a. k. a. I-D-I-O-T — February 2023

Posted on Thursday, 2 March 2023 by Poker Mutant

Portland Meadows “The Biggest of Os” Big O

Really, the most I can say about this tournament is that it was great to briefly see so many of my old compatriots from the Portland Players Club days, and to get a chance to play at the same table as Jeremy Harkin, for a change.

I schlepped out to Portland Meadows on the bus after work on a Friday. With the PacWest Poker Classic coming up at the end of the month, I wasn’t planning on playing much in February, but I really couldn’t pass up this opportunity. Regrettably, on the very first hand, I got into a hand with Joe Brandenburg, who, naturally, had the nuts when I had the second nuts, so I started hand 2 with half a starting stack.

I lasted about 100 minutes, but only through the benefit of a re-entry, which I only bought after going out to catch the bus home and just missing it. That stack mostly went to Jeremy.

Ignition Casino Jackpot Sit-n-Go NLHE

I played twelve of these three-person sit-n-go tournaments, and variance was kicking my butt on both ends. I actually got seated in four tournaments that had 5x payouts, but I didn’t cash in a single tournament.

Jason Brown

My old pal Jason Brown was in town for a few days from Seattle. Any long-time poker player in Portland knows Jason; we used to play what seemed like every day at Portland PLayers Club. I’ve missed him a number of trips he’s made back to town, but we finally got a chance to hang out for a while!

Ignition Casino Irish Open Sub-Qualifier NLHE

Played two of these step 1 tournaments (a win gets you into the qualified, and a win in the qualifier gets you into the satellite for a $4K package to the Irish Poker Open). One bullet in the first of these, two bullets in number two. Didn’t cash either one.

Ignition Casino Irish Open Qualifier NLHE

There were two levels of qualifiers for the IPO on Ignition. Both were competing for various guarantees of $270 satellite tickets. Most were $25+$2.50 turbos, but there were some $20+$2 non-turbo events, as well. Dropped two buy-ins in the turbo, then two in a $20 event and managed to win a satellite seat

In case anyone thinks Dara isn't at least some kind of poker demi-god, my entreaty and his "good luck" did work. It's a lot easier than reading the books, though you should buy them for the shrine even if you don't plan to read them.https://t.co/XfE56CpbMC pic.twitter.com/Nq2y7V7WyA
— Poker Mutant, #Jordistan (@pokermutant) February 7, 2023

Ignition Casino Irish Poker Open 5 Ticket GTD NLHE Satellite

Never really managed to get any traction in this satellite, barely climbed above 150% of starting stack and finished in the middle of the pack. There was a more than 50% overlay on the tournament, with only 37 total entries and 80 as the breakeven point for the guaranteed packages ($1200 for the IPO Main Event entry and $2800 in travel expenses).

Ignition Casino $500 GTD NLHE KO Turbo

I prefer to play the Omaha games for fun, but I decided to try a bounty NLHE tournament for a change. Things went well from the beginning, with me nearly tripling up in the first ten hands, then doubling that up against another player who’d gotten off to a good start when I flopped a set of jacks and they turned a set of threes and thought they were golden. Things faltered a bit later in the game, but I took enough bounties before we eve3n hit the money to pay off the entry fee, and I placed 8th of 97 entries for a small cash.

Ignition Casino $5K GTD NLHE Turbo

No luck here, I got in late with 12bb and was out about 15 hands later.

Ignition Casino $500 PLO8 Turbo

These little tournaments that run about 9pm Pacific are some of my favorites. I feel less stressed about late-regging them than I do NLHE games. That said, the first one I played, I came in with 10bb and was out in four hands. The second one, I started a bit earlier andfinished in 3rd place out of 78, which was pleasing. Extra satisfying because it happened the day after we’d gotten our power back after a branch broke the connector line to our house.

Ignition Casino Irish Open Qualifier NLHE

As the month wound down, I played three more qualifiers to try to get the Irish Open pacvkage. Dropped a total of three buy-ins in two of the Turbo edition (which ran more often than the other) without success. Once again, it was the cheaper, slower qualifier where I won the ticket, which I know, it makes no sense.

Ignition Casino Irish Poker Open 8 Ticket GTD NLHE Satellite

I was supposed to be in Lincoln City for the PacWest Poker Classic the last weekend of February. It’s been five years since I had my biggest-ever cash , at Chinook Winds in February, and I was jonesing to beat that, but after two days of no power and barely getting things back to normal Friday afternoon, I didn’t really feel like abandoning my wife for four days—despite the house not being 50 degrees even with the woodstove going—was a politic move. Plus, I’d planned to take two days off for the series, but I had to take two days to deal with electricians and keep the fire burning. So I welcomed the opportunity to take advantage of another heavily-overlaid Irish Open satellite. And it was, but again, I never managed to get a purchase, and busted out after a couple of hours.

Ignition Casino Irish Poker Open 5 Ticket GTD NLHE Satellite

I was torn about playing this next-to-last satellite. First, I didn’t have a satellite ticket to play it, so I’d need to buy in directly. Second, it started about a quarter-hour after I got off work, and I typically walk home, plus, I was cooking dinner, so it’d be a bit deeper in the tournament than I wanted by the time I was able to join. Still, there’s almost three hours of entry in these satellites. So I got home and made dinner, then jumped in about Level 8, with 75bb. The downfall here was I made a horribly bad call just nine hands in, too-cautiously laying down a king-high flush draw from the SB on a paired flop. Never managed to get above starting stack. There is one more satellite in March, but I’m not sure whether I want to try for it at this point, or wait for my next opportunity to go to Ireland.

Who am I kidding?

Coming Up

I’ve been seriously thinking about driving to Lincoln City for the Main Event of the PAC West, but I could stay in town and play the $20K GTD at Final Table this Friday, or I could go up to Last Frontier for their $25K on Sunday.

Well, Well, Well— January 2023

Posted on Friday, 3 February 2023 by Poker Mutant

I didn’t play much poker to start off the fourth year of my poker retirement, but it was reasonably successful, probably because of that.

Last Frontier Casino $10K Guarantee Limit Hold’em

I was both intrigued and a little worried when I saw poker room manager Chris Canter post the notice for this one last month. Washington State’s poker room regulations only allowed limit for a number of years, and it was Last Frontier’s bread-and-butter, so I was expecting some serious LHE crushers to show up for this, but I went anyway.

Never played much of it myself, except in HORSE and other mixed game rotations, and it’s definitely not my strongest game in HORSE (like every other HORSE player, my strongest game is Razz).

I got off to a fast start, despite the presence at the table of some long-time players who were re-bonding after not seeing each other at the tables for a while. They included Kevin Erickson, who was the runner-up for an LHE bracelet at the 2021 WSOP. Fortunately, he was balanced to another table after a short while. I was leading the table for a time.

