Now that we’ve got a winner, I’m following up on my original article by this title at PokerNews back in 2015 (and follow-ups here, and here), here’s an updated table of WSOP Main Event final tablists.
The lines for winners are marked with circles; the second-place finisher is marked with a box. Roll over the chart for last names and places for each year (excepting 2020).
If you haven’t seen your name in the Pacific Northwest Poker Leaderboard lately, you might wonder where you fit in the grand scheme of things. If you have seen your name on the Leaderboard, why are you wasting your time here on the Northwest’s most boring poker blog? You should be out playing poker.
At this point (17 June 2022), the Leaderboard has exactly 7,501 entries on it; one for every player in the Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska leaderboards at Hendon Mob that has $3,000 or more in recorded poker tournament earnings. There are at least a few players with double entries, but 7,500 players, more or less.
There’s one player way above the rest of the pack, and that’s Seth Davies with just under $15 million—and by “just under”, I mean within $25K, so I expect by the time I’ve published this, Davies will have eclipsed that mark. It’s nearly twice as much as the nearest contender.
Scott Clements has maintained the #2 spot for a while, with a bit more than $8 million. Over a million dollars separates Clements from the next person on the Leaderboard.
#3 is Shawn Buchanan, at just under $7 million, nearly equidistant between Clements and Kevin MacPhee at #4.
Places #4 to #7 are currently ranged between $6 million and $5.3 million. They’re currently MacPhee and Chris Brewer, essentially tied at the top end, with James Romero and Dylan Linde close to each other on the lower end.
Technically, there are five players (#8 to #12) with seven figures starting with a four, but one of them is Annie Duke who hasn’t been a PNW player for a lot of years.
Five more players have $3 million to $4 million dollars. That’s places #13 to #17.
Nine more players have part of a third million in earnings. Everyone above #26.
51 PNW players have more than a million in lifetime recorded tournament earnings. That’s about two-thirds of a percent of the players tracked by the Leaderboard.
* Yes, that is my bracket. On the plus side, I’m in the top 25% of players on the PNW Poker Leaderboard.
Not a lot of live poker action from me since the World Series of Poker trip I made in October, though I’ve kept up a busy schedule of low-level online Omaha tournaments and Jackpot Sit-n-Go games on Ignition Casino. I played (and min-cashed) the November First Friday $20K GTD at Final Table—look for their new schedule starting 1 January, and barely lasted a level at Portland Meadows Oregon State Big O Championship in mid-December.
I started this blog when I was 49 years old. back at the start of the month, I turned 60. My wife and I went to New York City for my birthday, getting out just befoe the omicron coronavirus variant took over. Got back to PDX at 10:30pm and at 7am the next morning I was on a flight to Hawaii to spend a few days with my father , who was over there using up condo points before the end of the year. That’s Kiluaea behind us in the shot. If you go up there at night, the lava in the crater makes that white smoke look bright red.
This edition of the Leaderboard includes some October and November straggling results from Canadian casinos. Like these…
Prabakaran Sivabalasundaram from Calgary won the Casino Yellowhead/Pure Poker Tour #1 PLO Bounty back at the end of September, beating out 176 other entries in the C$440 buy-in tournament. Sivabalasundaram climbs two hundred spots to #926.
Edmonton’s Andy Truong came in 2nd in the Yellowhead PPT #3 NLHE out of 326 entries. It’s good for a fifteen spot bump to #226.
Alberta-based Curtil Burlet comes into the Leaderboard hot, with a biggest-ever cash (it only their third) that lands them at #3092, for the runner-up position in Yellowhead/PPT #4 NLHE Bounty. (Remember that bounty cash is not reflected in Hendon Mob records and therefor does not affect the PNW Poker Leaderboard.) Calgary’s Weston Pring won the event, going from #347 to #309. Pring was featured in the last Leaderboard update; they came in 101st in the WSOP Main Event.
A C$1,100 buyin back in early October in Edmonton (470 entries and a prize pool of US$353K), the six top finishers all made it to the Leaderboard. Haven Werner of Calgary took 6th, moving him from #531 to #470. Fort St. John, British Columbia’s Bernice McLennan posted a biggest cash in 5th, jumping all the way to #2079 from #4428. Amir Khan, another Calgarian, took 4th, which combined with a 3rd-place finish in a Wynn Fall Classic $100K GTD NLHE in mid-November (404 entries, $237K prize pool) jumps Khan 1400 places to #917. Surrey, British Columbia’s Mike Kim goes up seventy-four places to #317 by taking 3rd. Out of Whitecourt, Alberta, it’s john Hanna debuting at #1160 on the Leaderboard with a 2nd-place finish. Finally, on the top, is Kyle Ho from Burnaby, with a best-ever cash and a move from #243 to #186.
Jordan Banfield from Calgary won the Deerfoot Inn Fall Super Stack #1 NLHE Deepstack in Calgary, an event that drew 385 entries back in early November. The prize pool was over US$88K. It’s Banfield’s only cash so far, and they enter the Leaderboard at #2622.
John Nielsen from Sylvan Lake, Alberta placed 4th in this event (354 entries, US$135K pot) back in early November, going up more than 100 places on the Leaderboard, to #849. Coming in at 2nd was Ivan Milanovic, with a best-ever cash (only their fifth on record), good for a first-time ranking of #1990. The champion was Kelly Gall from Calgary, with their biggest cash so far and a jump of fifteen hundred spots on the Leaderboard, to #1284.
Redmond’s Dominick Nguyen found some time to play poker on the East Coast mid-November and won the 432-entry Boston Billiard Club & Casino Veterans Day NLHE tournament for a 2nd-ever cash and a new spot on the Leaderboard at #2586.
Daniel Lefebvre of Alberta was the 5th-place finisher in this event of nearly 400 entries and a US$300K prize pool. Lefebvre moves three hundred spots on the Leaderboard, to #981 (3 squared and nine squared!) Tyler Hurman from Calgary got their largest-ever cash in 4th, and climbs from #832 to #663. In 3rd was Kaan Becer out of Vancouver, whi gets an increase of twenty places to #193. And Takuma Bergeron from Coquitlam, Alberta got a best-ever cash in a deal for 2nd place, which raised them from #5503 to #1056.
back down to the States, James Battenberg from Issaquah nabbed 4th at a Wynn Fall Classic $100K GTD NLHE that had over three hundred entries and a $148K prize pool. Battenberg moves fifteen hundred places on the Leaderboard, to #2655.
Continuing at the Wynn, Bellevue’s Rajendra Ajmani came in 41st out of a field of 2,573 in the Wynn Fall Classic $1.5M GTD NLHE Mystery Bounty. Ajmani goes from #1104 to #916,
Christopher Brewer hit the jackpot on consecutive days at the Aria High Roller series. On November 16th, Brewer came in 3rd of 43 in Aria High Roller 39 NLHE, then 1st at Aria High Roller 40 NLHE the next day (albeit with only 16 entries). It’s enough to move from #16 to #14 on the Leaderboard.
Catching up to where the last Leaderboard left off on WSOP events, Dylan Wilkerson played World Series of Poker #79 NLHE Poker Hall of Fame Bounty. This new event awarded a bounty for each Poker Hall of Fame player eliminated, with the amount equal to the year they were inducted. There were bounties for eleven HoF entries, plus new WSOP spokesperson Vince Vaughn. All of the bounties were eliminated on Day One. Wilkerson placed 9th out of 468. By the way, Wilkerson’s WSOP profile now lists him as living in San Francisco, so no telling how much longer Hendon Mob will have him as a Washington State player; then he’ll be off the Leaderboard and everyone will move up!
There were 1,921 entries in the $800 WSOP #81 NLHE Deepstack, and Maxwell Sabel of Sun Valley, Idaho made it past 1,911 of them for a 10th-place finish and a first recorded Hendon Mob cash. Sabel makes a debut on the Leaderboard at #3127.
On the other end of the WSOP spectrum, #1-ranked Seth Davies placed 4th of 33 in the WSOP #82 NLHE Super High Roller, where the buy-in was $250K. Davies continues to increase the gap between #1 and #2.
Ian Modder of North Vancouver, British Columbia gets a seven spot increase on the Leaderboard to #141 by placing 36th out of 1,903 in WSOP #83 NLHE The Closer.
Despite being called “The Closer”, Event #83 wasn’t even close to being the last bracelet tournament of the 2021 WSOP. This one was. It may be the latest (in the year) tournament to be played at a WSOP for quite some time, since they’re going back to the summer schedule. This game had a $5K buy-in, an aggressive two-day structure, and finished on November 23rd after 531 entries. 3 PNW players made a deep run in the event. with the first being from Edmonton, Ryan Snyder, who gained three hundred places on the Leaderboard, ending at #558. Lee Markholt didn’t gain any ground on the Leaderboard because he’s already way up at #8, but he did place at…8th. . And George Wolff came in 7th. Wolff went on to a mid-December 13th-place finish in the World Poker Tour Five Diamond NLHE Main Event. He stays at #17.
Dylan Linde moves up a spot—inside the Leaderboard top 10!—from #6 to #5 with an 8th-place finish in the WPT Five Diamond NLHE Main Event.
Jumping over to the Czech Republic, Mercer Island’s Carter Newhof rises more than four hundred places to #553 with a 3rd-place showing in World Series of Poker Europe #6 $200K GTD NLHE/PLO. Newhof was the only American in the top 10 of the 230 entries.
Artur Winstone halved his ranking to #2351 by going all the way to North Carolina from Edmonton (WSOP lists him from Honolulu) for the World Series of Poker Circuit Cherokee #3 $100K GTD NLHE.
Jordan Westmorland gains nine places on the Leaderboard with a 5th of 57 finish at WSOP Europe #10 NLHE Platinum High Roller. Westmorland (from Lynnwood, Washington) is now #44.
Tracie Osborne from Lacey, Washington got their biggest cash in Lincoln, California, at the WPTDeepstacks Thunder Valley $1M GTD NLHE Championship by placing 20th of 588. Osborne moves from #2284 to #1722. Steve Chanthabouasy‘s 9th-place finish in the same event kicks them up a notch, to #88.
Kamloops, British Columbia’s Jaroslaw Jaskiewicz came in 3rd at the Venetian DeepStack New Year’s Extravaganza Poker Series #14 $150K GTD NLHE MonsterStack. It missed the guarantee with 278 entries. but Jaskiewicz gains about twenty spots, moving to #229.
In Tampa the Seminole hard Rock Winter Poker Open $500K GTD NLHE Main Event more than doubled the guarantee, and Aaron Thivyanathan picked up 10th out of 772, to move from #190 to #175.
Twin Falls’ Sean Banahan racked up a best-ever cash at the Wynn Winter Classic $500K GTD NLHE that wrapped up 12 December with 743 entries. Looking at the payouts, there may have been some sort of deal done at four players remaining. Banahan’s Hendon Mob record only goes back to January 2020, so it’s definitely been impacted by the pandemic, and it includes a cash in a Seniors event, but this was a nice way to end the year! Banahan goes from #1666 to #577.
The final entry in the Leaderboard this time is how I’d like to close out every Leaderboard: Angela Jordison, taking 5th in the 1,042-entry Mid-States Poker Tour Minnesota Winter Poker Classic #9 $300K GTD NLHE Main Event. It’s yet another personal best cash for Jordison, coming just a couple of months after the “money phone” record at the Venetian. This pops Jordison up anothher thirty places on the Leaderboard, to #181.
This is the fourth edition of the Kevmath Quarterly, which got started before his recent acquisition by GPI/The Hendon Mob. These players are the top 20 recorded tournament earners for mid-December 2020 through mid-December 2021 (ranked in order of 2021 earnings), and the change in their rank on the PNW Poker Leaderboard (which is based on lifetime recorded earnings). Players whose names are followed by an asterisk were on the list last quarter.
