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The Main Event Comes of Age, 2023 FINAL RESULTS

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Another follow-up to my original article by this title at PokerNews back in 2015 (and follow-ups here, and here), for the first day of the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event.

The results are in! The asterisk in the title is because previous years are ranked by the finishing place of the folks on the final table, but the results for this year are by starting stack on the final table until the tournament’s done.

Years ago, I had a discussion with someone about how they thought there would never be another Main Event winner over the age of 40. That was just before Qui Nguyen won it at 39 and a couple of years before Hossein Ensan took it down at 55. Adam Walton has a significant chip lead going into the day. He’s 40.

[UPDATE] Walton did make it to Day 2 of the Final Table, but not for long. Congrats to Daniel Weinman!

Here We Go Again — March 2023

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The Year of #Jordison

The running joke on the Poker In the Ears podcast and PokerStars Sunday Million and EPT livestreams is that it’s always #TheYearOfRomania, but I think that we can safely call 2023 #TheYearOfJordison. Coming off a win for the GPI Global Poker Awards Breakout Player early in March for a phenomenal run in 2022, Jordison and conspirator Jackie Burkhart put together the feel-good event of the year, by sponsoring (initially) eight—and so far, thirteen—veterans to play in the WSOP Salute to Warriors tournament, with packages including buy-in and expenses. She’s been doing lots of podcast appearances the past several months, including Kara Scott’s Heart of Poker at the end of the month. I can’t keep up.

Poker Tracker

Got my Poker Tracker 4 running again. I used to be good at this IT stuff. There was some sort of issue on my Mac, the database was hinky at first, then after I got that sorted out, none of the select menus would work, which made slicing and dicing the data extremely difficult. Finally managed to import a couple years’ worth of Ignition Casino tournaments, which is good, because my old go-to for showing off hands—ShareMyPair—is no more.

Beaverton Quarantine

This little group typically plays two or three $20 or $25 tournaments on Friday night via the PokerStars Home Games play money client and Zoom (though PokerStars now has a beta video conferencing feature). They tend to be one-and-a-half tables at most, with the first game (usually NLHE) being larger and a smaller number of players for the later game or games. I usually miss the first one, but try to jump into the others when I get the opportunity. I played a PLO8 bounty tournament as my first game of the month (out 7 of 8), and my last game was a straight PLO bounty, where I took 2nd place (of 8 entries) and a couple of bounties.

Ignition Casino 2-Seat GTD NLHE Irish Poker Open Satellite Qualifier

This was my last gasp effort at making it to the Irish Poker Open, which is going on right now (click on the EPT link above to watch it on YouTube). Didn’t manage to come close.

Last Frontier Casino $25K GTD NLHE

After some success at Last Frontier early in the year in LHE, I decided to try my hand there at NLHE and ran into a bit of a buzzsaw. Ran KK into AA just over an hour in and lost the equivalent of a starting stack. With the slower structure, I still had 40bb. Managed to get to the add-on break with 5K and got an extra 15K, then ran it up to 23K (57bb by then).

The player on my left had been grumbling about my play most of the tournament for the first two hours after I’d raised early and called an oversized re-raise with KJs. He had TT and lost a chunk of chips early on. Two hours in, I limped K4s from the HJ, he raised to 3.5bb and SB called. I called and the flop his KKJ. SB and I checked, he bet 5K into 7K and on the assumption that #BlockersAreReal, I shoved for about 30bb. Both of them folded, he said “KJ again?” and I told him “No, king-four.” He snorted, “Figures.”

Karma, as they say, is a bitch, and poker karma is a whole pack of bitches. I picked up KK on my very next hand and raised, as one does. BB—the guy I’d run my KK into when he had AA early on—makes the call. K24 flop. He check-calls my 3.5bb bet. 4 on the turn, he checks, I bet 8bb and he calls. A on the river, He checks, I bet 8bb again and he raised to18bb. I called very reluctantly, hoping he’d over-valued two pair maybe, and he shows K3s. I managed to last about 40 minutes after that.

Ignition Casino $500 GTD PLO8 Turbo

Just 34 hands. Out well before the money.

Ignition Casino $2 NLHE Jackpot Sit-n-Go

Only won one of these of the three I played (yes, I know, that’s the random distribution) and I missed the 5x multiplier.

Ignition Casino $3K GTD NLHE PKO Turbo

Twenty percent of the buy-in goes to the bounty pool in this tournament. I managed to take down a couple of bounties, made it to the money, but never really caught wind and was pretty short-stacked by the time we got to two tables. Went out 18th when I open-shoved 6bb with Qs9s and the blinds had Ac9h and AdJd (Mutant Jack!). Flopped an open-ended straight draw, but the board double-paired and I min-cashed.

Ignition Casino $35K GTD NLHE

I’d never played this nightly tournament before but enjoyed it briefly. Never managed to get any traction above the starting stack and went out with the Portland Nuts (QcTc) v AdQd, making two pair on the river against the rivered flush.

Ignition Casino $5K GTD NLHE Thousandaire Maker

I hadn’t played one of these for nine months, and I figured I’d take a couple shots. They pay approximately 7% of the fields flat $1K on an $82 buy-in. My aces got cracked on the 20th hand of the first one when I raised UTG, got three callers, and jammed on the flop, only to have J9 with a gut-shot draw call off more than half of his stack and hit. So, nowhere near the money on that one. Did a little better on the second go, but still never made it further than the middle the field.

Coming Up

No Irish Poker Open for me, no Wildhorse Spring Poker Round-Up. There’s a lot of action here in Portland with people gearing up for the summer poker series in Vegas. I’ve already taken a stab at one of Final Table‘s First Friday $20K GTD events (they ran a special Fifth Friday $20K at the end of March). They’re running a $50K GTD on April 15th, but I’m going to miss that due to family obligations. There is a $500 buy-in Freezeout there on April 23rd, but it’s up against Portland Meadows‘ HEROES tournament and I have a hard time passing up HORSE variants. Meadows is also running a NLHE/PLO mix game on the 13th that I’m going to try to make it to. And they’ve got a Progressive Knockout with a $400 buy-in on the 29th. Then Last Frontier is running another one of their $25K GTD tournaments on April 30. And that’s just the stuff I’m trying to fit into my retired from poker guy schedule.

I also need to make my reservations for the first weekend of the WSOP. Limit Hold’em and Seven-Card Stud await!

Well, Well, Well— January 2023

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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 — 2 January 2023: The Last One

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All good things must come to an end, and the same is true for this feature of Mutant Poker. The ##PNWPokerLeaderboard has been running for nearly six years, since back at the end of April 2017.It’s been interesting and entertaining, but it does take a fair amount of time, which I could be using to rewatch episodes of the original The Addams Family.

So I’m going to take a little break from this, after one last mega-Leaderboard, which wraps up 2022 (mostly). Still hope to see some of you folks on my infrequent forays out onto the local tables.

Coming Up at Last Frontier

Two events for the new year have already been announced at Last Frontier: Next Sunday (8 January) is a $10K GTD Limit Hold’em tournament, with a $25K GTD NLHE tournament on Sunday, 29 January. Both events start at noon, both are a $235 buyin with no rebuy. The NLHE event has a $100 add-on.