Three hours in and I was still above the pack—sometimes considerably so. In the fourth hour, my stack hit more than double the tournament average, though I’d dropped down to about one-and-a-half average after that. Ran into a former co-worker of my late brother-in-law, who I’d met at the tables in the past.

The stack managed to stay healthy as we approached the money with just three tables. As I noted on Twitter, the 12th-place prize was less than the buyin+entry.

When we consolidated to two tables, I ended up next to Korey Payne, who said hello, but I knocked him out dirty A7 > AK not long after the money bubble broke.

Also got to catch up a bit with a different Kory, one of the regulars from my Portland Players Club days, who’d won the $25K GTD NLHE at Last Frontier a couple of weeks before. He took over the chip lead at the final table as the guy who came to the final with a bu=ig stack managed to blast it away, first to me, then to Kory. We started whittling away at the shorter stacks. I picked off 6th with the Robbie Jade Lew hand (J4o) when I had over 300K on the 15K big blind and just had to call 10K for his all-in.

When we hit three players, Kory had the lead by a good bit, and the other player and I were swapping 2nd and 3rd. Then I pulled in a chunk of chips, and non-Kory proposed an even chop, which I was rather surprised Kory—with more than twice his stack and half again mine—agreed to. I agreed, naturally, and #3 and I went to the payout desk. Kory went into the field of cash players and did some consulting with a friend, coming back to tell me his friend had suggested he should have held out for an ICM deal. Personally, I think that would have been a better option, rather than readily agreeing to the even chop immediately, but I just ran the numbers through Icmizer, to show him the difference.

Beaverton Quarantine NLHE Bounty

For some reason, my long-time home game never went online during the worst of the pandemic (I first got the inkling it was going to be bad when one of the guys in the group who works in virology at OHSU backed out of a game we had scheduled in March 2020). But Kate, one of the folks I met through that group, invited me last year to a far-flung Friday night game that had gotten together via PokerStars Lite Home Games and Zoom. They typically play two or three $20-$25 games—usually NLHE or PLO8—get enough players for one or two tables, and Matt handles the money. All very friendly. I don’t usually get into the Zoom conference because of where I’m playing from, and I usually miss the first game, but this night I caught the Bounty tournament, busted just short of the money, and didn’t pick up a single bounty.

The Game $10K Guarantee Big O and 1/2 NLHE

I misremembered the start time of this tournament. I was running a little late, I thought, until I turned into the parking lot of The Game and it was almost empty. I should have turned around and skipped it. When I went in, there was a single cash table running and I learned I was two hours early. I thought I’d read for a couple hours, but the urge to play got the best of me and I grabbed one of the empty cash game seats. I hovered around my buy-in for an hour or so, then got it in bad with AK < KT on a KTx flop and the two pair held. Players on the button could call some games, as well, so there were some of the inevitable bomb pots, and 5-2-2, which is a double-board Big O game that’s popular with degenerates.

Speaking of which, the Big O tournament lasted less time than I waited for it to start (at least for me), because I kept insisting on risking things with just low draws. I could have just lit that money on fire (see below).

Beaverton Quarantine Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Bounty

The second game in the last BQ poker night for the month was somewhat successful, I took 2nd place (out of 6, plus a rebuy) and two half-bounties (split-pot knockouts).

Snowman Num-Num

For years, a piece of They Might Be Giants 20th anniversary swag was my go-to hoodie for playing poker. It featured a piece of art from their first EP: a cartoon snowman warming their mitts over a fire of burning money. It just somehow seemed appropriate.

Poker Mutant goes to the 2012 Pendleton Poker Round-Up Main Event.

I was wearing it the night I won a seat to the Pendleton Poker Round-Up Main Event at Players Club (and my wife had an unrelated heart attack the next morning). I was wearing it when I had my largest-ever cash, at Chinook Winds, placing 3rd out of a 462-entry field (how is that five years ago?).

But given tat TMBG has been around forever now, the 20th-anniversary hoodie is itself two decades long in the tooth, with the black faded and the screen printing cracked and the seam on the hood torn several inches. They hadn’t ever revived the design for a hoodie.

Until this winter, when they announced a red version. Which I promptly ordered two of. I didn’t need a daily-use poker hoodie any longer, but I do walk a couple miles to work and back, and I can always use a couple extras during the winter (I did get a very nice PokerStars hoodie when I was on the Poker In the Ears podcast a couple years ago).

The package arrived quickly and when I got home I opened it immediately, only to have that familiar sausage-squeezed-into-casing feeling when I slid the first of the new hoodies on. Had I put on (more) weight? Was XL the new XXL? No, the invoices and packaging said XXL, but the tag on the hoodie itself said XL.

So that seems like a big screw-up, probably on the part of the clothing/silkscreen contractor, and probably something that wasn’t particular to my order, which was confirmed when I contacted the seller to swap them out.

So, if you play against me anytime this month, it’s the old, ratty hoodie you’ll be seeing.

As for where February takes me, I’m planning to hit Portland Meadows for The Biggest of Os tournament the first weekend. Then, I noticed that Ignition Casino is running satellites to the Irish Poker Open, which hearkens back to a goal from a dozen years ago, when I started this blog. So, I hope to be doing a few of those. And at the end of the month, it’s back to Lincoln City for the PacWest Poker Classic at Chinook Winds. Probably not a lot of other live poker. I’m retired!

PNW Poker Leaderboard — 27 September 2022

Posted on Tuesday, 27 September 2022 by Poker Mutant

Another round of poker returning to semi-normal took place last week, with two of the last three venues running tournament series in the Pacific Northwest scheduling them during the same week, naturally.

The South Sound Championship at Little Creek Casino west of Olympia ran from 21–25 September, with four events, featuring a $750 Main Event. The final table for the field of 95 included 3-time WSOP bracelet-winner Rep Porter (currently #12 on the Pacific Northwest Poker Leaderboard),

Photo from **Tracie Osborn** via **NW Poker** Facebook Community

Meanwhile, down on the Oregon Coast, the Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic ran from 17-25 September, with 19 events. I was only able to make it down a couple days, and busted two 6-Max bullets, min-cashed the freezeout that night, then got knocked out of the HORSE tournament halfway through. (congrats to John Gribben for chopping that one). The 6-Max had kind of a big overlay, but I think most of the other events did reasonably well. Some of the early results are already on Hendon Mob, thanks to Kevin Mathers, who was pulling them from the leaderboards posed by Chinook Winds, though those only have the top 20 results, so they won’t be complete until all the information is submitted.

Photo from **Forrest Auel** via **NW Poker** Facebook Community

Then, of course, there was Allen Kessler making a big deal out of the $10 dealer appreciation that doesn’t appear on the chart but is on each structure sheet. I’m just glad he didn’t notice the Main Event had a $25 dealer appreciation.

Wow this is egregious.

