It’s a whole new year, but the Poker Mutant is back with just a few end-of-the-year results. After the long slogs of the past two Pacific Northwest Poker Leaderboards, let me tell you, it’s nice to just have a handful of names to go through.
Starting off with Olympia’s Glenn Larson, who grabbed 3rd place in the WPTDeepstacks Thunder Valley #5 $100K NLHE Norcal Jacked Stack back at the beginning of December. 554 entries and a $277K prize pool. Larson gains one hundred and thirty-plus places to land at #461.
Jonathan Sanborn of Edmonton won a World Series of Poker Circuit Ring at the WSOPC Aruba #5NLHE Monster Stack. It’s the first Ring for Sanborn, who gets a dozen spots on the leaderboard to hit #182.
Congratulations to Dominick French of Canada who was the winner via a four way chop in our DeepStack Extravaganza Event #23 $400 NLH MonsterStack $20,000 guarantee on 12.16.21
Congratulations to Derick Roseborough of Kimberly, ID who was the winner via a five way chop in our DeepStack Extravaganza Event #30 $500 NLH EpicStack $30,000 guarantee on 12.24.21
Premiering at #3242 on the Leaderboard is Kimberly, Idaho player Derick Roseborough, nabbing a win in the Venetian #30 $30K GTD NLHE Deepstack over 118 other entries. It’s Roseborough’s first recorded cash.
Patrick Ronan of Girdwood, Alaska came in 10th out of 851 entries in the Venetian/Mid-States Poker Tour #40 $500K GTD NLHE Main Event to close out the 2021 results on the Leaderboard (thought there may always be some stragglers). It’s Ronan’s best cash to date, and it move4s them from #1426 to #1151.
Portland’s Andy Su gets the first result of 2022, in the Venetian #43 $200K GTD NLHE UltimateStack, with a 5th-place finish. Su goes up thirty-0four slots, to #340.
And we’ll wrap up this edition of the Leaderboard with Christopher Brewer (#14) taking 2nd out of 37 in the Venetian/PokerGO High Roller 02,
That’s it until next time. I’m off to drink some Glenmorrangie to celebrate the Internal Revenue Service finally accepting my tournament buy-in expenses for 2018 after ten months of trying to get them to understand that poker money doesn’t grow on trees.
— Poker “Socially and Emotionally Distant 2” 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 Hawai’i 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 these…
Prabakaran Sivabalasundaram from Calgary won the Casino Yellowhead/Pure Poker Tour #1 PLO Bountyback at the end of September, beating out 176 other entries in the C$440 buy-in tournament. Sivabalasundaram climbs two hundred spots to #926.
Edmonton’s Andy Truong came in 2nd in the Yellowhead PPT #3 NLHE out of 326 entries. It’s good for a fifteen spot bump to #226.
Alberta-based Curtil Burlet comes into the Leaderboard hot, with a biggest-ever cash (it only their third) that lands them at #3092, for the runner-up position in Yellowhead/PPT #4 NLHE Bounty. (Remember that bounty cash is not reflected in Hendon Mob records and therefor does not affect the PNW Poker Leaderboard.) Calgary’s Weston Pring won the event, going from #347 to #309. Pring was featured in the last Leaderboard update; they came in 101st in the WSOP Main Event.
A C$1,100 buyin back in early October in Edmonton (470 entries and a prize pool of US$353K), the six top finishers all made it to the Leaderboard. Haven Werner of Calgary took 6th, moving him from #531 to #470. Fort St. John, British Columbia’s Bernice McLennan posted a biggest cash in 5th, jumping all the way to #2079 from #4428. Amir Khan, another Calgarian, took 4th, which combined with a 3rd-place finish in a Wynn Fall Classic $100K GTD NLHE in mid-November (404 entries, $237K prize pool) jumps Khan 1400 places to #917. Surrey, British Columbia’s Mike Kim goes up seventy-four places to #317 by taking 3rd. Out of Whitecourt, Alberta, it’s john Hanna debuting at #1160 on the Leaderboard with a 2nd-place finish. Finally, on the top, is Kyle Ho from Burnaby, with a best-ever cash and a move from #243 to #186.
Jordan Banfield from Calgary won the Deerfoot Inn Fall Super Stack #1 NLHE Deepstack in Calgary, an event that drew 385 entries back in early November. The prize pool was over US$88K. It’s Banfield’s only cash so far, and they enter the Leaderboard at #2622.
John Nielsen from Sylvan Lake, Alberta placed 4th in this event (354 entries, US$135K pot) back in early November, going up more than 100 places on the Leaderboard, to #849. Coming in at 2nd was Ivan Milanovic, with a best-ever cash (only their fifth on record), good for a first-time ranking of #1990. The champion was Kelly Gall from Calgary, with their biggest cash so far and a jump of fifteen hundred spots on the Leaderboard, to #1284.
Redmond’s Dominick Nguyen found some time to play poker on the East Coast mid-November and won the 432-entry Boston Billiard Club & Casino Veterans Day NLHE tournament for a 2nd-ever cash and a new spot on the Leaderboard at #2586.
Daniel Lefebvre of Alberta was the 5th-place finisher in this event of nearly 400 entries and a US$300K prize pool. Lefebvre moves three hundred spots on the Leaderboard, to #981 (3 squared and nine squared!) Tyler Hurman from Calgary got their largest-ever cash in 4th, and climbs from #832 to #663. In 3rd was Kaan Becer out of Vancouver, whi gets an increase of twenty places to #193. And Takuma Bergeron from Coquitlam, Alberta got a best-ever cash in a deal for 2nd place, which raised them from #5503 to #1056.
back down to the States, James Battenberg from Issaquah nabbed 4th at a Wynn Fall Classic $100K GTD NLHE that had over three hundred entries and a $148K prize pool. Battenberg moves fifteen hundred places on the Leaderboard, to #2655.