Both Seth Davies and Christopher Brewer are far ahead of the pack, with more than $3 million each in recorded tournament cashes over the past year. Adam Hendrix and Dylan Linde are both in the high six figures, the other sixteen names are all in the range between $160K and $400K.
| December 2020 Rank | December 2021 rank | state | player |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |  | Seth Davies * |
| 156 | 14 | | Christopher Brewer * |
| 31 | 22 |  | Adam Hendrix * |
| 10 | 5 |  | Dylan Linde * |
| 4524 | 136 |  | Matthew Jewett * |
| 52 | 34 | | Noah Bronstein |
| 369 | 102 | | Adam Walton |
| 4232 | 163 | | Robert Davis |
| 433 | 115 |  | Vanessa Kade |
| 184 | 86 | | Harpreet Gill |
| 15 | 16 | | Matt Affleck * |
| 17 | 17 | | George Wolff |
| 22 | 20 | | Darren Rabinowitz * |
| 745 | 175 | | Aaron Thivyanathan * |
| 6124 | 248 | | Jung Woo |
| 3490 | 244 | | Bin Weng |
| 14 | 13 | | Dylan Wilkerson |
| 5 | 6 | | James Romero* |
| 25 | 25 | | Maxwell Young * |
| 393 | 190 | | Wayne Harmon |
You can see the giant jumps in Leaderboard status resulting from deep runs in the World Series of Poker main Event by Jung Woo and Matthew Jewett; the shot-in-the-dark cash by Bin Weng in the WSOP NLHE High Roller, and Robert Davis‘s runner-up finish in the WSOP NLHE Seniors tournament. Christopher Brewer, Dylan Linde, and Dylan Wilkerson moving up the Leaderboard ranks pushed a couple of other high-performing players down a notch, despite being in the Top 20.
NOTE: I started this a month ago! And I’m just now finishing it up. Sorry for the delay, in the meantime I’ve qualified for the WSOP Super Seniors event, been to New York City for the anniversary of my marriage to Mrs. Poker Mutant, and Hawai’i to spend a couple days with my dad—things are just that busy! Happy Holidays!
The WSOP Main Event is over and done with, with al of the PNW participants out before the final tables. I have to admit that after including Mitchell Halverson and Jesse Lonis in the 2021 WSOP Main Event Tracker because WSOP has them as Oregon players, that I was disappointed to see they were listed on the Nevada and New York leaderboards at Hendon Mob, so they aren’t included in the combined PNW leaderboard.
Even without them, there’s a lot of territory to cover.
Let’s start with Kenn Pluard from Happy Valley, Oregon, who was 25th in the field of 1,441 at the Wynn Fall Classic $1.5M GTD NLHE. That, and a career-high cash at the Main Event (338th) bounce Pluard from #978 to #584.
Maxwell Young reappears on the Leaderboard with a 12th-place finish at the Venetian Deepstack Championship Poker Series II #35 $400K GTD NLHE UltimateStack. The tournament got 1,408 entries and pushed the prize pool to $1.35M. Calgary’s Phil Wright nabbed 4th in the same event, for a career-high score and a jump on the Leaderboard from #2508 to #505.
Bellevue’s Brian Orrico took 48th in the 5,404-entry tournament, going from #2725 to #1814 on the Leaderboard. The Seniors is typically one of the largest fields; previous years with only one entry day set records for the largest single-entry-day live poker tournaments. This year’s run with two entry days generated $4.8M for the prize pool. Coming in at 34th was Victoria player Rhonda Shepek, with a career best and a jump of 2500 places to #2133. Robert Sun from Anchorage came in 22nd and climbs to #1932 from #4026. Coming in at 17th was John McNaughton of Innisfall, Alberta with a biggest-ever cash and debut on the leaderboard at #1349. Every two years, Robert Davis comes out of Eagle River, Alaska to cash in the Seniors tournament—he has exactly 3 Hendon Mob entries: 2017, 2019, and this year—all in the same event. This year he hit it big, with 2nd place, far eclipsing his previous totals, and leaping from #4320 to #162 on the Leaderboard. Davis is now #7 on the Alaska state leaderboard.
Red Deer, Albeta’s Jason Volk was runner-up in the Venetian #36 $150K GTD NLHE MonsterStack. It’s Volk’s largest cash (this is the season!) and he moves almost 1800 spots to #870.
Dwayne Hillock from Prince George, British Columbia came in 14th in WSOP #55 NLHE Colossus out of 9,399 entries. The prize pool was just over $3.1M. Hillock rises over 800 places to #1533.
Portland’s Rambo Halpern took 8th of 969 at the Venetian #37 $300K GTD NLHE Seniors, taking Halpern up 38 places to #385.
The Wynn $3M GTD NLHE Championship made a prize pool of $5.7M with 1,775 entries and Brett Kennedy of Sattle took 50th, climbing forty spots on the Leaderboard to #319.
It was a biggest-ever cash for John Nielsen (Sylvan Lake, Alberta) with a win in the Autumn at Aria $40K GTD NLHE. Nielsen goes up more than 600 spots to #958.
Monroe, Washington’s Roger Hammond is up 800 places to #1937 with a 7th-place finish in the Venetian #40 $150K GTD NLHE MonsterStack. 358 entries and a $347K prize pool.
The Super Seniors event (60+) got nearly 1,900 entries this year, makng a prize pool of just under $1.7M. Sad to say, I’m qualifying for this by next summer. Three PNW players made the final two tables. Alberta’s Gary Bain got a largest-ever cash placing in 16th and jumping eighty spots to #846. From masco, Washington, Anthony Simpson took 13th for a climb from #536 to #476. And you may remember Bill Stabler of Salem having been the runner-up in the Seniors event the last time everyone got together at the Rio in 2019; he came in 4th in this tournament.
Chris Brewer got shafted by The Bet that Limon won back in 2015 because people picked Koray Aldemir for their slate of players in the Main Event. Hopefully, his 5th-place finish in the WSOP #60 Poker Players Championship 6-Max is some consolation. There were 63 entries at $50K each. Brewer maintains at #16 on the Leaderboard.
Portland’s James Haddad made it to 12th in the field of 725, which is good for a move from #126 to #125. Dylan Wilkerson came in 8th, and stays at #13. Sterling Lopez out of Anchorage took 4th, for their biggest recorded cash and a move from #2961 to #708.
Nearly two thousand entries in this event pushed the prize pool to just under $1.9M. Sean Banahan from Twin Falls, Idaho made it to 24th for a career-high cash, and moves about six hundred spots to #1666. Coming in 9th was Jimmy Lee from Edmonton, which moves him two notches up to #77.
It was a largest-ever cash for Puyallup’s Jason Diaz, placing 4th out of 355 in the Aria $40K GTD NLHE. Just about triple the guarantee with 355 entries. Diaz jumps up about four thousand places on the Leaderboard to #2699.
Anchorage’s Young Ji won the Aria $30K GTD PLO8 in either a 3 or 4-way deal (186 entries, $74K prize pool). Ji is a 2015 WSOP PLO8 bracelet winner. He climbs 5 spots on the Leaderboard to #130.
Noah Bronstein was heads-up for the WSOP #64 NLHE/PLO 8-Max bracelet. There was a field of 579 entries at $5K each. Bronstein moves up nearly twenty places to #34.
Donald Kehler of Prince George, British Columbia bounced more than a thousand places to #1849 with a win (and largest-ever cash) in the $400 Rio Daily Deep Stack Series NLHE. The tournament on 3 November got 184 entries and whipped up a prize pool of over $60K.
From Redmond, Washington, Karimon Umarov placed 27th in the 3,821-player Mini Main freeze out, which had a prize pool of just over $3.4M. Umarov debuts on the Leaderboard with their biggest-ever result at #3601. Prasad Dobbins from Anchorage got their biggest cash and a boost from #4173 to #2256 with 20th place. And Seattle’s Matt Jewett got 6th in this event just before he jumped into the actual Main (more to come).
Reminder: Just doing the big winners here. This thing’s long enough as it is, I apologize if you cashed and didn’t get on the Leaderboard round-up, if you didn’t get something like a 300% ROI or better, I can just say, “Good job!” That leads us to Rittie Chuaprasert from here in Portland, who came in 259 out of this year’s field of 6,650 entries. That’s within the top 4%, with another 11% of the field cashing but not making it into this write-up, if it’s any consolation. Chuaprasert goes from #367 to #295. Viola, Idaho’s Michael Faulkner picked up their largest cash at 124th in the Main and goes up over five hundred places to #646. Another biggest cash was for Weston Pring of Calgary, at 101st (just before Ali Imsirovic’s father Salko at 100th, who—I believe—still lives in Vancouver, Washington, but is listed in with the WSOP and Hendon Mob as a Las Vegas resident). Pring is up about a hundred and fifty places, to #347. At 90th was Fatima Nanji out of Vancouver, British Columbia. Nanji is up ninety-one places to #239, with their own biggest cash. Nanji was one of the last two women remaining at the beginning of Day 6. Adam Walton jumps sixty-five places to #102 by coming in 42nd (and another personal best cash). Matt Jewett from Shoreline, Washington came in 28th, and doubled his lifetime earnings with the single cash, climbing more than four hundred places to #135. Finally, it’s Bellevue-based Jung Woo, whose 19th-place finish was (yet another) best-ever recorded cash. It’s just the fifth cash for Woo and makes up 96% of his total winnings. Woo’s standing on the Leaderboard goes from #5358 to #247.
Vikas Sundhi from Bellingham and Edmonton’s Alemu Makonen came in 10th and 6th, respectively in the Wynn Fall Classic $400K GTD NLHE, a 1,438-entry tournament with a prize pool of $1.4M. Sundhi got their largest-ever cash and moves up one hundred and fourteen places to #550; Makonen holds at #54.
Jose Mendoza took 3rd in the Venetian #44 $100K GTD NLHE MonsterStack in a six-way deal that gave the Kennewick player their biggest-ever cash. Mendoza moves nearly three hundred places on the Leaderboard, to #670. Almost six hundred entries tripled the guarantee.
Seth Davies continues to put up numbers ever edition of the Leaderboard, with a 3rd in Aria/PokerGO NLHE High Roller 30. 5 players cashed in the 30-entry tournament, with former PNWer Ali Imsirovic at the top. Davies is still #1.
Renton, Washington’s Kao Saechao picked up 2nd place in Venetian #46 $75K GTD PLO, ahead of 319 other players (the prize pool tripled the guarantee), then made the final table at 8th in WSOP #71 PLO Bounty 8-Max at 8th That event had 860 entries. (Note: Bounties are not reported as part of tjhe earnings for the tournament.) Two final tables takes Saechao from #890 to #549 on the Leaderboard.
Vincent Lam from Edmonton goes up twelve places to #300 with 45th out of 3,797 at the WSOP #68 NLHE Little One for One Drop.
It was a win for Calgary’s Doug Lee, who bested 327 entries at the Autumn at Aria $40K GTD NLHE on 10 November. It appears from the payouts that there may have been a five-way deal.Lee holds at #26 on the Leaderboard.
In a blast from the past, Esther Taylor-Brady is still on the Oregon list at both Hendon Mob and WSOP. Taylor-Brady made 5th place in a field of 372 at WSOP #69 7-Card Stud Hi-Lo. Taylor-Brady remains at #28.
There were 5,252 entries in this tournament, and three players from the PNW at the final three tables. Maria McAlpin moves from #646 to #577 with a 26th-place finish. 23rd is good enough to help Adam Croffut slide up four places to #96. A newcomer to the Leaderboard are Deer Kim, whose 33rd-place is enough for #3601.
New on the Leaderboard at #813 is Matt Mayima from Seattle, who posted an impressive 2nd place in WSOP #71 PLO8 Bounty 8-Max as their first recorded live cash. The field had 860 entries. That’s a nice way to start off.
Back over at the Autumn at the Aria $40K GTD NLHE on 12 November, Burnaby, British Columbia player Alen Bakovic was 2nd in a five-way deal for their biggest score and a jump of more than nine hundred places on the Leaderboard, to #1721.
Another Canadian made the (unofficial) final table of a WSOP mixed-game event when Edmonton’s Nohad Teliani came in 9th in WSOP #72 Mixed NLHE/PLO 8-Max. Teliani gets a boost of almost two hundred places, and is now #828 on the Leaderboard. There were 856 entries in this event.
And finally, Mans Montgomery out of Eagle, Idaho notches up four spots to #156 with a 4th-place finish in the Venetian #59 $150K GTD NLHE MonsterStack. The prize pool beat the guarantee with 204 entries.
