PNW_WSOP_15 Summer Series Report for June 13

Posted on Sunday, 14 June 2015 by Poker Mutant

WSOP Event #26 $1K PLO Final

Vancouver (the one in Washington) player Noah Merritt outlasted 1,290 other PLO players to make it to 3rd place and an impressive $89K cash. He gets it in good with a straight on the flop on his final hand but is outdrawn.

WSOP Event #27 $10K Seven Card Stud Final

Washington’s Scott Clements went from the middle of the pack at the start of the day to heads-up for what would have been his third bracelet. It was his second final table of the series, and he took home $148K in consolation money.

WSOP Event #28 $1.5K NLHE Monster Stack Day 1A/1B

51 PNW players made it through Monster Stack Day 1A, and another 71 survived Day 1B, bringing 122 into the field of 2,060 returning for Day 2. Notable (to me, anyway) among the PNW players was Robert Brewer, who I interviewed for PokerNews last month. As for the rest, I’ll let the table speak. With a total of about 7,200 entries over the two days (down over 500 entries from last year), there’s still nearly $1.3M up top, and 720 players will make the money, likely sometime late tonight.

In the Money Finish Position	Rank End of Day 2	Rank End of Day 1	Player	State	Chips End of Day 1	Chips End of Day 2
	39	241	Ian Modder	BC	92,300	663,000
	56	441	Ryan Delorme	BC	123,400	480,000
34	103	353	Michael Palo	WA	81,000	400,000
45	123	103	Jacqueline Burkhart	OR	123,500	359,000
69	145	147	Michael Wimberly	WA	109,700	324,000
80	2	651	Wayne Keller	WA	61,100	1,262,000
85	240	711	Kao Saechao	OR	57,700	136,000
88	221	1420	Scott Hill	BC	30,900	177,000
91	224	33	Louis Lo	OR	151,000	170,000
104	188	312	Kostantinos Segounis	BC	85,800	249,000
112	97	258	Aaron Hill	WA	91,100	416,000
117	266	540	Jason Flint	OR	67,500	72,000
119	6	413	Yao Sun	BC	76,100	1,103,000
156	66	476	Alexander Pulaski	OR	71,500	543,000
157	167	1629	Allen Thorpe	WA	24,100	277,000
167	147	725	Phong Nguyen	WA	57,000	324,000
174	178	189	Khoa Ngo	WA	100,300	270,000
186	93	1310	Lance Dodd	WA	34,400	424,000
202	192	547	Paul Hess	WA	67,000	242,000
247	35	100	Bruce Zhen	OR	123,700	681,000
263	230	205	Robert Brewer	OR	98,500	159,000
283		397	Ricky Chow	BC	77,200
286		1495	Vanessa Kade	BC	28,500
310		727	Brett Newton	OR	56,900
333		1347	Tony Hopkins	OR	33,200
348		804	Kheang Tang	OR	53,700
424		52	Jacob McDonald	OR	138,500
432		956	Blake Carriere	BC	46,700
442		1746	Gennady Dvosis	WA	20,800
459		830	Shawn Stewart	WA	52,600
463		1078	Rob Tepper	WA	42,400
464		446	Teyan Curtis	ID	73,600
503		77	David Baus	WA	128,900
544		1055	Mirza Beg	WA	43,300
564		525	Aanund Dolan	OR	68,200
567		566	John Grue	WA	66,100
612		653	Robert Cheung	BC	60,800
665		929	Kim Nguyen	WA	48,000
675		329	Grant Denison	OR	83,500
684		370	Joshua Roe	WA	79,400
694		24	Terrance Kalaf	WA	159,000
703		2036	Trevor Hughes	BC	6,100
		48	Thomas Taylor	BC	139,400
		97	Rex Parsons	OR	124,700
		114	Victor Petersen	WA	114,200
		259	Dustin Leary	WA	91,000
		310	Parminder Kumar	WA	85,900
		340	Derek Burns	WA	82,700
		434	Randy Martinez	ID	74,300
		467	Chase Cooley	WA	72,100
		480	Christie Lang	WA	71,000
		494	Sean Geisbrecht	BC	70,000
		498	Donald Wiggins	ID	69,900
		498	Kyle White	BC	69,900
		524	Jonas Kallstrom	WA	68,200
		558	John White	OR	66,700
		570	Michael Carey	WA	65,900
		597	Brian Egger	WA	64,100
		605	Jay Haraga	BC	63,700
		614	Pok Kim	OR	63,200
		628	Joe Brandenburg	OR	62,400
		645	Stephen Lee	WA	61,400
		663	Ray Laroche	WA	60,100
		703	Min So	WA	58,300
		707	Matt Jarvis	BC	58,100
		736	Garry Juvelin	BC	56,400
		741	Scott Eskanazi	WA	56,200
		754	Yongshuo Zheng	BC	55,600
		771	Harjinder Gandham	WA	55,100
		774	Richard Mullen	BC	55,000
		788	Daniel Tupper	WA	54,400
		802	Fabian Rosales	WA	53,800
		848	Kyle Ho	BC	51,900
		887	Derek Farrington	OR	50,200
		892	Alexander Beck	OR	50,000
		892	Thomas Heinrich	WA	50,000
		900	Calen MacNeill	BC	49,700
		912	Bill Stabler	OR	48,700
		934	Kevin MacPhee	ID	47,600
		934	Raymond Stafford	BC	47,600
		1005	Dylan Linde	ID	44,800
		1082	Yevgeniy Shoykin	WA	42,300
		1102	Edward Sorensen	BC	41,800
		1136	Heath Bloodgood	OR	40,800
		1139	Samuel Vitello	OR	40,700
		1172	Ahmed Amin	WA	39,300
		1253	Nicholas Halvorson	WA	36,300
		1300	Glenn Larson	WA	34,800
		1310	Kaan Becer	BC	34,400
		1338	Mark Juvelin	BC	33,400
		1372	Chris Back	BC	32,300
		1391	Joanne Lewis	BC	31,700
		1411	Gilles Anquetil	WA	31,200
		1414	Jamil Jutha	BC	31,100
		1420	Kerry Moynahan	OR	30,900
		1454	Daniel Nichols	OR	29,800
		1459	Scott Craig	BC	29,700
		1464	Michael Holleman	OR	29,400
		1501	Lloyd Fletcher	WA	28,300
		1512	Derek Ellig	WA	27,900
		1531	Daniel Idema	BC	27,000
		1540	Jeanne Savage	OR	26,700
		1574	Robbie Calhoun	WA	25,800
		1600	Yuriy Yershakov	OR	25,000
		1610	Ardys Reed	OR	24,700
		1670	Bobbi Frost	WA	22,800
		1678	Louise Jean	BC	22,700
		1684	Dung Nguyen	BC	22,500
		1710	Dustin Curtis	WA	21,800
		1737	Steven Holleman	WA	21,100
		1765	Gary Eller	WA	20,200
		1765	Erik Ladenburg	WA	20,200
		1779	Esther Taylor-Brady	WA	19,800
		1784	Christine Blake	WA	19,600
		1799	James Hentz	WA	19,100
		1807	Aaron Gillespie	WA	18,800
		1834	Jean Marques	BC	17,800
		1842	William Berglund	OR	17,600
		1872	Ronald Druet	WA	16,600
		1876	Pamela Koepke	OR	16,400
		1882	Loren Camp	WA	16,100
		1911	Ravinder Bedi	BC	15,300
		1913	Yan Lee	BC	15,200
		1920	Matthew Madsen	BC	15,000
		1933	Troy Worth	BC	14,500
		1939	Michael Johnson	BC	14,300
		1939	William Tzotzolis	BC	14300
		1967	David Brummel	WA	13,100
		1978	Travis Preng	WA	12,400
		1979	Donald Gough	WA	12,300
		2018	Geoffrey Bowlsby	WA	8,600
		2025	Jason Manggunio	BC	8,000
		2036	Mitchell Neuer	WA	6,300

WSOP Event #29 $10K NL 2-7 Single Draw Day 1

32 of the 77 entries are left, and Washington’s Rep Porter’s is in the middle of the field at 19th. 14 players make the money.

Binion’s Poker Classic Event #20 $160 NLHE

Congrats to David Price and Matt Tonkins (both Washington) for 10th and 19th place finishes in the field of 207.