It's only $10, but how do casinos still pull this stuff on players after they've arrived? pic.twitter.com/mXjPgA2dY9
— Allen Kessler (@AllenKessler) September 20, 2022

Key to the Leaderboard

Name and home town (according to the player’s Hendon Mob profile).
The player’s most recent ranking in the PNW Poker Leaderboard in italics. If this is their first time on the Leaderboard, an em dash (—)
Their new standing in bold, preceded by the pound sign (#).
Their change in status on the Leaderboard (with an arrow indicating up or down), or a black club (♣) if this is their first appearance.
For each of the tournaments that are being recognized in this Leaderboard:
- The name and link to the Hendon Mob listing for that tournament.
- The player’s finishing position in the tournament and thge number of entries.
- The tournament prize pool in US dollars.

Julius Roque (Lethbridge, Alberta)

#264

#249

➧

+15

Cash Casino Calgary Classic #2 NLHE Mini Main

2nd of 251 entries, $55.1K prize pool

Eric Resnick (Bend, Oregon)

#636

#581

➧

+55

Chinook Winds Fall Coast Classic #5 $50K GTD NLHE 6-Max

2nd of 80 entries, $50K prize pool

Great tournament, there was a 20% overlay on the guarantee, a game so nice I played it twice (and did not cash).

Eric Davis (Calgary, Alberta)

#1126

#969

➧

+157

Cash Casino Calgary Classic #2 NLHE Mini Main

1st of 251 entries, $55.1K prize pool

Davis and Roque (above) made a deal in this tournament.

Zachary Powers (Marysville, Washington)

#1191

#1018

➧

+173

Chinook Winds Fall Coast Classic #1 $100K GTD NLHE

3rd of 450 entries, $130.4K prize pool

Wallace Yuen (Vancouver, British Columbia)

#3483

#2262

➧

+1221

Cash Casino Calgary Classic #9 NLHE Main Event

3rd of 138 entries, $99.8K prize pool

Andy Truong (Edmonton, Alberta)

#155

#148

➧

Cash Casino Calgary Classic #7 NLHE Mid Main

1st of 150 entries, $54.6K prize pool

Lee Van-Voorhis (Washington)

#2816

#1913

➧

+903

Wynn Signature Series $500K GTD NLHE

9th of 759 entries, $740K prize pool

Mikael Andersen (Federal Way, Washington)

#4432

#2328

➧

+2104

Venetian/PokerGO Stairway to Millions #5 $100K GTD NLHE

2nd of 73 entries, $109.5K prize pool

Andersen outlasted 3rd-place finished Ryan Laplante to get heads-up with Michael Wang, who made three of the Stairway to Millions event final tables, winning two of them. Players who cash in a Stairway to Millions event win their prize as well as a ticket to the next level of the tournament series “stairway,” with players finishing in the top 3 places earning the ability to skip up two levels. Unless, of course, the venue decides to renege on the guarantee and cancel the final levels.

Michael Allis (Post Falls, Idaho)

#982

#824

➧

+158

Wynn Signature Series $500K GTD NLHE

8th of 759 entries, $740K prize pool

Christopher Hull (Vancouver, Washington)

#1320

#1020

➧

+300

Venetian DeepStack Extravaganza III #3 $150K GTD NLHE UltimateStack

4th of 382 entries, $150K prize pool

There appears to have been some sort of eal among the top four players.

Patrick Ronan (Girdwood, Alaska)

#894

#723

➧

+171

Venetian DeepStack Extravaganza III #7 $40K GTD NLHE MonsterStack

1st of 84 entries, $42.8K prize pool

This is Ronan’s 2nd-largest cash, and it’s followed closely by another win in a Seniors event four days later that was just under the reporting limit.

Congratulations to Patrick Ronan of Girdwood, AK who was the winner via a three-way chop in our DeepStack Extravaganza Event #07 $600 NLH MonsterStack $40,000 guarantee on 9.2.22

Patrick takes home the DeepStack Extravaganza Silver coin and $10,246 pic.twitter.com/MnlIKAjmHv
— Venetian Poker Room (@VenetianPoker) September 4, 2022

Lawrence Hoy (Salem, Oregon)

#5867

#2017

➧

+3850

Chinook Winds Fall Coast Classic #1 $100K GTD NLHE

1st of 450 entries, $130.4K prize pool

Kao Saechao (Renton, Washington)

#266

#239

➧

+27

Venetian/PokerGO Stairway to Millions #7 NLHE

3rd of 92 entries, $230K prize pool

Graeme Frank (Calgary, Alberta)

#403

#332

➧

+71

Cash Casino Calgary Classic #7 NLHE Mid Main

2nd of 150 entries, $54.6K prize pool

Cash Casino Calgary Classic #9 NLHE Main Event

1st of 138 entries, $99.8K prize pool

Nicholas Peterson (Courtenay, British Columbia)

—

#1009

♣

Venetian DeepStack Showdown #26 $250K GTD NLHE UltimateStack

1st of 1040 entries, $343.2K prize pool

Adam Hendrix (Anchorage, Alaska)

#17

#13

➧

WPT/The Bike Legends of Poker #32 $2.5M GTD NLHE

6th of 642 entries, $3.1M prize pool

Clemen Deng (Portland, Oregon)

#1497

#257

➧

+1240

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Tampa #17 $75K GTD NLH 8-Max

2nd of 145 entries, $217.5K prize pool

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Tampa #19 $100K GTD NLH 8-Max

5th of 204 entries, $408K prize pool

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Tampa #30 NLH High Roller

1st of 62 entries, $595.2K prize pool

This great run in Tampa won Deng the WPT Player of the Festival.

Seth Davies (Bend, Oregon)

➧

Triton Poker Super High Roller Cyprus #1 NLHE 8-Max

6th of 131 entries, $3.2M prize pool

Triton Poker Super High Roller Cyprus #5 NLHE 8-Max

3rd of 88 entries, $6.6M prize pool

Triton Poker Super High Roller Cyprus #6 NLHE Coin Rivet Invitational

8th of 115 entries, $23M prize pool

Triton Poker Super High Roller Cyprus #8 NLHE Main Event

10th of 99 entries, $9.9M prize pool

Triton Poker Super High Roller Cyprus #12 NLHE Ante Only Freezeout

2nd of 30 entries, $1.5M prize pool

I wouldn’t normally have included the 10th-place finish here because it was below my guideline for ROI, despite that min-cash being twice my lifetime earnings on Hendon Mob, but considering how Davies just keeps putting more and more space between the #1 and #2 spots on the Leaderboard, I think it’s a worthy exception.

The Main Event Comes of Age, 2022

Posted on Saturday, 16 July 2022 by Poker Mutant

Now that we’ve got a winner, I’m following up on my original article by this title at PokerNews back in 2015 (and follow-ups here, and here), here’s an updated table of WSOP Main Event final tablists.

The lines for winners are marked with circles; the second-place finisher is marked with a box. Roll over the chart for last names and places for each year (excepting 2020).