That’s it for this long-delayed edition of the PNW Poker Leaderboard. Next edition will get us caught up. I will report that I was playing a tournament online on the way to Hawai’i that I thought would be over by the time we had to shut off our computers but even though we weren’t in the money when they shut off the on-board wi-fi, I managed to glide into a min-cash because I had enough chips. The dream is alive!
Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska, British Columbia, and Alberta) players by seat. 96/6,650 players remaining. Down to 4 5 PNW players, with 3 of them in the top 20. Correction: Mitchell Halverson‘s name was left off the list because I didn’t automate this day’s results.
| RANK | PLAYER | CITY | CHIPS | SEAT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Jung Woo | Bellevue, WA, US | 7640000 | Amazon/466/2 |
| 93 | Fatima Nanji | Vancouver, BC, CA | 935000 | Amazon/478/1 |
| 83 | Mitchell Halverson | West Linn, OR, US | 1360000 | Amazon/484/2 |
| 17 | Matthew Jewett | Seattle, WA, US | 6475000 | Amazon/484/6 |
| 5 | Jesse Lonis | Medford, OR, US | 8995000 | Amazon/486/7 |
Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska, British Columbia, and Alberta) players by seat. 292/6,650 players remaining. Just 8 PNW players left!
| RANK | PLAYER | CITY | CHIPS | SEAT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 111 | Jesse Lonis | Medford, OR, US | 1485000 | Amazon / 449 / 2 |
| 83 | Mitchell Halverson | West Linn, OR, US | 1767000 | Amazon / 464 / 1 |
| 47 | Fatima Nanji | Vancouver, BC, CA | 2307000 | Amazon / 465 / 8 |
| 122 | Jung Woo | Bellevue, WA, US | 1341000 | Amazon / 466 / 1 |
| 229 | Rittie Chuaprasert | Portland , OR, US | 613000 | Amazon / 470 / 9 |
| 156 | Michael Faulkner | Viola, ID, US | 1040000 | Amazon / 480 / 2 |
| 265 | Chad Thomsen | SURREY, BC, CA | 420000 | Amazon / 481 / 5 |
| 10 | Matthew Jewett | Seattle, WA, US | 3398000 | Amazon / 488 / 8 |
Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska, British Columbia, and Alberta) players by seat. 1,000/6,650 players remaining. Restart 11am Friday, 11 November. All remaining players are in the money.
| RANK | PLAYER | CITY | CHIPS | SEAT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 484 | Brent Mutter | Poulsbo, WA, US | 315000 | Amazon / 426 / 3 |
| 968 | Christopher Lastiwka | Edmonton, AB, CA | 39000 | Amazon / 434 / 2 |
| 475 | Jesse Lonis | Medford, OR, US | 320000 | Amazon / 436 / 6 |
| 773 | Bradley Crandall | Vancouver, WA, US | 143000 | Amazon / 443 / 1 |
| 652 | Garry Bliesner | Spokane Valley, WA, US | 208000 | Amazon / 443 / 4 |
| 693 | Dylan Collingwood | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 187000 | Amazon / 453 / 2 |
| 411 | Scott Davies | Vancouver, BC, CA | 374000 | Amazon / 454 / 4 |
| 36 | Rittie Chuaprasert | Portland , OR, US | 1165000 | Amazon / 454 / 7 |
| 254 | Fatima Nanji | Vancouver, BC, CA | 545000 | Amazon / 456 / 1 |
| 347 | Jacob Thibodeau | Juneau, AK, US | 440000 | Amazon / 456 / 2 |
| 24 | Matthew Jewett | Seattle, WA, US | 1286000 | Amazon / 457 / 3 |
| 692 | Brian Foley | Poulsbo, WA, US | 187000 | Amazon / 461 / 4 |
| 833 | Steven Josephsen | BOTHELL, WA, US | 111000 | Amazon / 463 / 7 |
| 414 | James Frank | STAYTON, OR, US | 372000 | Amazon / 466 / 5 |
| 845 | Ross Novak | FAIRBANKS, AK, US | 107000 | Amazon / 468 / 2 |
| 340 | Dustin Leary | SEATTLE, WA, US | 449000 | Amazon / 468 / 4 |
| 71 | Mitchell Halverson | West Linn, OR, US | 927000 | Amazon / 482 / 1 |
| 943 | Dustin An | REDMOND, WA, US | 56000 | Amazon / 483 / 1 |
| 887 | Scott Eskenazi | MERCER ISLAND, WA, US | 81000 | Amazon / 487 / 8 |
| 630 | Andrew Smith | Mercer Island, WA, US | 221000 | Amazon / 488 / 7 |
| 721 | William Nichols | Beaverton, OR, US | 171000 | Amazon / 492 / 3 |
| 580 | Brad Zusman | Gresham, OR, US | 248000 | Amazon / 493 / 7 |
| 351 | Jung Woo | Bellevue, WA, US | 435000 | Amazon / 494 / 4 |
| 691 | Kenn Pluard | HAPPY VALLEY, OR, US | 188000 | Amazon / 500 / 2 |
| 829 | Jonas Mackoff | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 115000 | Amazon / 501 / 5 |
| 189 | Michael Faulkner | Viola, ID, US | 660000 | Amazon / 509 / 3 |
| 854 | Mike Kinney | SANDPOINT, ID, US | 101000 | Amazon / 510 / 6 |
| 214 | Jason Mann | BURNABY, BC, CA | 611000 | Amazon / 513 / 6 |
| 719 | Chad Thomsen | SURREY, BC, CA | 172000 | Amazon / 514 / 5 |
| 246 | Anthony Kalanj | Port Coquitlam, BC, CA | 554000 | Amazon / 516 / 8 |
| 37 | Kyle White | SURREY, BC, CA | 1151000 | Amazon / 522 / 2 |
| 386 | Tuan Huynh | Boise, ID, US | 399000 | Amazon / 523 / 4 |
| 896 | Christopher Schaler | TACOMA, WA, US | 77000 | Amazon / 523 / 9 |
Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska, British Columbia, and Alberta) players by seat. 2,362/6,650 players remaining. Restart 11am Thursday, 11 November. 1,000 places paid.
| RANK | PLAYER | CITY | CHIPS | SEAT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | Greg Mueller | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 456500 | Amazon / 400 / 4 |
| 683 | Brad Zusman | GRESHAM, OR, US | 207200 | Amazon / 400 / 6 |
| 509 | Shawn Stuart | VANCOUVER, WA, US | 236700 | Amazon / 402 / 2 |
| 395 | Jamil Kanji | EDMONTON, AB, CA | 264500 | Amazon / 404 / 2 |
| 2199 | Benjamin May | PORTLAND, OR, US | 43000 | Amazon / 405 / 8 |
| 1197 | Alex Ngo | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 141800 | Amazon / 417 / 4 |
| 389 | Jaime Cervantes | VANCOUVER, WA, US | 267500 | Amazon / 418 / 8 |
| 1953 | Joel Micka | EVERETT, WA, US | 69000 | Amazon / 421 / 1 |
| 2189 | Jesse Kertland | ELLENSBURG, WA, US | 43500 | Amazon / 422 / 2 |
| 198 | Kyle White | SURREY, BC, CA | 335900 | Amazon / 424 / 2 |
| 1158 | Aaron Thivyanathan | RENTON, WA, US | 146500 | Amazon / 426 / 3 |
| 1546 | Kao Saechao | PORTLAND, OR, US | 108600 | Amazon / 426 / 7 |
| 1311 | Dan Barker | POULSBO, WA, US | 131300 | Amazon / 431 / 2 |
| 1611 | Jonas Mackoff | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 103400 | Amazon / 437 / 7 |
| 1385 | Dustin An | REDMOND, WA, US | 124000 | Amazon / 443 / 8 |
| 2228 | Blaine Neufeld | SURREY, BC, CA | 41000 | Amazon / 449 / 9 |
| 1475 | Bradley Crandall | VANCOUVER, WA, US | 116200 | Amazon / 451 / 6 |
| 447 | Kenn Pluard | HAPPY VALLEY, OR, US | 251400 | Amazon / 452 / 2 |
| 1603 | Alemu Makonen | EDMONTON, AB, CA | 104100 | Amazon / 454 / 2 |
| 1222 | Ross Novak | FAIRBANKS, AK, US | 139600 | Amazon / 456 / 4 |
| 741 | James Frank | STAYTON, OR, US | 198800 | Amazon / 462 / 7 |
| 378 | Jaroslaw Jaskiewicz | KAMLOOPS, BC, CA | 269900 | Amazon / 465 / 1 |
| 1652 | Chris Back | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 98800 | Amazon / 466 / 3 |
| 949 | Mark Miele | VICTORIA, BC, CA | 170500 | Amazon / 469 / 1 |
| 183 | Michael Faulkner | VIOLA, ID, US | 343000 | Amazon / 469 / 4 |
| 162 | Filmon Ghebreegzabheir | ISSAQUAH, WA, US | 360400 | Amazon / 470 / 8 |
| 1601 | Eric Stamey | KENT, WA, US | 104200 | Amazon / 473 / 2 |
| 1402 | Adam Croffut | BELLINGHAM, WA, US | 122600 | Amazon / 476 / 2 |
| 1422 | Roderick Chavez | KIRKLAND, WA, US | 121000 | Amazon / 476 / 6 |
| 307 | Scott Eskenazi | MERCER ISLAND, WA, US | 291800 | Amazon / 477 / 4 |
| 2019 | Shahriar Fahim | REDMOND, WA, US | 62600 | Amazon / 479 / 4 |
| 1248 | Gabriel Post | SEATTLE, WA, US | 137500 | Amazon / 479 / 7 |
| 1963 | Rick Whitesell | VANCOUVER, WA, US | 67700 | Amazon / 481 / 2 |
| 278 | Mark Groner | LAKE OSWEGO, OR, US | 302600 | Amazon / 485 / 2 |
| 205 | Jacob Thibodeau | JUNEAU, AK, US | 333600 | Amazon / 486 / 4 |
| 1650 | Lee Markholt | EATONVILLE, WA, US | 99500 | Amazon / 486 / 9 |
| 1174 | Ryan Thorpe | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 144500 | Amazon / 488 / 1 |
| 1648 | Steven Stone | LAKE STEVENS, WA, US | 99800 | Amazon / 490 / 8 |
| 13 | Scott Davies | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 615100 | Amazon / 492 / 1 |
| 455 | Jason Mann | BURNABY, BC, CA | 250000 | Amazon / 492 / 2 |
| 874 | Dylan Collingwood | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 179600 | Amazon / 494 / 1 |
| 140 | Matthew Jewett | SEATTLE, WA, US | 367500 | Amazon / 495 / 3 |
| 1095 | Paul Dhaliwal | LANGLEY, BC, CA | 153400 | Amazon / 495 / 9 |
| 1510 | Travis Yeske | EDMONTON, AB, CA | 112500 | Amazon / 498 / 9 |
| 582 | Parminder Kumar | BELLINGHAM, WA, US | 224300 | Amazon / 499 / 5 |
| 1976 | Melissa French | LYNNWOOD, WA, US | 66700 | Amazon / 500 / 7 |
| 2084 | Charles Lampe | KAKTOVIK, AK, US | 56100 | Amazon / 503 / 2 |
| 1612 | Tony Hoang | EDMONTON, AB, CA | 103300 | Amazon / 512 / 4 |
| 604 | Nicholas Sena-Hopkins | SEATTLE, WA, US | 220600 | Amazon / 512 / 9 |
| 1461 | Joel Nimmo | UNIVERSITY PLACE, WA, US | 117700 | Amazon / 514 / 6 |
| 459 | Travis Preng | TACOMA, WA, US | 248900 | Amazon / 524 / 2 |
| 1967 | Michael Letal | CALGARY, AB, CA | 67500 | Amazon / 528 / 2 |
| 1779 | Brent Mutter | POULSBO, WA, US | 87200 | Amazon / 529 / 3 |
| 95 | Matt Affleck | MILL CREEK, WA, US | 404100 | Amazon / 530 / 7 |
| 858 | Jesse Lonis | MEDFORD, OR, US | 181900 | Amazon / 532 / 3 |
| 1407 | Clemen Deng | PORTLAND, OR, US | 122300 | Amazon / 534 / 8 |
| 1204 | Mans Montgomery | BOISE, ID, US | 141200 | Amazon / 535 / 3 |
| 1391 | Jung Woo | BELLEVUE, WA, US | 123500 | Pavilion / 156 / 3 |
| 629 | William Nichols | BEAVERTON, OR, US | 216800 | Pavilion / 161 / 4 |
