There's another entrant in the mid-priced poker series, with the new PokerAtlas Tour making its debut at Texas Card House Houston over the weekend. Robyn Berry, of the Houston suburb of Kingwood, Texas, etched her name into PokerAtlas Tour history by winning the first-ever tour event.
PokerAtlas has sponsored individual poker tournaments in the past, but announced the launch of its new tour in April. The company, founded by WSOP bracelet winner Jon Friedberg and most noted for its tournament software and its online cardroom database, kicked things up another notch with the launch of the tour for 2023.
PokerAtlas also signed prominent tournament director Justin Hammer as its Executive Tour Director, and the pair brought the tour's debut series to one of Houston's largest and newest rooms, TCH Houston. Thursday brought the start of the first official PokerAtlas Tour event, a $300 buy-in no-limit hold'em event with a $50,000 guarantee.
That guarantee was never in doubt. When registration closed, 411 entrants had built a prize pool over $102,000, more than double the posted number. At Friday's final table, Berry started on the short stack but then rolled to the win, earning a career-best $21,690 payday.
