Starting the final table as chipleader, Emmanuel McKenzie did not give up that lead for one single hand across the six hours of play. 

"I used controlled aggression, and I pulled off some big bluffs at the right times," he said a few minutes after collecting the $87,510 first-place prize in the $500,000 Guarantee PokerAtlas Tour $600 Title Event at TCH Social Austin.

In town from Houston for this tournament, McKenzie fired twice in the same flight before finding his Day2Bag, coming into Day 2 with 343,000. He doubled that stack in the first two hours, doubling the stack again over the next two hours.

By the time the field was down to 18 - playing across two tables - it was McKenzie as chipleader - a fact that never changed.

"I have been working so hard on my game the last three years," McKenzie said as he walked off the livestream stage with the Atlas trophy in his hands. "I have been grinding away."

He plans to head off to Las Vegas tomorrow night after taking family out to dinner in Houston, playing some $1k's currently running at a variety of rooms there.

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From nine separate starting flights and eight hours of Day 2 competition, Event 10 in our 2024 PokerAtlas Tour series at TCH Social Austin - $500,000 Guarantee $600 TItle Event - is down to one single, final table of nine.

Play pauses until 6 pm Monday when final table action begins, livestreamed on a 30-minute delay (follow the livestream action tomorrow at TCHLive).

Here are your Final Table Nine in seat-position order for when Monday's cards start being pitched.

1. Emmanuel McKenzie (pictured) - 7,800,000 (78 bb)
   2. Elan Lepovic - 2,425,000  (24 bb)
   3. William Smith - 5,450,000 (54 bb)
   4. Chris Beavers - 4,150,000 (42 bb)
   5. John New - 4,050,000 (41 bb)
   6. Evelyn Martinez - 4,225,000 (43 bb)
   7. Kim Stone - 1,300,000 (13 bb)
   8. Francis Deesing - 3,350,000 (34 bb)
   9. Rietta Sejdel - 625,000 (6 bb)