Christopher Brewer hit the jackpot on consecutive days at the Aria High Roller series. On November 16th, Brewer came in 3rd of 43 in Aria High Roller 39 NLHE, then 1st at Aria High Roller 40 NLHE the next day (albeit with only 16 entries). It’s enough to move from #16 to #14 on the Leaderboard.
Catching up to where the last Leaderboard left off on WSOP events, Dylan Wilkerson played World Series of Poker #79 NLHE Poker Hall of Fame Bounty. This new event awarded a bounty for each Poker Hall of Fame player eliminated, with the amount equal to the year they were inducted. There were bounties for eleven HoF entries, plus new WSOP spokesperson Vince Vaughn. All of the bounties were eliminated on Day One. Wilkerson placed 9th out of 468. By the way, Wilkerson’s WSOP profile now lists him as living in San Francisco, so no telling how much longer Hendon Mob will have him as a Washington State player; then he’ll be off the Leaderboard and everyone will move up!
There were 1,921 entries in the $800 WSOP #81 NLHE Deepstack, and Maxwell Sabel of Sun Valley, Idaho made it past 1,911 of them for a 10th-place finish and a first recorded Hendon Mob cash. Sabel makes a debut on the Leaderboard at #3127.
On the other end of the WSOP spectrum, #1-ranked Seth Davies placed 4th of 33 in the WSOP #82 NLHE Super High Roller, where the buy-in was $250K. Davies continues to increase the gap between #1 and #2.
Ian Modder of North Vancouver, British Columbia gets a seven spot increase on the Leaderboard to #141 by placing 36th out of 1,903 in WSOP #83 NLHE The Closer.
Despite being called “The Closer”, Event #83 wasn’t even close to being the last bracelet tournament of the 2021 WSOP. This one was. It may be the latest (in the year) tournament to be played at a WSOP for quite some time, since they’re going back to the summer schedule. This game had a $5K buy-in, an aggressive two-day structure, and finished on November 23rd after 531 entries. 3 PNW players made a deep run in the event. with the first being from Edmonton, Ryan Snyder, who gained three hundred places on the Leaderboard, ending at #558. Lee Markholt didn’t gain any ground on the Leaderboard because he’s already way up at #8, but he did place at…8th. . And George Wolff came in 7th. Wolff went on to a mid-December 13th-place finish in the World Poker Tour Five Diamond NLHE Main Event. He stays at #17.
Dylan Linde moves up a spot—inside the Leaderboard top 10!—from #6 to #5 with an 8th-place finish in the WPT Five Diamond NLHE Main Event.
Jumping over to the Czech Republic, Mercer Island’s Carter Newhof rises more than four hundred places to #553 with a 3rd-place showing in World Series of Poker Europe #6 $200K GTD NLHE/PLO. Newhof was the only American in the top 10 of the 230 entries.
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.
Twin Falls’ Sean Banahan racked up a best-ever cash at the Wynn Winter Classic $500K GTD NLHEthat 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). Player 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.
You can see the giant jumps in Leaderboard status resulting from deep runs in the World Series of Poker main Event by Jung Woo and Matthew Jewett; the shot-in-the-dark cash by Bin Weng in the WSOP NLHE High Roller, and Robert Davis‘s runner-up finish in the WSOP NLHE Seniors tournament. Christopher Brewer, Dylan Linde, and Dylan Wilkerson moving up the Leaderboard ranks pushed a couple of other high-performing players down a notch, despite being in the Top 20.
NOTE: I started this a month ago! And I’m just now finishing it up. Sorry for the delay, in the meantime I’ve qualified for the WSOP Super Seniors event, been to New York City for the anniversary of my marriage to Mrs. Poker Mutant, and Hawai’i to spend a couple days with my dad—things are just that busy! Happy Holidays!
The WSOP Main Event is over and done with, with al of the PNW participants out before the final tables. I have to admit that after including Mitchell Halverson and Jesse Lonis in the 2021 WSOP Main Event Trackerbecause WSOP has them as Oregon players, that I was disappointed to see they were listed on the Nevada and New York leaderboards at Hendon Mob, so they aren’t included in the combined PNW leaderboard.
Even without them, there’s a lot of territory to cover.
Let’s start with Kenn Pluard from Happy Valley, Oregon, who was 25th in the field of 1,441 at the Wynn Fall Classic $1.5M GTD NLHE. That, and a career-high cash at the Main Event (338th) bounce Pluard from #978 to #584.
Maxwell Young reappears on the Leaderboard with a 12th-place finish at the Venetian Deepstack Championship Poker Series II #35 $400K GTD NLHE UltimateStack. The tournament got 1,408 entries and pushed the prize pool to $1.35M. Calgary’s Phil Wright nabbed 4th in the same event, for a career-high score and a jump on the Leaderboard from #2508 to #505.
Bellevue’s Brian Orrico took 48th in the 5,404-entry tournament, going from #2725 to #1814 on the Leaderboard. The Seniors is typically one of the largest fields; previous years with only one entry day set records for the largest single-entry-day live poker tournaments. This year’s run with two entry days generated $4.8M for the prize pool. Coming in at 34th was Victoria player Rhonda Shepek, with a career best and a jump of 2500 places to #2133. Robert Sun from Anchorage came in 22nd and climbs to #1932 from #4026. Coming in at 17th was John McNaughton of Innisfall, Alberta with a biggest-ever cash and debut on the leaderboard at #1349. Every two years, Robert Davis comes out of Eagle River, Alaska to cash in the Seniors tournament—he has exactly 3 Hendon Mob entries: 2017, 2019, and this year—all in the same event. This year he hit it big, with 2nd place, far eclipsing his previous totals, and leaping from #4320 to #162 on the Leaderboard. Davis is now #7 on the Alaska state leaderboard.