Strata

Posted on Friday, 17 June 2022 by Poker Mutant

If you haven’t seen your name in the Pacific Northwest Poker Leaderboard lately, you might wonder where you fit in the grand scheme of things. If you have seen your name on the Leaderboard, why are you wasting your time here on the Northwest’s most boring poker blog? You should be out playing poker.

At this point (17 June 2022), the Leaderboard has exactly 7,501 entries on it; one for every player in the Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska leaderboards at Hendon Mob that has $3,000 or more in recorded poker tournament earnings. There are at least a few players with double entries, but 7,500 players, more or less.

Top 1 — $15,000,000

There’s one player way above the rest of the pack, and that’s Seth Davies with just under $15 million—and by “just under”, I mean within $25K, so I expect by the time I’ve published this, Davies will have eclipsed that mark. It’s nearly twice as much as the nearest contender.

Number 2 — $8,000,000

Scott Clements has maintained the #2 spot for a while, with a bit more than $8 million. Over a million dollars separates Clements from the next person on the Leaderboard.

A Third — $7,000,000

#3 is Shawn Buchanan, at just under $7 million, nearly equidistant between Clements and Kevin MacPhee at #4.

Four at $5,000,000+

Places #4 to #7 are currently ranged between $6 million and $5.3 million. They’re currently MacPhee and Chris Brewer, essentially tied at the top end, with James Romero and Dylan Linde close to each other on the lower end.

Five(?) at $4,000,000+

Technically, there are five players (#8 to #12) with seven figures starting with a four, but one of them is Annie Duke who hasn’t been a PNW player for a lot of years.

$3,000,000+

Five more players have $3 million to $4 million dollars. That’s places #13 to #17.

$2,000,000+

Nine more players have part of a third million in earnings. Everyone above #26.

$1,000,000+

51 PNW players have more than a million in lifetime recorded tournament earnings. That’s about two-thirds of a percent of the players tracked by the Leaderboard.

$725,000+ #75–#52
$530,000+ #100–#76
$395,000+ #150–#101
$325,000+ #200–#151
$260,000+ #250–#201
$222,000+ #300–#251
$190,000+ #350–#301
$172,000+ #400–#351
$150,000+ #450–#401
$137,000+ #500–#451
$118,000+ #600–#501
$100,000+ #700–#601
$88,000+ #800–#701
$77,000+ #900–#801
$68,500+ #1000–#901
$56,000+ #1200–#1001
$47,400+ #1400–#1201
$40,000+ #1600–#1401
$34,900+ #1800–#1601 *
$30,400+ #2000–#1801
$22,400+ #2500–#2001
$17,200+ #3000–#2501
$13,500+ #3500–#3001
$10,000+ #4197–#3501

* Yes, that is my bracket. On the plus side, I’m in the top 25% of players on the PNW Poker Leaderboard.

PNW Poker Leaderboard — 1 January 2022 — Pi Comes After Omicron Edition

Posted on Saturday, 1 January 2022 by Poker Mutant

The fact that @IgnitionCasino seems to be down for now can only be good news for the $20K GTD tonight @FinalTablePDX and the @PDXmeadowspoker NLHE and Big O Championships this weekend!#LivePokerIsBack! pic.twitter.com/T1O3VOnU1s
— Poker â€œSocially and Emotionally Distant 2â€ Mutant (@pokermutant) December 17, 2021

Not a lot of live poker action from me since the World Series of Poker trip I made in October, though I’ve kept up a busy schedule of low-level online Omaha tournaments and Jackpot Sit-n-Go games on Ignition Casino. I played (and min-cashed) the November First Friday $20K GTD at Final Table—look for their new schedule starting 1 January, and barely lasted a level at Portland Meadows Oregon State Big O Championship in mid-December.

I started this blog when I was 49 years old. back at the start of the month, I turned 60. My wife and I went to New York City for my birthday, getting out just befoe the omicron coronavirus variant took over. Got back to PDX at 10:30pm and at 7am the next morning I was on a flight to Hawaii to spend a few days with my father , who was over there using up condo points before the end of the year. That’s Kiluaea behind us in the shot. If you go up there at night, the lava in the crater makes that white smoke look bright red.

PNW Poker Leaderboard

This edition of the Leaderboard includes some October and November straggling results from Canadian casinos. Like theseâ€¦

Prabakaran Sivabalasundaram from Calgary won the Casino Yellowhead/Pure Poker Tour #1 PLO Bounty back at the end of September, beating out 176 other entries in the C$440 buy-in tournament. Sivabalasundaram climbs two hundred spots to #926.

Edmonton’s Andy Truong came in 2nd in the Yellowhead PPT #3 NLHE out of 326 entries. It’s good for a fifteen spot bump to #226.

Alberta-based Curtil Burlet comes into the Leaderboard hot, with a biggest-ever cash (it only their third) that lands them at #3092, for the runner-up position in Yellowhead/PPT #4 NLHE Bounty. (Remember that bounty cash is not reflected in Hendon Mob records and therefor does not affect the PNW Poker Leaderboard.) Calgary’s Weston Pring won the event, going from #347 to #309. Pring was featured in the last Leaderboard update; they came in 101st in the WSOP Main Event.

Casino Yellowhead/Pure Poker Tour Main Even t

A C$1,100 buyin back in early October in Edmonton (470 entries and a prize pool of US$353K), the six top finishers all made it to the Leaderboard. Haven Werner of Calgary took 6th, moving him from #531 to #470. Fort St. John, British Columbia’s Bernice McLennan posted a biggest cash in 5th, jumping all the way to #2079 from #4428. Amir Khan, another Calgarian, took 4th, which combined with a 3rd-place finish in a Wynn Fall Classic $100K GTD NLHE in mid-November (404 entries, $237K prize pool) jumps Khan 1400 places to #917. Surrey, British Columbia’s Mike Kim goes up seventy-four places to #317 by taking 3rd. Out of Whitecourt, Alberta, it’s john Hanna debuting at #1160 on the Leaderboard with a 2nd-place finish. Finally, on the top, is Kyle Ho from Burnaby, with a best-ever cash and a move from #243 to #186.

Jordan Banfield from Calgary won the Deerfoot Inn Fall Super Stack #1 NLHE Deepstack in Calgary, an event that drew 385 entries back in early November. The prize pool was over US$88K. It’s Banfield’s only cash so far, and they enter the Leaderboard at #2622.

Deerfoot Inn Fall Super Stack #5 NLHE Mega Stack

John Nielsen from Sylvan Lake, Alberta placed 4th in this event (354 entries, US$135K pot) back in early November, going up more than 100 places on the Leaderboard, to #849. Coming in at 2nd was Ivan Milanovic, with a best-ever cash (only their fifth on record), good for a first-time ranking of #1990. The champion was Kelly Gall from Calgary, with their biggest cash so far and a jump of fifteen hundred spots on the Leaderboard, to #1284.

Redmondâ€™s Dominick Nguyen found some time to play poker on the East Coast mid-November and won the 432-entry Boston Billiard Club & Casino Veterans Day NLHE tournament for a 2nd-ever cash and a new spot on the Leaderboard at #2586.

