight in 9-13th place all earn a Day 1 tournament cash but do not advance to Day 2.
All players – whether in possession of a Day2Bag, a Day 1 Cash or eliminated before the money – are eligible to play all 10 Title Event flights, for the PokerAtlas Tour is a Best Stack Forward tour. Bag more than one stack and the BigStack goes in play Monday, while the smaller bag(s) cash out as a Day 2 mincash.
Cards are about to go back in the air and registration ends when Level 10 begins in Flight A. We take a look at chipcounts on break and see Joshua Mountain atop Chipcount Mountain with a 294,000 stack.
In pursuit of Mountain are hikers Rudolph Johnson (193,500), Ahmed Nimer (173,000), Thi Nguyen (149,500), and Song Yi (133,500) making up the top five stacks in the room.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for full-field counts and all recorded eliminations.
Cards are in the air for the second of 10 flights in Event 19 of 21 of the PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Series – $1,500,000 Guarantee $1,000 Title Event at TCH Dallas.
Players begin competition with 40,000 stacks and play 30-minute levels while registration and the unlimited-entry period is open. Levels move to 40-minute increments when Level 10 begins and registration closes at 9:15 pm.
Play continues tonight until the money bubble pops with 1-in-8 entries remaining, then keeps going until down to the final 8 percent of the starting field. Everyone with a live stack when play ends all advance – in the money – to Monday’s 2 pm Labor Day restart.
This is a Best Stack Forward event, so all players can enter all flights, cash in all flights and Bag-a-Stack in all flights. Lesser stacks are removed from play on Labor Day and receive a Day 2 mincash, the BigStack continues in action.
Follow along here for all the action throughout all 10 flights in this event.
This is the final 30-minute level in Flight A of the $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas series Title Event.
Registration and the unlimited-entry period closes when this level and a 15-minute break comes to a close, levels moving to 40-minute increments at 4:15 pm when Level 10 begins, remaining at 40’s the rest of the event.
Flight B starts at 4 pm, its 30-minute registration levels available until 9:15 pm.
Rinse, repeat Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the eight remaining opening flights in the tournament. Day 2 is on Monday – labor Day – and the final table livestreams Tuesday at 6 pm.
Poker Live Updates Founder Dan Ross with Chef Tiffany Derry at Roots Southern Table
Bag up and have a day off in the Dallas/Fort Worth area during the tournament series? Well here are some suggestions for you to enjoy that day off in the surrounding areas of TCH Dallas and Las Colinas. Your first and closest option would be the downtown Dallas area. A good first stop would be the observation deck atop Reunion Tower to get an overview of the city before you explore (there is a restaurant and bar at the top as well).
The Sixth Floor Museum chronicles the infamous assassination of President John F. Kennedy from the room where it happened. It chronicles his presidency, the assassination on that fateful November day, and the myriad conspiracy theories surrounding the event. You can also wander the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza after the museum visit. If you want some other museum options that touch on lighter material then the best stops would be the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, and Crow Collection.
If fine dining is your thing, then look no further than the restaurant at the Mansion on Turtle Creek, which is famous for its tortilla soup and lobster tacos.
The #FunTour2Point0 crew also highly recommends Roots Southern Table brought to you by chef Tiffany Derry. The duck fat fried chicken, crab fried rice, and the most interesting take on shrimp and grits we’ve ever seen were all fantastic, and the service was second to none as well, be sure to ask for Keanon to serve you. If you want some nightlife options in Dallas after dinner head towards the West End Historic District and Deep Ellum neighborhood.
If you have the time, a drive over to Fort Worth is well worth a day-trip if you want to take in the cowboy culture that made Texas famous. The sister city of Dallas used to be an epicenter of the cattle drives that have been featured in books and television shows like Lonesome Dove and 1883. The Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District still has daily cattle drives that come down the middle of the street.
And if the timing aligns you can catch a Texas Rangers or Dallas Cowboys game over at their massive stadiums in Arlington. Daily tours of both modern coliseums are available as well when the teams are on the road. Enjoy your bag up and chill day off, and we will see you back at the PokerAtlas Tour stop in Dallas when you’re done relaxing maxing and ready for more poker.
Chris Pearson moves to the top of Chipcount Mountain as Flight A players take their second scheduled 15-minute break of the day in the $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event.
Pearson is at 190,200 after six 30-minute registration-era levels, followed up the mountain by Thi Nguyen (143,500), Rahul Smith (139,900), Trevor Argue (137,000) and Ahmed Nimer (120,600) making up the room’s Top-Five stacks.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab above for full-field chipcounts and all recorded bustouts, courtesy of the TCH Dallas dealers and the innovative, industry-leading PokerAtlas Table Captain system.
One hand after a limped-pot was taken down with little action over at Table 14, the friendly folk get back in play with Ahmed Nimer limping, James Oestreich completing and Ruben Galvan checking his option.
The dealer fans , Nimer bets 1,000, Oestreich check-calls and Galvan check-folds.
Turn is , Nimer makes it 2,000 and Oestreich check-folds. Like we said, it is a friendly lot over there.
Marquis McCain opens for 1,200, his next-door neighbor Reggy West snap-calls from the button, then Tony Love minraises to 2,500 from the SB. Action goes back around to McCain, who clicks back to 7,500, West departs and Love joins.