Robert Davis
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.
The Wynn $3M GTD NLHE Championshipmade a prize pool of $5.7M with 1,775 entries and Brett Kennedy of Sattle took 50th, climbing forty spots on the Leaderboard to #319.
It was a biggest-ever cash for John Nielsen (Sylvan Lake, Alberta) with a win in the Autumn at Aria $40K GTD NLHE. Nielsen goes up more than 600 spots to #958.
Monroe, Washington’s Roger Hammond is up 800 places to #1937 with a 7th-place finish in the Venetian #40 $150K GTD NLHE MonsterStack. 358 entries and a $347K prize pool.
The Super Seniors event (60+) got nearly 1,900 entries this year, makng a prize pool of just under $1.7M. Sad to say, I’m qualifying for this by next summer. Three PNW players made the final two tables. Alberta’s Gary Bain got a largest-ever cash placing in 16th and jumping eighty spots to #846. From masco, Washington, Anthony Simpson took 13th for a climb from #536 to #476. And you may remember Bill Stabler of Salem having been the runner-up in the Seniors event the last time everyone got together at the Rio in 2019; he came in 4th in this tournament.
Bill Stabler
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
Portland’s James Haddad made it to 12th in the field of 725, which is good for a move from #126 to #125. Dylan Wilkerson came in 8th, and stays at #13. Sterling Lopez out of Anchorage took 4th, for their biggest recorded cash and a move from #2961 to #708.
Nearly two thousand entries in this event pushed the prize pool to just under $1.9M. Sean Banahan from Twin Falls, Idaho made it to 24th for a career-high cash, and moves about six hundred spots to #1666. Coming in 9th was Jimmy Lee from Edmonton, which moves him two notches up to #77.
It was a largest-ever cash for Puyallup’s Jason Diaz, placing 4th out of 355 in the Aria $40K GTD NLHE. Just about triple the guarantee with 355 entries. Diaz jumps up about four thousand places on the Leaderboard to #2699.
Anchorage’s Young Ji won the Aria $30K GTD PLO8 in either a 3 or 4-way deal (186 entries, $74K prize pool). Ji is a 2015 WSOP PLO8 bracelet winner. He climbs 5 spots on the Leaderboard to #130.
Noah Bronstein was heads-up for the WSOP #64 NLHE/PLO 8-Max bracelet. There was a field of 579 entries at $5K each. Bronstein moves up nearly twenty places to #34.
Donald Kehler of Prince George, British Columbia bounced more than a thousand places to #1849 with a win (and largest-ever cash) in the $400 Rio Daily Deep Stack Series NLHE. The tournament on 3 November got 184 entries and whipped up a prize pool of over $60K.
From Redmond, Washington, Karimon Umarov placed 27th in the 3,821-player Mini Main freeze out, which had a prize pool of just over $3.4M. Umarov debuts on the Leaderboard with their biggest-ever result at #3601. Prasad Dobbins from Anchorage got their biggest cash and a boost from #4173 to #2256 with 20th place. And Seattle’s Matt Jewett got 6th in this event just before he jumped into the actual Main (more to come).
Reminder: Just doing the big winners here. This thing’s long enough as it is, I apologize if you cashed and didn’t get on the Leaderboard round-up, if you didn’t get something like a 300% ROI or better, I can just say, “Good job!” That leads us to Rittie Chuaprasert from here in Portland, who came in 259 out of this year’s field of 6,650 entries. That’s within the top 4%, with another 11% of the field cashing but not making it into this write-up, if it’s any consolation. Chuaprasert goes from #367 to #295. Viola, Idaho’s Michael Faulkner picked up their largest cash at 124th in the Main and goes up over five hundred places to #646. Another biggest cash was for Weston Pring of Calgary, at 101st (just before Ali Imsirovic’s father Salko at 100th, who—I believe—still lives in Vancouver, Washington, but is listed in with the WSOP and Hendon Mob as a Las Vegas resident). Pring is up about a hundred and fifty places, to #347. At 90th was Fatima Nanji out of Vancouver, British Columbia. Nanji is up ninety-one places to #239, with their own biggest cash. Nanji was one of the last two women remaining at the beginning of Day 6. Adam Walton jumps sixty-five places to #102 by coming in 42nd (and another personal best cash). Matt Jewett from Shoreline, Washington came in 28th, and doubled his lifetime earnings with the single cash, climbing more than four hundred places to #135. Finally, it’s Bellevue-based Jung Woo, whose 19th-place finish was (yet another) best-ever recorded cash. It’s just the fifth cash for Woo and makes up 96% of his total winnings. Woo’s standing on the Leaderboard goes from #5358 to #247.
Fatima Nanji
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 MonsterStackin 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/PokerGONLHEHigh Roller30. 5 players cashed in the 30-entry tournament, with former PNWer Ali Imsirovic at the top. Davies is still #1.
Renton, Washington’s Kao Saechao picked up 2nd place in Venetian #46 $75K GTD PLO,ahead of 319 other players (the prize pool tripled the guarantee), then made the final table at 8th in WSOP #71 PLO Bounty 8-Max at 8th That event had 860 entries. (Note: Bounties are not reported as part of tjhe earnings for the tournament.) Two final tables takes Saechao from #890 to #549 on the Leaderboard.