Binion’s Poker Classic Event #21 $160 NLHE

Sam Mueller of Portland took 5th in a field of 243. Christyna Thomas of White City, Oregon missed the bubble in 27th.

PHamous Poker Series Event #16 $130 NLHE Double Stack Turbo $5K Guarantee

This event got 127 entries and Rider Mosley of Veneta, Oregon took 7th for $500.

PHamous Poker Series Event #18 $150 Big O $5K Guarantee

203 entrants. Thomas Rabadan of Yakima, Washington took 9th, Cameron Herzog of Portland made it to 13th.

PHamous Poker Series Event #19 $400 NLHE $200K Guarantee

$200K in one day is the motto of this recurring event at Planet Hollywood. After a deal, four players up top of the 579 entrants took home about $20K each, another made $26K, and the first place finisher got $30K. Christopher Hogue of Spokane, Washington got 6.9K for 7th, which is still not a bad ROI. Also cashing in the event: Rajagopal Seshasankaran (WA) 29th place, Vincent Poudrier (OR) 32nd, Gerald Huynh (OR) 43rd, Alan Snow (WA) 60th, and Chun Chen (WA) 61st.

Today’s Las Vegas Series Events

Also see Kenny Hallert’s annual spreadsheet of tournaments.

The Monster Stack isn’t all that’s going on at the WSOP. There’s a $1K NLHE tournament starting at noon, and a $3K PLO8 game at 4pm.
The Venetian has the final flight of a $600 entry $250K guarantee, with a $30K guarantee NLHE Black Chip ($100) bounty tournament this evening for $300 buy-in.
Planet Hollywood’s Goliath has two flights today, with final day tomorrow. $565 for entry/re-entry, and a $500K guarantee.
Aria switches it up with a $450 2-7 Triple Draw tournament at 1pm and $130 NLHE in the evening.
At the Wynn Summer Classic there’s a $25K guarantee NLHE game for a $300 buy-in.
The Grand Poker Series has another $100K guarantee for $350 buy-in.
Binion’s Poker Classic is where you can get your HORSE fix. $220 for a $10K guarantee.

PNW_WSOP_15 Summer Series Report for June 12

Posted on Saturday, 13 June 2015 by Poker Mutant

WSOP Event #24 $1.5K HORSE Day 3

In another case of extra chips forcing an event into an extra day, three HORSE players will be returning to play out for the bracelet on Day 4. 31 started Day 3, including Esther Taylor-Brady of Washington who placed 25th, Ian Johns of Washington, who finished in 21st place, for $6.4K, his third and largest (so far) cash of this summer. Oregon’s Jeffrey Mitseff started in 8th position in chips and finished the tournament in 8th place—the first player to exit the official final table—for a $20K cash.

Rank End of Day 2	Rank End of Day 1	Player	State	Chips End of Day 1	Chips End of Day 2	In the Money Finish Position
8	136	Jeffrey Mitseff	OR	19,300	237,000	8
25	41	Ian Johns	WA	32,000	81,000	21
12	34	Esther Taylor-Brady	WA	33,400	188,000	25
	192	Andrew Rennhack	WA	14,300		63
	107	Daniel Ratigan	WA	21,600		67
	94	Michael Horowitz	WA	22,900
	128	Lee Goldman	WA	19,800
	174	Jason Lowe	WA	15700
	179	Dylan Linde	ID	15,100
	184	Thomas Taylor	BC	14,900
	206	Rep Porter	WA	12,100
	213	Bruce Burke	WA	11,500
	236	Greg Mueller	BC	9,500
	263	James George	WA	7,200
	289	Joseph Ogden	WA	3,800

WSOP Event #25 $5K NLHE 8-Max Day 3

Scott Eskanazi was the last PNW player (WA) in play in this event, getting to 14th place for a $24K cash. He also cashed in the Colossus.

WSOP Event #26 $1K PLO Day 2

After the decimation of Day 1, another winnowing took place as the field went from 129 to 16. Noah Merritt of Vancouver, Washington is in a solid 6th place. Dylan Linde (Idaho) cashed 109th and Kyle Ho of British Columbia was 88th. Oregon’s Dan Martin and Erich Wehrmann tag-teamed 82nd and 81st, respectively. Eric Pratt of Washington was 67th, Nick Davies of Oregon took 65th. All jurisdictions represented!

WSOP Event #27 $10K Seven Card Stud Day 2

Rep Porter took 10th place, Scott Clements is in the middle of the pack of 8 starting Day 3.

WSOP Event #28 $1.5K NLHE Monster Stack

The first entry day of this year’s edition of the Monster Stack is in the bags. More than three thousand players took their shot (their only shot, no re-entry) on Friday, with 825 making it to the end of the day. 51 PNW players made it through, with seven of those in the top 50 for the day. Rounding out that group in 50th place was Jacqueline Burkhardt, with 123,500 chips.

bagged up 126,500. Avg 50k #monsterstack @pokerlizzard @2PairPoker @DeegPoker @MarkHokeShow pic.twitter.com/lozFkY0V11

— Jacki Burkhart (@jackiburkhart81) June 13, 2015

Among the others from Oregon, Pok Kim (or Kim Pok, if you prefer), who not only cashed in this event last year but final-tabled a $1K in 2014; Joe Brandenburg, who’s got the experience from being heads-up for a bracelet; and Final Table’s Heath Bloodgood. Also notable down near the bottom of the chip counts is Mike Johnson, the former co-host of the 2+2 PokerCast.

Day 1B has already started. Get to your seats before they start gathering up stacks at the end of Level 3!

Last break of the night. 11k. Spending break crawling under tables of big stacks for possible chips dropped on the floor. #notsomonsterstack