Deerfoot Inn Fall Super Stack #7 NLHE Super Stack Main Event

Daniel Lefebvre of Alberta was the 5th-place finisher in this event of nearly 400 entries and a US$300K prize pool. Lefebvre moves three hundred spots on the Leaderboard, to #981 (3 squared and nine squared!) Tyler Hurman from Calgary got their largest-ever cash in 4th, and climbs from #832 to #663. In 3rd was Kaan Becer out of Vancouver, whi gets an increase of twenty places to #193. And Takuma Bergeron from Coquitlam, Alberta got a best-ever cash in a deal for 2nd place, which raised them from #5503 to #1056.

back down to the States, James Battenberg from Issaquah nabbed 4th at a Wynn Fall Classic $100K GTD NLHE that had over three hundred entries and a $148K prize pool. Battenberg moves fifteen hundred places on the Leaderboard, to #2655.

Continuing at the Wynn, Bellevue’s Rajendra Ajmani came in 41st out of a field of 2,573 in the Wynn Fall Classic $1.5M GTD NLHE Mystery Bounty. Ajmani goes from #1104 to #916,

Christopher Brewer hit the jackpot on consecutive days at the Aria High Roller series. On November 16th, Brewer came in 3rd of 43 in Aria High Roller 39 NLHE, then 1st at Aria High Roller 40 NLHE the next day (albeit with only 16 entries). It’s enough to move from #16 to #14 on the Leaderboard.

Catching up to where the last Leaderboard left off on WSOP events, Dylan Wilkerson played World Series of Poker #79 NLHE Poker Hall of Fame Bounty. This new event awarded a bounty for each Poker Hall of Fame player eliminated, with the amount equal to the year they were inducted. There were bounties for eleven HoF entries, plus new WSOP spokesperson Vince Vaughn. All of the bounties were eliminated on Day One. Wilkerson placed 9th out of 468. By the way, Wilkerson’s WSOP profile now lists him as living in San Francisco, so no telling how much longer Hendon Mob will have him as a Washington State player; then he’ll be off the Leaderboard and everyone will move up!

There were 1,921 entries in the $800 WSOP #81 NLHE Deepstack, and Maxwell Sabel of Sun Valley, Idaho made it past 1,911 of them for a 10th-place finish and a first recorded Hendon Mob cash. Sabel makes a debut on the Leaderboard at #3127.

On the other end of the WSOP spectrum, #1-ranked Seth Davies placed 4th of 33 in the WSOP #82 NLHE Super High Roller, where the buy-in was $250K. Davies continues to increase the gap between #1 and #2.

Ian Modder of North Vancouver, British Columbia gets a seven spot increase on the Leaderboard to #141 by placing 36th out of 1,903 in WSOP #83 NLHE The Closer.

WSOP #88 NLHE 8-Max

Despite being called “The Closer”, Event #83 wasn’t even close to being the last bracelet tournament of the 2021 WSOP. This one was. It may be the latest (in the year) tournament to be played at a WSOP for quite some time, since they’re going back to the summer schedule. This game had a $5K buy-in, an aggressive two-day structure, and finished on November 23rd after 531 entries. 3 PNW players made a deep run in the event. with the first being from Edmonton, Ryan Snyder, who gained three hundred places on the Leaderboard, ending at #558. Lee Markholt didn’t gain any ground on the Leaderboard because he’s already way up at #8, but he did place atâ€¦8th. . And George Wolff came in 7th. Wolff went on to a mid-December 13th-place finish in the World Poker Tour Five Diamond NLHE Main Event. He stays at #17.

Dylan Linde moves up a spot—inside the Leaderboard top 10!—from #6 to #5 with an 8th-place finish in the WPT Five Diamond NLHE Main Event.

Jumping over to the Czech Republic, Mercer Island’s Carter Newhof rises more than four hundred places to #553 with a 3rd-place showing in World Series of Poker Europe #6 $200K GTD NLHE/PLO. Newhof was the only American in the top 10 of the 230 entries.

Artur Winstone halved his ranking to #2351 by going all the way to North Carolina from Edmonton (WSOP lists him from Honolulu) for the World Series of Poker Circuit Cherokee #3 $100K GTD NLHE.

Jordan Westmorland gains nine places on the Leaderboard with a 5th of 57 finish at WSOP Europe #10 NLHE Platinum High Roller. Westmorland (from Lynnwood, Washington) is now #44.

Tracie Osborne from Lacey, Washington got their biggest cash in Lincoln, California, at the WPTDeepstacks Thunder Valley $1M GTD NLHE Championship by placing 20th of 588. Osborne moves from #2284 to #1722. Steve Chanthabouasy‘s 9th-place finish in the same event kicks them up a notch, to #88.

Kamloops, British Columbia’s Jaroslaw Jaskiewicz came in 3rd at the Venetian DeepStack New Yearâ€™s Extravaganza Poker Series #14 $150K GTD NLHE MonsterStack. It missed the guarantee with 278 entries. but Jaskiewicz gains about twenty spots, moving to #229.

In Tampa the Seminole hard Rock Winter Poker Open $500K GTD NLHE Main Event more than doubled the guarantee, and Aaron Thivyanathan picked up 10th out of 772, to move from #190 to #175.

Twin Falls’ Sean Banahan racked up a best-ever cash at the Wynn Winter Classic $500K GTD NLHE that wrapped up 12 December with 743 entries. Looking at the payouts, there may have been some sort of deal done at four players remaining. Banahan’s Hendon Mob record only goes back to January 2020, so it’s definitely been impacted by the pandemic, and it includes a cash in a Seniors event, but this was a nice way to end the year! Banahan goes from #1666 to #577.

The final entry in the Leaderboard this time is how I’d like to close out every Leaderboard: Angela Jordison, taking 5th in the 1,042-entry Mid-States Poker Tour Minnesota Winter Poker Classic #9 $300K GTD NLHE Main Event. It’s yet another personal best cash for Jordison, coming just a couple of months after the “money phone” record at the Venetian. This pops Jordison up anothher thirty places on the Leaderboard, to #181.

Kevmath Quarterly Yearly Top 20

This is the fourth edition of the Kevmath Quarterly, which got started before his recent acquisition by GPI/The Hendon Mob. These players are the top 20 recorded tournament earners for mid-December 2020 through mid-December 2021 (ranked in order of 2021 earnings), and the change in their rank on the PNW Poker Leaderboard (which is based on lifetime recorded earnings). Players whose names are followed by an asterisk were on the list last quarter.

Both Seth Davies and Christopher Brewer are far ahead of the pack, with more than $3 million each in recorded tournament cashes over the past year. Adam Hendrix and Dylan Linde are both in the high six figures, the other sixteen names are all in the range between $160K and $400K.

