Texas Poker Record Set in Lone Star State’s First-Ever WSOP Event

A Texas poker file was set at TCH Social within the first-ever World Sequence of Poker (WSOP)-branded collection in Lone Star State historical past.

Texas Card Home’s Austin location kicked off a WSOP Circuit collection on April 23, a historic occasion for the Texas poker neighborhood. The large card room, one in all six TCH areas throughout the state, broke a file on Saturday night that will likely be powerful to high any time quickly.

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The file in query occurred through the $1,700 Major Occasion, which kicked off April 30. There have been three Day 1 beginning flights within the $1 million assured no-limit maintain’em event.

That assure was obliterated lengthy earlier than registration closed throughout Saturday’s Flight C session. When all was stated and executed, there have been 1,709 entrants within the Major Occasion, making a prize pool of $2,589,135, greater than doubling the assure. First place can pay $231,165.

The earlier file was set in 2024 at Champions Membership in Houston through the $3,300 PGT Texas Poker Open Major Occasion, received by Ren Lin for $400,000, the most important share of the $2,205,000 prize pool.

Victor Leone, Texas Card Home Chief Working Officer, shared some phrases of appreciation for these in attendance after the prize pool was introduced.

“Alongside with many different first, we acquired to set so many information, one in all which, for this prize pool particularly, has damaged the largest event file in in Texas,” Leone advised the group. “We stay up for breaking extra information

Flight C was nonetheless underway on the time of publishing. However the massive stacks from Flight A had been Steven Mann (913,000) and Shawn Savage (800,000), whereas Drake Kemper (1,942,000) and Thomas Brabham (1,196,000) bagged the highest stacks from Flight B on Friday.

The Major Occasion will play all the way down to a winner on Tuesday.

*Photos courtesy of Texas Card Home.