PNW Poker Leaderboard — 17 March 2022: PNW Live Poker Is Back!

Posted on Thursday, 17 March 2022 by Poker Mutant

Chinook Winds PacWest Poker Classic

It was the first poker series in the US Pacific Northwest in two years (since I’m now including Alberta and British Columbia in the Leaderboard rankings, I have to acknowledge that they got the jump on us last fall), and players came out to Lincoln City, despite having to (more or less) wear masks, and suffer high fuel prices and sunny beaches.

David and I had to get our feet wet.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to play the whole week (job) so I took a couple days off early in the series so that I could play the 6-Max and HORSE tournaments. My sometime travel partner David Long — who I hadn’t really talked to for two years —sent me a message a couple weeks beforehand, and I switched up my reservation so we could split a room. Already saving money!

We got to Lincoln City about a half-hour after the start of Sunday afternoon’s tournament, a $25K GTD NLHE running while the opening $100K was in Day 2. David went off to register for the cash game waiting lists; I hit the tournament registration desk.

I only lasted a couple of hours in the $25K, by which it was check-in time at the motel, so I headed off to get our bags up to the room, then came back to wait for David to head up for dinner at the 60s Cafe and Diner for a burger and a Boozy Shake, the better to play the 3-Seat GTD NLHE Main Event Satellite (2 bullets and it didn’t help).

Monday morning was the $50K GTD NLHE 6-Max, which I had been looking forward to as much as the HORSE. I was a little late for the start, owing to a lot more folks than I was expecting at the Pig & Pancake, but we managed to get breakfast and over to the casino before it was too late. The buy-in on this one was $550, plus the dealer appreciation, so it’s one of the bigger outlays I’m willing to do these days.

Things got off to a pretty decent start, when I picked up a pair of sevens and his a set versus top pair on my first hand. Another set of events in round 4 pumped me up to about 50K from the 32K start. Lost some ground, then picked back up to make it to around 80K before I ran into sevens as my own nemesis, hitting trip tens with AxTx against a full house of sevens over tens. I called off 20K on the river alone and was down under the starting stack. That may have been the crucial point for me in this one.

I was under 20K at the beginning of the next level, four hours in, then I started to pick up some steam after a table change. We were under 30 players (with 12 places paying) six hours in. I was up to 30 big blinds, but the average was twice that. Another table move put me in with some guys who were even older than I am.

This new table is making me rethink skipping the old man tournament tomorrow morning.

No. No, I WILL play HORSE as planned. Different set of old men.
— Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) March 8, 2022

Another hour, and making a lucky river gunshot straight for Broadway put me up above average for the first time in a while. After a dinner break, we were seven places from the money, and I was back down to 20 big blinds. I did get to see three all-spade flops in a row, which was kind of bizarre.

The board was still reading 16 players remaining when the end came for me. I picked up AxQx for my big blind and I had about 15bb, which I was reasonably certain was the shortest stack left. We were five-handed at our table, and the UTG player raised to 18K (3x). One of the older players at the table (who’d been grumbling to me about showing the aggressive ‘kids’ like UTG what’s what) pushed it to 40K, and I knew that I was taking a bit of a risk to race so close to the bubble, but I went all-in, nonetheless. With the extra 60K, I was sure I could get through the bubble, even with 4 players left. UTG folded right away. The guy who 3-bet thought it over for a bit, wondered aloud if I might have ace-king, and looked at his stack, which I think was probably well over 300K, before deciding to call with 9x9x. The flop was under eights, there was a king on the turn (would that I had the ace-king!) and he was safe on the river.

When I got up, Forrest Auel was taking a couple people off the board and I saw that it was just showing 13. I asked if I was the actual bubble boy and he told me that I was 14th, so I guess a couple went out just before me. I might have held my fire if I’d known we were at 14 instead of 16, but I think I played this game pretty well over all.

The HORSE tournament wasn’t starting until 4pm on Tuesday, so after walking down to the Pacific Ocean to get our feet wet (they turned to ice in about two minutes because it was still in the 40s at mid-day and the water at the Oregon coast is always cold) we headed up to the cash games, which were already under way by the time we got there. David put himself on all the lists, and I signed up for some NLHE, Limit Hold’em, and an unlikely Stud game, then we went off in search of some Game King slot machines. After a small win, we got called back to the live action games, David sat down in Big O, and I got a seat in the $1/$3 NLHE. Aside from a couple live cash sessions at the WSOP last fall, between not really being a cash player and COVID, I hadn’t played live cash NLHE since my last trip to Chinook Winds two years ago, but I managed to make a little profit over 90 minutes, then went off to sign up for the tournament.

The $10K GTD HORSE started off in Stud Hi-Lo, and I somehow managed to scoop the first hand with the nut flush and a 76 low for a decent pot — since everyone was in on it at first — but I ran into some trouble in the Hold’em round, holding on to top pair twice in a row against players who picked up trips on the turn.

Two hours in, the big bet was already up to 1K, and I was down to 9500 chips from a 14K starting stack. But the next hour, in an Omaha Hi-Lo round, I somehow scooped a pot with a pair of threes and got back over starting stack.

It wasn’t going to be back-to-back cashes for me in HORSE tournaments, however. Once again, it was Hold’em that stuck it to me. Not long before the end of round 12, I 3-bet with AxKx and the original raiser and I pumped it up to 7500, five bets at that level. I had him slightly outchipped. I whiffed the low flop, but called his bet. The turn was an ace, and he bet it, I put in another bit get, and he was all in for a bit more. He flipped over QxQx. All good. Until the queen came on the river, leaving me with less than two big bets.