It was a win for Calgary’s Doug Lee, who bested 327 entries at the Autumn at Aria $40K GTD NLHE on 10 November. It appears from the payouts that there may have been a five-way deal.Lee holds at #26 on the Leaderboard.
In a blast from the past, Esther Taylor-Brady is still on the Oregon list at both Hendon Mob and WSOP. Taylor-Brady made 5th place in a field of 372 at WSOP #69 7-Card Stud Hi-Lo. Taylor-Brady remains at #28.
There were 5,252 entries in this tournament, and three players from the PNW at the final three tables. Maria McAlpin moves from #646 to #577 with a 26th-place finish. 23rd is good enough to help Adam Croffut slide up four places to #96. A newcomer to the Leaderboard are Deer Kim, whose 33rd-place is enough for #3601.
New on the Leaderboard at #813 is Matt Mayima from Seattle, who posted an impressive 2nd place in WSOP #71 PLO8 Bounty 8-Max as their first recorded live cash. The field had 860 entries. That’s a nice way to start off.
Matt Mayima
Back over at theAutumn 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.
Nohad Teliani
And finally,Mans Montgomery out of Eagle, Idaho notches up four spots to #156 with a 4th-place finish in the Venetian #59 $150K GTD NLHE MonsterStack. The prize pool beat the guarantee with 204 entries.
That’s it for this long-delayed edition of the PNW Poker Leaderboard. Next edition will get us caught up. I will report that I was playing a tournament online on the way to Hawai’i that I thought would be over by the time we had to shut off our computers but even though we weren’t in the money when they shut off the on-board wi-fi, I managed to glide into a min-cash because I had enough chips. The dream is alive!
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
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 he’s out now, that was clearly the kiss of death … Down to the final three tables, it’s getting really good now
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 “Socially and Emotionally Distant 2” 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.
Is it just me? Every time I walk past this in the hall on the way to the WSOP, I don’t see a patio chair turned into wall art as much as I see an old man’s walker, crushed under an SUV on Valley View trying to get across to one of the Subways in the Gold Coast, covered in colored crepe paper and stuck up to hide the evidence in plain sight.
I took another shot at the 9am mega-satellite on Friday, ending up firing two bullets because the field got to 38 (three full $1500 payouts and one $1200), but didn’t manage to ever get anything going (hence the second bullet).
I debated playing some single-table-satellites, but since I hadn’t been able to connect up with the person I probably would have sold the lammers to (I cannot imagine myself trying to hustle lammers to people in line, even in a full WSOP; I just don’t have the ‘strike-up-a-conversation-with-strangers’ gene) I decided to wait until the $250 Deepstack at 1pm, which has been getting a couple hundred entries the past week.
I made some call in the late morning, then headed down to the All-American Bar & Grill for a salad before I headed in to Pavilion. It was a little after the 1pm start time by then, but I wasn’t too worried, since the levels were 30 minutes. But even though the line didn’t even extend from the satellite cages all the way to the central aisle, it wasn’t moving at all, at first. There were maybe 20 people in front of me and three windows open, but I stood in the same place for a long time. It was nearly. Half hour before I was seated at the table. And I only lasted about 25 minutes, loving a couple chunky hands, then raising K♣J♠ in middle position, getting a couple calls, then seeing a 9x8x7x flop and Qx turn and getting my stack all in and called by 9x9x. Then, of course, Qx on the river.
That was the last tournament poker for me for this trip. I figured that I would go pick up my media credentials, mostly to add them to the collection, and went back to the room to rest up from the excitement of my HORSE min-cash. I saw that I now had a WSOP.com player page and my Hendon Mob profile has the update already, Sadly, it’s not enough to get my on the next installment of the PNW Poker Leaderboard.
I wandered back down to the Amazon room and ran into Kevmath (again, because he’d been one of just five people—including myself—in the drastically-reduced media room earlier) and we firmed up our connections for getting together later. The final two tables of the HORSE tournament were running, and I very much wanted to rail PNW player Kao “Flexx” Saechao, who was second in chips at the time to eventual champ Anthony Zinno (who I’d won a pot from earlier in the tournament, I will remind everyone from now on), but I contented myself with harassing PokerNews because they had Oregon’s Kao Saechao linked in their player profile.
DougChase @PokerNews, I think the wrong profile may be linked for Kao Saechao in the report below. As @HoldemMedia_Dan will attest, there are poker players by that name in all three West Coast states, and the Kao in the $1500 HORSE is from Washington.https://t.co/bnbe1Mp0Dv
— Poker “Socially and Emotionally Distant 2” Mutant (@pokermutant) October 15, 2021
No thanks for that, but they did fix it not long afterward. They might just have noticed that the guy in the player profile looked nothing like the guy at the table. Flexx made 4th place, so great congratulations to him, and he will appear in the Leaderboard. Now wee just need Portland Meadows—named after a horse-racing track—to put on some HORSE tournaments to make Portland the home of Big O and HORSE!
Picked up some beer for Kevmath, went back to the room for a while, then he DMed me to let me know it would be a bit later than he’d expected because of a big news thing, which turned out to be he last-minute announcement of two more day 1s for the Main Event and a reshuffling of the rest of the schedule, to accommodate the relaxation of COVID travel restrictions to the US. He made it about two hours later than he’d originally expected (and I left him waiting outside he door for five minutes because I didn’t see his first couple of DMs, my apologies, Kevin), and we watched some of the endgame of the $5K NLHE 6-Max, from 3-handed until just about the time it ended in real life (though not on the 60-minute PokerGO delay feed) while I got to hear some details of how he came to play next week’s Turbo Bounty bracelet event, and other insights into the weird niche he’s carved out for himself as poker’s social media ganglion.
