We combined the galleries into one big gallery, kind of like combining two holdem hands to make an Omaha hand*.
*Do not look at Omaha hands this way. Really. It's not the way to think about PLO or O/8.
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Live Reporting
Today's schedule with the PokerAtlas Tour at Texas card House in Houston features a $10k guaranteed $140 Monster Stack no-limit holdem event at noon, a $5k guaranteed $300 HORSE event at 2pm, and a $100 mega satellite to the PokerAtlas Title Event at 9pm.
We have reached the final table of the Omaha/8 event here in Houston, paying four spots with $2,630 up top.
After a bit of negotiation, the final three players agreed to a chop, with chip leader Sanjeev Vora taking a bit more than the others and earning the beautiful Atlas trophy, provided by PokerAtlas. The chop didn't happen until 2:45 am, but play was aggressive right up to the end. The action was also recorded on the livestream table here at Texas Card House in Houston, and should be available on TCH Live within a few days.
Vora is a local with over $200,000 in live tournament winnings, most of it in Houston or Austin, including a $65,000 win here in Houston just two months ago.
Wrap Up
The PokerAtlas Valuetown event at Texas Card House Houston delivered on its name, drawing 1,230 entries for a $246,000 prize pool and setting up a packed Day 2 with 76 players returning to chase a $39,380 top prize. David Shaw began the restart as the monster stack after bagging 1,285,000 in the final turbo flight, with major pedigree also in the mix as David 'The Dragon' Pham advanced as well.
The most talked about moment of the event came in an earlier flight when an all-in preflop moment turned into pure pain. Pocket kings got it in against Ace-King of spades that flopped a royal flush, leaving the kings drawing stone dead.
When the dust settled, it was Sanjeev Vora who conquered the huge field, and a long Day 2 grind, to lock up the trophy and $29,090 after a three-way chop. Pham made a deep run and finished runner up for $27,000, while Nicholas Pupillo also banked $27,000 in third. Giang Nguyen took fourth for $12,090, and Daniel Stavinoha rounded out the top five, earning $8,820. Houston really showed up for this event with local standouts and familiar names all over the payout list.
Highlight Moments
• All in preflop versus ends with a royal flush in spades, leaving the kings dead immediately.
• Chip leader momentum shifts when David Shaw bags 1,285,000 to top the Day 2 counts after surviving the final turbo flight, btu the cards turn against him on day two.
• David 'The Dragon' Pham runs deep and agrees to a three-way chop, adding to his impressive lifetime winnings of over eleven million dollars.Wrap Up
Full Payouts
1. SANJEEV VORA — $29,090
2. DAVID PHAM — $27,000
3. NICHOLAS PUPILLO — $27,000
4. GIANG NGUYEN — $12,090
5. DANIEL STAVINOHA — $8,820
6. RAYMOND GARCIA — $6,860
7. ERIKA DE LOS SANTOS — $5,720
8. VIJAI SANTHANAM — $4,740
9. MY VINCENT DI NGUYEN — $3,920
10. RANDALL CAMPBELL — $3,310
11. ALAN PEREYRA — $3,310
12. LEONID SHTEYN — $3,310
13. BENJAMIN HENDIN — $2,760
14. KELLER HOUSTON — $2,760
15. WILLIAM NGUYEN — $2,760
16. DOUGLAS KOEBBE — $2,270
17. JEFFREY JOHNSON — $2,270
18. MOHAMMAD BAGHERI — $2,270
19. STEVEN UCHIDA — $1,940
20. RAHIL GAULANI — $1,940
21. MING LIANG — $1,940
22. ROLAND JACKSON SR — $1,630
23. ANDREAS MICHELMANN — $1,630
24. LICH BUI — $1,630
25. ANTHONY MENDER — $1,340
26. JAMES CRAVEN — $1,340
27. DANIEL WAMWIRI — $1,340
28. RAHUL BATRA — $1,170
29. JOSEPH GOLIAS — $1,170
30. THAO TRAN — $1,170
31. CYNTHIA LUU — $1,170
32. JEFFREY NOWLING — $1,170
33. KATHERIN BECERRA — $1,170
34. SANG NGO — $1,170
35. KIMBERLY LEEANN PRICE — $1,170
36. WILLIAM PREECE — $1,170
37. EMMANUEL MCKENZIE — $1,000
38. DERRICK EVANGELISTA — $1,000
39. GERALD RHYMER — $1,000
40. JUSTIN HOLMQUIST — $1,000
41. VIVEK SHINGALA — $1,000
42. ROBERT COTE — $1,000
43. BENOIT VALLIERES — $1,000
44. JOSE ARAMAYO — $1,000
45. GEFFREY KLEIN — $1,000
46. MARTIN GARZA — $840
47. NEIL VORA — $840
48. RICHARD ZHANG — $840
49. KEVIN KENDRICK — $840
50. JIAN LEVINE — $840
51. RANDALL CROUCH — $840
52. AKBAR SHABAZZ — $840
53. JIMMY ADAMS — $840
54. CHRISTOPHER CUMMINGS — $840
55. BRANDON LLOYD — $700
56. CLAYTON OLVERA — $700
57. DAVID SHAW — $700
58. MICHAEL PETER BALLAS — $700
59. ETHAN DOAN — $700
60. JOSHUA HILL — $700
61. MARIO ANDRADE — $700
62. LUKE BREEDLOVE — $700
63. MARK HENNESSY — $700
64. MATTHEW MOLSBERRY — $620
65. TIMOTHY BANDINI — $620