PNW Poker Leaderboard

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.
David Lasater (West Richland, Washington)
#3092
#2244
➧
+848
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #1 $1K+ NLHE
3rd of 488 entries, $93.7K prize pool
Eric Lund (Lind, Washington)
—
#4161
♣
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #9 $5K+ NLHE Main Event
9th of 486 entries, $235.8K prize pool
Dale Dietzel (Gates, Oregon)
#1328
#1142
➧
+186
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #6 $1K+ NLHE Seniors
2nd of 355 entries, $68.4K prize pool
Alex Smith (Richland, Washington)
#5356
#3081
➧
+2275
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #7 $4K+ NLHE
4th of 344 entries, $134.7K prize pool
Barry South (Chuglak, Alaska)
#6049
#3130
➧
+2919
Venetian DSE NYE #19 $20K GTD NLHE EpicStack
3rd of 358 entries, $119.2K prize pool
Glyn Gracias (Sherwood Park, Alberta)
#1084
#933
➧
+151
Venetian DSE NYE #24 $25K GTD NLHE EpicStack
6th of 326 entries, $137.5K prize pool
Lloyd Fletcher (Dayton, Washington)
#757
#674
➧
+83
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #4 $1K+ Limit Omaha Hi-Lo
1st of 247 entries, $47.9K prize pool
Jerimiah Booher (Twin Falls, Idaho)
#3873
#2432
➧
+1441
WSOPC Cherokee #2 $500K GTD NLHE
9th of 2643 entries, $690.1K prize pool
Christopher Butler (Edmonton, Alberta)
#3479
#2269
➧
+1210
Pure Poker Tour Tournament of Champions Edmonton #8 NLHE
6th of 289 entries, $285.5K prize pool
James Bluhm (Elgin, Oregon)
—
#3739
♣
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #6 $1K+ NLHE Seniors
1st of 355 entries, $68.4K prize pool
Tianshu Liu (Scarborough, Alberta)
—
#3592
♣
Deerfoot Fall Super Stack #6 NLHE Megastack
3rd of 341 entries, $120.2K prize pool
Thor Oden (Wenatchee, Washington)
—
#3577
♣
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #1 $1K+ NLHE
2nd of 488 entries, $93.7K prize pool
Lane Jacobson (Sisters, Oregon)
#2322
#1696
➧
+626
RunGood Contenders Season Finale Thunder Valley $1M GTD NLHE Main Event
14th of 417 entries, $1M prize pool
Jayakrishnan Nair (Seattle, Washington)
#95
#96
➧
-1
CPPT/Venetian DSE IV #28 $1M GTD NLHE
9th of 363 entries, $816.7K prize pool
Shawn Hall (Edmonds, Washington)
#1470
#1182
➧
+288
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #9 $5K+ NLHE Main Event
56th of 486 entries, $235.8K prize pool
Lincoln White (Yakima, Washington)
—
#3449
♣
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #9 $5K+ NLHE Main Event
8th of 486 entries, $235.8K prize pool
Philip Senrud (Seattle, Washington)
—
#3384
♣
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #7 $4K+ NLHE
3rd of 344 entries, $134.7K prize pool
Gabriel Kiflu (Salem, Oregon)
#7002
#2868
➧
+4134
LA Poker Open #20 NLHE
1st of 248 entries, $71.9K prize pool
Elliot Smith (Richmond, British Columbia)
#23
#23
➧
0
WPT World Championship $500K GTD NLHE
27th of 907 entries, $2.4M prize pool
Todd Hatch (Mukilteo, Washington)
—
#3235
♣
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #9 $5K+ NLHE Main Event
7th of 486 entries, $235.8K prize pool
Michael Baldwin (Calgary, Alberta)
#3952
#2221
➧
+1731
Harvest Poker Classic Regina NLHE
4th of 292 entries, $216.9K prize pool
Ye Ping Shan (Sherwood Park, Alberta)
#538
#471
➧
+67
Deerfoot Fall Super Stack #10 NLHE Main Event Superstack
5th of 226 entries, $218.7K prize pool
Kham Xaythavone (Seattle, Washington)
#2345
#1600
➧
+745
WPT World Championship $500K GTD NLHE
19th of 2999 entries, $1.5M prize pool
Charles Coultas (Mill Creek, Washington)
#65
#66
➧
-1
WPT Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open #9 Limit Omaha Hi-Lo
2nd of 108 entries, $56.7K prize pool
Clay Quint (Mukilteo, Washington)
#4383
#2299
➧
+2084
Venetian DSE NYE #39 $30K GTD NLHE MonsterStack
2nd of 141 entries, $71.9K prize pool
Michael Kiselman (Edmonds, Washington)
#2520
#1681
➧
+839
WPT World Championship $2M GTD NLHE Mystery Bounty
22nd of 3715 entries, $3.5M prize pool
Brandon Scotton (Boise, Idaho)
#7127
#2766
➧
+4361
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #2 $4K+ NLHE
3rd of 375 entries, $146.5K prize pool
Jonathan Williams (Dupont, Washington)
#2031
#1427
➧
+604
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #8 $8K+ NLHE
3rd of 436 entries, $126.2K prize pool
Tam Nguyen (Salem, Oregon)
#50
#48
➧
+2
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #9 $5K+ NLHE Main Event
5th of 486 entries, $235.8K prize pool
Phillip Ferguson (Hermiston, Oregon)
#3089
#1888
➧
+1201
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #8 $8K+ NLHE
2nd of 436 entries, $126.2K prize pool
Samuel Ngai (Edmonton, Alberta)
#90
#89
➧
+1
Pure Poker Tour Tournament of Champions Edmonton #8 NLHE
4th of 289 entries, $285.5K prize pool
Graydon Kowal (Calgary, Alberta)
#574
#495
➧
+79
Deerfoot Fall Super Stack #1 NLHE Deepstack
1st of 304 entries, $63.7K prize pool
Mohammad Mufti (Bellevue, Washington)
#1225
#961
➧
+264
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #8 $8K+ NLHE
4th of 436 entries, $126.2K prize pool
Scott Thomas (Lake Oswego, Oregon)
#1063
#853
➧
+210
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #9 $5K+ NLHE Main Event
4th of 486 entries, $235.8K prize pool
Tony Hopkins (Portland, Oregon)
#1212
#942
➧
+270
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #8 $8K+ NLHE
1st of 436 entries, $126.2K prize pool
Faramarz Ghorbani (Port Moody, British Columbia)
#2416
#1543
➧
+873
WPT World Championship $500K GTD NLHE
27th of 907 entries, $2.4M prize pool
Jessica King (Boise, Idaho)
#1310
#1000
➧
+310
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #1 $1K+ NLHE
1st of 488 entries, $93.7K prize pool
Zhigang Yang (Richmond, British Columbia)
—
#2818
♣
Deerfoot Fall Super Stack #10 NLHE Main Event Superstack
4th of 226 entries, $218.7K prize pool
Paul Losch (Portland, Oregon)
—
#2777
♣
WPT World Championship $500K GTD NLHE
10th of 2999 entries, $1.5M prize pool
Sebastian Crema (North Vancouver, British Columbia)
#506
#445
➧
+61
Venetian DSE NYE #30 $25K GTD NLHE EpicStack
2nd of 203 entries, $85.6K prize pool
Taylor Hart (Newberg, Oregon)
#209
#204
➧
+5
WSOPC Cherokee #16 $100K GTD NLHE High Roller
5th of 131 entries, $262K prize pool