— MJ (@MJVanCity) June 13, 2015

In the Money Finish Position	Rank End of Day 2	Rank End of Day 1	Player	State	Chips End of Day 1	Chips End of Day 2
	39	241	Ian Modder	BC	92,300	663,000
	56	441	Ryan Delorme	BC	123,400	480,000
34	103	353	Michael Palo	WA	81,000	400,000
45	123	103	Jacqueline Burkhart	OR	123,500	359,000
69	145	147	Michael Wimberly	WA	109,700	324,000
80	2	651	Wayne Keller	WA	61,100	1,262,000
85	240	711	Kao Saechao	OR	57,700	136,000
88	221	1420	Scott Hill	BC	30,900	177,000
91	224	33	Louis Lo	OR	151,000	170,000
104	188	312	Kostantinos Segounis	BC	85,800	249,000
112	97	258	Aaron Hill	WA	91,100	416,000
117	266	540	Jason Flint	OR	67,500	72,000
119	6	413	Yao Sun	BC	76,100	1,103,000
156	66	476	Alexander Pulaski	OR	71,500	543,000
157	167	1629	Allen Thorpe	WA	24,100	277,000
167	147	725	Phong Nguyen	WA	57,000	324,000
174	178	189	Khoa Ngo	WA	100,300	270,000
186	93	1310	Lance Dodd	WA	34,400	424,000
202	192	547	Paul Hess	WA	67,000	242,000
247	35	100	Bruce Zhen	OR	123,700	681,000
263	230	205	Robert Brewer	OR	98,500	159,000
283		397	Ricky Chow	BC	77,200
286		1495	Vanessa Kade	BC	28,500
310		727	Brett Newton	OR	56,900
333		1347	Tony Hopkins	OR	33,200
348		804	Kheang Tang	OR	53,700
424		52	Jacob McDonald	OR	138,500
432		956	Blake Carriere	BC	46,700
442		1746	Gennady Dvosis	WA	20,800
459		830	Shawn Stewart	WA	52,600
463		1078	Rob Tepper	WA	42,400
464		446	Teyan Curtis	ID	73,600
503		77	David Baus	WA	128,900
544		1055	Mirza Beg	WA	43,300
564		525	Aanund Dolan	OR	68,200
567		566	John Grue	WA	66,100
612		653	Robert Cheung	BC	60,800
665		929	Kim Nguyen	WA	48,000
675		329	Grant Denison	OR	83,500
684		370	Joshua Roe	WA	79,400
694		24	Terrance Kalaf	WA	159,000
703		2036	Trevor Hughes	BC	6,100
		48	Thomas Taylor	BC	139,400
		97	Rex Parsons	OR	124,700
		114	Victor Petersen	WA	114,200
		259	Dustin Leary	WA	91,000
		310	Parminder Kumar	WA	85,900
		340	Derek Burns	WA	82,700
		434	Randy Martinez	ID	74,300
		467	Chase Cooley	WA	72,100
		480	Christie Lang	WA	71,000
		494	Sean Geisbrecht	BC	70,000
		498	Donald Wiggins	ID	69,900
		498	Kyle White	BC	69,900
		524	Jonas Kallstrom	WA	68,200
		558	John White	OR	66,700
		570	Michael Carey	WA	65,900
		597	Brian Egger	WA	64,100
		605	Jay Haraga	BC	63,700
		614	Pok Kim	OR	63,200
		628	Joe Brandenburg	OR	62,400
		645	Stephen Lee	WA	61,400
		663	Ray Laroche	WA	60,100
		703	Min So	WA	58,300
		707	Matt Jarvis	BC	58,100
		736	Garry Juvelin	BC	56,400
		741	Scott Eskanazi	WA	56,200
		754	Yongshuo Zheng	BC	55,600
		771	Harjinder Gandham	WA	55,100
		774	Richard Mullen	BC	55,000
		788	Daniel Tupper	WA	54,400
		802	Fabian Rosales	WA	53,800
		848	Kyle Ho	BC	51,900
		887	Derek Farrington	OR	50,200
		892	Alexander Beck	OR	50,000
		892	Thomas Heinrich	WA	50,000
		900	Calen MacNeill	BC	49,700
		912	Bill Stabler	OR	48,700
		934	Kevin MacPhee	ID	47,600
		934	Raymond Stafford	BC	47,600
		1005	Dylan Linde	ID	44,800
		1082	Yevgeniy Shoykin	WA	42,300
		1102	Edward Sorensen	BC	41,800
		1136	Heath Bloodgood	OR	40,800
		1139	Samuel Vitello	OR	40,700
		1172	Ahmed Amin	WA	39,300
		1253	Nicholas Halvorson	WA	36,300
		1300	Glenn Larson	WA	34,800
		1310	Kaan Becer	BC	34,400
		1338	Mark Juvelin	BC	33,400
		1372	Chris Back	BC	32,300
		1391	Joanne Lewis	BC	31,700
		1411	Gilles Anquetil	WA	31,200
		1414	Jamil Jutha	BC	31,100
		1420	Kerry Moynahan	OR	30,900
		1454	Daniel Nichols	OR	29,800
		1459	Scott Craig	BC	29,700
		1464	Michael Holleman	OR	29,400
		1501	Lloyd Fletcher	WA	28,300
		1512	Derek Ellig	WA	27,900
		1531	Daniel Idema	BC	27,000
		1540	Jeanne Savage	OR	26,700
		1574	Robbie Calhoun	WA	25,800
		1600	Yuriy Yershakov	OR	25,000
		1610	Ardys Reed	OR	24,700
		1670	Bobbi Frost	WA	22,800
		1678	Louise Jean	BC	22,700
		1684	Dung Nguyen	BC	22,500
		1710	Dustin Curtis	WA	21,800
		1737	Steven Holleman	WA	21,100
		1765	Gary Eller	WA	20,200
		1765	Erik Ladenburg	WA	20,200
		1779	Esther Taylor-Brady	WA	19,800
		1784	Christine Blake	WA	19,600
		1799	James Hentz	WA	19,100
		1807	Aaron Gillespie	WA	18,800
		1834	Jean Marques	BC	17,800
		1842	William Berglund	OR	17,600
		1872	Ronald Druet	WA	16,600
		1876	Pamela Koepke	OR	16,400
		1882	Loren Camp	WA	16,100
		1911	Ravinder Bedi	BC	15,300
		1913	Yan Lee	BC	15,200
		1920	Matthew Madsen	BC	15,000
		1933	Troy Worth	BC	14,500
		1939	Michael Johnson	BC	14,300
		1939	William Tzotzolis	BC	14300
		1967	David Brummel	WA	13,100
		1978	Travis Preng	WA	12,400
		1979	Donald Gough	WA	12,300
		2018	Geoffrey Bowlsby	WA	8,600
		2025	Jason Manggunio	BC	8,000
		2036	Mitchell Neuer	WA	6,300

Grand Poker Series #26 $150 NLHE
Robson Brancomagalhes of British Columbia bested 153 players to take $5K for first place in this tournament.

Isn’t that enough news for one day? Why don’t you get out there and play some poker?

Today’s Las Vegas Series Events

As always, this part of the report is indebted to Kenny Hallert’s annual spreadsheet of tournaments.

Another day, another Monster Stack entry day at the WSOP. If you don’t like NLHE (and you have $10K to burn), why not try out this afternoon’s NL 2-7 Draw tournament? I bet Phil Hellmuth will be there.
The Venetian kicks off a $250K guarantee with two flights today (and one tomorrow). $600 buy-in with re-rentry.
Planet Hollywood runs a $200K guarantee one-day $400 NLHE event at 11am. Tomorrow is the $565 entry Goliath with a $500K guarantee.
Aria is running NLHE with $235 buy-in and a $150 buy-in, both one-day tournaments.
It’s the last day to enter the Wynn Summer Classic $100K guarantee for $400 buy-in.
The Grand Poker Series has another $100K guarantee for $350 buy-in. A couple of these have had significant overlay.
Binion’s Poker Classic is your place for non-NLHE that’s less expensive than the 2-7 at the WSOP. A $10K guarantee PLO8 tournament starts at 2pm for $220. Bust the Monster Stack and you can go somewhere where you get more cards for your buck!

PNW_WSOP_15 Summer Series Report for June 11

Posted on Friday, 12 June 2015 by Poker Mutant

WSOP Event #22 $1K NLHE Final

At one point during Day 3, the last two PNW players in the first “normal” $1K NLHE event of the series were at the bottom of the chip count with about 20 players left. Oregon’s Angel Farrington was down to 71K with blinds at 10K/20K/3K when she had a crucial double-up and then another after going back down to 46K. It wasn’t enough to keep her from going out in 11th place ($18.2K), but it was a valiant try. Cole Jackson’s (WA) comeback was even more impressive; he made it heads-up for a bracelet with Sam Greenwood, falling on the 26th hand after the next-to-last player was eliminated and winning $197K.

In the Money Finish Position	Rank End of Day 2	Rank End of Day 1	Player	State	Chips End of Day 1	Chips End of Day 2
2	15	9	Cole Jackson	WA	112,900	335,000
11	10	90	Angel Farrington	OR	42,100	427,000
23		15	Jonas Mackoff	BC	100,900
39		1	Kyle White	BC	184,900
74		66	Mikey Nguyen	WA	50,300
91		152	Chi Chan	BC	23,300
94		137	Scott Davies	BC	27,300
106		141	Seth Davies	OR	26,700
124		84	Alejandro Verduczo	WA	44,000
193		159	Binh Nguyen	OR	20,900
194		179	Kyle Ho	BC	17,100
		185	Alan Snow	WA	14,200
		196	Joe Baldwin	WA	10,500
		202	Chris Back	BC	8,100

WSOP Event #24 $1.5K HORSE Day 2

Two Portland-area players made it through Day 2, along with Newcastle, Washington’s Ian Johns, who will me making his third 2015 WSOP cash in this event. Esther Taylor-Brady of Vancouver has also cashed already. Jeffrey Mitseff—the roommate of well-known Portland player Jeremy Harkin—is in a solid 8th place out of the remaining 31.

Hitting the rail, but making the money in the last 80 players were Andrew Rennhack and Daniel Ratigan—both of Washington—who took about $3K each.

Rank End of Day 2	Rank End of Day 1	Player	State	Chips End of Day 1	Chips End of Day 2	In the Money Finish Position
8	136	Jeffrey Mitseff	OR	19,300	237,000	8
25	41	Ian Johns	WA	32,000	81,000	21
12	34	Esther Taylor-Brady	WA	33,400	188,000	25
	192	Andrew Rennhack	WA	14,300		63
	107	Daniel Ratigan	WA	21,600		67
	94	Michael Horowitz	WA	22,900
	128	Lee Goldman	WA	19,800
	174	Jason Lowe	WA	15700
	179	Dylan Linde	ID	15,100
	184	Thomas Taylor	BC	14,900
	206	Rep Porter	WA	12,100
	213	Bruce Burke	WA	11,500
	236	Greg Mueller	BC	9,500
	263	James George	WA	7,200
	289	Joseph Ogden	WA	3,800

WSOP Event #25 $5K NLHE 8-Max Day 2

Chad Wassmuth of Idaho made his third 2015 WSOP cash in this event, placing 24th just before the end of the day for $16.2K. Scott Eskanazi of Mercer Island, Washington is still alive going into Day 3, in 15th place out of 23 remaining. The field started with 493.