December 2020 Rank	December 2021 rank	player
1	1	Seth Davies *
156	14	Christopher Brewer *
31	22	Adam Hendrix *
10	5	Dylan Linde *
4524	136	Matthew Jewett *
52	34	Noah Bronstein
369	102	Adam Walton
4232	163	Robert Davis
433	115	Vanessa Kade
184	86	Harpreet Gill
15	16	Matt Affleck *
17	17	George Wolff
22	20	Darren Rabinowitz *
745	175	Aaron Thivyanathan *
6124	248	Jung Woo
3490	244	Bin Weng
14	13	Dylan Wilkerson
5	6	James Romero*
25	25	Maxwell Young *
393	190	Wayne Harmon

You can see the giant jumps in Leaderboard status resulting from deep runs in the World Series of Poker main Event by Jung Woo and Matthew Jewett; the shot-in-the-dark cash by Bin Weng in the WSOP NLHE High Roller, and Robert Davis‘s runner-up finish in the WSOP NLHE Seniors tournament. Christopher Brewer, Dylan Linde, and Dylan Wilkerson moving up the Leaderboard ranks pushed a couple of other high-performing players down a notch, despite being in the Top 20.

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

PNW Poker Leaderboard — 1 November 2021

Posted on Wednesday, 3 November 2021 by Poker Mutant

This one is for my dad, whose 81st birthday was today. Started this report after I just got home from my brother’s house where we had our small immediate family together for a little celebration.

https://twitter.com/amandabotfeld/status/1455571669511139328

Unlike so many of you, I did not learn poker from my father. Didn’t learn it from my mother or anyone else in my family. Nobody in my family played cards when I was a kid, though Dad says he and Mom played some pinochle during their early college years. Nobody I knew even gambled, at least as far as I knew. My folks came from kind of hardscrabble families without a lot of money, and while I know that’s not exactly a bar for many people that prevents them from getting into gaming, the times (after a series of vice scandals rocked Portland’s gambling scene but well before Indian casinos brought legalized gaming to the state) and somewhat puritanical though not dogmatic religious upbringings combined with the lack of money to never even really put poker in front of my face. “I don’t know anything about poker,” he’s said to me any number of times, but it’s been a hell of a year, between COVID and cancer surgery for him, along with having to vacate his house because of a lack of electricity during the fires last fall and the ice storm that coincided with his cancer surgery, so he gets the dedication for this Leaderboard.

Running this one chronologically, again. And I’m dropping the GPI rankings because I’m not sure they added anything useful.

Graeme Wright of Calgary was runner-up in the Autumn at the Aria Poker Series $40K GTD NLHE on 7 October, out of 258 entries. It’s Wright’s largest cash (and only the fifth on record). Wright moves up over a thousands places on the Leaderboard to #1686.

The Wynn Fall Classic $2M GTD NLHE Mystery Bounty brought in over $3M to the prize pool, with 2,333 entries. In 50th place was Brett Kennedy (Seattle) whose cash was good enough to move them from #385 to #359, Eight places further on, at 32nd, was Surrey, British Columbia player Harsukhpaul Sangha, moving five places on the Leaderboard, to #110.

Daniel Boskovic (Port Moody, British Columbia) took second in the 14 October Aria Poker Series $40K GTD NLHE, out of 308 entries. The prize pool for that one topped $100K. Boskovic goes from #3927 to #2366, with their best career cash.

On a slightly larger stage, Seattle’s Chad Campbell came in 2nd in World Series of Poker #29 NLHE Short Deck Championship, beating 64 other players to go head-to-head with Chance Kornuth and their biggest cash. It takes Campbell up almost five hundred places on the Leaderboard, to #296.

WSOP #30 NLHE Monster Stack

Jacqueline Burkhart at 53rd, which was enough to inch up another seven places to #256. Vancouver, Washington’s James Ward debuted on the Leaderboard at #2461 by placing 45th. Christopher Brewer took a break from the nosebleed buy-ins to place 30th (which doesn’t move him from #16). Another PNW crusher, Dylan Wilkerson—#13—came in at 27th. On the last two tables, it was #8 Lee Markholt taking 17th, Seattle’s Katsushi Yoshida getting 14th (and moving eight hundred spots on the Leaderboard to #871), with Jeff Vertes of Abbotsford, British Columbia getting 12th (and climbing from #213 to #180).

Revamping this to make it more fair, because I didn't think it all the way through. Will give +200 or can bet even at 1.5x return. 5k min, 25k max https://t.co/rQHHKoSf1s
— Chris Brewer (@Chris_D_Brewer) November 1, 2021

In case you’re wondering how Chris’s bet here is likely to go, revisit what Limon did (and I tagged along for) during the 2015 WSOP Main Event.

Ralph â€˜Repâ€™ Porter got close to another bracelet, making it to 4th in WSOP #31 NL 2-7 Lowball Draw. 272 entries, this is typically the $1,500 buy-in event with the fewest entries if you’re looking for a bracelet yourself! Porter stays at #11.

Vancouver’s Joseph Leung moves up forty places on the Leaderboard to #217 with a 2nd place at the Venetian DeepStack Poker Series II #23 $75K GTD PLO. That event got 267 entries and pushed the prize pool to more than three times the guarantee.

Hereâ€™s me on my new money phone telling my mom I won the Venetian daily yesterday for $39,570 pic.twitter.com/yLkmdx3q6v
— Angela Jordison (@Angelajordison) October 17, 2021

Everyone’s favorite new senior, Angela Jordison, won her biggest recorded cash in Venetian #22 $50K GTD NLHE MonsterStack. 359 entries brounght the prize pool up to $183K. Jordison’s rank on the Leaderboard goes from #282 to #224 with that win, a 10th place in the Wynn Fall Classic $400K NLHE Seniors and some other stuff, like 108th in the WSOP #52 NLHE Seniors Championship. It’s a good thing I’ll be able to play the Super Seniors next year so I can stay out of Jordison’s way. Jordison bested another PNW player—Benjamin Garrick of Gold Beach—in the Venetian event. It was still Garrick’s best cash, and they move 300+ places to #748. Two other PNW players were at the final table of the Wynn Seniors tournament , as well: April Facey—another Port Moody native, who rises about 150 places to #539—and Spokane Valley’s Justin Monk, whose 3rd-place finish took them from #179 to #146.

#18 Tyler Patterson took 20th in the WSOP #33 NLHE 8-Max.The event drew 2,778 entries at $800 each for a proze pool of nearly $2M. Kris Steinbach from Sherwood Park, Alberta grabbed 5th place, moving from #280 to #187.

Tacoma’s Peter Lynn grabbed their biggest cash and almost grabbed a bracelet, in the 285-entry WSOP #34 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw, losing to David “Bakes” Baker. Lynn jumps from #2470 to #865.

Portland’s Brian Cunningham notched a personal best cash in the 18 October and moved more than three thousand places on the Leaderboard (to #2905) by winning the Rio Daily 1pm Deep Stack, which got a prize pool of $57K out of 284 entries.