So people of the world You take a bow Cause I used to be out But I’m flaming now So hold on tight With your knuckles white, cause My time is coming
OMG, I’ve had “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” stuck in my head as an earworm this whole trip. It’s keeping me up at night; right now it’s 4:30am and I’ve been awake for an hour.
That could be because I’ve got some latent adrenaline after yesterday, or it could be because my memory for lyrics is bad, so the chorus of the song is on an endless repeat like the Sergio Leone-style anthem music the WSOP plays over and over before events start.
The restart time for Event #27 $1500 HORSE Day 2 wasn’t until 2pm, so after writing up my post on Day 1, I thought about heading down to satellite land to play the 9am mega but I decided that since Wednesday’s hadn’t had that many entries, I’d be better served keeping it fresh for the HORSE. It felt a little weird to be not playing poker for half a day, considering I’m only here for four days, but I braved the crossing to the Walgreens to pick up some goodies (by which I mean a lot of Diet Coke), rested on the couch, and talked to my wife and father on the phone.
I consulted my wife on the question of which card cap to use for Day 2, and she said to go with the gold.
— Poker “Socially and Emotionally Distant 2” Mutant (@pokermutant) October 14, 2021
So, even with only about 4 hours of sleep, I felt up to the task of trying to somehow make a stack about one-third the average last for the day.
The day started off with good news for me, because I picked up a great hand in the first game of the day—Omaha/8—and managed to more than double up, which put me in median stack territory and room to wait for hands. One of the players at the table came back with just 6500, doubled on the first hand with an AAKx hand but was still so short that he was knocked out shortly after that.
We were early in the break order, so by the next time I did an update on the PokerNewsMyStack app, I’d been moved to another table. I got another double-up there that took me to 95k. Warning #1 for anyone using MyStack, if you take a photo (at least on the iPhone) through the app, MyStack does not save the photo to your Photos library! So take the pic with your Camera and add it to the MyStack post from Photos, or you’re never going to have access to that sweet, sweet chip porn, because there’s no way to export the image.
Doubled up early in O8. Table change, then managed to get rolled up kings in Stud/8 and scoop a big hand with 2 pair. Got up to 90K, then lost 30 of it with 4 flush cards and a low draw where I made a pair of 3s.
— Poker “Socially and Emotionally Distant 2” Mutant (@pokermutant) October 14, 2021
It was a bit of a roller coaster, I have to say. I haven’t played much HORSE live or online in recent years, and I can’t say I remember my game being this swingy before. Maybe I just don’t remember it. Anyway, two hours in, I was n worse shape than when I started, with just three big bets and 45 players to go before the money.
Did You Miss Me, Baby? Here I Am.
That was right about the time I went to do an update on MyStack and noticed that I’d been reported busted by PokerNews somehow.
I mean, geez, I didn’t think I was significant enough to get even a cursory bust report. We’re they reading my Twitter reports and just extrapolating? I mean, I’m a former WSOP live reporter and a former contributor to PokerNews.com. Where’s the love? I went over to the media table to check things out and the guy was unhelpful. I suspect this is some sort of software bug, because at my last table of the day, I heard James Woods, who reports on the app, mentioning to someone on the rail that it had happened to him, and I’m pretty sure nobody’s erroneously marking him out.
Just a note to the MyStack devs who aren’t reading this post: the Feed needs times, not just the date.
Another table change and I had a couple great hands in Stud/8 that put me back over 100K. Briefly.
Moved to new table 25/A4 in Stud/8 just gets better with two more aces on fifth and sixth.
— Poker “Socially and Emotionally Distant 2” Mutant (@pokermutant) October 14, 2021
That was the peak for me. We had 20 places to the money still, and I got my third(?) table change, finally over to the far side of the Orange section, about three hours into the day. Half an hour later were were told we were going hand-for-hand, then after about five minutes where I could see Norman Chad and some other folks standing at a table in the middle of the section, a rumor started going around we were already in the money.. Finally the announcement came through and I’d cashed at the WSOP for the first time. It was almost a little anti-climatic.
MEDIOCRE DAY TURNS WORSE As I was being processed for cashing in the $1500 WSOP HORSE event — there was no re-entry yet I somehow LOST money cashing (don’t ask) — my player card dropped from this copying machine and could not be found.
I was back to critically short by this point. Not so much from trying to eke into the min-cash but because I’d gotten Stud hands in the Razz rounds and Razz hands in the Stud rounds. Limits were up to 8k/16k; even the 2K antes in the Stud games were eating though my shot stack pretty fast. I had to commit to a Stud/8 hand that looked pretty good with three low cars a nut flush possibility, but the best I ended up with was a pair of threes. And that was it! I was a WSOP casher on my fourth bracelet event.
Got my cash from Payout, went back to Amazon to take a pic of the tournament clock—I forgot when I busted, I’m out of practice—then headed to my room to try to catch up various people. Apologies to the little poker group I belong to, PokerTeam 1: Brad, Steve, and Daryl, who I’d been updating through the day but neglected to ell I’d cashed among all the other people I was informing.
So, is a Smashburger a thing? Because it seems to me every short-order cook already used their spatula to smush the patty onto the grill.
Not sure what I’m gong to do with the next day and a half. I’m hoping the satellite scene picks up a bit on the weekend, plus going to try to arch up with Jeremy Harkin who’s been greatly encouraging—not to mention renting me a room wen I was down here as a reporter—and maybe grab a beer or two with Kevmath if we can squeeze it in.