66. THUY BELTRAN — $620
67. THOMAS VINAS — $620
68. NICHOLAS VITA — $620
69. DANIEL DOAN — $620
70. WALTER LYNCH — $620
71. JAMES DEAN — $620
72. MALOU LOWREY — $620
73. KAMORU YUSUF — $560
74. VENU GOPALA RAJU GADHIRAJU — $560
75. REITTA SEIDEL — $560
76. RANDALL TANNER — $560
77. DAVID SHAW — $2,000 (Double Bag Bonus)
78. ROLAND JACKSON SR — $2,000 (Double Bag Bonus)
Faces Of TCH - Valuetown™ - Day Two
Another great day in Texas with the PokerAtlas Tour at Texas Card House in Houston. Today is all Omaha, with three flights of the $100k Pot-Limit Omaha event and the Omaha/8 event as well. Omaha lovers may have some tough choices to make today! The PLO flights are at noon, 5pm, and 9pm. The Omaha/8 event gets cards in the air at 2pm.
Action was crazy in the first flight of the PLO event yesterday, with one player in for a dozen bullets and planning to play again tomorrow. With other players rebuying multiple times, the amount of chips in play is astounding. Multiple players drove over from other cards rooms to get in on the action once they heard how wild this event was, and we expect that excitement to carry over to today's flights as well.
We have reached the final table and before we could even post an update, we have lost a player. Chip counts are as of this post. The final table is being recorded on our livestream table and will be available soon on TCH Live.
As posted by Kyle Miller over at the TCH Tournament Blog
Players began to stand around Table 7 as three players tabled a multi-way all-in.
Sanjeev Vora: KcQc
Walter Lynch: ThTd (all-in)
Daniel Doan: AdKs (all-in)
Board: 9h9c2dQh7s
Sanjeev Vora had the worst of it until the Qh on the turn. Vora was the covering stack, so Doan and Lynch needed some help on the river to stay alive but the 7s sent both players to the rail in 69th and 70th respectively.
68 players remain as players approach their first break of the day.
Vora: 995,000
Doan: 69th - $620
Lynch: 70th - $620
| Player | Stack | Won / lost |
|---|---|---|
| Sanjeev Vora | 995,000 | +490,000 |
| Walter Lynch | 0 | -230,000 |
| Daniel Doan | 0 | -250,000 |
Action is insane in this flight! We are watching players get all-in blind their first hand, and we just saw a three-way all-in preflop with T985, AQ77, and Q875. The AQ77 made a pair when the ace flopped and held to win a 90k pot. We are only in level 5 at 400/800 and have less than half of our original entries. Most of these are re-entries, with players going broke fast and rushing to rebuy.
Faces Of TCH - Event #4 - Pot-Limit Omaha
Nobody loves Pot-Limit Omaha more than Texas and we're here with the PokerAtlas Tour to bring a big PLO event to Houston! This event features sic starting flights and a $100,000 guarantee for just $400. And we expect to crush that guarantee, because Houston always shows up for PLO tournaments.
You can click the structure sheet image to see the full schedule and we will be back with a photo gallery and chip count updates in a few hours as we begin coverage of this event as well as the conclusion of the Valuetown™ event that should wrap up late tonight.
This beast generated a prize pool of nearly a quarter of a million dollars with a $250 buy-in. Below are the full payouts for day two, including money that has already been paid out to players who made the money but busted on day one. PokerAtlas and Texas Card House are absolutely killing it here in Houston and we also expect big fields for the multi-flight, $100k guaranteed, PLO event that starts today.
We're ready to start day two of the PokerAtlas Valuetown™ event here at Texas card House in Houston. The room is buzzing, cards are ready to go, and bags of chips lay in front of every seat. We have 76 players starting the day, with David Shaw as chip leader. First place will $39,380 and we will post the full prize pool breakdown in a few minutes.
We have a new chip leader! The action was wild and the field was big in this morning's turbo flight, and local crusher David Shaw bagged the tournament chip lead to start day two with 1,285,000. We did a feature on the man they simply call "Shaw" a few days ago, and he will be a tough out in this one with the chip lead and years of serious tournament experience.
David 'The Dragon' Pham also bagged chips in this flight, and while he doesn't have quite the stack that Shaw amassed today, The Dragon is a threat with any stack. with more than eleven million in lifetime winnings, we know the dragon knows how to handle a big field and the stress of a big day two.
