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We have reached the final table after busting the bubble at eleven players in the freezeout. Without re-entries the stacks are shorter and this one will likely finish before the Double Board Bomb Pot Event. Jonathon Park is having a great series and is still in the field fighting at the final table in this one.
Some fun shots from our freezeout event today. No reshoots allowed in this one, first photo is the one we use. #freezeout #fairplay #oneshot
Registration is now closed on the old-school freezeout event here at Texas Card House in Houston with the PokerAtlas Tour. Nice field for an event with no rebuys allowed. We're seeing a lot of the usual suspects, including previous event winners from this series, Joseph Cappuccio and Jeff Nowling.
Eleven players will make the money in this one, with just over six thousand for the winner.
Jeff Nowling took the big side of a three-way chop and goes home with this season's Atlas trophy in this unique Bounty Round Up format. Nowling had a piece of the bounties as well after he and second place finisher Dzhordzh Beshar agreed to a small deal between them on the final table bubble. The three-handed battle went on for quite some time before the deal was done, with Beshar as the chip leader for most of the final table, but one big hand gave Nowling the chip lead and the deal was done soon after.
Nowling is a serious tournament player from Houston, with nearly half a million dollars in tournament winnings. Most of his scores have been in Houston, Dallas, and Las Vegas. He also finished second in event #10 in this series, the only other bounty event, just three days ago. A true bounty hunter!
Today's schedule for the PokerAtlas Tour events here at Texas Card House in Houston. You can find more coverage from our pal Kyle Miller over at the TCH Tournament Blog. You can also see all the clocks for these events over at PokerAtlas or in the PokerAtlas app.
Darrel Hopkins emerged victorious tonight after a long short-handed battle in the Big O event, claiming $5,360 and the beautiful Atlas trophy that is awarded to the winners of all the events in the PokerAtlas Tour. Hopkins is an expert Big O player, with three of his eight outright wins coming in Big O events. This win will put him over the $400,000 mark in lifetime winnings and give him a nice addition to his trophy case.
We have reached the final table of the Bounty Round Up event here at Texas card House in Houston and that means the bounty has been won. $1,500 goes to Dzhordzh Beshara, who collected an impressive 14 bounties on his way to the final table and had a mountain of chips to show for it. We will be back soon with a winner's photo and the full set of payouts. Good luck players!
Phu "Bad Boy" Vo hails from Katy, Texas, and has been making waves in the poker world since 2022. Vo's introduction to the game began with home games, but he quickly transitioned to tournament play, where his aggressive style has earned him significant success. His first major result came in 2022 at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida, where he placed 5th out of 6,134 entries in a $400 buy-in event, earning $136,000.
Since then, Vo has continued to build on his success with two more six-figure cashes in Houston. In April 2025, he secured another 5th place finish, taking home $100,000 in an event with a $2 million guarantee. He followed this up in May 2026 with a 2nd place finish, pocketing $160,000. Outside of poker, Vo is a business owner, and his table presence has earned him the nickname "Bad Boy," a moniker that started from his habit of warning opponents not to bluff him.
The prize pool is now posted for the Bounty Round Up event here at Texas Card House in Houston. This event is so much fun!
The Bounty Round Up event here at Texas Card House is a new format for us, and players seem to love it. Each player has a bounty chip and when you bust a player, you get their bounty chip. When the tournament reaches the final table, the player or players who have the most bounty chips wins 10% of the prize pool.
This makes for some interesting strategy choices as the final table approaches. If you have a significant lead in bounty chips approaching the final table, folding aces preflop is a snap if the stack is big enough to hurt or bust you. And if you have the player with the most bounty chips covered, and you have the second most bounty chips, it might be correct to go all-in every time they play a pot. This unique payout structure would have ICM calculators smoking and shorting out from all the permutations!
We had a nice turnout in the Big O event today, and some fun pics.
Registration is now closed in the Big O event here at Texas Card House in Houston where we are reporting on the PokerAtlas Tour event. 31 runners is a solid field for a regional event with a $500 buy-in and a non-holdem game, which creates a nice $13k prize pool.