This isn’t (hopefully) going to be a long post; it’s a little before 8:30am as I’m typing this, hoping I’ll get sleepy by staring at the screen, but I’ve been up for over an hour and I didn’t get to sleep until 4.
Yesterday started off with me popping over to Denny’s catty-corner from the Rio. It seems like, despite the wide-open rep of Las Vegas—many of the restaurants in the casino complex are shuttered—at least during the weekdays—which has led to scenes like this.
— Poker “Socially and Emotionally Distant 2” Mutant (@pokermutant) October 14, 2021
Denny’s, on the other hand, was busy and considerably less expensive than anything I’d seen on the menus at the Rio. All you have to do is take your life into your hands by walking across both Flamingo and Valley View each direction during morning rush hour to get there.
First order of the day was to get registered for Event #196 $180 NLHE Turbo Mega Satellite. I had my three $500 lammers from the evening before, but I was hoping to pick up another $1500 in lammers from this satellite. I’m starting to think my decision to grind satellites in the COVID era was -EV. By the end of registration, only 18 players had joined in, which meat just one full payout and one of two lamps and $200 cash. I had one AxQx hand get all in against AxJx and lose, which mostly wiped me out an I ended up fifth. The other players were discussing how to potentially chop it up as I picked up my bag, while the TD pretended something on the far wall of the Pavilion room was interesting.
— Poker “Socially and Emotionally Distant 2” Mutant (@pokermutant) October 13, 2021
That took a couple hours. It was time to make a decision about the path of my next three days in Vegas. I was (discounting expenses and treating my lammers as actual dollars) slightly ahead on the trip after the first day. Do I a) buy into the HORSE tournament? or b) use the lammers for the bulk of three more $580 mega satellites? With the number of players the mega were getting, I wasn’t sure how many of those were going to be profitable for me—I really prefer the larger satellite fields—and they could mean forgoing the two other bracelet events I was interested in.
As it happened, my passions took the lead and I dropped my lammers at the cage to register for HORSE.
Got the winner of the 2016 $1500 HORSE event I covered as a live reporter sitting next to me in the 2021 $1500 HORSE
— Poker “Socially and Emotionally Distant 2” Mutant (@pokermutant) October 13, 2021
My first table in the HORSE tournament couldn’t have had a better location. Though it also had Ian Johns in the seat next to me. It seemed like several other players there were from Washington state, as well. The next table wasn’t so good, in the ass-end of the Tan section of Amazon with bad lighting that made it difficult for the older players—not me, of course—to see the stud variant up cards at the other end of the table. Ran into some serious hardships and was down to 7k from 25k at one point before a phenomenal O8 segment took me up over starting stack and nearly 40k.
Got moved after a couple hours to a table with better lighting but also Alan Kessler. I lost the first hand I played there (to him) and then a (for me) massive hand where I had seven hearts in stud and I had to call off on the river when he raised me with his rivered boat. That stung. I did manage to pull off a flush that held up against Anthony Zinno to recover a bit.
Got moved to a table with Barry Greenstein and was dealt 2♦3♦4♦ in Razz, which got me excited. Then I got 2 black kings, which took some of the edge off. At this point, we were nearing the final three levels of play, which is still two hours before bagging, but I’d made it past the ed of registration, and if I could hang on with my <10 big bet stack, I might be able to make Day 2.
Attendance was down a bit for this event. There were 751 entries in 2019 and just 594 yesterday, which is a full 20% drop. I’m guessing that’s probably worse for someone like myself, because most of the people who aren’t showing up are the more casual HORSE players (like me).
Ran into Joe Brandenberg in the halls, and Jeff Mitseff at the next table at the end of the night. We got the “five hands” notice from the floor just as we headed into the Razz round. I think I managed to stay out of most of those hands.
Anyway, my table draw is interesting. Felipe Ramos is #3 in live tournament earnings in Brazil. Ron Ware runs the Mixed Game Poker in Las Vegas group on Facebook.
After we bagged up, I needed to find some food. If there was anything open at the Rio during the day, it wasn’t open at 2:15am. I headed across to Ping Pang Pong (crossing Valley View in the dark, yeek!) and managed to wolf down my first food since breakfast. This hibernation fat is good for something!
Going to try to make the day last as long as I can! Usually I change out the card cover each time I cash, I’ve got to decide whether making Day 2 of my first WSOP bracelet event is significant enough to swap out.
As anyone who reads this blog knows, I am not a professional poker player. The last bracelet event I played at the World Series of Poker was in 2013. I’ve only ever played two (well, now three) bracelet events, and they were back when the WSOP first introduced $1,000 events. This year, I sunk even lower and entered a $600 bracelet event.
It’s been a long haul, folks, Years ago, I’d heard about folks grinding satellites, and even though I felt I was decent at playing them, I’d never had the discipline to sit down and just do it. So many tournaments in the summer (or anytime I was likely to be going to Vegas), so many variations. Never mind that I’d done reasonably well in the Ignition Casino Thousandaire Makers (only to blow the money I made on MTTs). Never mind that I had Dara O’Kearney’s Poker Satellite Strategy on my Kindle mostly unread.
I did put my plan into action when I came down in 2018, but bricked out. In 2019, when I ‘retired’ from poker, I had to cancel the trip at the last minute because of work, and you know what happened to 2020. So I really wanted to take advantage of this revival year—and experience a WSOP that didn’t melt me when I walked outdoors.