Qe switched into Omaha and I took down a 3/4 pot by making a straight with middle cards and still having the low, then picked up 2x4x4x5x and it looked like I might pick up some more but no low came in, and though I had a set of fours, the queens guy had a set of jacks.

That was it for me! Back home to go to work the next morning, driving on the mountain road to Salem in the dark and the rain. Post-Poker Fun! I wasn’t able to make it down to the Main Event the next weekend, but I think I played about as well as I ever have, despite being a wee bit rusty.

Pacific Northwest Poker Leaderboard

No results here yet from the PacWest Poker Classic, but there are definitely some interesting things from outside the region.

Coldfield, Washington’s Paul Wood was 5th in the Venetian DeepStack Extravaganza #29 $100K GTD NLHE MonsterStack, out of 177 entries ($171.7K prize pool). It’s their biggest cash to date, and it’s enough to take Woods from #4588 to #2815 on the PNW Poker Leaderboard.

WILD WEST SHOOTOUT NLHE MAIN EVENT

Picking up results from early December, Prabakaran Sivabalasundaram from Calgary was 5th out of 233 entries in this event at Cash Casino in their home town. The prize pool reached C$221K. Sivabalasundaram gains more than a hundred spots on the Leaderboard, landing at #822. 4th place was claimes by Deron Noksana from the Northwest Territories, jumping seventy places to #434. Third place gave David Howat (Calgary) a two-hundred-place boost to #747. Lethbridge, Alberta’s Kevin Martin took 2nd, for a gain of twenty-three spots (#172). And on the top of the heap was Jimmy Lee from Edmonton, climbing from #77 to #69.

Edmonton’s Allen Butkovic was runner-up in the Pure Poker Tour Edmonton #5 NLHE. The prize pool was over C$100K with 362 entries. Butkovic gains nine places, to #268.

PURE POKER TOUR EDMONTON #8 NLHE MAIN EVENT

This event (mid-February, not last year!) got 481 entries, generating a prize pool of C$438K. Krista Kay Teller (Leduc, Alberta) picked up their biggest-ever cash in 7th and gained twelve hundred places on the Leaderboard, landing at #2117. Just ahead of Tellier in 6th was Ali Razzaq of Edmonton, climbing from #1259 to #993. Also from Edmonton was 4th-place finisher Tyler St. Clair, rising thirty-six spots to #304. Ali Taghi Khani (Edmonton) placed 2nd in both this event and Pure Poker Tour Edmonton #3 NLHE Bounty (306 entries, C$144K prize pool), for their two biggest-ever cashes and nearly nine hundred places on the Leaderboard, now #634. Edmonton’s Andy Truong was the winner of the Main Event, gaining sixty-two places, to #166.

Jeffrey Myers from Federal Way got 4th in the 781-entry World Series of Poker Circuit Cherokee #4 $75K GTD NLHE Seniors tournament, where the prize pool busted the roof to more than $250K. Myers is up almost five hundred places to #1306.

Climbing almost thirteen hundred places to #1835 is Sherwood park, Alberta’s Edgar Zurawell, who won the Wild West Shootout #3 NLHE Mini Main Event, ahead of 244 other players and with a prize pool just short of C$63K.

Edmonton’s Pawan Braich took down Pure Poker Tour Edmonton #7 PLO Triple Stack, with a prize pool of nearly C$80K and 210 entries. Braich rises from #308 to #281.

James Schmidt (Spokane) got their biggest-ever cash and fifty-six spots on the Leaderboard (#423) with 2nd place at the Wynn Millions Poker Series $40K GTD NLHE Seniors. 348 entries made a prize pool just over $120K.

Coming in 13th at the Wynn Millions $1.5M GTD NLHE Mystery Bounty, Beaverton’s Anthony An took down their biggest-ever cash and rose over four hundred places to #983. And it was Rambo Halpern — former owner of one of the first poker clubs I played in — who took an astounding 2nd-place (plus some bounties) in the field of 2,103 that more than doubled the guarantee. It bumps him up by two hundred places, to #150 on the PNW Poker Leaderboard.Brian Cunningham (Portland) gained nearly two thousands spots on the Leaderboard by winning the Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza I #24 $100K NLHE MonsterStack. Cunningham beat a field of 195 (prize pool of $189K).

Dylan Linde ekes out a rare Top Twenty move: up one spot from #6 to #5 (edging out James Romero) with 7th place at the LA Poker Classic #28 NLHE Main Event, which got 119 entries and a prize pool of $1.12M. Which also brings us to the last name on this edition of the PNW Poker Leaderboard: Seattle’s Jayakrishnan Nair, who claimed 2nd place and a forty-four spot climb, to #86.

Stay safe out there!

PNW Poker Leaderboard — 18 December 2021: WSOP Main Event (and more)

Posted on Saturday, 18 December 2021 by Poker Mutant

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 Hawaiâ€™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.

World Series of Poker #52 NLHE Seniors

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.

World Series of Poker #58 NLHE Super Seniors

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.

Final result of the 144 players drafted in main was $9,832,700 (thanks @kooraay90 ) for 680% roi. Not sure how much to take away from this. The result is clearly top 5-10% run, but also a bet like this always going to be won because one of the drafted players went very deep
— Chris Brewer (@Chris_D_Brewer) November 22, 2021

World Series of Poker #62 PLO8 8-Max

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.

Venetian #43 $1M GTD NLHE Mini DeepStacks Championship

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.

World Series of Poker #65 NLHE Mini Main Event

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).