Jorge Canada (Kennewick, Washington)
#546
#462
➧
+84
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #9 $5K+ NLHE Main Event
3rd of 486 entries, $235.8K prize pool
Christopher Holden (Anchorage, Alaska)
#2564
#1480
➧
+1084
WPT World Championship $2M GTD NLHE
39th of 5430 entries, $5.2M prize pool
Feiyue Wu (Shorelline, Washington)
#847
#663
➧
+184
RunGood Contenders Season Finale Thunder Valley $250K GTD NLHE Take 1
5th of 456 entries, $410.4K prize pool
Calen McNeil (Victoria, British Columbia)
#92
#90
➧
+2
WPT World Championship $50K GTD Limit Omaha Hi-Lo
1st of 269 entries, $138.5K prize pool
Wayne Harmon (Portland, Oregon)
#169
#155
➧
+14
WSOPC Choctaw #10 $1M GTD NLHE Main Event
16th of 1076 entries, $1.6M prize pool
Nolan Houser (Calgary, Alberta)
—
#2297
♣
Deerfoot Fall Super Stack #8 PLO Megastack
1st of 80 entries, $40.6K prize pool
Binh Nguyen (Beaverton, Oregon)
#140
#136
➧
+4
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #9 $5K+ NLHE Main Event
2nd of 486 entries, $235.8K prize pool
Pei Li (Calgary, Alberta)
#261
#236
➧
+25
Deerfoot Fall Super Stack #6 NLHE Megastack
1st of 341 entries, $120.2K prize pool
Ryan Cairns (Edmonton, Alberta)
#463
#386
➧
+77
Pure Poker Tour Tournament of Champions Edmonton #8 NLHE
3rd of 289 entries, $285.5K prize pool
Dylan Wilkerson (Seattle, Washington)
#16
#14
➧
+2
WSOPC Chicago #10 NLHE Main Event
14th of 1070 entries, $1.6M prize pool
Michael Helander (Kent, Washington)
#670
#522
➧
+148
Venetian DSE IV #22 $100K GTD NLHE Ultimate Stack
1st of 428 entries, $141.2K prize pool
L. David Wolfe (Portland, Oregon)
—
#1940
♣
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #2 $4K+ NLHE
1st of 375 entries, $146.5K prize pool
Doug Lee (Calgary, Alberta)
#27
#27
➧
0
Venetian DSE NYE #13 $25K GTD NLHE EpicStack
2nd of 207 entries, $87.3K prize pool
Aaron Duczak (Surrey, British Columbia)
#30
#30
➧
0
WSOP Europe #14 €200K GTD NLHE Bounty Hunter
6th of 436 entries, $283.4K prize pool
Jim Harnden (North Vancouver, British Columbia)
#215
#188
➧
+27
Deerfoot Fall Super Stack #10 NLHE Main Event Superstack
2nd of 226 entries, $218.7K prize pool
Aaron Thivyanathan (Renton, Washington)
#97
#94
➧
+3
WPT World Championship $200K GTD NLHE
11th of 736 entries, $721.2K prize pool
James Romero (Portland, Oregon)
#6
#7
➧
-1
WPT Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open #42 NLHE Deep Stack 8-Max
6th of 108 entries, $56.7K prize pool
Gavin Smith (Portland, Oregon)
#1281
#698
➧
+583
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #7 $4K+ NLHE
2nd of 344 entries, $134.7K prize pool
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #9 $5K+ NLHE Main Event
1st of 486 entries, $235.8K prize pool
Joe Becker (Pendleton, Oregon)
—
#1342
♣
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #2 $4K+ NLHE
2nd of 375 entries, $146.5K prize pool
Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up #7 $4K+ NLHE
1st of 344 entries, $134.7K prize pool
Adam Hendrix (Anchorage, Alaska)
#13
#13
➧
0
WPT World Championship $250K GTD NLHE Progressive Bounty
9th of 181 entries, $532.1K prize pool
Venetian DSE IV #16 $300K GTD NLHE Ultimate Bounty
4th of 422 entries, $300K prize pool
Thomas Taylor (Medicine Hat, Alberta)
#38
#37
➧
+1
Deerfoot Fall Super Stack #10 NLHE Main Event Superstack
1st of 226 entries, $218.7K prize pool
Luka Savic (Everett, Washington)
—
#1140
♣
WSOPC Chicago #2 $300K GTD NLHE
3rd of 1815 entries, $748.8K prize pool
Tyler Willse (Hillsboro, Oregon)
#490
#348
➧
+142
WPT World Championship $100K GTD HORSE
1st of 272 entries, $263.8K prize pool
Krzysztof Slaski (Edmonton, Alberta)
#3887
#958
➧
+2929
Pure Poker Tour Tournament of Champions Edmonton #8 NLHE
1st of 289 entries, $285.5K prize pool
Zachary Bright (Tualatin, Oregon)
#2827
#851
➧
+1976
WPT World Championship $200K GTD NLHE
2nd of 1243 entries, $646.3K prize pool
Clemen Deng (Portland, Oregon)
#259
#205
➧
+54
WPT World Championship $2M GTD NLHE
23rd of 5430 entries, $5.2M prize pool
Jaspal Brar (Edmonton, Alberta)
#47
#44
➧
+3
Pure Poker Tour Tournament of Champions Edmonton #8 NLHE
2nd of 289 entries, $285.5K prize pool
Kyle Ho (Burnaby, British Columbia)
#98
#96
➧
+2
Harvest Poker Classic Regina NLHE
2nd of 268 entries, $107.4K prize pool
Harvest Poker Classic Regina NLHE
1st of 270 entries, $244.5K prize pool
Andrew Rodgers (Anchorage, Alaska)
#368
#247
➧
+121
Venetian DSE NYE #21 $150K GTD NLHE UltimateStack
2nd of 1011 entries, $510.5K prize pool
Brandon Cantu (Vancouver, Washington)
#8
#8
➧
0
PokerGO Tour/Aria High Roller Series #36 NLHE
3rd of 39 entries, $390K prize pool
Calvin Lee (Mercer Island, Washington)
#132
#102
➧
+30
WPT World Championship $15M GTD NLHE
40th of 2960 entries, $29M prize pool
Esther Taylor-Brady (Portland, Oregon)
#26
#26
➧
0
WPT World Championship $200K GTD 8-Game Mix
1st of 131 entries, $360.2K prize pool
Lina Niu (Surrey, British Columbia)
#7648
#612
➧
+7036
WPT World Championship $200K GTD NLHE Ladies
1st of 578 entries, $560.6K prize pool
Carl Oman (Vancouver, Washington)
#119
#100
➧
+19
CPPT/Venetian DSE IV #28 $1M GTD NLHE
2nd of 363 entries, $816.7K prize pool
Sean Banahan (Twin Falls, Idaho)
#589
#263
➧
+326
WPT World Championship $500K GTD NLHE
1st of 2999 entries, $1.5M prize pool
Shawn Buchanan (Vancouver, British Columbia)
#3
#3
➧
0
WPT World Championship $2M GTD NLHE Mystery Bounty
5th of 3715 entries, $3.5M prize pool
Angela Jordison (Redmond, Oregon)
#74
#60
➧
+14
MSPT/Venetian DSE NYE #44 $300K GTD NLHE
5th of 643 entries, $620.4K prize pool
WSOPC Chicago #15 $100K GTD NLHE
5th of 229 entries, $223.2K prize pool
WSOPC Choctaw #10 $1M GTD NLHE Main Event
4th of 1076 entries, $1.6M prize pool
Tyler Patterson (Everett, Washington)
#19
#19
➧
0
RunGood Contenders Season Finale Thunder Valley $1M GTD NLHE Main Event
2nd of 417 entries, $1M prize pool
WPT World Championship $2M GTD NLHE
15th of 5430 entries, $5.2M prize pool
Adam Walton (Seattle, Washington)
#101
#64
➧
+37
WPT World Championship $500K GTD NLHE
2nd of 907 entries, $2.4M prize pool
Dylan Linde (Couer d’Alene, Idaho)
#7
#5
➧
+2
WPT World Championship NLHE High Roller
1st of 144 entries, $1.4M prize pool