| 217 | Christopher Schaler | TACOMA, WA, US | 326000 | Pavilion / 166 / 6 |
| 1203 | Ahmed Amin | SEATTLE, WA, US | 141400 | Pavilion / 174 / 3 |
| 2147 | Brian Foley | POULSBO, WA, US | 49200 | Pavilion / 176 / 6 |
| 7 | Cameron Mitchell | JUNEAU, AK, US | 642000 | Pavilion / 177 / 6 |
| 1875 | Kao Chieng Saechao (OR) | PORTLAND, WA, US | 76900 | Pavilion / 181 / 5 |
| 2118 | Jimmy Lee | EDMONTON, AB, CA | 52400 | Pavilion / 185 / 8 |
| 1810 | Kevin Theodore | SEATTLE, WA, US | 83900 | Pavilion / 190 / 4 |
| 817 | Fatima Nanji | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 187200 | Pavilion / 194 / 6 |
| 2106 | Rambo Halpern | PORTLAND, OR, US | 53800 | Pavilion / 198 / 3 |
| 1812 | Ryan Samson | SURREY, BC, CA | 83600 | Pavilion / 199 / 8 |
| 496 | Anthony Kalanj | PORT COQUITLAM, BC, CA | 239800 | Pavilion / 200 / 4 |
| 911 | Garry Bliesner | SPOKANE VALLEY, WA, US | 175100 | Pavilion / 203 / 3 |
| 766 | Richard Mullen | WHITE ROCK, BC, CA | 195600 | Pavilion / 207 / 6 |
| 1833 | Scott Roberts | REDMOND, WA, US | 81400 | Pavilion / 208 / 3 |
| 1800 | Robert Rasmussen | EDMONDS, WA, US | 85100 | Pavilion / 209 / 5 |
| 143 | Tuan Huynh | BOISE, ID, US | 365700 | Pavilion / 209 / 7 |
| 881 | Yevgeniy Timoshenko | SEATTLE, WA, US | 179000 | Pavilion / 210 / 8 |
| 1275 | Steven Josephsen | BOTHELL, WA, US | 135000 | Pavilion / 212 / 9 |
| 1936 | Colten Yamagishi | EDMONTON, AB, CA | 70400 | Pavilion / 214 / 3 |
| 1637 | Adam Hendrix | ANCHORAGE, AK, US | 100800 | Pavilion / 226 / 4 |
| 1237 | Andrew Smith | MERCER ISLAND, WA, US | 138600 | Pavilion / 227 / 9 |
| 592 | Sterling Lopez | ANCHORAGE, AK, US | 223200 | Pavilion / 229 / 6 |
| 969 | Christopher Lastiwka | EDMONTON, AB, CA | 168100 | Pavilion / 229 / 7 |
| 73 | Brett Kennedy | SEATTLE, WA, US | 429400 | Pavilion / 230 / 8 |
| 1353 | Ian Modder | NEW WESTMINSTER, BC, CA | 127000 | Pavilion / 239 / 2 |
| 1709 | Ali Hasan | YAKIMA, WA, US | 93500 | Pavilion / 239 / 7 |
| 2301 | Joseph Haddad | PORTLAND, OR, US | 28400 | Pavilion / 241 / 8 |
| 2218 | Madison Bergeron | SURREY, BC, CA | 41400 | Pavilion / 248 / 2 |
| 1458 | Chad Thomsen | SURREY, BC, CA | 118000 | Pavilion / 248 / 3 |
| 746 | Taylor McFarland | SEATTLE, WA, US | 198300 | Pavilion / 248 / 7 |
| 1495 | Nathan Swanson | SAMMAMISH, WA, US | 113900 | Pavilion / 256 / 5 |
| 12 | Mitchell Halverson | WEST LINN, OR, US | 617600 | Pavilion / 256 / 9 |
| 1415 | Jeremy Schoenberg | PORTLAND, OR, US | 121300 | Pavilion / 259 / 3 |
| 1814 | Ronald Jacques | ONL SIGNUP-NO CITY, BC, CA | 83500 | Pavilion / 259 / 4 |
| 85 | Dustin Leary | SEATTLE, WA, US | 410000 | Pavilion / 260 / 2 |
| 81 | Rittie Chuaprasert | PORTLAND , OR, US | 414000 | Pavilion / 268 / 1 |
| 2309 | Matthew Letzring | SOLDOTNA, AK, US | 27500 | Pavilion / 271 / 7 |
| 764 | Whitney Langwell | EUGENE, OR, US | 195600 | Pavilion / 293 / 1 |
| 1367 | Elliot Smith | RICHMOND, BC, CA | 125700 | Pavilion / 299 / 1 |
| 2150 | Matthew Schiavo | SEATTLE, WA, US | 48700 | Pavilion / 300 / 2 |
Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska, British Columbia, and Alberta) players by seat. 1,810/2,443 players total. Restart 11am Wednesday, 10 November.
| RANK | PLAYER | CITY | CHIPS | SEAT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1705 | Monte George | Chattaroy, WA, US | 20600 | Amazon / 401 / 6 |
| 513 | Joseph Beltran | Pasco, WA, US | 100200 | Amazon / 405 / 4 |
| 1668 | Anthony Mar | NORTH VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 23200 | Amazon / 409 / 9 |
| 1182 | Brian Foley | Poulsbo, WA, US | 55700 | Amazon / 412 / 8 |
| 1606 | Rodolfo Martinez | Seattle, WA, US | 29000 | Amazon / 416 / 7 |
| 809 | Paul Dhaliwal | Langley, BC, CA | 77800 | Amazon / 419 / 6 |
| 594 | Brad Zusman | Gresham, OR, US | 94100 | Amazon / 420 / 9 |
| 447 | Kao Saetern | PORTLAND, OR, US | 105900 | Amazon / 426 / 6 |
| 1784 | Christopher Hoke | Anchorage, AK, US | 10700 | Amazon / 430 / 2 |
| 1655 | Harsukhpaul Sangha | SURREY, BC, CA | 24900 | Amazon / 432 / 2 |
| 1675 | Scott Roberts | Redmond, WA, US | 22500 | Amazon / 437 / 7 |
| 5 | Kenn Pluard | HAPPY VALLEY, OR, US | 307600 | Amazon / 438 / 2 |
| 888 | David Shim | Onl Signup-No City, WA, US | 72200 | Amazon / 438 / 5 |
| 1032 | Jonas Mackoff | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 63800 | Amazon / 441 / 3 |
| 165 | Brett Kennedy | Seattle, WA, US | 150100 | Amazon / 444 / 6 |
| 866 | Jesse Lonis | Medford, OR, US | 73700 | Amazon / 446 / 1 |
| 312 | Madison Bergeron | SURREY, BC, CA | 122000 | Amazon / 448 / 4 |
| 628 | Stephen Johnson | Eugene, OR, US | 91900 | Amazon / 457 / 9 |
| 697 | Jeffrey Farnes | Dallas, OR, US | 86600 | Amazon / 459 / 1 |
| 68 | Dustin Leary | SEATTLE, WA, US | 185000 | Amazon / 459 / 6 |
| 1248 | Taylor McFarland | SEATTLE, WA, US | 52000 | Amazon / 461 / 4 |
| 1090 | Vikas Sondhi | Bellingham, WA, US | 60500 | Amazon / 465 / 3 |
| 797 | Gary Bain | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 78500 | Amazon / 465 / 6 |
| 951 | Brent Mutter | Poulsbo, WA, US | 69200 | Amazon / 470 / 4 |
| 1160 | Kevin MacPhee | COEUR D ALENE, ID, US | 57400 | Amazon / 472 / 2 |
| 1660 | Kao Saechao | Portland, OR, US | 24100 | Amazon / 472 / 6 |
| 821 | Timothy Gundrum | Sammamish, WA, US | 76700 | Amazon / 478 / 3 |
| 1648 | Jonathan Yueh | BURNABY, BC, CA | 25900 | Amazon / 478 / 6 |
| 231 | Matthew Jewett | Seattle, WA, US | 136200 | Amazon / 480 / 3 |
| 1677 | Chris Nye | Onl Signup-No City, WA, US | 22400 | Amazon / 483 / 7 |
| 1486 | Andrew Doan | Marysville, WA, US | 39000 | Amazon / 485 / 4 |
| 130 | Norman Shapiro | WEST VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 159200 | Amazon / 486 / 1 |
| 1323 | James Frank | STAYTON, OR, US | 48000 | Amazon / 487 / 2 |
| 846 | Ian Modder | New Westminster, BC, CA | 75100 | Amazon / 488 / 8 |
| 476 | Matthew Schiavo | SEATTLE, WA, US | 102800 | Amazon / 489 / 2 |
| 1762 | Bradley Crandall | Vancouver, WA, US | 14600 | Amazon / 493 / 9 |
| 18 | Travis Preng | Tacoma, WA, US | 232800 | Amazon / 496 / 1 |
| 1036 | Darshan Kolachoor | Bellevue, WA, US | 63400 | Amazon / 497 / 4 |
| 1358 | Donald Thompson | OLYMPIA, WA, US | 46100 | Amazon / 497 / 8 |
| 1427 | Sarah Pluard | HAPPY VALLEY, OR, US | 42100 | Amazon / 501 / 3 |
| 1207 | Christopher Schaler | TACOMA, WA, US | 54300 | Amazon / 501 / 4 |
| 1141 | Sean Stevens | Coquitlam, BC, CA | 58000 | Amazon / 501 / 9 |
| 1553 | Joel Nimmo | University Place, WA, US | 34000 | Amazon / 502 / 2 |
| 1361 | Robert Mierzejewski | Preston, ID, US | 46000 | Amazon / 503 / 7 |
| 341 | Mark Groner | LAKE OSWEGO, OR, US | 118200 | Amazon / 505 / 5 |
| 1644 | John Stauffer | Shoreline, WA, US | 26100 | Amazon / 506 / 5 |
| 455 | Joel Micka | EVERETT, WA, US | 105000 | Amazon / 510 / 9 |
| 460 | Jacob Thibodeau | Juneau, AK, US | 104300 | Amazon / 513 / 7 |
| 181 | Dustin An | REDMOND, WA, US | 145000 | Amazon / 514 / 9 |
| 368 | Steven Stone | Lake Stevens, WA, US | 114800 | Amazon / 518 / 3 |
| 617 | Filmon Ghebreegzabheir | Issaquah, WA, US | 92900 | Amazon / 519 / 6 |
| 1693 | Ryan Stoker | Spokane, WA, US | 21200 | Amazon / 521 / 1 |
| 1582 | Noah Bronstein | Bellevue, WA, US | 30500 | Amazon / 527 / 3 |
| 1479 | Benjamin Harrison | Lake Oswego, OR, US | 39300 | Amazon / 534 / 7 |
| 1789 | Norman Nelson | Burlington, WA, US | 9500 | Pavilion / 154 / 3 |
| 1114 | Rajendra Ajmani | Bellevue, WA, US | 59100 | Pavilion / 156 / 7 |
| 1746 | Barry Curran | Onl Signup-No City, BC, CA | 16100 | Pavilion / 169 / 5 |
| 1195 | Alex Ngo | Vancouver, BC, CA | 55200 | Pavilion / 172 / 3 |
| 1749 | Marco Zaurrini | Burnaby, BC, CA | 15800 | Pavilion / 173 / 7 |
| 1003 | Kyle White | SURREY, BC, CA | 66000 | Pavilion / 180 / 7 |
| 348 | Jason Mann | BURNABY, BC, CA | 117400 | Pavilion / 184 / 8 |
| 762 | Mike Kinney | SANDPOINT, ID, US | 81100 | Pavilion / 185 / 3 |
| 1098 | Jeffrey Mitseff | PORTLAND, OR, US | 60000 | Pavilion / 186 / 7 |
| 1709 | Dien Le | Bellevue, WA, US | 20400 | Pavilion / 187 / 8 |
| 1802 | Cameron Mitchell | Juneau, AK, US | 1 | Pavilion / 193 / 3 |
| 338 | Vinny Ta | Wenatchee, WA, US | 118800 | Pavilion / 196 / 1 |
| 1569 | Allen Nielson | MERCER ISLAND, WA, US | 32200 | Pavilion / 198 / 8 |
| 1435 | Nicolas Halvorson | Vaughn, WA, US | 41700 | Pavilion / 206 / 3 |
| 956 | Chad Thomsen | SURREY, BC, CA | 69000 | Pavilion / 206 / 4 |
| 136 | Christopher Hull | Vancouver, WA, US | 157400 | Pavilion / 210 / 1 |
| 501 | Shawn Stuart | Vancouver, WA, US | 101300 | Pavilion / 210 / 8 |
| 1504 | Armand Alvarado | PORTLAND, OR, US | 37600 | Pavilion / 210 / 9 |
| 677 | Shawn Buchanan | ABBOTSFORD, BC, CA | 88800 | Pavilion / 212 / 1 |
| 1637 | William Tinoco | Eugene, OR, US | 26600 | Pavilion / 213 / 5 |
| 1309 | Gennadiy Dvosis | BELLEVUE, WA, US | 48900 | Pavilion / 215 / 5 |
| 398 | Andrew Smith | Mercer Island, WA, US | 111700 | Pavilion / 218 / 1 |
| 346 | Jaroslaw Jaskiewicz | KAMLOOPS, BC, CA | 117500 | Pavilion / 224 / 8 |
| 234 | Scott Eskenazi | MERCER ISLAND, WA, US | 136000 | Pavilion / 254 / 6 |
| 1495 | Joseph Taylor | GRAHAM, WA, US | 38200 | Pavilion / 254 / 9 |
| 19 | Jung Woo | Bellevue, WA, US | 231900 | Pavilion / 268 / 4 |
Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska, British Columbia, and Alberta) players by seat. 1,440/2,900 players total. Restart 11am Thursday, 11 November. The rank column for the “by seat” listing was not accurate for chip rank.