World Series of Poker #67 NLHE Main Event

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 Imsirovicâ€™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, Washingtonâ€™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.

World Series of Poker #70 NLHE Crazy Eights 8-Max

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 Hawaiâ€™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!

2021 WSOP Main Event Tracker

Posted on Monday, 8 November 2021 by Poker Mutant

Day 8

The recent elimination of Mitchell Halverson in 15th place means one more elimination to the next pay jump – $470,000 when 13 remain. https://t.co/cZfe0GrBNK
— WSOP (@WSOP) November 16, 2021

From taking 2nd in the opening WSOP event to a top 25 finish in the tournament of all tournaments the WSOP main event shout out to you my man @JesseLonis you're a fucking gangster bro! pic.twitter.com/2pwDLk5otn
— NsaneLaneTrain, Pro poker idiot (@cmumadmikelane) November 16, 2021

Matthew Jewett had been my pick the last couple days to win the main event, so of course heâ€™s out now, that was clearly the kiss of death â€¦ Down to the final three tables, itâ€™s getting really good now
— Mitch Rupert (@Mitch_Rupert) November 15, 2021

Day 7

1/12 of the 36 players left in the WSOP Main Event are from the Pacific Northwest: Matthew Jewett (Seattle), Mitchell Halverson (West Linn, OR), and Jesse Lonis (Medford, OR). https://t.co/avRJk2YH4S
— Poker â€œSocially and Emotionally Distant 2â€ Mutant (@pokermutant) November 15, 2021

Day 6

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

Day 5

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

Day 4

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

Day 3

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

Day 2CEF

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

Day 2ABD End of Day

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

Day 2ABD

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

WSOP 2021: Day-No-Mont!

Posted on Saturday, 16 October 2021 by Poker Mutant

Is it just me? Every time I walk past this in the hall on the way to the WSOP, I don’t see a patio chair turned into wall art as much as I see an old man’s walker, crushed under an SUV on Valley View trying to get across to one of the Subways in the Gold Coast, covered in colored crepe paper and stuck up to hide the evidence in plain sight.

I took another shot at the 9am mega-satellite on Friday, ending up firing two bullets because the field got to 38 (three full $1500 payouts and one $1200), but didn’t manage to ever get anything going (hence the second bullet).

I debated playing some single-table-satellites, but since I hadn’t been able to connect up with the person I probably would have sold the lammers to (I cannot imagine myself trying to hustle lammers to people in line, even in a full WSOP; I just don’t have the â€˜strike-up-a-conversation-with-strangers’ gene) I decided to wait until the $250 Deepstack at 1pm, which has been getting a couple hundred entries the past week.

By popular request, the 2021 @WSOP Daily Deepstacks page is now online at https://t.co/vYNqtVWFOA
— Kevin Mathers (@Kevmath) October 12, 2021

I made some call in the late morning, then headed down to the All-American Bar & Grill for a salad before I headed in to Pavilion. It was a little after the 1pm start time by then, but I wasn’t too worried, since the levels were 30 minutes. But even though the line didn’t even extend from the satellite cages all the way to the central aisle, it wasn’t moving at all, at first. There were maybe 20 people in front of me and three windows open, but I stood in the same place for a long time. It was nearly. Half hour before I was seated at the table. And I only lasted about 25 minutes, loving a couple chunky hands, then raising K♣J♠ in middle position, getting a couple calls, then seeing a 9x8x7x flop and Qx turn and getting my stack all in and called by 9x9x. Then, of course, Qx on the river.

That was the last tournament poker for me for this trip. I figured that I would go pick up my media credentials, mostly to add them to the collection, and went back to the room to rest up from the excitement of my HORSE min-cash. I saw that I now had a WSOP.com player page and my Hendon Mob profile has the update already, Sadly, it’s not enough to get my on the next installment of the PNW Poker Leaderboard.

I wandered back down to the Amazon room and ran into Kevmath (again, because he’d been one of just five people—including myself—in the drastically-reduced media room earlier) and we firmed up our connections for getting together later. The final two tables of the HORSE tournament were running, and I very much wanted to rail PNW player Kao “Flexx” Saechao, who was second in chips at the time to eventual champ Anthony Zinno (who I’d won a pot from earlier in the tournament, I will remind everyone from now on), but I contented myself with harassing PokerNews because they had Oregon’s Kao Saechao linked in their player profile.

DougChase @PokerNews, I think the wrong profile may be linked for Kao Saechao in the report below. As @HoldemMedia_Dan will attest, there are poker players by that name in all three West Coast states, and the Kao in the $1500 HORSE is from Washington.https://t.co/bnbe1Mp0Dv
— Poker â€œSocially and Emotionally Distant 2â€ Mutant (@pokermutant) October 15, 2021

No thanks for that, but they did fix it not long afterward. They might just have noticed that the guy in the player profile looked nothing like the guy at the table. Flexx made 4th place, so great congratulations to him, and he will appear in the Leaderboard. Now wee just need Portland Meadows—named after a horse-racing track—to put on some HORSE tournaments to make Portland the home of Big O and HORSE!

Picked up some beer for Kevmath, went back to the room for a while, then he DMed me to let me know it would be a bit later than he’d expected because of a big news thing, which turned out to be he last-minute announcement of two more day 1s for the Main Event and a reshuffling of the rest of the schedule, to accommodate the relaxation of COVID travel restrictions to the US. He made it about two hours later than he’d originally expected (and I left him waiting outside he door for five minutes because I didn’t see his first couple of DMs, my apologies, Kevin), and we watched some of the endgame of the $5K NLHE 6-Max, from 3-handed until just about the time it ended in real life (though not on the 60-minute PokerGO delay feed) while I got to hear some details of how he came to play next week’s Turbo Bounty bracelet event, and other insights into the weird niche he’s carved out for himself as poker’s social media ganglion.