PNW Poker Leaderboard — 14 November 2022

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I’m thanking my lucky stars it hasn’t been too busy since Halloween. It’s picking up, though, despite the approaching holidays. Enough that since I ran the numbers on Saturday, perennial blog favorite Angela Jordison almost got her hands on a WSOP Circuit Ring in the Main Event at Durant. Don’t miss her interview on this podcast.

Many thanks to @EastOregonQueen for tagging me in posts about the Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up this past week. The final results (and the dates for Spring) are below; check out the Twitter account (assuming that’s still a thing by the time I post this) for more results.

The Game ran two big buy-in events last weekend, including a $300+$150 Big O tournament last weekend (no idea how many players, I wasn’t able to make it, much against the siren song of 5 cards). Final Table ran a $500 Freezeout a week ago (also tugging at me) and has a $200 bounty tournament on Saturday (11/19) at noon.

Coming up in December, Portland Meadows has NLHE and Big O Freezeout championships.

Out of town, Little Creek Casino west of Olympia has a Mini Series running in early December.

That’s enough from me!

Pacific Northwest Poker Leaderboard

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.
Lee Markholt (Eatonville, Washington)
#9
#9
➧
0
WSOP Lake Tahoe #11 NLHE Main Event
11th of 513 entries, $777.1K prize pool
Aaron Raap (Meridian, Idaho)
#965
#826
➧
+139
MSPT Deadwood $100K GTD NLHE Main Event
7th of 422 entries, $407.8K prize pool
Ahmed Abdelhadi (Calgary, Alberta)
#1318
#1072
➧
+246
EPT London #9 NLHE UKIPT Mystery Bounty Cup
4th of 611 entries, $202.3K prize pool
Paul Houvener (Lynnwood, Washington)
—
#3317
♣
Wynn Fall Classic $50K GTD NLHE Seniors
3rd of 217 entries, $93.3K prize pool
Dien Le (Bellevue, Washington)
#113
#108
➧
+5
WSOPC Durant #4 $50K GTD NLHE The Twilight
1st of 371 entries, $72.7K prize pool
Dien Le (via WSOP.com)
Riochard Jeffrey (Calgary, Alberta)
#1826
#1259
➧
+567
Wynn Fall Classic $50K GTD NLHE Seniors
1st of 217 entries, $93.3K prize pool
Kevin Roope (Wrangle, Alaska)
—
#2533
♣
Wynn Fall Classic NLHE $500 Bounty
1st of 93 entries, $88.8K prize pool
This is Roope’s first Hendon Mob cash.
Maxwell Young (Seaside, Oregon)
#24
#24
➧
0
WSOPC Lake Tahoe #9 NLHE Monster Stack
2nd of 394 entries, $130.2K prize pool
Jared Kingery (University Place, Washington)
#135
#124
➧
+11
MSPT/Venetian DSE IV #2 $250K GTD NLHE
5th of 464 entries, $447.7K prize pool
Jeremy Hamey (Juneau, Alaska)
#1957
#1056
➧
+901
Bicycle Big Poker October #30 $750K GTD NLHE
5th of 2232 entries, $1M prize pool
Peter Lynn (Olympia, Washington)
#505
#383
➧
+122
MSPT/Venetian DSE IV #5 $750K GTD NLHE
6th of 808 entries, $1.1M prize pool
Jen Bernard (Portland, Oregon)
#2468
#1022
➧
+1446
Peppermill Poker Palooza #25 $300K GTD NLHE Main Event
2nd of 378 entries, $302.4K prize pool
Taylor Hart (Newberg, Oregon)
#257
#209
➧
+48
WSOPC Lake Tahoe #11 NLHE Main Event
4th of 513 entries, $777.1K prize pool
Dylan Linde (Vancouver, British Columbia)
#7
#7
➧
0
MSPT/Venetian DSE IV #2 $250K GTD NLHE
2nd of 464 entries, $447.7K prize pool
Rambo Halpern (Portland, Oregon)
#153
#131
➧
+22
Wynn Fall Classic $1M GTD NLHE Mystery Bounty
3rd of 847 entries, $1.2M prize pool
via the NW Poker Facebook Community
Scott Eskanazi (Mercer Island, Washington)
#101
#70
➧
+31
Wynn Fall Classic $1.5M GTD NLHE Championship
2nd of 684 entries, $1.8M prize pool

Eskenazi’s Hendon Mob profi;le goes back 14 years, but this is a career best, by far.

PNW Poker Leaderboard — 28 October 2022

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Not going to say much this edition. We lost one of the long-time residents here at the Catsino (up there in the header) last week, and things have been a little glum. Jasmine predated my time in poker (at least in the modern era) and she spent many a day at the home office or during an online tournament or while I was writing blog entries here at Mutant Poker making space for herself between the keyboard and the monitor. She’s going to be sorely missed after more than eighteen years.

There’s a remembrance tournament for Heath Bloodgood, the long-time manager at The Final Table, next Thursday evening.

Anyway, on to the Leaderboard.

