Winning $15,000 from a mere $100 investment sounds incredibly enticing, doesn’t it? That was the grand prize awaiting participants in the Texas Card House’s 50k Madness tournament, which took place from March 18th to March 24th at the TCH Rio Grande Valley. This event marked the inaugural live stream from the Valley.
The final table commenced with nine players, several were short-stacked, with the blinds set at 50k/100k/100k.
With three players remaining Tomas was looking to try and double up when he jammed his remaining stack of 1.675M on the Button holding
. In the big blind was the runaway chip leader Randy (12.7M), who made the call with . After a Jack on the flop Tomas was drawing incredibly thin, and unluckily for him he could not catch up. He did, however, have a nice consolation prize of $5,110 to take home with him.Going into the heads-up battle there was only one clear favorite, Randy held a huge 7.5-1 lead over his opponent Donald. Feeling the increased blind levels, Donald had no time to waste, if he were to get back into this he would have to attack and try and double up. Sadly for him Although he got his Chips in the middle close to being a flip. His fate was all but sealed when his
was heavily out flopped by his opponent holding on a . After the landed on the turn, Donald drew dead, it was time for the players to shake hands, what a nice ROI for Randy as he turns $100 into $15k.To see the First ever Live stream from TCH Rio Grande Valley check out the video below.