Hanging with @Kevmath after his workday technically ended, but heâ€™s still texting. pic.twitter.com/vontcPR6Vx
— Poker â€œSocially and Emotionally Distant 2â€ Mutant (@pokermutant) October 16, 2021

Time to finish packing up and head out in a few hours. Have a great WSOP, everyone!

WSOP 2021: Choose Your Own H.O.R.S.E. Adventure

Posted on Thursday, 14 October 2021 by Poker Mutant

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.

pic.twitter.com/6Ksrex1rr2
— Poker â€œSocially and Emotionally Distant 2â€ Mutant (@pokermutant) October 14, 2021

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 AxQx hand get all in against AxJx 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.

I could not find a shirt for HORSE pic.twitter.com/T0N5pHVcdD
— Poker â€œSocially and Emotionally Distant 2â€ Mutant (@pokermutant) October 13, 2021

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.

Got the winner of the 2016 $1500 HORSE event I covered as a live reporter sitting next to me in the 2021 $1500 HORSE
— Poker â€œSocially and Emotionally Distant 2â€ Mutant (@pokermutant) October 13, 2021

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 2♦3♦4♦ 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.

WSOP 2021: Back to the Rio

Posted on Wednesday, 13 October 2021 by Poker Mutant

As anyone who reads this blog knows, I am not a professional poker player. The last bracelet event I played at the World Series of Poker was in 2013. I’ve only ever played two (well, now three) bracelet events, and they were back when the WSOP first introduced $1,000 events. This year, I sunk even lower and entered a $600 bracelet event.

It’s been a long haul, folks, Years ago, I’d heard about folks grinding satellites, and even though I felt I was decent at playing them, I’d never had the discipline to sit down and just do it. So many tournaments in the summer (or anytime I was likely to be going to Vegas), so many variations. Never mind that I’d done reasonably well in the Ignition Casino Thousandaire Makers (only to blow the money I made on MTTs). Never mind that I had Dara O’Kearney’s Poker Satellite Strategy on my Kindle mostly unread.

I did put my plan into action when I came down in 2018, but bricked out. In 2019, when I â€˜retired’ from poker, I had to cancel the trip at the last minute because of work, and you know what happened to 2020. So I really wanted to take advantage of this revival year—and experience a WSOP that didn’t melt me when I walked outdoors.

I made my plans as soon as the schedule was announced, centering the trip around three bracelet events: #24 $600 PLO 8-Max, #27 $1500 HORSE, and #28 $1000 PLO 8-Max. Plus the usual $180 mega satellites and the daily $580 mega satellite. I figured either this WSOP would be one of the easiest (with so many players choosing not to or unable to travel to the US) or really hard (with the people who were dedicated to making it to the WSOP being concentrated with pros).

Up at 4am to catch the first flight to Vegas today. Disregard the enticing $250 offers from the airline to give up my seat for a later flight—we’re on a schedule, man!

Plane lands around 8:30. Now, spite months of mental preparation for this trip, I made a very essential error: fucking Columbus Day (I’m using that instead of Indigenous Peoples’ Day because this is a comment about how the day screwed me over). I wasn’t planning to travel with a huge wad of money, just enough to get me through the first day or so, but Friday was a bitch and Saturday I had stuff to do around the house, I old just pick up my cash from the bank on Monday, right? Did I remember that banks were going o be closed on Monday? No. And even the cheap-ass PLO game was more than an ATM puts out.

So, when I get to Las Vegas, I need to get to a branch of my bank, of which there are a number in town, one just a couple miles from the airport. It even opens at 9. I get there a quarter hour before it opens and it’s a cubbyhole inside the student union at UNLV. I just hope it has money.

Branch opens up, the very nice branch assistant tells me my specific ask is no problem, until they get to the part where they give me the money and they tell me that there’s some weird thing about the way the business account I have had for my sole proprietorship for more than a quarter of a century is set up in their system and I’m somehow not the “owner” of the account. Fie on you, Christopher Columbus! Anyway, it’s resolved by me transferring the amount I need to my linked personal account and taking it out of there. I was reminded that when I had some a paycheck—from Caesar’s Entertainment, one of the largest employers here—to my account a few years ago, one of the branches in a grocery store couldn’t take my deposit without the branch manager being there, which they were not. It was not, dear reader, a large sum of money.

So that’s all before 10am.

Hardly any line @wsop registration cage right now! Come and get my 4-card money, suckers! pic.twitter.com/eKmdvumf3n

— Poker â€œSocially and Emotionally Distant 2â€ Mutant (@pokermutant) October 12, 2021

The Rio at 9:30 this morning was quiet. Hardly any line for the registration cage. Mid-week mornings are good. I was bought in an hour before the event and kicked around. It was surprising to see what’s operating next what’s not. There were a fe people sitting at the tables inside Starbucks, but the lights were off and I didn’t see anyone behind the counter. That’s fine, I don’t drink coffee except socially.

So, how’d my first bracelet event in eight years go? Not so great. I was in a steady drift down for most of my time in the tournament, with a couple of players—one at the far end of the table and one just to my left—picking off chips. I looked at their stacks a couple of times before anyone had been knocked off the table and was a bit puzzled at where they’d all come from, I’d lost a lot but not that many, and it seemed like other people had more than me, too. I shrank down to less than a fifth of the 30k starting stack over the first four levels, then suddenly caught some fire in Level 5.