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.
Matthew Kelly (Hillsboro, Oregon)
#2028
#1590
➧
+438
Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic #14 $30K GTD NLHE
2nd of 158 entries, $49.8K prize pool
Andrew Robinson (Clackamas, Oregon)
—
#4111
♣
Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic #14 $30K GTD NLHE
1st of 158 entries, $49.8K prize pool
Jesse Talbot (Calgary, Alberta)
#3199
#2201
➧
+998
Pure Poker Tour Edmonton #3 NLHE Mystery Bounty
1st of 200 entries, $39.5K prize pool
Tracy Town (Camas, Washington)
—
#3902
♣
Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic #19 $225K GTD NLHE Main Event
6th of 385 entries, $244.5K prize pool
Christopher Hull (Vancouver, Washington)
#1030
#877
➧
+153
DeepStack Extravaganza III #46 $200K GTD NLHE UltimateStack
5th of 452 entries, $228.6K prize pool
Alejandro Madrigal (Umatilla, Oregon)
#2188
#1577
➧
+611
WSOPC Thunder Valley #12 $100K GTD NLHE Last Call
5th of 173 entries, $173K prize pool
Jason Beasley (Salem, Oregon)
#177
#171
➧
+6
Bally’s Colorado Poker Championship #21 $200K GTD NLHE Main Event
7th of 430 entries, $447.2K prize pool
Ali Razzaq (Edmonton, Alberta)
#768
#680
➧
+88
Pure Poker Tour Edmonton #4 NLHE
2nd of 313 entries, $78.7K prize pool
Travis Jansen (Tigard, Oregon)
—
#3345
♣
Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic #5 $50K GTD NLHE 6-Max
1st of 80 entries, $50K prize pool
Aamir Khan (Calgary, Alberta)
#238
#230
➧
+8
Pure Poker Tour Edmonton #4 NLHE
1st of 313 entries, $78.7K prize pool
Thai Nguyen (Portland, Oregon)
—
#3272
♣
Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic #19 $225K GTD NLHE Main Event
5th of 385 entries, $244.5K prize pool
Will Thysell (Eugene, Oregon)
#729
#630
➧
+99
Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic #17 $40K GTD NLHE Bounty
1st of 202 entries, $83.2K prize pool
Jeffrey Lindsay, (Tacoma, Washington)
—
#3093
♣
Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic #12 $10K GTD NLHE Mystery Bounty
1st of 91 entries, $22K prize pool
Haven Werner (Calgary, Alberta)
#425
#380
➧
+45
Pure Poker Tour Edmonton #7 NLHE Main Event
5th of 531 entries, $368.4K prize pool
Cliff Green (Eckville, Alberta)
#203
#189
➧
+14
Pure Poker Tour Edmonton #2 NLHE Bounty
2nd of 310 entries, $108K prize pool
Norman Dufton (Warrenton, Oregon)
—
#2773
♣
Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic #17 $40K GTD NLHE Bounty
2nd of 202 entries, $83.2K prize pool
Aaron Quon (Richmond, British Columbia)
#2782
#1566
➧
+1216
Pure Poker Tour Edmonton #7 NLHE Main Event
4th of 531 entries, $368.4K prize pool
Colton Yamagishi (Edmonton, Alberta)
#234
#218
➧
+16
Pure Poker Tour Edmonton #2 NLHE Bounty
3rd of 310 entries, $108K prize pool
Pure Poker Tour Edmonton #7 NLHE Main Event
7th of 531 entries, $368.4K prize pool
Ilya Sofinskiy (Hillsboro, Oregon)
#1213
#874
➧
+339
Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic #19 $225K GTD NLHE Main Event
3rd of 385 entries, $244.5K prize pool
Tyler Patterson (Everett, Washington)
#19
#19
➧
0
WSOPC Thunder Valley #7 Omaha Hi-Lo
1st of 119 entries, $61.2K prize pool
Weston Print (Calgary, Alberta)
#225
#202
➧
+23
Pure Poker Tour Edmonton #7 NLHE Main Event
3rd of 531 entries, $368.4K prize pool
Richard McVae (Tacoma, Washington)
—
#1654
♣
Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic #19 $225K GTD NLHE Main Event
2nd of 385 entries, $244.5K prize pool
Michael Coombs (Tacoma, Washington)
#294
#238
➧
+56
Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic #19 $225K GTD NLHE Main Event
1st of 385 entries, $244.5K prize pool
Raghav Sharma (Calgary, Alberta)
—
#918
♣
Deerfoot Summer Super Stack #9 NLHE Main Event
1st of 334 entries, $335.5K prize pool
Adam Hendrix (Anchorage, Alaska)
#13
#13
➧
0
PokerGo PokerMasters #4 NLHE
1st of 73 entries, $730K prize pool
Seth Davies (Bend, Oregon)
#1
#1
➧
0
PokerGo PokerMasters #9 NLHE
4th of 54 entries, $1.3M prize pool
Seen just after posting this edition of the Leaderboard, Aaron Thivyanathan near the bubble in Day 2 coverage of EPT London.

PNW Poker Leaderboard — 27 September 2022

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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.

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
➧
+7
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.

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
➧
+4
WPT/The Bike Legends of Poker #32 $2.5M GTD NLHE
6th of 642 entries, $3.1M prize pool
Clemen Deng via shortpoker.com
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)
#1
#1
➧
0
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.

PNW Poker Leaderboard — 6 September 2022: The Max and Angela Edition

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I’ve been doing the Pacific Northwest Poker Leaderboard in one form or another now for over seven years, since well before I “retired” from regularly playing live tournaments. As people have noted, I still show up at some special events (or when I just get the urge) but I’ve gone from an average of 20 live tournaments per month before I retired to about 4 per month in the first year and just a couple a month since I started playing live again last fall.

That’s a fair number of official Leaderboard posts. But I think this week is the first time that I’ve had the pleasure of seeing two people I’ve played with on the top end of the Leaderboard (technically on the bottom of the list since I build up to the bigger earners each edition).

Max Young, of course, played regularly in Portland before heading out onto the circuit and becoming the winner of multiple World Series of Poker Circuit Rings. I still remember one particularly brutal beat where he got it in bad against me at Aces Players Club and caught a card to double up, then went on to win the tournament (I did at least still make the final table). It still burns, but ah, the reflected glory!

And Angela Jordison, while I’ve played against her far less, has been a delight to watch move up the Leaderboard ranks. The rapport she has with Jacki Burkhart has rightly attracted international attention, and I think there are a lot of poker players out there envious for that combination of success (soooo close to the bracelet and ring!) and friendship. I’m still looking for the opportunity to play some Omaha against her, but I’m not challenging her to a heads-up match.

So this one’s for Max and Angela, keep the table warm, my time is coming.

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.
Logan Miller (Spokane, Washington)
—
#4193
♣
Wynn Signature Series $400K GTD NLHE Mystery Bounty
6th of 1055 entries, $548.6K prize pool
Nikki Young (Vale, Oregon)
—
#4070
♣
Wildhorse Summer Poker Round Up #3 NLHE
3rd of 394 entries, $115.2K prize pool
Leonel Curiel (Pasco, Washington)
—
#3264
♣
Wildhorse Summer Poker Round Up #4 NLHE Main Event
4th of 341 entries, $133.5K prize pool
Michael Jutte (Spokane, Washington)
#693
#615
➧
+78
Wildhorse Summer Poker Round Up #3 NLHE
2nd of 394 entries, $115.2K prize pool
Shane Brotherwood (Calgary, Alberta)
#224
#212
➧
+12
Deerfoot Summer Super Stack #9 NLHE Main Event Suoerstack
6th of 334 entries, $335.5K prize pool
Mark Willis (Longview, Washington)
—
#3126
♣
Wildhorse Summer Poker Round Up #4 NLHE Main Event
3rd of 341 entries, $133.5K prize pool
Minh Thai (Calgary, Alberta)
#1343
#1048
➧
+295
Deerfoot Summer Super Stack #8 PLO Superstack
1st of 47 entries, $46.9K prize pool
Minh Thai / albertapokerindex.com
Aamir Khan (Calgary, Alberta)
#379
#242
➧
+137
Deerfoot Summer Super Stack #1 NLHE Deepstack
1st of 497 entries, $109.9K prize pool
Aamir Khan / albertapokerindex.com
Steve Zhang (Calgary, Alberta)
#988
#815
➧
+173
Deerfoot Summer Super Stack #1 NLHE Deepstack
2nd of 324 entries, $119.4K prize pool
Shannon Lazorko (Calgary, Alberta)
#1861
#1329
➧
+532
Deerfoot Summer Super Stack #1 NLHE Deepstack
3rd of 497 entries, $109.9K prize pool

Lazorko also had another, smaller cash in the Summer Super Stack Main Event.