Rank End of Day 2	Rank End of Day 1	Player	State	Chips End of Day 1	Chips End of Day 2	In the Money Finish Position
15	43	Scott Eskanazi	WA	87,200	318,000
	186	Chad Wassmuth	ID	16,200		24
	16	Tai Nguyen	WA	131,800
	17	Shawn Buchanan	BC	128,700
	97	Noah Villancourt	BC	53,900
	128	Lee Markholt	WA	39,700

WSOP Event #26 $1K PLO Day 1

Action was fast and furious in the PLO event. Even with extra chips, half the field was decimated by the second break of the day. Noah Merritt of Vancouver, Washington is the highest-placed PNW player at the end of Day 1, in 10th place of 129 remaining. Eric Pratt of Kennewick, Washington sits in 33rd. WSOP hasn’t posted anything on the 15 players who cashed on Day 1, so I don’t know about any results there.

WSOP Event #27 $10K Seven Card Stud Day 1

Scott Clements is in 28th place and Rep Porter is in 33rd. Both are from Washington. 51 of 91 players are coming back to Day 2, only 16 places pay.

Grand Poker Series #23 $350 HORSE

Seattle’s Chen Chun made the final table for a 9th place finish and $1K prize.

Grand Poker Series #24 $125 NLHE

Barry Pritchard of British Columbia was in a 10-way chop for $1.5K each at the final table.

PHamous Poker Series #12 $300 NLHE $100K Guarantee

Planet Hollywood got 749 entries for the latest edition of this tournament, nearly doubling the guarantee. Jean Marques of British Columbia was the most highly-placed PNW player, making $1.9K for 16th place. Dan (“The Accursed”) Silver of Portland took 50th. Rafael Stern (WA) placed 70th, Robert Corbeil (BC) was 76th, and Jin Liu (WA) made it into the money at 80th.

Today’s Las Vegas Series Events

It’s Monster Stack Day at the WSOP. It’s a one-shot tournament, no re-entry. Just ask @Kevmath. No afternoon bracelet event scheduled and no afternoon flight. If you don’t play it today, you can play it tomorrow, but if you bus you can’t No re-entry. Got it?

Another Double Black Chip Bounty at the Venetian, $600 entry with a $40K guarantee. It’s a one-day event. Tonight’s game is a $600 entry PLO8 tournament. $40K guarantee and two days.
Planet Hollywood runs a $200K guarantee one-day $400 NLHE event at 11am. Same thing tomorrow.
Aria is running NLHE with $235 buy-in and a $150 buy-in, both one-day tournaments.
Wynn Summer Classic #6 has the second of three starting days for its $400 NLHE with $100K guarantee.
The Grand Poker Series has a $240 Seven Card Stud 8/B game at 11am and a $350 NLHE Black Chip Bounty at 1pm.
And at Binion’s Poker Classic is a $10K guarantee $160 NLHE tournament.

Surviving the Satellite

Posted on Thursday, 11 June 2015 by Poker Mutant

Bovada WSOP 8-Seat NLHE

Over the past couple of months, I’ve been watching the Bovada WSOP qualifiers, which feature an increasing number of guaranteed $3K packages including a $1.5K buy-in and an equivalent amount in money for expenses. The particularly interesting feature to me has been that the more people who enter doesn’t affect the number of packages offered. That’s set. Additional amounts in the prize pool are paid out in $500 increments, very similar to the Survivor tournaments I first saw a few years back at the Venetian.

It’s a two (or three)-tiered payout structure, with the top tier getting the package, the second tier getting $500, and the final tier (of one player) getting any remaining money less than $500 in the prize pool. The first of the satellites had a single WSOP package paid out, and the number increased each week by one, reaching eight last weekend. The final run next weekend skips over nine and goes to ten packages. The first four ran as $109 entries, with the final five costing $162, so your ROI if you cashed was likely to be 360% or 208%, respectively.

I’d watched the progress of a couple of these early on but hadn’t played them because Sunday afternoon is our family dinner. A couple got into the money before four hours were up, but as more of the prize pool got concentrated up top for the packages, that was likely to get longer.

So I took a flier on the next-to-last one, and ended up playing through the arrival of my dad and a neighbor who comes to Sunday dinner, then playing at the table through dinner, which isn’t probably going to happen again anytime soon. Once I hit the money, I wasn’t too concerned about getting the package, though it would have been nice. Playing short-stacked on the bubble while keeping up a conversation and passing the ginger beef and salad was a bit of a juggling act, but it worked.

Hand 2 A♦ 2♦ UTG3 T5,000 10/20
I raised to 45 and got called by both the blinds. The flop was 2♥ 6♣ 5♣, SB bet 120, BB dropped out, and I came along with bottom pair. We both checked the Q♠ on turn and 5♦ river, he showed 6♥ T♥ and took the pot. BB folded T♦ K♦.

Hand 7 K♣ K♠ SB T4,815 10/20
UTG limped with 3♣ 2♣ and CO was along for the ride with A♣ 5♥. I pushed it to 200, and went to the flop HU with UTG. 4♦ 6♦ Q♥ on the flop and he called a c-bet of 280. 9♥ turn and my bet of 800 took it down.

Hand 8 K♣ Q♣ D T5,335 10/20
Switching to ‘D’ for notation of the dealer button. Two extra keys adds up. CO opened to 60 and I called, along with the blinds. The flop was J♣ 2♥ 3♦—not exactly my favorite—but I called a c-bet of 80 from CO and the blinds folded 9♦ T♣ and 6♣ 8♦, respectively. A♦ on the turn got checked, then the river T♠ gave me the nuts, and I checked-raised CO when he bet 260. He folded A♣ 2♦.

Hand 11 9♠ A♣ UTG3 T5,855 10/20
I opened to 45, getting called by CO (T♦ Q♣), and both the blinds (7♠ T♣ and 9♥ A♦). The flop was 8♠ 8♥ 3♦, the blinds checked, I c-bet 100 and they all folded.

Hand 13 A♥ Q♦ UTG1 T5,990 20/40
I opened to 100 and everyone folded.

Hand 17 J♣ K♣ D T6,050 20/40
I called a raise to 120 from UTG2 (4X A♦) to see a 2♦ 4♠ 5♣ flop, then a c-bet of 120. Folded to a turn (6♥) bet.

Hand 26 2♣ 2♥ D T5,740 30/60
Not usually a fan of the small pairs, but everyone folded to me, and I raised to 150 and took the blinds.

Hand 27 4♠ 5♠ CO T5,830 30/60
Again, a little out of my usual bounds, but it was folded to me, so I made another 150 bet. This time, BB called me with A♠ J♦. The flop gave both of us something: 2♠ 3♦ 5♦ and we checked it, then the pair he was looking for with a turn A♣ made my straight. He check-called 160, then did the same for 300 on the 2♥ turn.

Hand 28 8♣ Q♣ HJ T6,470 30/60
I just limped in behind two other players, and six of us saw the flop. 4♥ T♣ 9♠ gave me a gut-shot draw, I checked, D bet 180 with T♠ Q♠, UTG2 had a set with T♥ T♦ and called, and I came along. The Q♥ looked kind of pretty, UTG2 checked, I bet 600, got a call from D, then UTG shoved and took the pot without a showdown.

Hand 29 8♦ 6♦ HJ T5,630 30/60
Another 6-way limped pot. K♦ 8♣ J♥ on the flop, everyone checks, 7♥ on the turn, and I fold to a bet initiated by BB.

Hand 37 A♠ Q♦ HJ T5,480 40/80
UTG2 limps in with K♥ 9♠, and I raise to 180. He calls and we’re HU to a 7♦ 6♠ 9♦ flop. I c-bet 280, he calls, and it’s 7♥ on the turn. We check. 8♦ on the river, checked, and he wins.