AA44 late pot over a raise and call does not go well. KKxx hits the flop and a wrap takes it with a straight. Should have got away on the flop even though I would have been back down to 20k. pic.twitter.com/PmSHjno5gb

— Poker â€œSocially and Emotionally Distant 2â€ Mutant (@pokermutant) October 12, 2021

Our little corner of the Brasilia room didn’t see any water service for a couple hours. I was damned if I was paying for some other drink. I wanted my 10oz/$1 water. Maybe the lack of hydration was messing with my game.

My stack got up to almost where it had started three-and-a-half hours before before I potted with a rainbow AA44, got called by two players, then shoved on a KQx flop where I ought to have known I was beat. Both players shoved, one with an open-ended draw and the other with a set of kings and the wrap made a king-high straight.

So naturally, instead of looking for something t eat or drink (all I’d had since the night before was airplane biscotti, which was pretty good), I went back to the reg cage to get into the $580 mega. Now the lines were a bit longer, it took about 40 minutes to get my ticket, even though the line—full of anxious PLO re-entries—didn’t reach the main hall. It’s almost enough to make me go sign up with Fastrac, which I was discussing with a couple of the folks in line behind me, only to have someone who’d just signed up have some serious frustrations with the machine outside registration.

So I got to the mega almost 90 minutes in, with 10k of chips and 400/800/800 blinds. Just the way I like to burn $580. This went a to better, even though there were a couple of large stacks. I was one of the later entries but there were only 24 by the end of registration, which was going to yield two payouts of $5k in lammer chips and one of $2k.

I was playing tight (12bb!) then less than half an hour in I had to call with AK and the guy who’d been opening a bit too much a little sheepishly turned over Q2 after raising 10x. The the big stack on my right raised a hand and I caught trip 9s on a flop with T♠9♠ which knocked him out. So I had a quarter of the chips as we went into a break and consolidated to a table of 9.

But then work interrupted. Something back home att the job was messed up. It was probably my fault, and I’m getting calls from the client who I don’t usually talk to, what with me being a worker grunt and not the face of the enterprise. I faltered and raised Q♠J♠, then called an all-in from a player at the other end of the table, who had enough to halve my stack, which was more than everyone else, but not especially deep.

The highlight of the evening was probably when I called with KxQx against an all-in from a two-time bracelet winner (someone I should have recognized, but it’s been a few years since it was my job to know these guys) and cracked his Ax hand. That wasn’t long before he shoved a small stack with tens T♠T♣, got called by T♥9♥ and the board ran out 4♠8♣4♥4♣4♦ for a chopped pot, which must just have been crushing, even to a pro.

We got down to 4 players, on the bubble and K, the player on my left and I were tied at about 37k, less than 10bb. I was getting the best of it, because the other old man at the table, P, gave me a couple walks and K wasn’t getting that, so he got a little shorter than me. T, the player with the most chips, proposed a chop, with him taking the full $5K, and P and myself passing a lammer chip each to K. Who am I to turn down a deal that pus me in the red for the day (not counting other expenses.

Everyone agreed to the deal, we went through the process to get out lammers, and that’s how I got my first-ever payout at the WSOP, though it’s not technically money. All for of us waved to the payout room together, T got his chips first, P went up to the window, but even though I had to wait in line for a little to get my paperwork and payout, P was still at the window. Both T and I hung around to make sure K got his other chip (I’d flipped him one right after I got them), and P paid off his part in casino chips for some reason. Everyone satisfied (except for the part where I blew $3500 in equity) we headed our separate ways. I got checked in, got some fluids, and had a nice pork-fried rice.

Poker In the Time of COVID

Posted on Saturday, 8 August 2020 by Poker Mutant

“Poker Game on the Moon“ by Jim Algar

It was five months ago today that I played my last hand of live poker, the longest gap in my live play since I started playing home games with a group of guys my cousin’s husband introduced me to back in 2007. And that last live session was with what remains of the same group, which has been whittled down considerably from the days when we regularly needed two tables. Maybe I drove them awayâ€¦

It’s not that live poker hasn’t come back to Portland, albeit in a somewhat reduced fashion. Both of the largest poker rooms in the city and state—Final Table and Portland Meadows—are open, and a number of the smaller rooms have games running. I haven’t partaken myself, as I’ve been on the deck for helping out some folks with medical issues and can’t really afford an accidental exposure because of my love for poker.

Without any live tournaments, the Pacific Northwest Poker Leaderboard has been dead. I’d been hoping to have something to report after the WSOP.com online replacement for the World Series of Poker’s 50th anniversary (yes, you read that right, last year was the 50th WSOP but this would have been the 50th anniversary), but the last event was over a week ago and they’re apparently not adding them to the database.

So, all I have left is me.

I’ve played a wider variety of online the past five months than I had in a long time. I started off on my tried and true Ignition Casino. I didn’t have a lot of cash left there but the first NLHE Jackpot Sit-n-Go I played after lockdown went well, and I got another one that day, but meanwhile dropped five times my winnings in a $25K GTD, a PLO Turbo, and a 6-Max Turbo. I finished out march with a few small Jackpots.

Portland Meadows—which had just reopened before Oregon locked down—had a deal with the Bitcoin-only Nitrogen Sports (home of The Poker Guys). I bought some Bitcoin and transferred it to Nitrogen to play a few of the Meadows-branded events, busting out mid-field in the first couple. Then I started playing their micro stakes PLO cash games and did fantastic, with one of them putting me up 850bb in about 20 minutes. Of course, I promptly booked a session with a loss of 700bb. Then another for nearly 1500bb. Thankfully, those were both smaller stakes than the win, but still.