Jimmy Lee (Edmonton, Alberta)
#69
#67
➧
+2
River Cree King of the Felt NLHE Main Event
1st of 73 entries, $48.8K prize pool
Abdul Majid (Calgary, Alberta)
#4753
#2188
➧
+2565
Deerfoot Summer Super Stack #9 NLHE Main Event Suoerstack
5th of 334 entries, $335.5K prize pool
Jason Elrod (Pendleton, Oregon)
#3755
#1934
➧
+1821
Wildhorse Summer Poker Round Up #3 NLHE
1st of 394 entries, $115.2K prize pool

An actual winner of an event in Pendleton who’s from Pendleton!

Mark Bonsack (Maple Valley, Washington)
#157
#145
➧
+12
Wildhorse Summer Poker Round Up #4 NLHE Main Event
2nd of 341 entries, $133.5K prize pool
Dan Close (Yakima, Washington)
#4157
#1774
➧
+2383
Wildhorse Summer Poker Round Up #4 NLHE Main Event
1st of 341 entries, $133.5K prize pool

It looks like there was at least a 2-way (possibly 4-way) deal made in this event. All four of the players whose cashes made the Leaderboard were from Washington State. Step it up, Oregon!

Jaspal Brar (Edmonton, Alberta)
#52
#48
➧
+4
EPT Barcelona #29 NLHE Main Event
60th of 2294 entries, $11.1M prize pool
Weston Pring (Calgary, Alberta)
#247
#225
➧
+22
Deerfoot Summer Super Stack #7 NLHE Megastack
1st of 324 entries, $119.4K prize pool
Westoon Pring / albertapokerindex.com
Aaron Thivyanathan (Renton, Washington)
#102
#98
➧
+4
WPT Seminole Hard Rock Tampa #3 $50K GTD NLHE 6-Max
2nd of 76 entries, $73.7K prize pool
WPT Seminole Hard Rock Tampa #5 $50K GTD NLHE 8-Max
3rd of 119 entries, $115.4K prize pool
Darren Rabinowitz (Mercer Island, Washington)
#20
#20
➧
0
EPT Barcelona #49 NLHE Mystery Bounty
5th of 542 entries, $629.8K prize pool
Graeme Frank (Calgary, Alberta)
#634
#403
➧
+231
Deerfoot Summer Super Stack #9 NLHE Main Event Suoerstack
2nd of 334 entries, $335.5K prize pool
Nohad Tellani (Edmonton, Alberta)
#511
#325
➧
+186
EPT Barcelona #53 NLHE Deep Stack
2nd of 754 entries, $363.4K prize pool
Angela Jordison (Redmond, Oregon)
#88
#75
➧
+13
WSOPC North Carolina #16 $100K GTD NLHE High Roller
6th of 205 entries, $410K prize pool
WPT Legends of Poker #23 $500K GTD NLHE
1st of 532 entries, $518.7K prize pool
Maxwell Young (Oregon)
#25
#24
➧
+1
WSOPC North Carolina #16 $100K GTD NLHE High Roller
1st of 205 entries, $410K prize pool
Max Young / wsop.com

PNW Poker Leaderboard — 23 August 2022 — The Jacki and Angela Edition

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Though only one of them is on the Leaderboard this time (that’s Angela Jordison, twice) the duo of Jordison and Jacki Burkhart has been making the media rounds this past couple of weeks, with appearances on the Thinking Poker Podcast with Andrew Brokos and Carlos Welch, as well as an interview with Jennifer Newell at Tight Poker. Plus, there’s this:

https://twitter.com/thechiprace/status/1561782112365281280?s=20&t=Hg_IJkQk5GrObrsJL5yq3A

Haven’t had a chance to listen to The Chip Race yet, but the Thinking Poker interview is long and funny and makes me wish I had the chance to hang out with people more.

I did get the chance this past weekend to see Jeremy Harkin for the first time in forever, eating some tasty BBQ cooked by Dan Butcher, who was one of the first folks I met on the Portland poker scene, back in my early days at the Chadd Baker-era Portland Players Club.

I haven’t played much live (or really, online) lately, though I did donate in both the $20K and $40K guarantees at the grand re-opening of Final Table after their move to SE 82nd & Division. More about that at another time.

We’re less than four weeks from the start of the Chinook Winds Fall Coast Classic Poker Tournament, here’s a link to the PDF for the schedule and structures.

Until next Leaderboard (or that “another time” article I mentioned)!

Pacific Northwest Poker Leaderboard

David Froyalde (Federal Way, Washington)
#838
#749
➧
+89
Wynn Summer Classic $100K GTD NLHE
5th of 435 entries, $208K prize pool

The Hendon Mob page for this event says it was a $1M guarantee, but I think my entry here is correct.

Matt McLeish (Calgary, Alberta)
#2148
#1676
➧
+472
Cash Casino Colossus NLHE
4th of 169 entries, $124.8K prize pool
William Reddick (Lethbridge, Alberta)
#4532
#2795
➧
+1737
MGM Grand Summer Series #162 $50K GTD NLHE The Grand Stack
2nd of 192 entries, $63.3K prize pool
Jarrod Leppard (Red Deer, Alberta)
#1153
#979
➧
+174
Venetian DeepStack Championship Series #120 $20K GTD NLHE Monster Bounty
2nd of 243 entries, $81.4K prize pool
Jonathan Woof (Edmonton, Alberta)
#3082
#2080
➧
+1002
WSOP #89 NLHE Tournament of Champions
10th of 470 entries, $1M prize pool
Kang Lee (Edmonton, Alberta)
#931
#803
➧
+128
WSOP #85 NLHE The Closer
38th of 2968 entries, $3.9M prize pool
Aaron Thivyanathan (Renton, Washington)
#105
#102
➧
+3
SHRPO #23 $100K GTD NLHE Deep Stack
6th of 314 entries, $304.5K prize pool
Jimmy Lee (Edmonton, Alberta)
#69
#69
➧
0
Venetian #118 $40K GTD NLHE MonsterStack Freezeout
5th of 293 entries, $149.4K prize pool
Pawan Braich (Edmonton, Alberta)
#267
#255
➧
+12
Cash Casino Colossus NLHE
3rd of 169 entries, $124.8K prize pool
Dominick French (Victoria, British Columbia)
#156
#148
➧
+8
WSOP #85 NLHE The Closer
37th of 2968 entries, $3.9M prize pool
Dien Le (Bellevue, Washington)
#117
#114
➧
+3
Orleans Summer Open $40K GTD NLHE Saturday Special
1st of 413 entries, $99.6K prize pool
Rhonda Shepek (Victoria, British Columbia)
#1885
#1259
➧
+626
WSOP #85 NLHE The Closer
21st of 2968 entries, $3.9M prize pool
Weston Pring (Calgary, Alberta)
#275
#247
➧
+28
Cash Casino Colossus NLHE
2nd of 169 entries, $124.8K prize pool
Wesley Remmer (Kenai, Alaska)
—
#2262
♣
MGM Grand Summer Series #146 $1M GTD NLHE The Grand Mystery Bounty – Third Act
6th of 708 entries, $1M prize pool
Taylor Hart (Newberg, Oregon)
#288
#251
➧
+37
WSOP #85 NLHE The Closer
43rd of 2968 entries, $3.9M prize pool

Hart’s performance in this Leaderboard-qualifying event is smaller than that of some of the other players in this tournament, but Hart also had a number of other, smaller cashes that didn’t qualify for the Leaderboard but dd boost his overall position.