Hand 39 Q♣ Q♠ UTG2 T5,020 40/80
UTG has K♠ 2♠ and limps, I pop it up to 300 and he calls. We check the 7♥ A♦ 8♠ flop, the A♥ turn, and the 9♣ river and I win.

Hand 40 T♣ Q♦ UTG1 T5,440 40/80
I open to 180 and get re-raised by HJ to 440. I get a little ambitious with the Portland Nuts and call. The flop is 5♦ 7♠ 6♥, he bets 480 with his K♠ A♠ and I fold. Back to starting stack.

Hand 44 T♣ K♣ D T4,880 40/80
UTG2 limps, I raise to 200, he calls, and the flop is 6♦ A♠ 4♥. He checks, I check, the turn is A♣, and he bets 230. I don’t think he has an ace but I don’t have anything and I fold. He had Q♣ 7♣.

Hand 47 Q♣ Q♠ UTG2 T4,680 40/80
Nobody calls my raise to 200.

Hand 49 A♣ Q♣ UTG T4,800 40/80
HJ is the only call to my 200 raise. The flop is T♠ T♥ 3♣, I c-bet 300 and get called, improve a bit with the 8♣ on the turn, bet 680, and he goes away.

Hand 56 A♠ 7♠ UTG1 T5,300 50/100
I open to 250 and get called by UTG2 with J♣ T♠. The flop is 6♥ 9♠ 5♥, I check-call a bet of 300. He’s open-ended on the 8♣ turn and bets 700 after my check, but I have the straight already and go all-in. He folds.

Hand 57 9♦ A♠ UTG T6,700 50/100
I raise to 250 and everyone folds.

Hand 62 9♣ T♥ HJ T6,850 50/100
Got myself into a little trouble on this hand. UTG2 raised to the fishy amount of 332. I called. The flop was 4♠ 2♥ 5♠ and we both checked. A 9♦ gave me just enough to call the 630 turn bet. And I felt I had to call the bet of 1,453 on the 5♦ river, but two pair no good vs. two deuces in your opponent’s hand.

Hand 66 9♣ Q♣ UTG T4,435 50/100
I raised to 250 and was called by UTG1 with J♦ 3♦. I got bluffed off the board of 6♥ 6♠ K♣ 7♠ K♥ by a small river bet.

Hand 68 6♠ 8♠ SB T4,085 75/150
UTG raised to 300 and UTG3 called. I called. The flop was 8♣ T♦ 6♣. UTG had J♥ J♠ and bet 761. UTG3 raised to 3,200 holding 6♥ 5♥ and I went all-in with bottom two pair. UTG had just 1200 behind and called with less. UTG3 only had to call another 600. The turn was 2♥ and the river was A♠, and my two pair was best.

Hand 73 T♣ J♠ UTG1 T10.6K 75/150
I raised to 400 and BB called with A♦ 8♥. The 4♠ Q♠ A♠ flop gave me the second nut flush draw, and I should have bet, but just checked behind. 3♦ on the turn and I called a bet of 404, then folded to a bet of 1,004 on the A♥ river.

Hand 74 J♦ J♠ UTG T9.8K 75/150
I opened to 450 and SB 3-bet to 1.5K with A♣ K♥. I called, the flop was 9♦ 3♠ Q♥, and SB bet 950. I shoved. SB had me barely covered, but folded.

Hand 76 T♣ A♥ SB T12.3K 75/150
I opened to 450 and called a BB raise to 1,050. The flop was J♣ 8♥ 4♣ and I check-folded to a bet from 2♥ 2♣.

Hand 78 T♥ 9♠ CO T11.2K 75/150
I raised to 400 and BB called with K♠ T♣. The flop was K♥ 2♦ 8♣, I c-bet 450 then folded to a raise of 1.5K.

Hand 79 7♦ A♦ HJ T10.4 100/200
UTG1 opened with 5♥ 5♣ to 547 and I called. The flop was K♥ 7♥ 2♥, and even with the ace and middle pair, I didn’t feel like facing down a flush draw so I folded to a 600 chip c-bet.

Hand 85 K♦ K♠ D T9.5K 100/200
One of those hands that can be incredibly disappointing if it goes wrong. This one didn’t. UTG raised to 600 from a stack of 3K and action folded to me. I had everyone at the table covered and shoved it all in. The blinds folded, D went all-in to call with J♦ A♣ and I caught a full house on the river of the 9♠ 4♥ 9♥ 8♦ K♥ board.

Hand 94 J♠ K♦ HJ T12.7K 100/200
I put in a raise to 500, got called by BB with 8♦ J♦, bet 600 on the K♥ 7♠ 6♣ flop and took the hand.

Hand 96 T♣ Q♥ UTG1 T13.7K 100/200
I raised to 600 and got called by 6♥ 6♠. The flop was 3♠ 6♣ T♠, I check-called 500 with top pair. On the J♠ turn I semi-bluffed 1K, UTG3 raised me to 3K and I folded my drawing dead hand.

Hand 99 Q♠ 8♠ SB T10.8K 125/250/25
Action folded to me, I raised to 750 and BB folded.

Hand 105 J♦ T♠ UTG T11.1K 125/250/25
Raise to 600 and take the pot.

Hand 106 Q♥ 8♦ BB T11.7K 125/250/25
I get a walk.

Hand 110 9♥ A♣ CO T11.8K 125/250/25
UTG1 opens to 650 with Q♦ T♠, I call, and BB is in with Q♥ 8♥. The flop was Q♣ 3♣ 3♦ and I folded to a UTG1 c-bet of 775.

Hand 111 Q♥ 6♥ HJ T11.1K 150/300/30
We only had seven players at the table, the first two players folded and I raised to 700 to tin the blinds and antes.

Hand 114 J♠ Q♦ BB T11.7K 150/300/30
Everyone folded to the SB who had T♣ 3♠ and only 4.6K. He decided to try to steal and raised to 900. I would have raised to that if he’d called anyway. We checked the board down to 8♥ K♠ 2♦ A♣ 9♠ and I won.

Hand 117 T♣ T♥ CO T12.6K 150/300/30
I open-raised to 900 and won the hand.

Hand 119 Q♦ T♦ UTG2 T13.2K 150/300/30
Raise to 750 and win.

Hand 124 T♦ T♥ D T13.3K 150/300/30
I opened to 900 and BB called with J♠ Q♣. It’s good to flop top set on a dry board, I’ve heard, and T♠ 2♣ 5♦ looked parched. BB checked and I bet 800. 3♦ for the turn. He could have A♦ 4♦ when he bets 1.7K, but I call and then A♣ hits on the river. We both check and I win.

Hand 125 8♦ 8♠ CO T17K 150/300/30
UTG goes all-in for 4K and we’re HU after I call. He shows 5♦ 6♦. The board runs out 2♥ 6♠ 7♠ T♠ T♣ and he’s eliminated.

Hand 127 4♠ 4♣ UTG1 T21.7K 150/300/30
I made a min-raise and go HU with D, who has just 5.6K. The flop is A♦ J♣ 2♣, I check-fold to a bet of 875. With A♣ T♥, D has top pair and a backdoor flush draw. Good fold.

Hand 128 A♣ 9♣ UTG T21K 150/300/30
Raised to 800 and took it down.

Hand 130 K♠ Q♣ SB T21.4K 150/300/30
UTG2 min-raised and I called to see a flop of 2♠ Q♦ A♦. I check-folded middle pair like a wimp to a bet from 5♠ 5♦.

Hand 131 J♦ K♥ D T20.7K 150/300/30
UTG3 raised K♣ Q♠ and I called, along with BB holding 8♠ Q♣. Everyone checked the board down to 8♦ 2♥ 9♠ 7♥ 3♥ and BB won with second pair!

Hand 134 2♦ A♦ UTG2 T20K 200/400/40
I raise to 1K and SB calls with A♣ 5♣ The flop is 7♦ 2♣ 4♥ and SB checks. I bet 1.6K and get called. 7♣ on the turn and 8♠ on the river and I fold to a 3K bet.

Hand 138 A♠ 8♠ SB T16.9K 200/400/40
UTG raises to 865 and I call, along with BB. It’s 6♥ K♦ 2♥ on the flop, and everyone checks. I check fold the T♣ river when BB bets and gets called by UTG2.