| PLAYER | CITY | CHIPS | SEAT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greg Mueller | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 456500 | Amazon / 400 / 4 |
| Jamil Kanji | Edmonton, AB, CA | 264500 | Amazon / 404 / 2 |
| Benjamin May | PORTLAND, OR, US | 43000 | Amazon / 405 / 8 |
| Jaime Cervantes | Vancouver, WA, US | 267500 | Amazon / 417 / 8 |
| Jesse Kertland | Ellensburg, WA, US | 43500 | Amazon / 422 / 2 |
| Aaron Thivyanathan | Renton, WA, US | 146500 | Amazon / 426 / 3 |
| Dan Barker | POULSBO, WA, US | 131300 | Amazon / 431 / 2 |
| Blaine Neufeld | Surrey, BC, CA | 41000 | Amazon / 449 / 9 |
| Ross Novak | FAIRBANKS, AK, US | 139600 | Amazon / 456 / 4 |
| Mark Miele | Victoria, BC, CA | 170500 | Amazon / 469 / 1 |
| Michael Faulkner | Viola, ID, US | 343000 | Amazon / 469 / 4 |
| Eric Stamey | KENT, WA, US | 104200 | Amazon / 473 / 2 |
| Adam Croffut | BELLINGHAM, WA, US | 122600 | Amazon / 476 / 2 |
| Roderick Chavez | KIRKLAND, WA, US | 121000 | Amazon / 476 / 6 |
| Shahriar Fahim | REDMOND, WA, US | 62600 | Amazon / 479 / 4 |
| Gabriel Post | SEATTLE, WA, US | 137500 | Amazon / 479 / 7 |
| Rick Whitesell | Vancouver, WA, US | 67700 | Amazon / 481 / 2 |
| Lee Markholt | EATONVILLE, WA, US | 99500 | Amazon / 486 / 9 |
| Ryan Thorpe | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 144500 | Amazon / 488 / 1 |
| Scott Davies | Vancouver, BC, CA | 615100 | Amazon / 492 / 1 |
| Dylan Collingwood | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 179600 | Amazon / 494 / 1 |
| Parminder Kumar | Bellingham, WA, US | 224300 | Amazon / 499 / 5 |
| Melissa French | Lynnwood, WA, US | 66700 | Amazon / 500 / 7 |
| Charles Lampe | Kaktovik, AK, US | 56100 | Amazon / 503 / 2 |
| Tony Hoang | EDMONTON, AB, CA | 103300 | Amazon / 512 / 4 |
| Nicholas Sena-Hopkins | SEATTLE, WA, US | 220600 | Amazon / 512 / 9 |
| Matt Affleck | MILL CREEK, WA, US | 404100 | Amazon / 530 / 7 |
| Clemen Deng | Portland, OR, US | 122300 | Amazon / 534 / 8 |
| William Nichols | Beaverton, OR, US | 216800 | Pavilion / 161 / 4 |
| Ahmed Amin | Seattle, WA, US | 141400 | Pavilion / 174 / 3 |
| Jimmy Lee | Edmonton, AB, CA | 52400 | Pavilion / 185 / 8 |
| Kevin Theodore | Seattle, WA, US | 83900 | Pavilion / 190 / 4 |
| Fatima Nanji | Vancouver, BC, CA | 187200 | Pavilion / 194 / 6 |
| Rambo Halpern | Portland, OR, US | 53800 | Pavilion / 198 / 3 |
| Ryan Samson | SURREY, BC, CA | 83600 | Pavilion / 199 / 8 |
| Anthony Kalanj | Port Coquitlam, BC, CA | 239800 | Pavilion / 200 / 4 |
| Garry Bliesner | Spokane Valley, WA, US | 175100 | Pavilion / 203 / 3 |
| Richard Mullen | White Rock, BC, CA | 195600 | Pavilion / 207 / 6 |
| Robert Rasmussen | EDMONDS, WA, US | 85100 | Pavilion / 209 / 5 |
| Tuan Huynh | Boise, ID, US | 365700 | Pavilion / 209 / 7 |
| Yevgeniy Timoshenko | SEATTLE, WA, US | 179000 | Pavilion / 210 / 8 |
| Steven Josephsen | BOTHELL, WA, US | 135000 | Pavilion / 212 / 9 |
| Colten Yamagishi | Edmonton, AB, CA | 70400 | Pavilion / 214 / 3 |
| Adam Hendrix | Anchorage, AK, US | 100800 | Pavilion / 226 / 4 |
| Sterling Lopez | Anchorage, AK, US | 223200 | Pavilion / 229 / 6 |
| Christopher Lastiwka | Edmonton, AB, CA | 168100 | Pavilion / 229 / 7 |
| Ali Hasan | Yakima, WA, US | 93500 | Pavilion / 239 / 7 |
| Joseph Haddad | PORTLAND, OR, US | 28400 | Pavilion / 241 / 8 |
| Nathan Swanson | Sammamish, WA, US | 113900 | Pavilion / 256 / 5 |
| Mitchell Halverson | West Linn, OR, US | 617600 | Pavilion / 256 / 9 |
| Jeremy Schoenberg | PORTLAND, OR, US | 121300 | Pavilion / 259 / 3 |
| Ronald Jacques | Onl Signup-No City, BC, CA | 83500 | Pavilion / 259 / 4 |
| Rittie Chuaprasert | Portland , OR, US | 414000 | Pavilion / 268 / 1 |
| Matthew Letzring | SOLDOTNA, AK, US | 27500 | Pavilion / 271 / 7 |
| Elliot Smith | RICHMOND, BC, CA | 125700 | Pavilion / 299 / 1 |
Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska, British Columbia, and Alberta) players by seat. 2,893/3,913 players total. Restart 11am Tuesday, 9 November.
| RANK | PLAYER | CITY | CHIPS | SEAT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 128 | Greg Mueller | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 176700 | Brasilia / 22 / 7 |
| 2546 | Aaron Steele | Bellingham, WA, US | 30000 | Brasilia / 23 / 8 |
| 1555 | Travis Jansen | SALEM, OR, US | 69100 | Brasilia / 27 / 8 |
| 1420 | William Nichols | Beaverton, OR, US | 73800 | Brasilia / 28 / 2 |
| 1645 | Seanpatrick Ohern | Bainbridge Island, WA, US | 65500 | Brasilia / 30 / 8 |
| 1521 | Jerrol Sigsworth | Fife, WA, US | 70300 | Brasilia / 32 / 9 |
| 2097 | Kostantinos Gennaios | Seattle, WA, US | 48800 | Brasilia / 35 / 2 |
| 1488 | James Battenberg | Issaquah, WA, US | 71300 | Brasilia / 35 / 6 |
| 1360 | Steven Josephsen | BOTHELL, WA, US | 76300 | Brasilia / 45 / 9 |
| 2450 | John Scott | Granite Falls, WA, US | 34300 | Brasilia / 49 / 1 |
| 807 | Melissa French | Lynnwood, WA, US | 101500 | Brasilia / 56 / 3 |
| 952 | Lee Markholt | EATONVILLE, WA, US | 94600 | Brasilia / 57 / 1 |
| 1347 | Ross Novak | FAIRBANKS, AK, US | 77000 | Brasilia / 58 / 1 |
| 2043 | Nicholas Sena-Hopkins | SEATTLE, WA, US | 51100 | Brasilia / 59 / 3 |
| 1376 | Douglas Sheh | Richmond, BC, CA | 75600 | Brasilia / 60 / 9 |
| 665 | Kheang Tang | Portland, OR, US | 109400 | Brasilia / 62 / 2 |
| 2825 | Darren Kennedy | Courtenay, BC, CA | 13900 | Brasilia / 62 / 5 |
| 1158 | Ali Hasan | Yakima, WA, US | 86200 | Brasilia / 63 / 1 |
| 421 | Ian Pelz | EUGENE, OR, US | 129300 | Brasilia / 63 / 3 |
| 1063 | Adam Hendrix | Anchorage, AK, US | 90100 | Brasilia / 63 / 6 |
| 2659 | Jason Gigliotti | WEST VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 24100 | Brasilia / 68 / 8 |
| 112 | Ryan Thorpe | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 183700 | Brasilia / 70 / 2 |
| 314 | Anthony Kalanj | Port Coquitlam, BC, CA | 142500 | Brasilia / 74 / 5 |
| 400 | Richard Mullen | White Rock, BC, CA | 130900 | Brasilia / 77 / 3 |
| 2793 | Todd Kawamura | Renton, WA, US | 15700 | Brasilia / 77 / 9 |
| 2782 | Adam Barker | Bonney Lake, WA, US | 17300 | Brasilia / 79 / 6 |
| 2260 | Dylan Collingwood | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 42000 | Brasilia / 84 / 1 |
| 2224 | Mark Lofthouse | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 43100 | Brasilia / 84 / 2 |
| 1132 | Colten Yamagishi | Edmonton, AB, CA | 87400 | Brasilia / 85 / 4 |
| 1651 | Shiva Kotini | Bellevue, WA, US | 65200 | Brasilia / 86 / 5 |
| 535 | Aaron Stefan | VANCOUVER, WA, US | 118000 | Pavilion / 100 / 1 |
| 339 | Charles Lampe | KAKTOVIK, AK, US | 138100 | Pavilion / 104 / 9 |
| 1647 | Carolyn Tulloch | INNISFAIL, AB, CA | 65400 | Pavilion / 107 / 7 |
| 114 | Michael Faulkner | VIOLA, ID, US | 182000 | Pavilion / 108 / 2 |
| 2500 | Brandon Schaefer | SEATTLE, WA, US | 31600 | Pavilion / 108 / 4 |
| 1729 | Thomas Taylor | Chestermere, AB, CA | 62500 | Pavilion / 110 / 7 |
| 2055 | Nathan Swanson | SAMMAMISH, WA, US | 50700 | Pavilion / 111 / 2 |
| 94 | Eric Stamey | KENT, WA, US | 189900 | Pavilion / 113 / 5 |
| 453 | Tuan Huynh | BOISE, ID, US | 126300 | Pavilion / 115 / 7 |
| 628 | Roger Scott | Shoreline, WA, US | 111900 | Pavilion / 118 / 5 |
| 299 | Christopher Lastiwka | EDMONTON, AB, CA | 144600 | Pavilion / 126 / 1 |
| 586 | Angela Jordison | TERREBONNE, OR, US | 114500 | Pavilion / 127 / 9 |
| 2131 | Steve Chanthabouasy | CLACKAMAS, OR, US | 47000 | Pavilion / 128 / 7 |
| 1686 | Jeremy Schoenberg | PORTLAND, OR, US | 64100 | Pavilion / 129 / 6 |
| 2049 | Robert Rasmussen | EDMONDS, WA, US | 50900 | Pavilion / 132 / 8 |
| 2483 | Mitchell Halverson | WEST LINN, OR, US | 32400 | Pavilion / 134 / 1 |
| 2491 | Darcey Beaucage | CALGARY, AB, CA | 32000 | Pavilion / 136 / 9 |
| 1587 | Mark Miele | VICTORIA, BC, CA | 67700 | Pavilion / 151 / 4 |
| 2241 | Thomas Stammer | PORT TOWNSEND, WA, US | 42400 | Pavilion / 151 / 8 |
| 1066 | Tony Hoang | EDMONTON, AB, CA | 90000 | Pavilion / 154 / 2 |
| 1214 | Ronald Jacques | Onl Signup-No City, BC, CA | 83100 | Pavilion / 159 / 1 |
| 565 | Lloyd Aalvik | Portland, OR, US | 115900 | Pavilion / 163 / 3 |
| 2248 | Seth Davies | BEND, OR, US | 42100 | Pavilion / 163 / 4 |