Meanwhile, Kheang Tang convinced me to play part of the America’s Cardroom High Five series. I played a $30K GTD PLO8, $40K GTD NLHE, and a $1K GTD Stud8 without even getting into the top half of the field.

The cash games for me on Nitrogen were still going well, but the tournaments were a complete bust. Back on ACR. I min-cashed a $20K PLO8 after being in the top 5 for a good section of the tournament. April ended with me still cashless in tournaments at Nitrogen and a couple of losing PLO sessions in a row depleted my balance there. I made the final table of a 45-player PLO tournament at ACR, but a rebuy made me just break-even.

I got back over to Ignition on May Day, intending to focus on 6-Max and satellites. It didn’t go so well. Booked a couple of profits at 2¢ PLO cash, but it was just losses in satellites, PLO Turbo tournaments, and 6-Max for over a week before I cashed in even a $2 Jackpot SnG. Three weeks and more than 20 tournaments in, I finally picked up an MTT cash with 60/851 in a $30K GTD. Not much, but something.

Meanwhile, I was also plugging away on ACR. Apart from a satellite ticket and a negligible profit in a $500 GTD 6-Max, that was going nowhere.

Near the end of the month, I psigned up with Big Dog Poker through Jeremy Harkin, so I could try my hand at Big O during a weekend series they were running. Tried my hand at four tournaments and a few cash games and let’s just say I’m not as good at the game as I used to be back in the Portland Players Club days. And that was never that good.

My ACR play petered off in early June along with the rest of the money in my account. I did get to play one last Stud cash session, which is something Ignition doesn’t have.

Over on Ignition, I had a run of 0.1/0.25 PLO cash sessions that gave me hope, with profits in 10 out of 15, but other than that: nada. I played almost nothing the last third of the month, between my last session on Big Dog and my last on ACR. After July 1, it was Ignition and only Ignition.

Not that that was going all that well.

I had a couple min-cashes (142/1095 in a $10K GTD and 23/155 in a 6-Max Turbo) but many more bustos, mostly sticking to 6-Max, and PLO/PLO8. Then things started to turn around after the middle of the month. 11/175 in the nightly $44 buyin 6-Max. A satellite ticket to their summer series $10K GTD O8 (where I got 14/145). Another min in a $3K GTD Turbo, and 2/176 in the 6Max, with only two busts in-between (and one of those was a $250K GTD I’d satellited into).

I busted a couple of tournaments, cashed 6/215 in a $5K PLO8, busted a couple more and won a satellite into a $35K GTD 6-Max (busted), had a couple more bust days, then played two tournaments simultaneously (which I rarely do because I am old and slow), making the final tables of both.

Hanging out at the $4K GTD NLHE 6-Max and Thousandaire Maker final tables @IgnitionCasino tonight. pic.twitter.com/bcyI8eNumi

— Poker â€œSocially AND Emotionally Distantâ€ Mutant (@pokermutant) August 5, 2020

A min-cash with rebuy meant a small loss in my first-ever NLHE Ante Up tournament (do not late-reg one of these things when you get just 12bb to start).

I noticed the last couple of Thursdays there are multiple 6-Max tournaments to lay during the series. I was considering playing all three the other day, but two of them start before I’m off of work. I wanted to sit in the living room so I could chat with my wife, so I ended up just playing the $215 buy-in because of the size of my laptop screen (if I’d been in the office, I would have used the big computer). This led to a major screw-up.

I got into a confrontation early in the game and lost a third of my chips, then drifted down further to 1/3 of the starting stack. It seems like I was down there for a long time, but looking at the hand history, it seems like I managed to recover back to a starting stack by the end of the first hour.

Nearing the end of the re-entry period, the player came in on my right with 75bb and proceeded to shove over nearly every raise made by another player. He shoved the second hand he was dealt at the table. He shoved the third hand with A♦J♣ and went down to 60bb when he doubled up a pair of tens. He 6x 3-bet the next hand. Hand 4, he doubled up another player shoving 9♦8♠ and getting called by A♦Q♥. Down to 30bb, he shoved hands 5, 6, and 7.

On hand 8, he open-shoved from the button and I called with T♠K♣, exposing his Q♠8♥. He doubled me up that time, and I was up to 40bb. He was down to 12.

This did not stop the insanity, however. The next hand there was an UTG min-raise from a 35bb, and the maniac shoved with 7♦5♥. The original raiser called with T♠Q♦ and the maniac doubled back to 40bb.

He took a hand off, but did it again, then just limped into my BB (and won a small pot), shoved over a 4bb raise, stayed out of a hand where I doubled up to 66bb, and at least slowed down a bit.

Which may have been why I took my eye off the ball at the wrong time. Blinds were up to 600/1200/120. There were only four players at the table at the moment, with a little over 100 left and about half of us getting paid. I was well-situated with almost 75bb which put me in the top 10 at the time. The maniac was at 40bb. I had 4♠Q♠ in the BB, which I might call a small raise with but I had no real intention of playing. The button (22bb) min-raised, and the maniac in SB shoved and—not seeing the all-in—I called. Button folded and I was up against 9♣8♣ Racing, but a nine and a club on the flop turned into a club couch by the river and nw the maniac had almost 100K and I was well out of the top 10.

My last hand against the maniac was just 5 hands later when he open-shoved SB with 9♣K♦ against my J♥K♠ and again hit a nine on the flop.