Hand 139 5♣ 5♥ D T15.9K 200/400/40
I just hate low pocket pairs. I know there are people who swear by them and love to set-mine with them, but I’ll take a higher set any day. Anyway. I’m on the button, so I call a bet of 825 from UTG and fold on the J♦ 2♦ 7♠ flop to a bet of 1K. He had K♦ K♥. See?

Hand 144 7♣ 7♥ UTG1 T14.8K 200/400/40
Not crazy about middle pairs, either. I’m on a new table. with three smaller stacks, and everyone else covering me. I raise to 1K and get re-raised to 2.3K by BB with Q♥ 8♥, which I call and promptly lose when A♣ 3♦ Q♣ flops. It gets checked down and I lose.

Hand 145 A♣ 8♣ UTG T12.5K 200/400/40
Time to rebuild. I raise and win.

Hand 146 8♥ 7♥ BB T13.4K 200/400/40
SB open-raises to 860 with K♠ 8♦. I call and fold to a c-bet on the Q♦ J♠ 4♣ flop.

Hand 149 A♥ J♠ CO T12.1K 250/500/50
I raise to 1.3K and get a call from BB with 9♦ A♠. He folds to a c-bet of 2K on a Q♦ 2♥ 6♦ flop.

Hand 151 9♦ A♣ UTG2 T14K 250/500/50
Raise to 1.3K and take the blinds.

Hand 152 T♦ 8♦ UTG1 T15K 250/500/50
Raise to 1.3K and take the blinds does not work when 24K stack in CO goes all-in with A♠ 9♥. Not sure why he felt he needed to do that with that hand and nearly 50BB, but no skin off my nose.

Hand 154 K♣ 9♣ BB T13.7K 250/500/50
CO has under 5K and min-raises to open. I call and flop a gut-shot on Q♥ 7♥ J♠. He bets another 2.6K, leaving just 1.2K behind and I go all-in. He snaps, shows A♦ A♣, the turn is 9♥ and the river is T♠ and he falls to my straight.

Hand 163 7♣ 9♣ D T17.7K 250/500/50
I opened to 1.3K and BB called with 8♠ 6♠. We both checked the 8♣ J♠ J♣ flop, then BB check-called my 2K bet on the 6♣ turn. A♠ on the river kept me from barreling again, but my flush was the better hand and I took the pot.

Hand 164 6♠ A♠ CO T21.6K 250/500/50
I opened to 1.3K and SB shoved 8.8K. I folded. He had Q♦ T♦.

Hand 166 T♥ J♦ UTG2 T20.2K 250/500/50
I open to 1.3K. SB raises to 3.6K with 8♣ 8♥ and we go HU to the 6♦ J♥ 9♦ flop. He bets 3.7K, I shove, and he folds.

Hand 168 T♠ T♥ UTG T28.4K 250/500/50
CO and BB call my 1.3K raise and the flop is K♣ 7♣ Q♦. Everyone checks, the river is 7♦, and I fold to a bet of 2.3K from BB, who wins with A♦ J♦ (Mutant Jack!) v A♣ Q♥ when the river 2♦ makes his nut flush.

Hand 175 K♣ A♥ UTG2 T25.7K 300/600/60
UTG shoves 3.6K and I call. Everyone else folds and I’m up against A♦ T♦. He hits T♥ on the turn and doubles.

Hand 200 J♣ 8♣ D T16.7K 500/1K/100
UTG1 min-raisesT♥ K♣ and I call , along with BB (6♥ 2♣). The board on the turn is K♠ J♥ 9♦ 7♠, BB and I both fold to a 2.8K bet.

Hand 203 K♣ Q♥ UTG2 T14.3K 500/1K/100
I raised to 3K pre-flop and won the hand.

Hand 215 K♠ Q♦ UTG T14K 600/1.2K/120
I jammed on the bubble and won.

Hand 218 8♠ 8♦ D T14.5K 600/1.2K/120
CO limped in and I uncharacteristically limped, since we were still on the bubble. SB called and so there were four of us to the flop with me in position. It was 3♠ 5♠ 6♦, everyone checked, the turn was 5♣. SB (22.3K behind, 7♦ 2♦) with a gut-shot straight draw, checked. BB (27K, K♠ 6♠) had top pair and bet 2.5K. CO had A♣ 2♣, with 27.8K and just a draw to the low end of a straight, fold. At 13.3K and 11BB, I didn’t feel I could risk the over pair and gut-shot against a possible two-pair, trips, made straight or full house and folded along with SB. It was either fold or all-in. Looking at the folded cards in the report, both of the other eights were dead.

Hand 229 T♠ T♦ UTG T11.9K 800/1.6K/160
A lucky table change saved me from the BB and put me in late position, so I was able to just ante up to this point. I jammed my 7.5BB in and nobody called.

Hand 230 8♥ 8♠ BB T15.6K 1K/2K/200
CO min-raised to 4K and I called, with the flop coming down A♥ 2♦ Q♦ I couldn’t bring myself to bet into it and folded to a bet of 4K from J♥ 9♥.

Hand 234 8♣ T♣ HJ T9.8K 1K/2K/200
I went all-in and took in blinds and antes worth about a third of my stack. The bubble had broken somewhere in the previous few hands, so we were in the money.

Hand 235 A♦ A♥ UTG2 T13K 1K/2K/200
One of those hands to get when people think perhaps you’ve been too active. I was still the short stack but one on a seven-handed table. SB had more than half their chips in for the blind and ante. UTG1 called with about 32K and 7♦ 8♦. I still had less than 10BB, so I jammed, SB was all-in for a call, and UTG1 probably figured he couldn’t get knocked out anyway. It was my aces against UTG’s 7♦ 8♦ and J♠ Q♥ for SB. I for two pair and was a live for a while longer.

Hand 242 A♥ 2♥ BB T29.7K 1K/2K/200
SB jammed with no previous action for just over 19K. An obvious steal. With A♠ T♥. So just as fast as I go up, I go back down.

Hand 244 5♥ 5♣ SB T10.4K 1K/2K/200
I can think of worse hands to go out on. CO raises to 4K, I shove, BB re-shoves 16K, and CO calls , with 40K behind after the call. Me v. BB’s A♥ K♦ v. CO’s Q♥ T♣. I win if CO doesn’t make the call, but he hits trip tens and knocks out two of us.

VPIP: 27.5%. PFR: 18.4%. Showdown: 25% of hands played. Won 65% of showdowns.

Four hours and forty minutes. 244 hands. 30th of 271 entries. +209% ROI.

PNW_WSOP_15 Summer Series Report for June 10

Posted on Thursday, 11 June 2015 by Poker Mutant

WSOP Event #20 $1.5K NLHE Day 3

Kevin MacPhee (ID) is the last PNW player remaining at end of the the day, with just five players left. The event ran overtime on Day 3 and will play out on Day 4, starting at 1pm Pacific. Jacob Dahl of Portland went out in 25th place for $13.4K.

WSOP Event #21 $10K Omaha 8/B Day 3

Both of the Washington players who made Day 2 of the event already knew they had cashed when they came back for Day 3. Tai Nguyen took 12th for $30K; Scott Clements made it to the final table for 4th place and $129K.

WSOP Event #22 $1K NLHE Day 3

Two PNW players are left in the final 22 of 1,915 entries in this tournament. Central Oregon’s Angel Farrington sits in 10th place, with Cole Jackson of Seattle in 15th (this will be Angel’s first WSOP cash, it will be Cole’s second this year after placing 169th in the Millionaire Maker this weekend).

Just a handful (well, technically, a couple handfuls) of players who came back to Day 2 were going to bust outside the money, but three of the fourteen returnees did just that. Meanwhile, Jonas Mackoff of Vancouver, British Columbia, was the last player eliminated on Day , with Day 1 chip leader Kyle White out in 39th.

Shout out to Binh “Jimmy” Nguyen of Portland for his second 2015 WSOP cash. I’ve knocked him out.

