#PNWPokerCalendar Planner for October 7

No particular news this week. Forrest Auel mentioned the other day that he was shown on one of the World Series of Poker Main Event telecasts last week. I tried to spot him so I could capture a screen shot but ESPN and/or Comcast conspired to screw up the scheduling and I got a recording of people discussing baseball instead of one of the episodes. Somewhere in the fifth or sixth hours of the ME broadcast. Look for him.

Other than that, I already recapped my bubble of the Final Table $20K and an odd find in the America’s Cardroom $1M guarantee last Sunday, so read those if you’re interested.

Vegas, Baby!: Deal of the Day

So much coming up in November. I mentioned the tournaments in Northern California in Redding and Sacramento last week, but more or less at the same time—and a lot closer together—are the Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza IV (running from late October to the day before Thanksgiving) and the World Series of Poker Circuit event at Planet Hollywood, which has a 12-day run starting November 12th. The casinos are less than a mile apart, probably a 25-30 minute walk when you factor in the intersection at Flamingo and Las Vegas Blvd. and the Paris Las Vegas driveways (plus having to dodge the escort service flyers and hobos dressed up as cartoon characters).

I recommended the WSOPC Planet Hollywood stop for the week of November 15th already because of the selection of mixed games running as side events. Having the Venetian series running concurrently sweetens the pot. There’s a $500K guarantee NLHE tournament ($1600 buyin) opposite the mix events, with the $1650 buyin, $1.5M guarantee WSOPC Main Event at the end of the week. It should be a pretty intense week for poker players who can get away to Vegas for the week after Wildhorse.

This Week in Portland Poker

  • Saturday at 1pm is the $35K guarantee at Encore Club. $200 entry/re-entry and an $80 addon. It’s the next step to a great month of Portland tournament poker.
  • Tickets for the Final Table $100K guarantee might start selling in the next week. It’s scheduled for October 24th at 11am with a $300 buyin/rebuy and a $100 addon. Monday was the scheduled start of the return of the 1pm $500 guarantee Big O tournament ($20 buyin/rebuy/addon).
  • Saturday at 5pm is Portland Players Club’s $2K guarantee Big O tournament ($100 buyin/rebuy, $40 addon). It’s a deepstack format with 30K in the starting stack, though you can never be deepstacked enough in Big O. Chadd just added a 12:05pm $1K NLHE freeroll before the Big O game.

Only a Day Away

  • The Card Player Poker Tour/Bicycle Casino Big Poker Oktober  in LA has entry days into their inaugural $300K event today through Friday. Sunday is a $50K guarantee, with mostly $150 buyin events over the next week.
  • Deepstacks Poker Tour in Edmonton, Alberta (airport code: YEG) drew 240 players for its C$550 Event #1, awarding C$26K for first place. The C$440 Event #3 (PLO) got 102. The C$200K guarantee Main Event (C$1.5K entry) has entry days Friday and Saturday.
  • The Wynn Fall Classic kicks off next Wednesday in Las Vegas with a $50K guarantee Seniors event (50+) with a $600 buyin. It features three multi-day events with guarantees from $100K to $300K.
  • Next Thursday is the start of LA’s Hustler Casino Liz Flynt Fall Poker Classic. Three of the first four events are survivor tournaments (even chop at 10% of the field). There’s a $250K guarantee event with a $250 buyin, a $500K guarantee event with a $350 buyin, and a $250K guarantee with $150 buyin and $100 addon. It runs through November 5th.
  • Friday the 16th is the start of the Card Player Poker Tour/Hollywood Park Casino National Championship of Poker in Los Angeles. It kicks off with a $25K guarantee event that includes four seats to the $500 $150K guarantee Main Event the next weekend.
  • Further south in San Diego, Saturday the 17th is opening day at Oceans 11 Casino for another WPTDeepstacks event, starting off with a $50K guarantee and ending with a $200K Main Event.
  • LATE ADDITION: PlayNow.com is the government-run online gaming /lottery site run by British Columbia. It runs online poker (you have to be a resident of BC to play, not just passing through) but also sponsors some live events. I got notice after I posted this week’s calendar that their PlayNow Poker Championship runs from next Thursday (the 15th) until October 25th. at the Hard Rock Casino in Vancouver. The first event is a C$330 Women’s event (about US$250). They’re estimating a prize pool of more than US$110K for the second, two-day event (US610 entry, freezeout format) and event 3, a US$1265 main event. Seating for all events is limited.

Check out the Pacific Northwest Tournament Calendar for more poker.