Sandra Neal (Aldergrove, British Columbia)
#2426
#1210
➧
+1216
WSOPC Cherokee #4 $100K GTD NLHE Seniors
2nd of 925 entries, $305.2K prize pool

The WSOP site lists Neal as a resident of Tennessee and most of their Hendon Mob cashes are at Cherokee and other Southeast US venues, but the listing at the Mob says BC.

Haochen Shi (Calgary, Alberta)
—
#1796
♣
WSOPC Calgary #9 NLHE Double Stack
1st of 408 entries, $68K prize pool
Vanessa Kade (Kelowna, British Columbia)
#50
#48
➧
+2
WSOP #87 NLHE
10th of 573 entries, $2.6M prize pool
Vincent Lam (Edmonton, Alberta)
#209
#178
➧
+31
WSOP #85 NLHE The Closer
10th of 2968 entries, $3.9M prize pool
Calvin Lee (Mercer Island, Washington)
#144
#130
➧
+14
WPT Venetian $4M GTD NLHE
13th of 1178 entries, $5.4M prize pool
Matt Affleck (Seattle, Washington)
#15
#15
➧
0
SHRPO #32 $3M GTD NLHE Championship
14th of 1110 entries, $5.3M prize pool
Esther Taylor-Brady (Portland, Oregon)
#27
#26
➧
+1
SHRPO #41 5-Card PLO 8-Max Deep Stack
1st of 115 entries, $230K prize pool
Angela Jordison (Redmond, Oregon)
#97
#88
➧
+9
MSPT Iowa $300K GTD NLHE Main Event
5th of 979 entries, $948.1K prize pool
WSOPC Cherokee #9 $100K GTD NLHE
3rd of 415 entries, $404.6K prize pool
Angela Jordison at the MSPT Iowa Main Event / PokerNews
Kyle Ho (Burnaby, British Columbia)
#136
#96
➧
+40
Estrellas Poker Tour NLHE Main Event
5th of 2765 entries, $6.1M prize pool
Jaspal Brar (Edmonton, Alberta)
#61
#52
➧
+9
WSOP #88 NLHE Super Turbo
1st of 1282 entries, $1.1M prize pool

Brar won the final live event of the 2022 WSOP, picking up bracelet number one, then headed to Barcelona.

Jaspal Brar and crew / WSOP
Christopher Brewer (Eugene, Oregon)
#5
#4
➧
+1
SHRPO #32 $3M GTD NLHE Championship
5th of 1110 entries, $5.3M prize pool

PNW Poker Leaderboard — 17 July 2022 — Do You Even Meditate?

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I’d like to sincerely (but probably pointlessly) apologize to Aaron Duczak for not noticing he was from the Pacific Northwest (specifically, Kamloops, British Columbia) until he was on the final table of the WSOP Main Event. There is nobody who would have liked to make more of the fact that this year’s Main Event had two players from the PNW in contention for the $10M top prize than myself.

The combined population of the states and provinces I track in the PNW Poker Leaderboard—Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alkaska, British Columbia, and Alberta—is about twenty-three and a half million, smaller than the population of California (38 million) or Texas (28 million), and just a bit more than that of Florida (21 million) but here we had two players who weren’t long-established pros at the final table of the biggest event of any poker year. Pretty cool.On top of that, both Angela Jordison and Stuart Young* were on the Day 4 feature table on PokerGO for a long period with the man everyone was talking about at the time, Zilong Zheng, Five players from the PNW cracked the spots between 100 and 200 in the Main Event.
* And Vancouver, Washington’s Ali Imsirovic.

So a pretty cool Main Event for the PNW.

Well-Aged Final Tables

If you’ve got a few extra minutes, check out my updated interactive chart of the ages of the players who’ve made the Main Event final table since 2005!

PNW Poker Leaderboard

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.
Omar Stefanini (Coquitlam, British Columbia)
#1140
#995
➧
+145
Wynn Summer Classic $1M GTD NLHE
44th of 2441 entries, $2.3M prize pool
Adam Todd (Rogers, Alaska)
#800
#724
➧
+76
Wynn Summer Classic $2.5M GTD NLHE Mystery Bounty
76th of 2854 entries, $3.7M prize pool
Peter Cowles (Seattle, Washington)
#2325
#1820
➧
+505
WSOP #66 NLHE Mini Main Event
56th of 5833 entries, $5.1M prize pool
Joel Micka (Seattle, Washington)
#31
#33
➧
-2
WSOP #65 NLHE Freezeout
51st of 1359 entries, $3.6M prize pool
Laurie Gore (Port Hadlock, Washington)
#2071
#1588
➧
+483
Aria Poker Classic $50K GTD NLHE
2nd of 410 entries, $135.3K prize pool

Looks like a 7-way deal in this one.

Mark Aylward-Nally (Vancouver, British Columbia)
#7233
#3179
➧
+4054
Aria Poker Classic $50K GTD NLHE
3rd of 308 entries, $101.6K prize pool
Kennon Buckmaster (Grants Pass, Oregon)
#3149
#2109
➧
+1040
WSOP #66 NLHE Mini Main Event
55th of 5833 entries, $5.1M prize pool
Joshua Biedak (Victoria, British Columbia)
#641
#581
➧
+60
MGM Grand Summer Series #110 PLO/Big O
2nd of 161 entries, $83.2K prize pool
Waheed Feda (Washington)
#1064
#897
➧
+167
Wynn Summer Classic $2.5M GTD NLHE Mystery Bounty
79th of 2854 entries, $3.7M prize pool
Edward House (Soldotna, Alaska)
#3033
#1991
➧
+1042
WSOP #68 NLHE Million Dollar Bounty
62nd of 14112 entries, $8.3M prize pool
Vanessa Ames (Mill Creek, Washington)
#3136
#2032
➧
+1104
WSOP #71 NLHE One More for One Drop
51st of 5702 entries, $5.7M prize pool
Matthew Jewett (Shoreline, Washington)
#108
#111
➧
-3
WSOP NLHE 4pm Daily Deepstack
2nd of 262 entries, $86.4K prize pool
Nicholas Sena-Hopkins (Seattle, Washington)
#820
#689
➧
+131
WSOP #71 NLHE One More for One Drop
50th of 5702 entries, $5.7M prize pool
Jason James (Seattle, Washington)
#605
#532
➧
+73
MGM Grand Summer Series #107 $1M GTD NLHE The Big Show Main Event
16th of 833 entries, $1.2M prize pool
Chris Gallagher (Portland, Oregon)
#1181
#915
➧
+266
WSOP #77 NLHE Lucky 7s 7-Max
28th of 6903 entries, $3.5M prize pool

Though they now list online WSOP bracelet events, Hendon Mob doesn’t factor them into the rankings, so Gallagher’s 5th place finish last month in the WSOP ONLINE 2022 PLO 6-Max—a $1K buy-in with 470 entries—doesn’t affect the standing.