From Federal Way, Jacob Rich made it to 6th place in the 2,931 entry field of WSOP #35 NLHE Freezeout. It’s a best cash for Rich, and it’s enough for a debut on the leaderboard at #1671.

The follow-up to last week’s out-of-nowhere entry of Tacoma’s Bin Weng in the WSOP’s $25K buy-in Heads-Up tournament was Weng placing 6th in WSOP #38 NLHE High Roller 8-Max, a $50K buy-in with 81 entries. Weng was slugging it out on the final table with Mustapha Kanit, Sam Soverel, Chris Hunichen, Erik Seidel, Gal Yifrach, Justin Bonomo, and Michael Addamo. Again, that’s some chutzpah for someone whose lifetime recorded tournament earnings prior to this event were less than the buy-in, and that includes a min-cash in the $25K Heads Up. Weng had a significant addition to the recorded earnings from this, and moves from #1296 to #239 on the Leaderboard.

Dien Le from Bellevue bumps up two places to #122 with 11th place in WSOP #39 PLO 8-Max. There were 821 entries in the event.

The WSOP #41 NLHE Freezeout got 896 $2,500 entries. George Wolff came in 18th. He stays at the #17 spot on the Leaderboard.

Steve Chanthabouasy climbs five places to #90 after making the final table of the WSOP #44 LHE 6-Max, a $3K buy-in that got 162 entries. Chanthabouasy took 6th.

Slipping out of the Rio for a moment, at the Orleans Poker Series $75K GTD NLHE on 23 October, Tim Zhou from Kenmore, Washington placed 2nd for a lifetime best, and moves up from #2158 to #1677 on the Leaderboard.

Portland’s Brian Bowman jumps 400 spots to #1376 with a 13th place finish in WSOP #46 NLHE Deepstack. There were over 2,000 entries in this one.

Colten Yamagishi from Edmonton got their biggest cash coming in 4th out of 1,569 entries in WSOP #50 Mixed NLHE/PLO Deepstack 8-Max. Yamagishi is up 270 places on the Leaderboard, to #530.

WSOP #51 NLHE 6-Max

Three PNW players made it deep in the 997-entry field of this $3K buy-in tournament. It was a best-ever cash for Seattle’s Matthew Schwagler, rising 400 places to #984 via a 25th place finish. It was 12th place for Krishna Vitaldevara of Woodinville, Washington, who has a massive 5100-spot rise to #1680 with another best-ever cash. And North Vancouver, British Columbia’s Jonas Mackoff finished just ahead of Vitaldevara in 11th place, but holds at #40.

Until the next time!

PNW Poker Leaderboard — 22 October 2021

Posted on Friday, 22 October 2021 by Poker Mutant

Too much going on to jawbone right now. I’m going to do this chronologically because so many people are cashing in the same events.

Don’t think I’ve mentioned this for a while, but the Pacific Northwest Poker Leaderboard is compiled poker tournament stats for the states and provinces of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska, British Columbia, and Alberta. I try to put a report together every two weeks, but it’s a labor of love, so real life can slow me down sometimes.

James Romero GPI: 216 was 5th in a field of 107 at the Merit Poker./partypoker MILLIONS North Cyprus #13 $500K GTD NLHE High Roller. It appears as if the 50 re-entries (at $10.5K each) were not counted as part of the reported entries, the total prize pool was $1.44M. Romero went on to cash 68th at the World Series of Poker #17 NLHE Millionaire Maker. Romero holds at #5 on the PNW Poker Leaderboard.

Vancouver BC’s Harpreet Gill GPI: 3415 jumps more than a hundred places on the Leaderboard to #84 by taking 3rd place in another event at the same series, the $5.5K buy-in Merit/partypoker #23 $3M GTD NLHE. That tournament posted 556 entries and 283 re-entries, with a prize pool of $3.8M. It’s Gill’s best-ever cash.

On the other side of the world—at Round Rock, Texas’s The Lodge Millionaire Mayhem #4 $1.25M GTD NLHE Main Event Michael Bernstein of Edmonton GPI: 4384 placed 13th out of 1,621 to climb 350 places to #967.

World Series of Poker Event #4 $5M GTD NLHE The Reunion

The Reunion was the big kickoff event for the returning WSOP and it pulled in nearly 13,000 entries, making a prize pool of $5.45M from $500 buy-ins. Four players from the PNW made it deep enough to be picked up by my tracker. Out of Roseburg, Sandra Bratton GPI: 27964 came in 48th. That’s the top 0.4% for those of you thinking 48th doesn’t sound so hard. Bratton goes from #2375 to #1810. Ryan Stoker (Spokane) moved up nine spots to #165 with 42nd place, before going on to win a bracelet after stats were compiled for this Leaderboard (I’m not sure if WSOP Online stats will get rolled into Hendon Mob leaderboards, but congrats, Ryan). Stoker is GPI: 1667. Seattle’s Katsushi Yoshida GPI: 4095 picked up a best-ever cash for 26th place and rises to #1686, nearly 1200 spots on the Leaderboard. Also from Seattle: Cheang Yoo, the 25th-place finisher. Yoo GPI: 644 is up to #344 from #400.

I just won a bracelet pic.twitter.com/Nprd41uJxx
— Ryan Stoker (@StokersPoker) October 18, 2021

Steven Sporre from North Plains, Washington got their first-ever Hendon Mob cash with a 4th-place in the Orleans 2021 Fall Poker $75K GTD NLHE. Sporre is GPI: 40274 and debuts on the Leaderboard at #4259.

From Renton, Maria Pearlie Tapang GPI: 17111 goes from #6439 to #2993 after taking 3rd place (their best-ever cash) in Venetian Deepstack Championship #6 $50K GTD NLHE MonsterStack. That event got 205 entries.

Back over at the Rio, it was Adam Hendrix GPI: 2 in another big buy-in tournament, the WSOP #6 NLHE 6-Max High Roller. Hendrix took 8th of 135, in a prize pool of more than $3M. Hendrix’s position on the Leaderboard stays at #24.

Sean Fitzpatrick from Mill Creek, Washington GPI: 26166 won the Rio Daily Deepstack Series NLHE 7PM on 3 October. Fitpatrick beat 134 other entries and climbs almost 900 spots on the Leaderboard, to #2054.

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

Out of Eugene, William Tinoco moves from #1863 to #1289 by taking 4th out of 263 in a Wynn Fall Classic $200K GTD NLHE. It’s Tinoco’s GPI: 12488 best-ever cash.