I made my plans as soon as the schedule was announced, centering the trip around three bracelet events: #24 $600 PLO 8-Max, #27 $1500 HORSE, and #28 $1000 PLO 8-Max. Plus the usual $180 mega satellites and the daily $580 mega satellite. I figured either this WSOP would be one of the easiest (with so many players choosing not to or unable to travel to the US) or really hard (with the people who were dedicated to making it to the WSOP being concentrated with pros).
Up at 4am to catch the first flight to Vegas today. Disregard the enticing $250 offers from the airline to give up my seat for a later flight—we’re on a schedule, man!
Plane lands around 8:30. Now, spite months of mental preparation for this trip, I made a very essential error: fucking Columbus Day (I’m using that instead of Indigenous Peoples’ Day because this is a comment about how the day screwed me over). I wasn’t planning to travel with a huge wad of money, just enough to get me through the first day or so, but Friday was a bitch and Saturday I had stuff to do around the house, I old just pick up my cash from the bank on Monday, right? Did I remember that banks were going o be closed on Monday? No. And even the cheap-ass PLO game was more than an ATM puts out.
So, when I get to Las Vegas, I need to get to a branch of my bank, of which there are a number in town, one just a couple miles from the airport. It even opens at 9. I get there a quarter hour before it opens and it’s a cubbyhole inside the student union at UNLV. I just hope it has money.
Branch opens up, the very nice branch assistant tells me my specific ask is no problem, until they get to the part where they give me the money and they tell me that there’s some weird thing about the way the business account I have had for my sole proprietorship for more than a quarter of a century is set up in their system and I’m somehow not the “owner” of the account. Fie on you, Christopher Columbus! Anyway, it’s resolved by me transferring the amount I need to my linked personal account and taking it out of there. I was reminded that when I had some a paycheck—from Caesar’s Entertainment, one of the largest employers here—to my account a few years ago, one of the branches in a grocery store couldn’t take my deposit without the branch manager being there, which they were not. It was not, dear reader, a large sum of money.
— Poker “Socially and Emotionally Distant 2” Mutant (@pokermutant) October 12, 2021
The Rio at 9:30 this morning was quiet. Hardly any line for the registration cage. Mid-week mornings are good. I was bought in an hour before the event and kicked around. It was surprising to see what’s operating next what’s not. There were a fe people sitting at the tables inside Starbucks, but the lights were off and I didn’t see anyone behind the counter. That’s fine, I don’t drink coffee except socially.
So, how’d my first bracelet event in eight years go? Not so great. I was in a steady drift down for most of my time in the tournament, with a couple of players—one at the far end of the table and one just to my left—picking off chips. I looked at their stacks a couple of times before anyone had been knocked off the table and was a bit puzzled at where they’d all come from, I’d lost a lot but not that many, and it seemed like other people had more than me, too. I shrank down to less than a fifth of the 30k starting stack over the first four levels, then suddenly caught some fire in Level 5.
AA44 late pot over a raise and call does not go well. KKxx hits the flop and a wrap takes it with a straight. Should have got away on the flop even though I would have been back down to 20k. pic.twitter.com/PmSHjno5gb
— Poker “Socially and Emotionally Distant 2” Mutant (@pokermutant) October 12, 2021
Our little corner of the Brasilia room didn’t see any water service for a couple hours. I was damned if I was paying for some other drink. I wanted my 10oz/$1 water. Maybe the lack of hydration was messing with my game.
My stack got up to almost where it had started three-and-a-half hours before before I potted with a rainbow AA44, got called by two players, then shoved on a KQx flop where I ought to have known I was beat. Both players shoved, one with an open-ended draw and the other with a set of kings and the wrap made a king-high straight.
So naturally, instead of looking for something t eat or drink (all I’d had since the night before was airplane biscotti, which was pretty good), I went back to the reg cage to get into the $580 mega. Now the lines were a bit longer, it took about 40 minutes to get my ticket, even though the line—full of anxious PLO re-entries—didn’t reach the main hall. It’s almost enough to make me go sign up with Fastrac, which I was discussing with a couple of the folks in line behind me, only to have someone who’d just signed up have some serious frustrations with the machine outside registration.
So I got to the mega almost 90 minutes in, with 10k of chips and 400/800/800 blinds. Just the way I like to burn $580. This went a to better, even though there were a couple of large stacks. I was one of the later entries but there were only 24 by the end of registration, which was going to yield two payouts of $5k in lammer chips and one of $2k.
I was playing tight (12bb!) then less than half an hour in I had to call with AK and the guy who’d been opening a bit too much a little sheepishly turned over Q2 after raising 10x. The the big stack on my right raised a hand and I caught trip 9s on a flop with T♠9♠ which knocked him out. So I had a quarter of the chips as we went into a break and consolidated to a table of 9.
But then work interrupted. Something back home att the job was messed up. It was probably my fault, and I’m getting calls from the client who I don’t usually talk to, what with me being a worker grunt and not the face of the enterprise. I faltered and raised Q♠J♠, then called an all-in from a player at the other end of the table, who had enough to halve my stack, which was more than everyone else, but not especially deep.
The highlight of the evening was probably when I called with KxQx against an all-in from a two-time bracelet winner (someone I should have recognized, but it’s been a few years since it was my job to know these guys) and cracked his Ax hand. That wasn’t long before he shoved a small stack with tens T♠T♣, got called by T♥9♥ and the board ran out 4♠8♣4♥4♣4♦ for a chopped pot, which must just have been crushing, even to a pro.
We got down to 4 players, on the bubble and K, the player on my left and I were tied at about 37k, less than 10bb. I was getting the best of it, because the other old man at the table, P, gave me a couple walks and K wasn’t getting that, so he got a little shorter than me. T, the player with the most chips, proposed a chop, with him taking the full $5K, and P and myself passing a lammer chip each to K. Who am I to turn down a deal that pus me in the red for the day (not counting other expenses.