| 1168 | Roger Jensen | KEIZER, OR, US | 85500 | Pavilion / 164 / 9 |
| 697 | Joel Fazio | Onl Signup-No City, OR, US | 107700 | Pavilion / 166 / 5 |
| 2554 | James Nguyen | Seattle, WA, US | 29600 | Pavilion / 176 / 8 |
| 1262 | Fatima Nanji | Vancouver, BC, CA | 80700 | Pavilion / 178 / 7 |
| 1064 | Rep Porter | WOODINVILLE, WA, US | 90100 | Pavilion / 187 / 4 |
| 516 | Alexandre Servies | Seattle, WA, US | 120200 | Pavilion / 189 / 5 |
| 1152 | Sebastian Troen | VANCOUVER, BC, CA | 86400 | Pavilion / 190 / 9 |
| 1419 | David Nguyen | Surrey, BC, CA | 73800 | Pavilion / 192 / 3 |
| 2146 | Michael Chittick | WOODINVILLE, WA, US | 46300 | Pavilion / 194 / 2 |
| 1883 | Andrew Zibits | Bothell, WA, US | 57000 | Pavilion / 199 / 2 |
| 2567 | Kindah Sakkal | LYNNWOOD, WA, US | 29000 | Pavilion / 204 / 5 |
| 2035 | Forouzan Sotoudeh | West Vancouver, BC, CA | 51500 | Pavilion / 204 / 9 |
| 1124 | Michael Berdine | SILVERDALE, WA, US | 87500 | Pavilion / 205 / 7 |
| 1180 | Joseph Haddad | PORTLAND, OR, US | 85100 | Pavilion / 205 / 8 |
| 718 | Garry Bliesner | Spokane Valley, WA, US | 106300 | Pavilion / 208 / 7 |
| 2189 | Sean Greendugh | ANCHORAGE, AK, US | 44700 | Pavilion / 210 / 2 |
| 1550 | Jesse Kertland | Ellensburg, WA, US | 69300 | Pavilion / 212 / 5 |
| 60 | Rambo Halpern | Portland, OR, US | 204700 | Pavilion / 220 / 6 |
| 2658 | Jesika Harrell | ONL SIGNUP-NO CITY, AK, US | 24100 | Pavilion / 221 / 8 |
| 2776 | Scott Davies | Vancouver, BC, CA | 17600 | Pavilion / 228 / 4 |
| 2529 | Ahmed Amin | Seattle, WA, US | 30600 | Pavilion / 236 / 1 |
| 2805 | Cheang Kit Yoo | Seattle, WA, US | 14900 | Pavilion / 240 / 2 |
| 1477 | Roderick Chavez | KIRKLAND, WA, US | 71600 | Pavilion / 240 / 7 |
| 675 | Jimmy Lee | Edmonton, AB, CA | 109100 | Pavilion / 241 / 5 |
| 2873 | Kevin Martin | Lethbridge, AB, CA | 9000 | Pavilion / 243 / 6 |
| 2440 | Jessica Vierling | Seattle, WA, US | 34900 | Pavilion / 244 / 6 |
| 998 | Kevin Theodore | Seattle, WA, US | 92900 | Pavilion / 245 / 7 |
| 957 | Ryan Samson | SURREY, BC, CA | 94400 | Pavilion / 250 / 7 |
| 1072 | Adam Croffut | BELLINGHAM, WA, US | 89700 | Pavilion / 256 / 7 |
| 612 | Clemen Deng | Portland, OR, US | 112600 | Pavilion / 258 / 5 |
| 811 | Benjamin May | PORTLAND, OR, US | 101300 | Pavilion / 264 / 3 |
| 589 | Forrest Kollar | Talent, OR, US | 114100 | Pavilion / 266 / 9 |
| 1160 | Ciaran Oleary | Seattle, WA, US | 86000 | Pavilion / 271 / 5 |
| 618 | Matt Affleck | MILL CREEK, WA, US | 112300 | Pavilion / 274 / 4 |
| 321 | Robert Mar | Lynnwood, WA, US | 141000 | Pavilion / 274 / 8 |
| 739 | Dan Barker | POULSBO, WA, US | 105300 | Pavilion / 285 / 1 |
| 2345 | Vinayak Rao | Tukwila, WA, US | 38800 | Pavilion / 285 / 6 |
| 235 | Rafael Marcondes Reis | Kent, WA, US | 154000 | Pavilion / 286 / 2 |
| 1474 | Gabriel Post | SEATTLE, WA, US | 71800 | Pavilion / 287 / 3 |
| 2272 | Jordan Kelly | RED DEER, AB, CA | 41600 | Pavilion / 291 / 1 |
| 2111 | Matthew Letzring | SOLDOTNA, AK, US | 48100 | Pavilion / 294 / 2 |
| 2181 | Eli Katzman | Boise, ID, US | 45100 | Pavilion / 294 / 7 |
| 82 | Yevgeniy Timoshenko | SEATTLE, WA, US | 194800 | Pavilion / 300 / 3 |
| 1458 | Shahriar Fahim | REDMOND, WA, US | 72500 | Pavilion / 302 / 4 |
| 1491 | Andrew Seidman | PORTLAND, OR, US | 71100 | Pavilion / 309 / 8 |
| 2 | Rittie Chuaprasert | PORTLAND , OR, US | 345700 | Pavilion / 310 / 2 |
| 1868 | Jamil Kanji | EDMONTON, AB, CA | 57500 | Pavilion / 311 / 5 |
| 67 | Jaime Cervantes | Vancouver, WA, US | 198800 | Pavilion / 315 / 1 |
| 1710 | Raymond Muzyka | EDMONTON, AB, CA | 63200 | Pavilion / 319 / 7 |
| 1605 | Blaine Neufeld | Surrey, BC, CA | 67000 | Pavilion / 326 / 3 |
| 2757 | Kao Saetern | PORTLAND, OR, US | 19100 | Pavilion / 326 / 4 |
| 1945 | Jacqueline Burkhart | Boring, OR, US | 54900 | Pavilion / 326 / 5 |
| 593 | Parminder Kumar | Bellingham, WA, US | 113500 | Pavilion / 328 / 6 |
| 1673 | Maxwell Young | SEASIDE, OR, US | 64400 | Pavilion / 329 / 8 |
| 1545 | Jin Kim | Bellevue, WA, US | 69400 | Pavilion / 341 / 7 |
| 381 | Vincent Lam | EDMONTON, AB, CA | 134100 | Pavilion / 343 / 6 |
| 539 | Elliot Smith | RICHMOND, BC, CA | 117800 | Pavilion / 345 / 3 |
| 1951 | Rick Whitesell | Vancouver, WA, US | 54600 | Pavilion / 703 / 7 |
| 1143 | Calen McNeil | VICTORIA, BC, CA | 86800 | Pavilion / 707 / 8 |
| 2564 | Kostas Theodosakis | Surrey, BC, CA | 29100 | Pavilion / 708 / 2 |
This one is for my dad, whose 81st birthday was today. Started this report after I just got home from my brother’s house where we had our small immediate family together for a little celebration.
Unlike so many of you, I did not learn poker from my father. Didn’t learn it from my mother or anyone else in my family. Nobody in my family played cards when I was a kid, though Dad says he and Mom played some pinochle during their early college years. Nobody I knew even gambled, at least as far as I knew. My folks came from kind of hardscrabble families without a lot of money, and while I know that’s not exactly a bar for many people that prevents them from getting into gaming, the times (after a series of vice scandals rocked Portland’s gambling scene but well before Indian casinos brought legalized gaming to the state) and somewhat puritanical though not dogmatic religious upbringings combined with the lack of money to never even really put poker in front of my face. “I don’t know anything about poker,” he’s said to me any number of times, but it’s been a hell of a year, between COVID and cancer surgery for him, along with having to vacate his house because of a lack of electricity during the fires last fall and the ice storm that coincided with his cancer surgery, so he gets the dedication for this Leaderboard.
Running this one chronologically, again. And I’m dropping the GPI rankings because I’m not sure they added anything useful.
Graeme Wright of Calgary was runner-up in the Autumn at the Aria Poker Series $40K GTD NLHE on 7 October, out of 258 entries. It’s Wright’s largest cash (and only the fifth on record). Wright moves up over a thousands places on the Leaderboard to #1686.
The Wynn Fall Classic $2M GTD NLHE Mystery Bounty brought in over $3M to the prize pool, with 2,333 entries. In 50th place was Brett Kennedy (Seattle) whose cash was good enough to move them from #385 to #359, Eight places further on, at 32nd, was Surrey, British Columbia player Harsukhpaul Sangha, moving five places on the Leaderboard, to #110.
Daniel Boskovic (Port Moody, British Columbia) took second in the 14 October Aria Poker Series $40K GTD NLHE, out of 308 entries. The prize pool for that one topped $100K. Boskovic goes from #3927 to #2366, with their best career cash.
On a slightly larger stage, Seattle’s Chad Campbell came in 2nd in World Series of Poker #29 NLHE Short Deck Championship, beating 64 other players to go head-to-head with Chance Kornuth and their biggest cash. It takes Campbell up almost five hundred places on the Leaderboard, to #296.
Jacqueline Burkhart at 53rd, which was enough to inch up another seven places to #256. Vancouver, Washington’s James Ward debuted on the Leaderboard at #2461 by placing 45th. Christopher Brewer took a break from the nosebleed buy-ins to place 30th (which doesn’t move him from #16). Another PNW crusher, Dylan Wilkerson—#13—came in at 27th. On the last two tables, it was #8 Lee Markholt taking 17th, Seattle’s Katsushi Yoshida getting 14th (and moving eight hundred spots on the Leaderboard to #871), with Jeff Vertes of Abbotsford, British Columbia getting 12th (and climbing from #213 to #180).
In case you’re wondering how Chris’s bet here is likely to go, revisit what Limon did (and I tagged along for) during the 2015 WSOP Main Event.
Ralph ‘Rep’ Porter got close to another bracelet, making it to 4th in WSOP #31 NL 2-7 Lowball Draw. 272 entries, this is typically the $1,500 buy-in event with the fewest entries if you’re looking for a bracelet yourself! Porter stays at #11.
Vancouver’s Joseph Leung moves up forty places on the Leaderboard to #217 with a 2nd place at the Venetian DeepStack Poker Series II #23 $75K GTD PLO. That event got 267 entries and pushed the prize pool to more than three times the guarantee.