Venkata Muramalla (Sammamish, Washington)
#2615
#1900
➧
+715
Venetian DeepStack Championship Series #85 $150K GTD NLHE Monster Bounty
3rd of 434 entries, $303.8K prize pool
Tyler Patterson (Everett, Washington)
#19
#19
➧
0
WSOP #66 NLHE Mini Main Event
27th of 5833 entries, $5.1M prize pool
Frederick Parsons (Kamloops, British Columbia)
#606
#501
➧
+105
WSOP #66 NLHE Mini Main Event
19th of 5833 entries, $5.1M prize pool
Clemen Deng (Portland, Oregon)
#2733
#1486
➧
+1247
MGM Grand Summer Series #131 $2M GTD NLHE The Grand Finale
18th of 967 entries, $2.1M prize pool
Jesse Kertland (Ellensburg, Washington)
#342
#298
➧
+44
Wynn Summer Classic $2.5M GTD NLHE Mystery Bounty
41st of 2854 entries, $3.7M prize pool
WSOP #77 NLHE Lucky 7s 7-Max
39th of 6903 entries, $3.5M prize pool
Lynh Nguyen (Seattle, Washington)
#7505
#1963
➧
+5542
WSOP #61 NLHE Ladies Championship
6th of 1074 entries, $955.8K prize pool

This is just Nguyen’s second recorded cash.

Matthew Kelly (Hillsboro, Oregon)
—
#2004
♣
WSOP #68 NLHE Million Dollar Bounty
20th of 14112 entries, $8.3M prize pool
David Katzov (Vancouver, British Columbia)
#2882
#1278
➧
+1604
Wynn Summer Classic $150K GTD PLO Championship
5th of 170 entries, $467.5K prize pool
Doug Lee (Calgary, Alberta)
#26
#26
➧
0
Wynn Summer Classic $1M GTD NLHE
9th of 2441 entries, $2.3M prize pool
Tesfaldet Tekle (Tukwila, Washington)
#450
#359
➧
+91
WSOP #69 PLO Championship 8-Max
22nd of 683 entries, $6.3M prize pool
Kevin Theodore (Seattle, Washington)
#554
#409
➧
+145
WSOP #77 NLHE Lucky 7s 7-Max
14th of 6903 entries, $3.5M prize pool
Jacqueline Burkhart (Boring, Oregon)
#252
#222
➧
+30
WSOP #70 NLHE Main Event
327th of 8663 entries, $80.7M prize pool
Dean Sanderson (Salem, Oregon)
—
#1441
♣
WSOP #70 NLHE Main Event
230th of 8663 entries, $80.7M prize pool
Tony Phu Le (Surrey, British Columbia)
#1812
#817
➧
+995
WSOP #70 NLHE Main Event
221st of 8663 entries, $80.7M prize pool
Noah Bronstein (Bellevue, Washington)
#34
#35
➧
-1
WSOP #77 NLHE/PLO 8-Max
6th of 1234 entries, $1.5M prize pool
Angela Jordison (Redmond, Oregon)
#109
#97
➧
+12
WSOP #70 NLHE Main Event
175th of 8663 entries, $80.7M prize pool
Aaron Thivyanathan (Renton, Washington)
#128
#105
➧
+23
WSOP #70 NLHE Main Event
169th of 8663 entries, $80.7M prize pool
Steve Chanthabouasy (Clackamas, Oregon)
#92
#83
➧
+9
WSOP #70 NLHE Main Event
158th of 8663 entries, $80.7M prize pool
Luke Travis (Blaine, Washington)
#1872
#761
➧
+1111
WSOP #70 NLHE Main Event
154th of 8663 entries, $80.7M prize pool
Stuart Young (Portland, Oregon)
#803
#461
➧
+342
WSOP #70 NLHE Main Event
102nd of 8663 entries, $80.7M prize pool
Charles Coultas (Mill Creek, Washington)
#71
#66
➧
+5
WSOP #63 PLO8 Championship
8th of 284 entries, $2.6M prize pool
Richard Mercier (Anchorage, Alaska)
#4625
#928
➧
+3697
Venetian DeepStack Championship Series #87 $200K GTD NLHE Monster Stack
1st of 473 entries, $458.8K prize pool
Vincent Lam (Edmonton, Alberta)
#314
#209
➧
+105
WSOP #77 NLHE/PLO 8-Max
4th of 1234 entries, $1.5M prize pool
Carl Marvin III (Juneau, Alaska)
#4271
#635
➧
+3636
Wynn Summer Classic $2M GTD NLHE
6th of 2574 entries, $3.7M prize pool
Carl Oman (Vancouver, Washington)
#192
#126
➧
+66
Venetian DeepStack Championship Series #83 $1M GTD NLHE Seniors
2nd of 1076 entries, $1M prize pool

Carl’s so hot right now.

Juan Riedinger (Vancouver, British Columbia)
—
#357
♣
Bicycle Casino Winnin’ O’ the Green #48 $1M GTD NLHE Mega Millions XXII
2nd of 5608 entries, $2M prize pool
Pei Li (Calgary, Alberta)
#1022
#253
➧
+769
WSOP #74 PLO Bounty
1st of 1390 entries, $1.8M prize pool
Pei Li, winner of the 2022 WSOP bracelet for the $1500 Pot Limit Omaha Bounty tournament.
Esther Taylor-Brady* (Portland, Oregon)
#28
#27
➧
+1
WSOP #77 NLHE/PLO 8-Max
2nd of 1234 entries, $1.5M prize pool

Yeah, I put an asterisk on Taylor-Brady for reasons of residence.

Joshua Morrow (Juneau, Alaska)
—
#329
♣
WPTDeepStacks Thunder Valley #4 NLHE Monolith
1st of 1438 entries, $575.2K prize pool
Edmund Chan (Vancouver, British Columbia)
—
#315
♣
WSOP #70 NLHE Main Event
95th of 8663 entries, $80.7M prize pool

This is Chan’s deepest-ever run in the Main Event; in 2017, Chan placed 116th. Chan has two other better-than-min-cashes in the Main Event.

David Timmons (Ketchum, Idaho)
—
#184
♣
WSOP #68 NLHE Million Dollar Bounty
3rd of 14112 entries, $8.3M prize pool

This is Timmons’s first recorded tournament cash, as well as a first appearance on the Leaderboard.

David Timmons
Adam Hendrix (Anchorage, Alaska)
#18
#17
➧
+1
Wynn Summer Classic $1M GTD NLHE
1st of 1446 entries, $2M prize pool
WSOP #81 NLHE 8-Max Freezeout
4th of 756 entries, $3.4M prize pool

The Wynn tournament was an even chop with Wojciech Barzanteny.

Aaron Duczak (Kamloops, British Columbia)
#138
#30
➧
+108
WSOP #70 NLHE Main Event
7th of 8663 entries, $80.7M prize pool
Jeffrey Farnes (Dallas, Oregon)
#629
#29
➧
+600
WSOP #70 NLHE Main Event
6th of 8663 entries, $80.7M prize pool
Aaron Duczak
Jeffrey Farnes