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.
Latest Events
Event #25 - $800 Title Event
Event #26 - $250 CloserEvent #22 - $2,500 NLH High RollerEvent #21 - $250 Double Board PLO Bomb PotEvent #20 - $300 NLH - Freezeout
833 Entries$583,100 Prize Pool$102,790 for First
Buyin: $250Registration Open
26 Entries$58,500 Prize Pool$24,120 for First
84 Entries$126,000 Prize Pool$3,710 for First
83 Entries$20,335 Prize Pool$6,055 for First
Live Reporting
The PokerAtlas is known for their trophies. Early versions included an earth that split in two to reveal a USB drive with a replay of the winner's journey through the event and a place to stash whatever you liked inside the globe itself. This year's standard trophy (second photo) is a beautiful bronze Atlas and globe, but the main event is always something special, and this year's main event winner's will not be disappointed.
The main event trophy stands tall above the others, and features an aged bronze Atlas holding a medieval style cartographer's globe in a lighter shade adorned with vintage Zodiac symbols. A one of a kind trophy that will be the highlight of any trophy case.
We had 88 Entries in Flight 1C here at Texas Card House in Houston, which means 12 players will make the money and 8 will advance to day two.
We had 89 entries here in Texas for Flight 1B of the PokerAtlas Title Event, with 8 players moving on to day two and four more cashing. Players return on Monday for day two and the final table will play out on a livestream on Tuesday.
We are at 78 players with late registration still open in Flight 1C with five more flights to go in the Title Event. We haven't kept track exactly, though that feature should be in play for the series we're covering for PokerAtlas in St. Augustine, Florida in a month, but the beta version of our series tracking tells us that this is probably the flight where the series crosses the one million dollar mark in cash awarded.
Given that the series was billed as "The Seven-Figure Series", we're pleased to see it live up to it's name and cross an enormous milestone. Texas Card House is always an amazing place to work, and we particularly love the room in Houston. The staff are as good any in the country, from the cleaning crew to the security guards to the very top management, everyone here has been great. This is really one of the best places in America to play poker, with the lowest rake and the softest games we've seen in years.
It's always nice to go home, but we'll also be sad to leave.
Oh, and that second photo? That's jacks vs kings vs queens, seated next to each other, all-in preflop. the kings flopped a set and held. You don't see three big pairs seated next to each other very often! Luckily, the players called our photographer over to get a quick shot of all three pairs laying on the table.
Faces Of TCH: PokerAtlas Title Event Flight 1C
Registration is now closed for Flight 1B, with 89 entries and 12 getting paid. Flight 1C is now in level 3, with late registration open for another three and a half hours.
Aggressive play paid off for Richard Zhang in a huge multi-way pot that was bloated by two misclicks on the bubble. You read that right. On the money bubble of a $500,000 guaranteed main event, two players in a row accidentally raised after there had already been a raise. both players meant to call.
The mistakes generated a pot big enough that local dealer Cici Payne called with a nut-flush draw for more than 400,000 chips after Zhang shoved all-in with top pair for nearly 700,000. Payne missed her flush and Zhang bagged an enormous stack of well over a million and a half.
Blinds: 8,000/16,000/16,000
Some more great shots from the $500,000 guaranteed PokerAtlas title Event here at Texas Card House in Houston.
Faces Of TCH: Title Event Flight 1B
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.
Great field in this one and a lot of happy players. Early flights are always better for photos because players are feeling optimistic and no one has burned their bankroll yet.
Faces Of TCH: PokerAtlas Title Event Flight 1A
Registration is now closed in Flight 1A of the PokerAtlas Title Event here at Texas Card House here in Houston. This flight drew 107 entries, which is a monster for a first flight in Texas where a lot of players wait to play later flights. There will be eight flights total between tonight and day two, which will be on Monday May 25th. The event looks like it will far surpass the $500,000 guarantee and generate a monster prize pool.
PokerAtlas Tour @TCH Houston 2026: Series Totals
Events Completed: 25 | Total Entries: 2,878 | Total Cash Awarded: $822,925
The No-Limit High Roller event drew 26 entries, with some big names battling for the Atlas trophy, but the biggest name of them all, 2024 WSOP Main Event Winner Jonathan Tamayo, won the cash and the trophy. Tamayo earned $24,120 and the Atlas trophy after besting the field late in the evening.
Tamayo has won over twelve million dollars lifetime, with ten million of it coming from the main event win. His tournament career has spanned twenty years, with significant cashes as far back as 2006, and a runner up finish in a bracelet event in 2008.