Everyone’s favorite new senior, Angela Jordison, won her biggest recorded cash in Venetian #22 $50K GTD NLHE MonsterStack. 359 entries brounght the prize pool up to $183K. Jordison’s rank on the Leaderboard goes from #282 to #224 with that win, a 10th place in the Wynn Fall Classic $400K NLHE Seniors and some other stuff, like 108th in the WSOP #52 NLHE Seniors Championship. It’s a good thing I’ll be able to play the Super Seniors next year so I can stay out of Jordison’s way. Jordison bested another PNW player—Benjamin Garrick of Gold Beach—in the Venetian event. It was still Garrick’s best cash, and they move 300+ places to #748. Two other PNW players were at the final table of the Wynn Seniors tournament , as well: April Facey—another Port Moody native, who rises about 150 places to #539—and Spokane Valley’s Justin Monk, whose 3rd-place finish took them from #179 to #146.
#18 Tyler Patterson took 20th in the WSOP #33 NLHE 8-Max.The event drew 2,778 entries at $800 each for a proze pool of nearly $2M. Kris Steinbach from Sherwood Park, Alberta grabbed 5th place, moving from #280 to #187.
Tacoma’s Peter Lynn grabbed their biggest cash and almost grabbed a bracelet, in the 285-entry WSOP #34 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw, losing to David “Bakes” Baker. Lynn jumps from #2470 to #865.
Portland’s Brian Cunningham notched a personal best cash in the 18 October and moved more than three thousand places on the Leaderboard (to #2905) by winning the Rio Daily 1pm Deep Stack, which got a prize pool of $57K out of 284 entries.
From Federal Way, Jacob Rich made it to 6th place in the 2,931 entry field of WSOP #35 NLHE Freezeout. It’s a best cash for Rich, and it’s enough for a debut on the leaderboard at #1671.
The follow-up to last week’s out-of-nowhere entry of Tacoma’s Bin Weng in the WSOP’s $25K buy-in Heads-Up tournament was Weng placing 6th in WSOP #38 NLHE High Roller 8-Max, a $50K buy-in with 81 entries. Weng was slugging it out on the final table with Mustapha Kanit, Sam Soverel, Chris Hunichen, Erik Seidel, Gal Yifrach, Justin Bonomo, and Michael Addamo. Again, that’s some chutzpah for someone whose lifetime recorded tournament earnings prior to this event were less than the buy-in, and that includes a min-cash in the $25K Heads Up. Weng had a significant addition to the recorded earnings from this, and moves from #1296 to #239 on the Leaderboard.
Dien Le from Bellevue bumps up two places to #122 with 11th place in WSOP #39 PLO 8-Max. There were 821 entries in the event.
The WSOP #41 NLHE Freezeout got 896 $2,500 entries. George Wolff came in 18th. He stays at the #17 spot on the Leaderboard.
Steve Chanthabouasy climbs five places to #90 after making the final table of the WSOP #44 LHE 6-Max, a $3K buy-in that got 162 entries. Chanthabouasy took 6th.
Slipping out of the Rio for a moment, at the Orleans Poker Series $75K GTD NLHE on 23 October, Tim Zhou from Kenmore, Washington placed 2nd for a lifetime best, and moves up from #2158 to #1677 on the Leaderboard.
Portland’s Brian Bowman jumps 400 spots to #1376 with a 13th place finish in WSOP #46 NLHE Deepstack. There were over 2,000 entries in this one.
Colten Yamagishi from Edmonton got their biggest cash coming in 4th out of 1,569 entries in WSOP #50 Mixed NLHE/PLO Deepstack 8-Max. Yamagishi is up 270 places on the Leaderboard, to #530.
Three PNW players made it deep in the 997-entry field of this $3K buy-in tournament. It was a best-ever cash for Seattle’s Matthew Schwagler, rising 400 places to #984 via a 25th place finish. It was 12th place for Krishna Vitaldevara of Woodinville, Washington, who has a massive 5100-spot rise to #1680 with another best-ever cash. And North Vancouver, British Columbia’s Jonas Mackoff finished just ahead of Vitaldevara in 11th place, but holds at #40.
Until the next time!
Too much going on to jawbone right now. I’m going to do this chronologically because so many people are cashing in the same events.
Don’t think I’ve mentioned this for a while, but the Pacific Northwest Poker Leaderboard is compiled poker tournament stats for the states and provinces of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska, British Columbia, and Alberta. I try to put a report together every two weeks, but it’s a labor of love, so real life can slow me down sometimes.
James Romero GPI: 216 was 5th in a field of 107 at the Merit Poker./partypoker MILLIONS North Cyprus #13 $500K GTD NLHE High Roller. It appears as if the 50 re-entries (at $10.5K each) were not counted as part of the reported entries, the total prize pool was $1.44M. Romero went on to cash 68th at the World Series of Poker #17 NLHE Millionaire Maker. Romero holds at #5 on the PNW Poker Leaderboard.
Vancouver BC’s Harpreet Gill GPI: 3415 jumps more than a hundred places on the Leaderboard to #84 by taking 3rd place in another event at the same series, the $5.5K buy-in Merit/partypoker #23 $3M GTD NLHE. That tournament posted 556 entries and 283 re-entries, with a prize pool of $3.8M. It’s Gill’s best-ever cash.
On the other side of the world—at Round Rock, Texas’s The Lodge Millionaire Mayhem #4 $1.25M GTD NLHE Main Event Michael Bernstein of Edmonton GPI: 4384 placed 13th out of 1,621 to climb 350 places to #967.
The Reunion was the big kickoff event for the returning WSOP and it pulled in nearly 13,000 entries, making a prize pool of $5.45M from $500 buy-ins. Four players from the PNW made it deep enough to be picked up by my tracker. Out of Roseburg, Sandra Bratton GPI: 27964 came in 48th. That’s the top 0.4% for those of you thinking 48th doesn’t sound so hard. Bratton goes from #2375 to #1810. Ryan Stoker (Spokane) moved up nine spots to #165 with 42nd place, before going on to win a bracelet after stats were compiled for this Leaderboard (I’m not sure if WSOP Online stats will get rolled into Hendon Mob leaderboards, but congrats, Ryan). Stoker is GPI: 1667. Seattle’s Katsushi Yoshida GPI: 4095 picked up a best-ever cash for 26th place and rises to #1686, nearly 1200 spots on the Leaderboard. Also from Seattle: Cheang Yoo, the 25th-place finisher. Yoo GPI: 644 is up to #344 from #400.
Steven Sporre from North Plains, Washington got their first-ever Hendon Mob cash with a 4th-place in the Orleans 2021 Fall Poker $75K GTD NLHE. Sporre is GPI: 40274 and debuts on the Leaderboard at #4259.
From Renton, Maria Pearlie Tapang GPI: 17111 goes from #6439 to #2993 after taking 3rd place (their best-ever cash) in Venetian Deepstack Championship #6 $50K GTD NLHE MonsterStack. That event got 205 entries.
Back over at the Rio, it was Adam Hendrix GPI: 2 in another big buy-in tournament, the WSOP #6 NLHE 6-Max High Roller. Hendrix took 8th of 135, in a prize pool of more than $3M. Hendrix’s position on the Leaderboard stays at #24.
Sean Fitzpatrick from Mill Creek, Washington GPI: 26166 won the Rio Daily Deepstack Series NLHE 7PM on 3 October. Fitpatrick beat 134 other entries and climbs almost 900 spots on the Leaderboard, to #2054.
Out of Eugene, William Tinoco moves from #1863 to #1289 by taking 4th out of 263 in a Wynn Fall Classic $200K GTD NLHE. It’s Tinoco’s GPI: 12488 best-ever cash.
The first PNW bracelet of the season goes to Jaswinder Lally from Vancouver, British Columbia, in only his third recorded tournament cash, in WSOP #7 Dealer’s Choice 6-Max. Lally GPI: 6726 moves from #6535 to #643. Nice to see that particular bracelet come back to the PNW!
The first of the $600 buy-in events this year drew 4,527 entries, and there were only three players from the PNW who made it to the Leaderboard from there (others cashed but not for enough to make it into this report). Chris Niemeyer of Lake Stevens GPI:16110 came in 28th; putting them on the Leaderboard for the first time at #4071. Yakima’s Theodore Demoe GPI: 6810 made it to 21st, and has a new Leaderboard ranking of #3915. GPI: 11192 Marty Stephens from Coos Bay placed 16th, their best-ever cash and a clip of 1500 places to #2382.
Moving up the Leaderboard from #18 to #17 is George Wolff, with a 6th place finish out of the 134 entrants in WSOP #9 Omaha Hi-Lo Championship and 23rd in the WSOP #25 NLHE 6-Max. Wolff is GPI: 1129.
Portland’s own Wayne Harmon was 48th out of 1,790 entries in the Wynn $1M GTD NLHE. The prize pool was nearly $2.6M. Harmon GPI: 624 is up more than twenty spots on the Leaderboard, to #205.
Sukhpaul Dhaliwal from Langley, British Columbia GPI: 4562 took 5th in the WSOP #10 NLHE Super Turbo Bounty, beating 1,635 other players to move two spots up on the Leaderboard to #59.
I’m including Tacoma’s Bin Weng GPI: 12466 in this edition of the Leaderboard even though the +47% ROI they made from their 5th-place finish in WSOP #11 NLHE Heads-Up Championship wasn’t nearly enough to get a mention, usually. (They’re going to make it into the next edition without a problem, from results posted since I ran this collation.) But you have to admire the sheer balls of someone with $12K in recorded tournament earnings and just three cashes, ponying up $25K to play heads-up matches with the likes of Adrian Mateos—Weng’s first match, Dan Zack—Weng’s third match and the player who knocked them out of the tournament, David Peters, and Cary Katz. I mean, jeez. Weng’s cash takes them from #3551 to #1296.
Vancouver, Washington’s Kevin Erickson almost won a bracelet in WSOP #12 LHE, losing heads-up to Yuval Bronshtein. The limit hold’em event drew 422 entries. Erickson’s third and best tournament cash leapfrogs him over more than four thousand other players on the Leaderboard to #784.
Landen Lucas, Portland still, according to Hendon Mob, GPI: 290 has a two-fer, with 10th place in the WSOP #13 NLHE Freezeout followed up by 33rd place (out of 5,326) in WSOP #17 NLHE Millionaire Maker. Lucas goes from #353 to #271 on the Leaderboard.
Puyallup’s Rafael Lebron GPI: 2927 was the next PNW player to win a bracelet, in WSOP #14 Seven-Card Stud, not the one where Phil Hellmuth threatened to burn down the Rio, the other one, where LeBron bested David Williams among others.It’s Lebron’s second bracelet, and the victory moves him up 19 places on the Leaderboard to #89.
Two PNW players made the last few tables of this 1,450-entry tournament. Just missing the final two tables at 13th place was Jonas Mackoff of North Vancouver, British Columbia, GPI: 4858. That’s goof for three spots on the Leaderboard, they’re now #40. 8th place was Kirkland player Jonathan Baylor‘s largest score GPI: 2704; it’s a climb of nearly two thousand places on the Leaderboard for them, to #1352.
The legendary Terrence Chan GPI: 10620 was at the final table of WSOP #16 LHE Championship, coming in 4th. 92 players put up the $10K entry fee; Chan remains at #33 on the Leaderboard.
It was a notable first recorded cash, in 8th at the Grand Poker Series #22 $500K GTD NLHE for Phillip Latimer of Moses Lake, Washington. Latimer debuts on the Leaderboard at #3475.
In addition to James Romero (mentioned above) five other PNW players had significant cashes in the Millionaire Maker this year. Anchorage’s Kristy Becker GPI:16854 busted just after Romero, in 67th, and moves from #1436 to #1170 on the Leaderboard. Bruce Herman of Ellensberg, Washington #16814 achieved their best cash with 72nd, enough to climb more than 700 places to #1835. Vanessa Kade GPI:465 moves up six positions to #122 with a 75th place finish (followed by 19th in the WSOP #25 NLHE 6-Max). Climbing nine spots to #124 is Bellevue’s Dien Le, GPI: 179 who made the final two tables at 17th. And on the final table, picking up their best-ever cash was GPI: 6323 Adam Sherman of Seattle at 8th. Sherman goes from #903 to #359.