The first PNW bracelet of the season goes to Jaswinder Lally from Vancouver, British Columbia, in only his third recorded tournament cash, in WSOP #7 Dealer’s Choice 6-Max. Lally GPI: 6726 moves from #6535 to #643. Nice to see that particular bracelet come back to the PNW!

https://twitter.com/WSOP/status/1445626721990942722?s=20

World Series of Poker Event #8 NLHE Deepstack

The first of the $600 buy-in events this year drew 4,527 entries, and there were only three players from the PNW who made it to the Leaderboard from there (others cashed but not for enough to make it into this report). Chris Niemeyer of Lake Stevens GPI:16110 came in 28th; putting them on the Leaderboard for the first time at #4071. Yakima’s Theodore Demoe GPI: 6810 made it to 21st, and has a new Leaderboard ranking of #3915. GPI: 11192 Marty Stephens from Coos Bay placed 16th, their best-ever cash and a clip of 1500 places to #2382.

Moving up the Leaderboard from #18 to #17 is George Wolff, with a 6th place finish out of the 134 entrants in WSOP #9 Omaha Hi-Lo Championship and 23rd in the WSOP #25 NLHE 6-Max. Wolff is GPI: 1129.

Portland’s own Wayne Harmon was 48th out of 1,790 entries in the Wynn $1M GTD NLHE. The prize pool was nearly $2.6M. Harmon GPI: 624 is up more than twenty spots on the Leaderboard, to #205.

Sukhpaul Dhaliwal from Langley, British Columbia GPI: 4562 took 5th in the WSOP #10 NLHE Super Turbo Bounty, beating 1,635 other players to move two spots up on the Leaderboard to #59.

I’m including Tacoma’s Bin Weng GPI: 12466 in this edition of the Leaderboard even though the +47% ROI they made from their 5th-place finish in WSOP #11 NLHE Heads-Up Championship wasn’t nearly enough to get a mention, usually. (They’re going to make it into the next edition without a problem, from results posted since I ran this collation.) But you have to admire the sheer balls of someone with $12K in recorded tournament earnings and just three cashes, ponying up $25K to play heads-up matches with the likes of Adrian Mateos—Weng’s first match, Dan Zack—Weng’s third match and the player who knocked them out of the tournament, David Peters, and Cary Katz. I mean, jeez. Weng’s cash takes them from #3551 to #1296.

Vancouver, Washington’s Kevin Erickson almost won a bracelet in WSOP #12 LHE, losing heads-up to Yuval Bronshtein. The limit hold’em event drew 422 entries. Erickson’s third and best tournament cash leapfrogs him over more than four thousand other players on the Leaderboard to #784.

Landen Lucas, Portland still, according to Hendon Mob, GPI: 290 has a two-fer, with 10th place in the WSOP #13 NLHE Freezeout followed up by 33rd place (out of 5,326) in WSOP #17 NLHE Millionaire Maker. Lucas goes from #353 to #271 on the Leaderboard.

Puyallup’s Rafael Lebron GPI: 2927 was the next PNW player to win a bracelet, in WSOP #14 Seven-Card Stud, not the one where Phil Hellmuth threatened to burn down the Rio, the other one, where LeBron bested David Williams among others.It’s Lebron’s second bracelet, and the victory moves him up 19 places on the Leaderboard to #89.

World Series of Poker Event #15 NLHE 6-Max

Two PNW players made the last few tables of this 1,450-entry tournament. Just missing the final two tables at 13th place was Jonas Mackoff of North Vancouver, British Columbia, GPI: 4858. That’s goof for three spots on the Leaderboard, they’re now #40. 8th place was Kirkland player Jonathan Baylor‘s largest score GPI: 2704; it’s a climb of nearly two thousand places on the Leaderboard for them, to #1352.

The legendary Terrence Chan GPI: 10620 was at the final table of WSOP #16 LHE Championship, coming in 4th. 92 players put up the $10K entry fee; Chan remains at #33 on the Leaderboard.

It was a notable first recorded cash, in 8th at the Grand Poker Series #22 $500K GTD NLHE for Phillip Latimer of Moses Lake, Washington. Latimer debuts on the Leaderboard at #3475.

World Series of Poker Event #17 NLHE Millionaire Maker

In addition to James Romero (mentioned above) five other PNW players had significant cashes in the Millionaire Maker this year. Anchorage’s Kristy Becker GPI:16854 busted just after Romero, in 67th, and moves from #1436 to #1170 on the Leaderboard. Bruce Herman of Ellensberg, Washington #16814 achieved their best cash with 72nd, enough to climb more than 700 places to #1835. Vanessa Kade GPI:465 moves up six positions to #122 with a 75th place finish (followed by 19th in the WSOP #25 NLHE 6-Max). Climbing nine spots to #124 is Bellevue’s Dien Le, GPI: 179 who made the final two tables at 17th. And on the final table, picking up their best-ever cash was GPI: 6323 Adam Sherman of Seattle at 8th. Sherman goes from #903 to #359.

Seth Davies has to make an appearance in the Leaderboard each edition by contractual obligation, and this time is no excepton. with a 3rd-place finish in Aria High Roller 25 NLHE. 22 entries, looking at the payouts, there may have been a 4-way deal between Davies, Jake Schindler, Nick Petrangelo, and Stephen Chidwick. Davies GPI: 50 remains #1 on the Leaderboard and just keeps putting space between himself and everyone else,

339 players entered the Wynn $200K GTD NLHE and Seattle’s Brian Heeb came in 7th. Heeb is up nearly 200 places on the Leaderboard, at #1073.

World Series of Poker Event #21 PLO8/O8/Big O

Charles Coultas of Mill Creek, Washington GPI: 6961 was the 10th-place finisher in this event with 641 entries. Coultas climbs three places on the Leaderboard to #85. The winner of the bracelet was Dylan Linde, #6 on the Leaderboard and GPI: 112, bringing yet another bracelet to the PNW.

Darren Kennedy GPI:31626 of White Rock, British Columbia bested me by 79 places in the WSOP #27 HORSE, coming in 5th and moving up about eighty places to #313.

A Tale of Two—Maybe Three—Kaos

And that brings us to the the other PNW player who was at the HORSE final table: Kao “Flexx” Saechao. That’s the Seattle-area Kao, who placed 4th in the tournament and posted a number of other results the time period covered by this edition of the Leaderboard, including a min-cash in the Millionaire Maker. The problem is, Washington Kao’s results get mixed into those of Oregon’s Kao Saechao, not only the final table finish of the HORSE but even to the point where the results of both Kaos were attributed to Oregon Kao

Yes, Portland's Kao Saechao cashed in the Millionaire Maker. No, he did not cash twice in the same event, @TheHendonMob.https://t.co/ZhkaNtoMF3 #YearOfKao pic.twitter.com/wo6eRf2vaH
— Poker â€œSocially and Emotionally Distant 2â€ Mutant (@pokermutant) October 17, 2021

Not to be outdone, Kerry Moynahan posted on Facebook that two other players with the his name cashing in an event at the Venetian last year.

In any event, I can’t reliable rank either Kao because there’s a mixup of results, and that throws everything else into flux. Not by much, but some. Anyway, great job, both Flexx and Kao. Between the two of them, they’ve got four WSOP cashes and a win in a Daily Deepstack in the past couple of weeks.

That’s all for now!

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