Robyn Berry outduels Jason Faircloth heads up to earn the $21,690 top prize, playing out the $50,000 Guarantee $300 Kickoff all the way to completion early Friday morning at Texas Card House Houston.
Berry is the first person to ever claim a PokerAtlas Tour title, winning the 411-entry tournament that more than doubled its guarantee, the prize pool coming in at $102,000.
The single-day event marks a very successful start for the inaugural tour event, filling every table at TCH Houston on an early Thursday evening.
Final-table action began with Berry sitting as the short-stack, here 575,000 equaling just 12 of the 250 bb in play. She slowly worked her way through the field, moving to a dominant stack 5-handed as she eliminated Niraj Kataria, holding her place atop the chip counts for most of the time until play concluded.
Faircloth was the other short stack to start final-table play, his 605,000 a slightly-better 12 bb stack. Berry and Faircloth began final-table action by combining for fewer than 10 percent of all the bb in play. Faircloth briefly had a slight chiplead heads up, with Berry leading the vast majority of their competition.
Well played, Robyn Berry, congrats on becoming the first EVER PokerAtlasTour champion. Check the Results tab to see the official results.