Seth Davies has to make an appearance in the Leaderboard each edition by contractual obligation, and this time is no excepton. with a 3rd-place finish in Aria High Roller 25 NLHE. 22 entries, looking at the payouts, there may have been a 4-way deal between Davies, Jake Schindler, Nick Petrangelo, and Stephen Chidwick. Davies GPI: 50 remains #1 on the Leaderboard and just keeps putting space between himself and everyone else,
339 players entered the Wynn $200K GTD NLHE and Seattle’s Brian Heeb came in 7th. Heeb is up nearly 200 places on the Leaderboard, at #1073.
Charles Coultas of Mill Creek, Washington GPI: 6961 was the 10th-place finisher in this event with 641 entries. Coultas climbs three places on the Leaderboard to #85. The winner of the bracelet was Dylan Linde, #6 on the Leaderboard and GPI: 112, bringing yet another bracelet to the PNW.
Darren Kennedy GPI:31626 of White Rock, British Columbia bested me by 79 places in the WSOP #27 HORSE, coming in 5th and moving up about eighty places to #313.
And that brings us to the the other PNW player who was at the HORSE final table: Kao “Flexx” Saechao. That’s the Seattle-area Kao, who placed 4th in the tournament and posted a number of other results the time period covered by this edition of the Leaderboard, including a min-cash in the Millionaire Maker. The problem is, Washington Kao’s results get mixed into those of Oregon’s Kao Saechao, not only the final table finish of the HORSE but even to the point where the results of both Kaos were attributed to Oregon Kao
Not to be outdone, Kerry Moynahan posted on Facebook that two other players with the his name cashing in an event at the Venetian last year.
In any event, I can’t reliable rank either Kao because there’s a mixup of results, and that throws everything else into flux. Not by much, but some. Anyway, great job, both Flexx and Kao. Between the two of them, they’ve got four WSOP cashes and a win in a Daily Deepstack in the past couple of weeks.
That’s all for now!
This isn’t (hopefully) going to be a long post; it’s a little before 8:30am as I’m typing this, hoping I’ll get sleepy by staring at the screen, but I’ve been up for over an hour and I didn’t get to sleep until 4.
Yesterday started off with me popping over to Denny’s catty-corner from the Rio. It seems like, despite the wide-open rep of Las Vegas—many of the restaurants in the casino complex are shuttered—at least during the weekdays—which has led to scenes like this.
Denny’s, on the other hand, was busy and considerably less expensive than anything I’d seen on the menus at the Rio. All you have to do is take your life into your hands by walking across both Flamingo and Valley View each direction during morning rush hour to get there.
First order of the day was to get registered for Event #196 $180 NLHE Turbo Mega Satellite. I had my three $500 lammers from the evening before, but I was hoping to pick up another $1500 in lammers from this satellite. I’m starting to think my decision to grind satellites in the COVID era was -EV. By the end of registration, only 18 players had joined in, which meat just one full payout and one of two lamps and $200 cash. I had one [ax qx] hand get all in against [ax jx] and lose, which mostly wiped me out an I ended up fifth. The other players were discussing how to potentially chop it up as I picked up my bag, while the TD pretended something on the far wall of the Pavilion room was interesting.
That took a couple hours. It was time to make a decision about the path of my next three days in Vegas. I was (discounting expenses and treating my lammers as actual dollars) slightly ahead on the trip after the first day. Do I a) buy into the HORSE tournament? or b) use the lammers for the bulk of three more $580 mega satellites? With the number of players the mega were getting, I wasn’t sure how many of those were going to be profitable for me—I really prefer the larger satellite fields—and they could mean forgoing the two other bracelet events I was interested in.
As it happened, my passions took the lead and I dropped my lammers at the cage to register for HORSE.
My first table in the HORSE tournament couldn’t have had a better location. Though it also had Ian Johns in the seat next to me. It seemed like several other players there were from Washington state, as well. The next table wasn’t so good, in the ass-end of the Tan section of Amazon with bad lighting that made it difficult for the older players—not me, of course—to see the stud variant up cards at the other end of the table. Ran into some serious hardships and was down to 7k from 25k at one point before a phenomenal O8 segment took me up over starting stack and nearly 40k.
Got moved after a couple hours to a table with better lighting but also Alan Kessler. I lost the first hand I played there (to him) and then a (for me) massive hand where I had seven hearts in stud and I had to call off on the river when he raised me with his rivered boat. That stung. I did manage to pull off a flush that held up against Anthony Zinno to recover a bit.
Got moved to a table with Barry Greenstein and was dealt [2d 3d 4d] in Razz, which got me excited. Then I got 2 black kings, which took some of the edge off. At this point, we were nearing the final three levels of play, which is still two hours before bagging, but I’d made it past the ed of registration, and if I could hang on with my <10 big bet stack, I might be able to make Day 2.
Attendance was down a bit for this event. There were 751 entries in 2019 and just 594 yesterday, which is a full 20% drop. I’m guessing that’s probably worse for someone like myself, because most of the people who aren’t showing up are the more casual HORSE players (like me).
Ran into Joe Brandenberg in the halls, and Jeff Mitseff at the next table at the end of the night. We got the “five hands” notice from the floor just as we headed into the Razz round. I think I managed to stay out of most of those hands.
Anyway, my table draw is interesting. Felipe Ramos is #3 in live tournament earnings in Brazil. Ron Ware runs the Mixed Game Poker in Las Vegas group on Facebook.
After we bagged up, I needed to find some food. If there was anything open at the Rio during the day, it wasn’t open at 2:15am. I headed across to Ping Pang Pong (crossing Valley View in the dark, yeek!) and managed to wolf down my first food since breakfast. This hibernation fat is good for something!
Going to try to make the day last as long as I can! Usually I change out the card cover each time I cash, I’ve got to decide whether making Day 2 of my first WSOP bracelet event is significant enough to swap out.
Kind of a bummer week for the PNW poker scene as surging COVID case numbers led to governors in both Oregon and Washington imposing mask mandates on indoor facilities once again, and an outbreak at Chinook Winds Casino led to both a two-week (minimum) shitdown and the cancellation of the Fall Coast Classic.
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I’d been starting to wonder if I should go, even though I was only going to be able to make the first weekend. I’d gotten a room reservation (now cancelled) and been planning to see some folks I hadn’t connected with for a long time. Not to mention Boozy Shakes at the ’60s Cafe and Diner.Really wondering if I’m going to see the WSOP‘s last hurrah at the Rio,
First up in this edition is Portland’s Landen Lucas, who placed 17th out of 490 entries at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open/POKER GO #35 $1M GTD NLHE in Hollywood, Florida. Lucas climbs nearly thirty places on the Leaderboard to #353. GPI: 2,130.
Phillip Brocoum, another Portlander, makes his debut on Hendon Mob and on the Leaderboard at #2290 after placing 5th in a 5-way chop of Venetian DeepStack Showdown #6 $150K GTD NLHE UltimateStack (539 entries). GPI: 18,609.
Darren Rabinowitz came in 6th at the SHRPO #34 $3M GTD NLHE Championship (1,880 entries). His cash moves him from #22 to #20. GPI: #582. Matt Affleck was just ahead of him in 5th, for his first significant live cash in a while. He sticks at #15 on the Leaderboard. GPI: 3,686.
Chris Brewer — GPI: 178 — won the title in an ICM chop with Sean Winter in the 24-player SHRPO #24 NLHE Super High Roller. Brewer climbs 5 more places on the Leaderboard to #26
Writing this up after a very disappointing experience in the Ignition Super Millions Poker Open $350K GTD NLHE Main Event this afternoon. I don’t even want to talk about it. Ran like God in the satty. At least I didn’t win and have to forfeit my winnings because I violated the Terms of Service!
According to Kindle I’ve only read 8% of @daraokearney’s “Poker Satellite Strategy” but I just won a ticket for tomorrow’s $350K GTD SMPO Main Event on @IgnitionCasino! Pay attention to the part about overlay! pic.twitter.com/PaTz9Gvr92
— Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) August 15, 2021
it was a pretty restrained month for me. I fire up a lot of online tournaments—about one a day, on the average this year—but for various reasons I skipped a bunch of days this month, so the total to evaluate is remarkably small. It may be the smallest total I’ve posted in a month for over a decade.
My favorite, the Ignition Casino $5K GTD NLHE Thousandaire Maker. It’s a $75 buyin freezeout, with a $7 fee, and for about 7% of the players, there’s a $1K cash payout. Basically a satellite with money payout. This one got 73 entries, I busted in 43rd place.
The first live poker I’d played since early March 2020. The Portland Meadows NLHE $1500 WSOP Satellite. I got there late, so the lot was jam-packed, but I parked a few blocks down Killingsworth and hiked to the club. I didn’t get there until the big blind was already 600, managed to eke it out to 18th of 70. $100 buyin with a $20 door fee.
Then a long gap.
Yes, I really didn’t play a hand of poker—live or online—for two-and-a-half weeks. Weird.But with the return of the home game that started my time in 21st-century poker coming up, I fired up Ignition to play the nightly $2K GTD NLHE 6-Max Turbo. This $20 buyin/$2 fee game starts out slow, with a lot of players flocking to the last stages to just throw their money at the wall to see if it sticks. Mostly, it doesn’t, because there are a few people like myself who aren’t afraid to punish people for their stupidity. About a third of the entries are re-entry (2 allowed), but I almost never ever do, because as I’ve said forever, rebuys are for suckers. This game got 129 entries (including 40 re-entries). Paid 24 places, I came in 11th and made a whopping 104% ROI. Only down $179 for the month so far.
Went to the home game for the first time in seventeen months. Outdoor deck in Tigard, Saw all the old gang, heard all the old jokes. Busted 6/9 with my signature Mutant Jack hand [ah jh] to aces from the host, Vic. $30 buyin and a $5 addon. Got out in time to hit the Joy Cinema where I was working as a cashier/projectionist/toilet cleaner/food handler for the 9:15 show of Road Warrior and chatted with my friend (for more than 35 years) and former boss Jeff “Punk Rock” Martin. Down $214 for the month, not counting my movie ticket, popcorn, and Diet Coke.
Another $22 NLHE 6-Max Turbo. This one’s slightly larger, with 146 entries (45 re-entry). Still 24 paid but this time I make it to 10th. Still only 130% ROI for two-and-a-half hours. Down $185 for July.
Making the 6-Max a nightly thing, but this game I don’t even make it to the end of the entry period. Out 33 of 63 (at the time). Just 33 minutes. Down $207.
Another cash in the 6-Max. I get very lucky a couple of times but end up oout in 18th place after two hours and 40 minutes. 149 entries with 44 re-entries and 24 paid ($710 up top). My take is 68% ROI. Down $192.
I fire up Ignition a little earlier than the 10pm 5-Max after a couple of work nights where I was up past 1am and get into the 8pm $1K GTD PLO Turbo. I took 2nd in one of these smaller tournaments at the end of June, I’m a big fan of the Great Game of PLO™, but I fall far short in this one: 27th of 45 entries. Buyin is $15 with a $1,5 fee, no re-entry, which is kind of refreshing in a PLO game. Down $209.
Another PLO Turbo. No dice. 30th of 47 (neither this night or the previous nighyt reached the end of registration, so that’s not an accurate number of the total entries. Down $226 for the month.
Back to the 6-Max Turbo. These games—like most turbos—tend to be short-stacked in the final stages, but it’s easy to make mistakes like shoving into the aces of the guy who’s just gotten lucky against your pair. Anyway, 7th of 135 (40 re-entries). $648 up top but I get a 268% ROI. Just over three hours. Down $167.
The start of this tournament was almost laughable. You begin with 10K in chips. I came in at the 80/160 level and was down a couple thousand (15bb) in the first four hands. I doubled up on hand 5 when someone called my nut flush (and the nuts) on the river, I won the next two hands and doubled through the chip leader, then I doubled again just before the first break, knocking out the former chip leader and two others. I hit a set on the flop and we all managed to get everything in. I held against several draws. Had some setbacks in the next hour, but was back upon top by the second break.
There wwere 78 entries in the tournament and a prize pool of $1,185. 17 places paid. My time in the tournament was almost exactly two hours and forty minutes (total time would have been 3:20) and I was there until the last, when my aces ran into a flopped two pair HU and I couldn’t recover. 1035% ROI! I end the month up $9! Just short of 20 hours. 45¢ an hour.