In the Money Finish Position	Rank End of Day 2	Rank End of Day 1	Player	State	Chips End of Day 1	Chips End of Day 2
2	15	9	Cole Jackson	WA	112,900	335,000
11	10	90	Angel Farrington	OR	42,100	427,000
23		15	Jonas Mackoff	BC	100,900
39		1	Kyle White	BC	184,900
74		66	Mikey Nguyen	WA	50,300
91		152	Chi Chan	BC	23,300
94		137	Scott Davies	BC	27,300
106		141	Seth Davies	OR	26,700
124		84	Alejandro Verduczo	WA	44,000
193		159	Binh Nguyen	OR	20,900
194		179	Kyle Ho	BC	17,100
		185	Alan Snow	WA	14,200
		196	Joe Baldwin	WA	10,500
		202	Chris Back	BC	8,100

WSOP Event #24 $1.5K HORSE Day 1

It’s a long way to the money yet for the 299 players in the HORSE tournament with only 80 getting paid. But nearly 800 entries created a $1M+ prize pool for what is arguably my favorite game. It looks like it’s a favorite of a lot of Northwesterners, as well, with a strong contingent of Washington State players in the mix, though none of them are in the top 10% of the field.

Rank End of Day 2	Rank End of Day 1	Player	State	Chips End of Day 1	Chips End of Day 2	In the Money Finish Position
8	136	Jeffrey Mitseff	OR	19,300	237,000	8
25	41	Ian Johns	WA	32,000	81,000	21
12	34	Esther Taylor-Brady	WA	33,400	188,000	25
	192	Andrew Rennhack	WA	14,300		63
	107	Daniel Ratigan	WA	21,600		67
	94	Michael Horowitz	WA	22,900
	128	Lee Goldman	WA	19,800
	174	Jason Lowe	WA	15700
	179	Dylan Linde	ID	15,100
	184	Thomas Taylor	BC	14,900
	206	Rep Porter	WA	12,100
	213	Bruce Burke	WA	11,500
	236	Greg Mueller	BC	9,500
	263	James George	WA	7,200
	289	Joseph Ogden	WA	3,800

WSOP Event #25 $5K NLHE 8-Max Day 1

About a fifth of the field of 493 is returning for Day 2, with 56 places paying. Tai Nguyen went straight from the $10K Omaha 8/B to this and is the most highly-placed PNW player.

Rank End of Day 2	Rank End of Day 1	Player	State	Chips End of Day 1	Chips End of Day 2	In the Money Finish Position
15	43	Scott Eskanazi	WA	87,200	318,000
	186	Chad Wassmuth	ID	16,200		24
	16	Tai Nguyen	WA	131,800
	17	Shawn Buchanan	BC	128,700
	97	Noah Villancourt	BC	53,900
	128	Lee Markholt	WA	39,700

Venetian DSE #22 $600 NLHE $40K Guarantee Double Black Chip Bounty

The Venetian is finally catching up a bit on their results. This event, which took place in one day on June 4th, paid $200 for every player you knocked out. and like a lot of tournaments over the last couple of weekends, blew the guarantee out of the water, with the main prize pool jumping up $103K. Paul Deng of Vancouver, Washington took 5th place for nearly $6K, with Micah Bell of Battle Ground, Washington in 10th for $1.7K, as an appetizer for his run in the Millionaire Maker the next day.

Venetian DSE #24 $400 NLHE $30K Guarantee Black Chip Bounty

234 players in this tournament made a main prize pool of $56.6K, and while the bounties were a smaller percentage of the buy-in, they were still $100 per player. Daniel Harold of Portland came in 4th for $5.3K. There were several cashes from Canada, but the Venetian doesn’t believe in putting cities on non-US hometowns, so I’m sorry to any BCers I’m leaving out. John Tornillo, Jr. of Sterling, Washington tied for 18th place in this event, winning $700.

Venetian DSE #25 $600 Omaha 8/B $100K Guarantee

This was a 2-day event that had over 300 entries and a $169K prize pool. Jesse Hampton of Mercer Island, WA made it to 3rd place for a nice $17.4K prize. No other PNW players despite Portland being cray for Omaha.

Venetian DSE #26 $600 NLHE $120K Guarantee

Interestingly enough, despite starting just the day after Event #25, having the same buy-in, a larger guarantee, and being a more popular game (not with me, just in general), this event got fewer entries. The prize pool still made the guarantee, up to $138K. Joseph “Jammin Jay” Zeman of Seattle took 15th for $2.1K.

Binion’s Poker Classic #19 $220 Omaha 8/B

Mike Vejraska of the anonymous-sounding “Smith”, Oregon came in 7th of 113 for $1.4K.

Grand Poker Series #22 $150 NLHE

British Columbia’s Keith Bell came in 3rd of 168 for just under $1.8K and Alexander Wolf of Washington took 16th for $270.

Upcoming Las Vegas Series Events

Things are heating up for the start of the Monster Stack tomorrow. My Colossus-weekend article about how to spend your poker time productively may still be relevant. Today’s events:

Event #26 $1K PLO and Event #27 $10K Seven Card Stud should make the folks wanting a break from NLHE at the WSOP happy, plus give everyone some fun dealer-related stories.
It’s Bounty Day at the Venetian! Both events play out in one day. The noon event for today and tomorrow is the $600 NLHE Double Black Chip Bounty (see above) with a $40K guarantee. In the evening tonight is a $400 NLHE Black Chip Bounty with a $30K guarantee.
Planet Hollywood has two smaller events today, but one that’s sure to draw players from PDX. 11am is the $200 NLHE with a $25K guarantee. The 2pm game is $150 buy-in Big O 6-Max. Have I mentioned that Big O is the Devil’s Game?
Aria is running NLHE with $235 buy-in and a $150 buy-in, both one-day tournaments.
Wynn Summer Classic #6 has the first of three starting days for its $400 NLHE with $100K guarantee.
The Grand Poker Series has an event I wish I was in town for: #27 $560 NLHE 6-Max.
And at Binion’s Poker Classic is a $10K guarantee $160 NLHE tournament.

Lots of people heading down for the Monster Stack today and tomorrow. Saturday and Sunday are starting flights (2 on Saturday) for a $250K guarantee for $600 NLHE that I expect will probably break $400K easily. Planet Hollywood has a $200K guarantee ($400 NLHE) Friday and Saturday, and the third edition of the Goliath ($500K guarantee, $565 NLHE) on Sunday. Aria’s schedule doesn’t vary except for the chance to practice your 2-7 Triple Draw for the (relatively) low price of $450 on Sunday. Wynn has the second and third flights of the $100K event that starts today on Friday and Saturday. Golden Nugget has its own black chip bounty and a Stud 8/B game tomorrow, with $100K guarantees scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. And the weekend at Binions has a couple of non-NLHE $10K events: PLO8 on Saturday and HORSE on Sunday, both for $220.

For breaking news, follow @pokermutant and #PNW_WSOP_15 on Twitter.

PNW_WSOP_15 Summer Series Report for June 9

Posted on Wednesday, 10 June 2015 by Poker Mutant

WSOP Event #20 $1.5K NLHE Day 2

This event played down from 274 to 35 on Day 2. 198 of the original 1,844 entrants will be paid, with $460.6K going to first. Jacob Dahl (24th in chips) of Oregon and Kevin MacPhee (25th) of Idaho are the last two PNW players left in the field; though they’re both just under the median stack a the end of Day 2, they have about a fifth of the chips of leader Garret Beckman (of non-Northwest Kansas).

I offer my apologies to Yevgeniy Timoshenko of Seattle, Washington, Matt Affleck of Mill Creek, Washington, and Dimitrii Valouev of Wilsonville, Oregon for missing them on yesterday’s round-up of PNW players for this event. Timoshenko placed 43rd in the event for $9K, Affleck was 83rd for $4.2K, and Valouev came in 112th, winning $3.4K.

Also making the money were Daniel Idema (76th), Eric Vallee (81st), Ken Lynn (99th), Greg Mueller (102nd), Randy Cooper (109th), Christopher Paasch (111th), Parminder Kumar (115th), Tolga Ural (124th), Thomas Taylor (131st), David Price (174th), and Dustin Leary (190th). Of the 13 PNW players who made Day 2, all but two of them made the money.

This event was the third 2015 WSOP cash for the always-busy Dmitrii Valouev, who also cashed in Event #3 $1,500 Omaha 8/B and Event #6 Hyper NLHE. Greg Mueller has also made the money three times already this summer, in the Colossus (Event #5), Event #7 $10K Limit 2-7 Triple Draw, and this event.