Everyone agreed to the deal, we went through the process to get out lammers, and that’s how I got my first-ever payout at the WSOP, though it’s not technically money. All for of us waved to the payout room together, T got his chips first, P went up to the window, but even though I had to wait in line for a little to get my paperwork and payout, P was still at the window. Both T and I hung around to make sure K got his other chip (I’d flipped him one right after I got them), and P paid off his part in casino chips for some reason. Everyone satisfied (except for the part where I blew $3500 in equity) we headed our separate ways. I got checked in, got some fluids, and had a nice pork-fried rice.
It’s only three days in to the 2021 World Series of Poker so there weren’t a lot of results yet from Las Vegas when I ran the numbers this morning. The only WSOP tournaments that had completed were Event #1 NLHE Casino Employees and Event #3 NLHE Covid-19 Relief, both two-day events that wrapped up on Friday. Several others have concluded by the time I’m writing this, though, includingthe one I had my hopes on: Event #2 $25K HORSE, so I’m already behind and I haven’t even gotten to Vegas yet.
Man, this is likely the only time I’m ever going to be next to @MariaHo!
— Poker “Socially and Emotionally Distant 2” Mutant (@pokermutant) September 24, 2021
A pretty short list of results this time around, with what seems to have been a lulll in events before the WSOP started up.
First off is Toppenish, Washington’s Rafael Haro, GPI: 4,889, with a 3rd place finish in Los Angeles, at the Commerce Hold’em Series NLHE Main Event. The tournament drew 399 entries for a prize pool of $399K. Haro placed one spot higher than Barry Greenstein. Haro moves nearly 1,000 places up the Leaderboard, to#923 from #1920.
Seth DaviesGPI:64 continues to do well in the high stakes games with a runner-up finish out of 38 entries at Poker Masters #10 NLHE. Davies maintains his #1 position on the Leaderboard.
And believe it or not, we’re already at the final result for this Leaderboard: Yesit’s Christopher Brewer, winner out of 57 entries in the Poker Masters #8 NLHE. Brewer isGPI:65 (just one spot behind Davies) and moves up on this Leaderboard five spots, to #16, jumping over the likes of Darren Rabinowitz, Quinn Do, Matthew Jarvis, George Wolff, and Tyler Patterson.
Also, want to mention that Hendon Mob is great people!
I’m actually a little late with this one, I should have done it a couple weeks ago, but life intervened. These are the top tournament earners from the PNW for the past three months (some movements are the result of late reporting from 2020 tournaments). Player whose names are followed by an asterisk were on the list last quarter.
No messing around this time, because I ran these stats a few days ago before heading to Seattle for the weekend (no poker! my wife’s birthday!) thinking I’d get it done late at night and I did not. I did get a chance to meet up with my old poker brother Jason Brown at Pike Place Market, though, so this edition is dedicated to him.
Lots of jumping back and forth in the stats here, apparently the Canadian tournament series reported at the beginning of the month led to results from a 2020 getting reported to Hendon Mob, so some of the info here is slow-release. Then, there are some results you’ve probably already heard about from last week that aren’t here but because I ran the Leaderboard scripts on Wednesday,
Oner of those 202 results, Viet Do from Calgary was the third-place finisher in last November’s 242-entry Deerfoot 2020 Fall Super Stack #3 NLHE Megastack. It’s Do’s 6th and largest cash. Do (GPI:30,952) moves from #4353 to #2702. The runner-up was Weston Pring, also of Calgary, GPI:5,456 who pops up to #512, more than 140 places.
Matthew JewettGPI:2,809 of Shoreline, Washington made the final table in ninth place at the $1,100 Wynn Signature Series $500K GTD NLHE. 935 entries made a prize pool of $908K. Jewett rises more than 100 places on the Leaderboard to #591.
Cranbrook, British Columbia’s Timothy Andrew GPI:21,928 was the winner of the Deerfoot 2020 FSS #1 NLHE Deepstack, a C$350 buyin tournament with 306 entries. Andrew goes from #418 to #374.
Over in Rozvadov in the Czech Republic, Kris SteinbachGPI:1,656 “seigt beim”—as they say—at King’s Casino in a side event of the WSOPC in Europe. 57 player (plus 13 re-entries) made the €1,100 buyin for WSOPC Rozvadov €50K GTDNLHE King’s 1000. There was a 4-way deal. Steinbach moves up 17 places to #260.
On September 11, Kao Saechao was the last player standing of the 113 player $550 NLH $50,000 GTD. Congratulations Flex for winning $17,078 and the trophy!
Kao “Flex” Saechao was the winner of a trophy for the Wynn Signature Series $50K GTD NLHE on September 11. No stats on this one at the moment, because Hendon Mob gave it to the wrong Kao Saechao.
Calgary’s Cuong LieuGPI:10,194 jumped nearly 900 places on the Leaderboard to #859 with a best-ever cash in the Deerfoot 2020 FSS #4 NLHE Superstack. There was an even chop of the top two players, out of the 280 entries.
Adam Hendrix (GPI:3) claimed 1st in the PokerMasters #3 PLO, and $10K buyin with 69 entries. It’s enough to move Hendrix two positions on the Leaderboard, to #24.
And, of course, there’s #1 Seth Davies again GPI:73. continuing to put space between himself and everyone else on the Leaderboard, with a win at the Merit Poker Super High Roller Bowl #8 NLHE, a $50K buyin with 14 entries in Cyprus.