I did a re-entry but lost a race on my first hand and was down to 1.5bb. Quadrupled up on my second hand. My last hand, I had A♠7♣ and 4bb in the BB, a big stack shoved 2♥4♥, and I called. He got a full house.

Look Back In Poker

Posted on Tuesday, 31 December 2019 by Poker Mutant

Everybody’s always asking
Why do what I do
I don’t gamble ’cuz I want to win, boys
I gamble ’cuz I need to lose

This was the year I didn’t go to Vegas.

I announced last fall that I was retiring from poker at the end of 2018, then got a lot of funny looks from people when I started showing up at tournaments three weejs after I retired. It wasn’t ever supposed to be an absolute thing, but I did scale back my poker playing to spend more time with the family, specifically, my wife, who retired on January 1st. And I did.

I played 95 live tournaments in 2018, and only 53 in 2019. There was a starker comparison in the first half of each year, because in 2019 I played only 14 live tournaments between January and June, where I’d played 37 in 2018. Online, I was still fairly active, with 388 tournaments in 2018 only going down to 306 in 2019, but half of the 2019 tournaments were Jackpot Sit-and-Gos, hyper-turbo, 3-player tournaments that tend to last less than 10 minutes, so they weren’t exactly eating up the time an MTT would. 3% ROI playing mostly $7 entries but also some $2, $15, and $20 games. Never saw a jackpot higher than 5x the buy-in.

After playing 85 of the nightly Thousandaire Maker tournaments on Ignition Poker last year, I entered 16 Thousandaire Makers in 2019 (cashed 2, for a -14% ROI).

I had my second-largest career cash ($10K) in this first year of my retirement, which—at the end of November—had me as #28 on the Poker Media Power Rankings, right between two of the actual poker journalists I worked with at the World Series two years ago.

In 2018, I made two brief trips too Las Vegas—in the summer and just before New Year’s, but I didn’t leave the Northwest at all (for poker) in 2019. My first experience as a player at the World Series of Poker was in 2012, I was down for short periods at least once during the summer each year until 2018 (and for a pretty long period in 2016) even when I wasn’t playing a WSOP event); now that’s retired.

Just one third the number of tournaments at Final Table this year (13 vs. 41 in 2018), even though it was the final year of my free door fees there (part of the payment for doing their web site a couple of years back, and a real steal in no-rake Portland). I played a couple more tournaments this year at Portland Meadows (14 in 2019 vs. 11 in 2018) because of the Grand Finale series.

You might think that the second-best career cash would be my best ROI in a tournament this year, but at 1800%, that was just over half the ROI from an Ignition $4K GTD NLHE Turbo where I took 4th of 471, for ROI of 3100%. I had five other tournaments where I cashed for more than a 1000% ROI.

Wins this year included a 66-player Ignition $500 GTD PLO8 Turbo, first in a chop in a Final Table $10K GTD NLHE (83 entries), the Chinook Winds $50K GTD NLHE (technically second, but I got a skosh more money, 210 entries), and a bunch of Jackpot Sit-and-Gos.

As usual, I didn’t play much in the way of cash games, but a couple of decent sessions at Portland Meadows were enough to make that part profitable.

Goals in the new year: satellite into a $5K or $10K buyin. I’ve got my eye on the Bay 101 Shooting Star (which has satellites running this month and February) or the LAPC/WPT Main Event at the end of February, with two 50-Seat guaranteed mega satellites just before Day 1. Then, of course, there’s the WSOP Main Event.

Love to goto the Irish Poker Open in March, but there are some obstacles in the way that make it easier to try for Bay 101 or LAPC instead. PokerStars hasn’t announced that there’ll even be and EPT Prague next year, so that ship may have sailed.

Hapy New Year!

@pokermutant Twitter Account on Restriction

Posted on Saturday, 28 September 2019 by Poker Mutant

UPDATE: It took an entire weekend—the weekend where the Mike Postle/Stones Gambling Hall cheating scandal broke, nonetheless—but the account did come off restriction the morning of 30 September.

For some reason known only to the folks at Twitter, my @pokermutant account has been restricted since about Friday (27 September) at 8pm. No indication that it’s been hacked or that I did something untoward, though my last tweet was about the Bellagio 5 Diamond series, and I’d been discussing Galaxy Quest with Dara O’Kearney. That didn’t seem so offensive at the time, but I guess it was.

I just get routed to a page telling me to confirm my phone number, saying it’ll send me a text message, but I tried that so many times while I was playing the Friday night Final Table $10K GTD NLHE that eventually Twitter said I was restricted from doing that, too, even though I never got a message. Tried changing my passsword, which means I’m going to have to update it on the numerous devices where I use it, but I’m still restricted. Not the greatest timing for a reason I’m going to sit on until I can tweet again.

2019 Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic — Day 5

Posted on Wednesday, 11 September 2019 by Poker Mutant

My plan to do daily updates about the events here took an early hit, but in a good way, as the five of you reading the blog already know.

Sunday (seems like so far away at this point) started off well. There was a 10-Seat GTD Main Event Satellite at 1pm (no 11am game because of the restart for the $125K from Saturday).

There was a decent turnout for the satellite, which was good for the series after the overlays in the three events Saturday). I did reasonably well and picked up a voucher.

That wrapped up in almost exactly four hours, with 18 of the 80 entries getting seats.

The satellite ended just as the $50K GTD tournament was starting. There had been a nearly $20K overlay on Saturday, and I was sort of expecting that Sunday might be more of a bath for Chinook, but by the time registration closed, they’d just met the guarantee.