The dealer fans , McCain goes 7,500 and Love check-minclicks to 15,000. McCain picks up his remaining stack consisting of five white 5k chips, shuffles them in his hand and releases his cards.
The final day of the $100,000 Guaranteed $2,500 NLH High Roller begins at 2 pm when the final six players return to the TCH LiVE stream stage over at TCH Dallas.
Action is being recorded to play back on 30-minute delay on the YouTube channel starting tonight at 8 pm. You can catch the action right here in the blog on the NLH High Roller page see who takes home the top prize and PokerAtlas Tour trophy.
Here is a look at the official chip counts at the end of Day 1 in the High Roller event.
Seat 1: Paul Lentschke – 1,310,000
Seat 2: Jonathan Bennett – 1,020,000
Seat 5: Bradley Coultas – 220,000
Seat 6: Milton Smith – 715,000
Seat 7: Jonathan Steitz – 595,000
Seat 9: Tony Nguyen – 880,000
Players are back from first break and as we take our first look at full-field chipcounts we see Rudolph Johnson with a very fast start to his chip-building.
Johnson (158,100) leads a field including Thi Nguyen (101,300), TCH Houston’s Wes Tucker (88,400), Suju Abraham (82,200), and Rahul Smith (77,400) making up the top five stacks.
Please refer to the Chip Counts tab for all chip counts and all recorded tournament eliminations. This updates after every break.
There’s 15-minute breaks throughout opening-day play for each of the 10 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event flights, the first of those underway right now.
We’ll return with updated chipcounts for every player in the tournament, it is what we do for every player, every break, every tournament, every PokerAtlas Tour series – we are the ONLY tour to provide this depth of content to the poker community.
Among those with a live stack in action early in the inaugural level of the inaugural PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event is Michael Crow, Rahul Smith, Peter Lockwood, Tommy Duncan, Keoni Akao, James Oestreich, Reggy West, Sherri Title and Jeremy Ross.
The first 30-minute registration-era level is complete and the scoreboard shows 42 entries for the first of 10 flights in the $1.5 Milly GTD $1k PokerAtlas Tour Dallas Title Event.
Levels remain at 30-minute increments until registration closes at 4:15 pm when Level 10 begins and the lengths move to 40-minutes the remainder of the tournament.
The highlight of the 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas beings now with the opening two flights of the $1.5 Million Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event.
There’s two flights daily – at 11 am and 4 pm through the weekend. That’s right, y’all, opening flights on SUNDAY also, offering 10 total starting flights. Day 2 is on Monday because that’s the Labor Day holiday, and the final table livestream takes place Tuesday.
Players open competition in this Best Stack Forward tournament with 40,000 stacks, playing 30-minute levels while registration is open, 40-minute levels when level 10 begins and registration closes, and moving to hour-levels on Day 2 when Level 19 begins.
Opening flights play until the money bubble pops, paying 1-in-8 entries. Play continues until the final 8 percent of each flight Bag-n-Tag, advancing to Monday’s Day 2 Restart at 2 pm.
Day 2 plays down to the final table, that action begins Tuesday at 6 pm.
Satellites
You can win your way in to the Title Event through one of MANY TCH Dallas $150 satellites, and here’s the remaining schedule of $150’s.
There’s two flights daily – at 11 am and 4 pm through the weekend. That’s right, y’all, opening flights on SUNDAY also, offering 10 total starting flights. Day 2 is on Monday because that’s the Labor Day holiday, and the final table livestream takes place Tuesday.
Players open competition in this Best Stack Forward tournament with 40,000 stacks, playing 30-minute levels while registration is open, 40-minute levels when level 10 begins and registration closes, and moving to hour-levels on Day 2 when Level 19 begins.
Opening flights play until the money bubble pops, paying 1-in-8 entries. Play continues until the final 8 percent of each flight Bag-n-Tag, advancing to Monday’s Day 2 Restart at 2 pm.
Day 2 plays down to the final table, that action begins Tuesday at 6 pm.
Satellites
You can win your way in to the Title Event through one of MANY TCH Dallas $150 satellites, and here’s the remaining schedule of $150’s.
20 seats guaranteed today at 7 pm, we already had 20-seaters at 11 am and 3pm
— Garcia turns a flush draw, but the river bricks and Huynh’s ten kicker remains best to win the pot and eliminate Garcia, who becomes the runner-up of the inaugural 2023 PokerAtlas Tour Dallas series – $1,500,000 Guaranteed $1,000 Title Event.
flop.
, but the 
river gives Huynh two pair and knocks Bullock out in third place.
– Garcia picks up extra outs to a wheel on the flop before pairing his ace, which remains best through the river to eliminate Lewis from the tournament.
and both players check, thy also check the 
, Garcia showing the nut flush with his Mom and Dad of Spades, aka 
— Laieta hits his ace on the flop and looks poised to win the coin flip and double, only for a two-outer on the river to spell the end of his tournament run in seventh place.
for Schoonover
, but the 
— Frye flops a pair of nines, but Huynh pulls back in front with a pair of aces on the turn and remains there to eliminate Frye in 10th place. With his elimination, the tournament clock stops with 54:02 remaining in Level 30 for the final nine players to take part in their second celebratory bag-n-tag of the tournament.
Level 17 . Ante 8k . Blinds 4k.8k . Entries 150.1879
Level 5 . Ante 500 . Blinds 300.500 . Entries 312
