A complete of 699 entries had been made within the 2025 PokerGO Tour Texas Poker Open $3,300 no-limit maintain’em predominant occasion at Champions Club Texas in Houston, surpassing the $2,000,000 assure to create a remaining prize pool of almost $2.1 million.
Houston poker common Ravee Sundara emerged victorious ultimately, incomes $283,143 and the long-lasting TPO belt buckle trophy. This was the most important dwell match outcome but for the person many round city know as ‘Sonny.’ He now has greater than $564,000 in recorded scores to his identify.
In addition to the distinctive {hardware} and the cash, Sundara additionally secured 1,260 Card Player Player of the Year factors because the champion. This was his first POY-qualified rating of 2025, nevertheless it alone was sufficient to maneuver him inside placing distance of the highest 100 within the total standings.
This second annual working of the TPO featured eight beginning flights and two extra days of mixed subject motion. The prime 88 finishers earned a share of the multi-million-dollar prize pool.
Plenty of notables ran deep, together with reigning World Series of Poker predominant occasion champion Jonathan Tamayo (eighty fifth), 2022 Wynn Millions predominant occasion champion Tony Sinishtaj (twenty second), 2023 World Poker Tour World Championship winner Daniel Sepiol (fifteenth), 2019 WPT ARIA Summer Championship winner Matthew Wantman (thirteenth), and a trio of bracelet winners in Joey Weissman (twelfth), Brian Green (eleventh), and Michael Liang (tenth).
The remaining desk started with Kaleb Harwell out in entrance and Sundara in seventh chip place. Two of the extra completed gamers nonetheless in rivalry bowed out early, with bracelet winner Justin Liberto (ninth – $40,000) and four-time WPT remaining tablist Viet Vo (eighth – $50,000) unable to get a lot going after the sphere mixed onto a single desk.
Will Benson obtained the final of his stack in with pocket kings main the A-Okay suite of Aaron Gao, however the board introduced three spades to offer Gao the nut flush and the knockout. Benson earned $60,000 because the seventh-place finisher.
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2021 Wynn Millions predominant occasion champion Andrew Moreno’s final stand pitted his open-ended straight draw in opposition to the highest two pair of Harwell. The chips went in on the flip, and a clean river noticed Moreno head to the rail with $80,000 for his efforts. The rating pushed his profession earnings previous the $5.3 million mark.
Phu Vo (fifth – $100,000) obtained all-in on the river in his remaining hand after hitting an ace excessive straight. Unfortunately for him, Sundara had flopped journey tens and rivered a full home. Sundara made the short name to attain the knockout, narrowing the sphere to 4.
Jason Bullock was the following to be eradicated, together with his A-8 unable to carry up in opposition to the Q-10 suited of Gao. The flop introduced a ten to offer Gao center pair, and he held from there to ship Bullock packing in fourth place ($125,000).
The remaining three had been pretty shut in chips at that time. They determined to hash out a deal to redistribute the remaining prize cash a bit primarily based on ICM. They left the title and $60,000 to play for, whereas locking up the next payouts:
Ravee Sundara – $250,643
Aaron Gao – $247,328
Kaleb Harwell – $237,029
Harwell slid to the underside of the leaderboard early, however surged out in entrance when he made a set of tens in opposition to the kings and tens of Sundara. Sundara then doubled up via Gao, cracking pocket aces with Okay-10. Gao was knocked out in third when he shoved Q
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from the small blind and Harwell referred to as with 1010
within the huge blind. Harwell flopped prime set and improved to tens full by the river. Gao took house the almost quarter-million-dollar payout he bargained for within the deal, which was by far his largest match rating but.
The remaining two gamers then negotiated a brand new deal to additional rearrange the payouts. They additionally agreed to run a best-of-three collection of pot-limit Omaha flips to find out the champion. Sundara gained the primary two to lock up the title, whereas Harwell completed second with $264,529 in prize cash. This was the second six-figure money that he’s made in a poker match, having positioned third within the WSOP Circuit Choctaw predominant occasion in 2023 for $113,339.
Ravee “Sonny” Sundara is the 2025
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Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Ravee Sundara | $283,143 | 1260 | 283 |
| 2 | Kaleb Harwell | $264,529 | 1050 | 265 |
| 3 | Aaron Gao | $247,328 | 840 | 247 |
| 4 | Jason Bullock | $125,000 | 630 | 125 |
| 5 | Phu Vo | $100,000 | 525 | 100 |
| 6 | Andrew Moreno | $80,000 | 420 | 80 |
| 7 | William Benson | $60,000 | 315 | 60 |
| 8 | Viet Vo | $50,000 | 210 | 50 |
| 9 | Justin Liberto | $40,000 | 105 | 40 |
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