I busted in the second level, if I remember correctly—things are already getting a bit hazy—and rebought. 99 < AK, even though I’d had pocket aces twice in an orbit. So I needed to make 18th place to break even on the event. It took nearly six hours of play for me to get any traction; I flopped a set of kings against king-queen to double up, which put me over average for the first time.

29 left. I have 10bb. All ins spreading like zombie virus

— Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) September 9, 2019

I cockroached along for three more hours, getting progressively shorter as we approached the bubble. There was a long period there where it seemed like every all-in won, so the other short stacks just slipped down the ladder a little more. A couple of gross situations where king-jack shoved and was called by the table leader with king-queen, with a jack on the flop. Then he had another chunk taken out on the next hand (maybe not as gross as the guy in the $125K who lost with aces twice in short succession to break his big stack).

I finally got back over chip average with queens over jacks at the eight-hour mark, with four players to go before the money. We had a redraw at three tables just a few minutes before the bubble broke, which went by so fast that I completely missed the announcement and had to verify that we were in the money with Matt Moring, who was running the day’s show.

The rest of the event is kind of a blur. Maybe it was the fact I’d been playing more or less constantly for 14 hours, maybe it was the Long Island Iced Tea I allowed myself when we were down to two tables and someone else was buying. I do know that I got incredibly lucky. More than once.

10 players left. Just got AA twice then set of 4s.

— Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) September 9, 2019

We made the final table just after 3am, but it took almost an hour to get from 9 to 7 players. We were down to 5 when I lost a bit of ground calling a short stack who shoved seven-eight with my pair of sevens. The river was both an eight and made him a flush, but I survived.

HU pic.twitter.com/HW4LOdZbCv

— Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) September 9, 2019

Incredibly enough, chopping was never really brought up as we continued on into the early hours. We lost three players in the half-hour between 4:30am and 5am, so it was just me and Olympia’s John Gribben. That was when I proposed a chop.

I’m reasonably confident in my heads-up ranges and strategies, but at 5am,who knows? There were 3.3M chips in play between us, but the blinds were still only 20K/40K, so we had over 80bb between us, so it could have gone on for quite a while and I was really looking forward to playing the 6-Max. Which started in just six hours.

It says Event 2 but this was really Event 5

So John and I chopped. After we’d agreed, I asked for the champion photo, since I was pretty sure I had a slight chip lead. John said he wanted it, because he’d never had one. I hadn’t either, but Matt said he’d take one of both of us, and when John said he wanted to hold seven-deuce as his winning hand, I figured he might not mind if I did the old antenna trick. So congrats to the both of us!

I got back to the motel about 5:30, didn’t manage to get to sleep until after 6. Then daybreak hit and I needed something to drink at 7, and couldn’t get back to sleep despite trying. So it was off to the 6-Max (after a trip to the bank, thank you Chinook Winds for taking debit cards for buyins) where I was a little light-headed from both adrenaline and lack of sleep, but had a very good time as people ribbed me about talking so much about the night before. Or early morning.

Prize pool up for @ChinookWinds @PACWESTclassic $30K NLHE 6-Max pic.twitter.com/4iDQCMNLdh

— Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) September 9, 2019

The 6-Max was going well and I made it down to about 40th place, then played one of those small blind hands because of an ace and a couple of limps that you would have thrown away in any other position. I was about 40bb deep with Nick “Wonka” Getzen on my left, with ace-three and I called behind the limpers. Nick checked and the flop was something like ace-X-five. Nick and I got involved through to the river with a jack and queen coming and—not believing he had an ace at that point—I shoved. He seemed to really consider folding, and I knew I was in real trouble when he was musing about whether I could have somehow caught an ace-jack. He did eventually call with the ace-five, and I went to the showers.

I ran into Toma Barber at the break before the end of entries. I met Toma here at Chinook Winds six years ago before the casino decided it could do a better job than the Deepstacks Poker Tour. He was sitting next to me as a short stack on Day 1 of the first $1K+ buyin tournament I cashed (though it was a min-cash). Toma went on to take sixth.

I asked if he was in the 6-Max and he said he was waiting for the freezeout in the evening, so in a flush of cash and haze of fatigue, I bought him in. As before he made it deeper than me, though not quite to the money. My fifth-ever stacking adventure!

That was it for me on Monday. I got a nice dinner at the casino steakhouse overlooking the beach and headed for some sleep.

Tuesday was back to more losing. I had a great breakfast with Toma at 60’s Cafe & Diner then went back to my room before walking down the beach back to the casino. I went up to the cash area and got into the 2/4 O8 game. I sat next to the dealer in seat 1, but then the guy in seat 2 moved away from me and I started to wonder if it was the fact that it had been pretty warm out on the beach. I stayed for 90 minutes to donate a hundy, then had to catch a ride back to the hotel to shower and change because there wasn’t enough time before the HORSE tournament to walk. Not the plan but you need to adapt.

Fresh once again, I set my sights to HORSE, but fizzled out on a hand where I had a pretty good draws but the guy on my left had even better draws and a better hand in the end. Disappointing to bust before the payouts were even posted when I’d skipped the Senors tournament in the morning.

Numbers for the HORSE @PACWESTclassic pic.twitter.com/l79AMZuFpK

— Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) September 11, 2019

After that, it was time for another shot at a High Roller satellite. Once again it missed the number of players needed to justify the 4-Seat guarantee. Made it about halfway through but nowhere near the vouchers.

Does that catch us up? Plan for the day is my dad’s arriving in town this morning. 1pm is the Omaha Hi-Lo tournament. 5pm is another High Roller satellite (which I hope to not be in).

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