WSOP Event #21 $10K Omaha 8/B Day 2

18 of the 101 players that started Day 2 move on to today, with the money bubble broken as the game hit two tables. Scott Clements of Mount Vernon, Washington and Tai Nguyen of Olympia, Washington sit 4th and 9th in chips. This will be Nguyen’s third cash of the summer so far.

WSOP Event #22 $1K NLHE

1,951 players began this single-entry-day contest and 207 will return for Day 2. This is the first of the standard-format $1K events to be played with the new 5K chip stacks and modified blind levels, and the big change is that while all of these events in previous years made the money by the end of the first day (of three), nine players coming back today will be out of the money.

That’s probably not an issue for Kyle White of Surrey, British Columbia, who holds the chip lead.

In the Money Finish Position	Rank End of Day 2	Rank End of Day 1	Player	State	Chips End of Day 1	Chips End of Day 2
2	15	9	Cole Jackson	WA	112,900	335,000
11	10	90	Angel Farrington	OR	42,100	427,000
23		15	Jonas Mackoff	BC	100,900
39		1	Kyle White	BC	184,900
74		66	Mikey Nguyen	WA	50,300
91		152	Chi Chan	BC	23,300
94		137	Scott Davies	BC	27,300
106		141	Seth Davies	OR	26,700
124		84	Alejandro Verduczo	WA	44,000
193		159	Binh Nguyen	OR	20,900
194		179	Kyle Ho	BC	17,100
		185	Alan Snow	WA	14,200
		196	Joe Baldwin	WA	10,500
		202	Chris Back	BC	8,100

Grand Poker Series #20 $350 NLHE $100K Guarantee

If you guarantee it, they will come. At least, that’s what the folks at the Golden Nugget were hoping. And unlike a lot of other series operators, they’ve been willing to meet the guarantees they’ve set, despite a couple of large events falling significantly short. Event #20 didn’t have the 40% shortfall of Event #19, but it was still down by 20%. Hopefully, more people will show up for what I’ve heard are decently-structured tournaments so that they’ll be able to keep these going; there are six more on the schedule, two each weekend until the end of June.

269 players entered, and 27 places paid. From the results, it would appear that a deal was made at the final table. Oman Martin of Gig Harbor, Washington and Danny Kent of Cowichan Bay, British Columbia were both there.

Upcoming Las Vegas Series Events

Event #24 ($1.5K HORSE, 3 days) and Event #25 ($5K NLHE 8-Max, 4 days) kick off at the WSOP today.
This is the last of three entry days for Event #28 NLHE at the Venetian, a $1.6K buy-in with a $1M guarantee that ends on Friday.
At Planet Hollywood, the morning kicks off with Event #15 NLHE, a $500 $25K guarantee, no-re-entry tournament and in the afternoon there’s Event #16 $130 $5K guarantee NLHE Turbo.
The Aria is running NLHE with $235 buy-in and a $150 buy-in, both one-day tournaments, but no high roller today that you can wander into.
Wynn Summer Classic #5 NLHE with a $25K guarantee is a $300 buy-in, one-day event.
The Grand Poker Series at the Golden Nugget features Event #25 $560 PLO and Event #26 $125 NLHE.
On the schedule today for Binion’s Poker Classic is a $220 Omaha 8/B tournament at 2pm.

Big events in the next couple of days are, of course, the Monster Stack at the WSOP this weekend and the $1K PLO there tomorrow. Planet Hollywood has a $200K guarantee NLHE Thursday and Friday, with the $500K Goliath running again on Sunday. Aria has a $450 2-7 Triple Draw you can dip your toes into. The Wynn runs three starting days of a $100K beginning tomorrow. Golden Nugget is scheduled to hold two more low buy-in $100K tournaments on the weekend, with a NLHE 6-Max tomorrow, Seven Card Stud 8/B and a Black Chip Bounty on Friday. Binions has PLO8 and HORSE Friday and Saturday, respectively.

For breaking news, follow @pokermutant and #PNW_WSOP_15 on Twitter.

PNW_WSOP_15 Summer Series Report for June 8

Posted on Tuesday, 9 June 2015 by Poker Mutant

WSOP Event #16 $1.5K NLHE Millionaire Maker

This was the big one, and Portland card room regular Micah Bell was the top PNW player in the field, finishing 21st for a prize of $45K in a field with some big names. He eliminated Bart Hansen, the man behind the training site Crush Live Poker, but then doubled up Erick “E-Dog” Lindgren before eventually losing to Lindren in a hand that took him and another player out at the same time while propelling Lindgren to 2nd in chips to start Day 4.

Day 1, Day 2, and ITM finish positions in the Millionaire Maker for players from Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Idaho are available here. 31 PNW players made it into the money, with Bell (WA), Darlene Lee (BC), Parminder Kumar (WA), and Bradley Zusman (OR) making it to the top 100 and Day 3. Results

WSOP Event #17 $10K Razz

Phil Hellmuth may have won a bracelet in this event (#14), but Tommy Hang of Washington had a good run to make 13th place for $19.6K. Results

WSOP Event #18 $1K NLHE Turbo

No PNW players made it into Day 2 (final day) of this event (only 29 of the 1,791 entries did), but ubiquitous Washington pro Tyler Patterson took 62nd for $4.2K, with Oregon’s Kyle Zartman close behind at 67th ($3.6K). Parviz Khorram (WA, 148th) and Kevin MacPhee (ID, 153rd) both cashed for just under $2K. Results

WSOP Event #19 $3K LHE 6-Max

Checking in on Day 2 of this event while the Millionaire Maker was running yesterday, it looked like it was going to be a good day for Portland’s Binh Nguyen, and the last report that mentioned him had him eliminating a player in the level before the dinner break, but he’s not on the roster for Day 3. In fact, none of the PNW players who made Day 2—Daniel Ratigan, Rep Porter, Ryan Turner, Christopher Holden (all WA); Dylan Linde (ID); or 2+2 PokerCast co-host Terrence Chan and Dan Idema (the brother of Adam Schwartz, the other Pokercast co-host), both from British Columbia—were on the roster for today.

WSOP Event #20 $1.5K NLHE

Portland’s Jacob Dahl, just off a near-miss for a bracelet in Event #3 $1.5K Omaha 8/B, is in position #17—over 100K—among the 272 returning players from a starting field of 1,844 for Day 2 of this event. Also returning from the NW: Christopher Paasch, Ken Lynn, Nicholas Nowak (OR); Parminder Kumar (who cashed at 65th yesterday in the Millionaire Maker), Tolga Ural, David Price, Scott Eskanazi, Dustin Leary (all WA); Thomas Taylor, Greg Mueller, Eric Vallee, and the afore-mentioned Dan Idema (BC); plus Kevin MacPhee of Idaho). 198 places pay, with $460K up top.

WSOP Event #21 $10K Omaha 8/B

Oregon’s Steve Chanthabouasy is 12th among the 101 remaining players for Day 2 of this tournament (that started with 157). Still a ways to go before the 18 places that pay. Joe Mitchell of Eugene is in 80th position. Scott Clements, Tai Nguyen, and Noah Bronstein represent Washington, with Calen McNeil in for British Columbia. Dylan Linde is there for Idaho.

Linde, McNeil, and Bronstein all cashed in the Millionaire Maker. Nguyen has already made the money in both Event #3 $1.5K Omaha 8/b and Event #13 $2.5K Omaha/Seven Card Stud 8/B this year.

Grand Poker Series #19 $350 NLHE $100K Guarantee

The Grand series at the Golden Nugget has massively missed a couple of their low buy-in two-day $100K guarantees since Colossus weekend. This event had 209 entries, which meant just over $60K of player contributions to the prize pool. Li An and Chen Chun—both of Seatttle, Washington, were there to collect some of the $40K overlay, finishing 7th and 15th, respectively.

Wynn Summer Classic #1 $300 NLHE $100K Guarantee

The Wynn got a somewhat better turnout for its $100K with three starting days, at 505 entries and a prize pool of more than $130K. The cashing field was more than half Nevada players, but Phillippe Olbrechts of Washington and William Firebraugh of Idaho took 5th and 38th, respectively. A deal gave the three top players $19.5K each, Phillippe took home just about $7K.

Pacific Northwest Poker Players vs. the WSOP Millionaire Maker, Pt. 2

Posted on Monday, 8 June 2015 by Poker Mutant

47 PNW players made it through the starting days of 2015 WSOP Event #16 $1,500 Millionaire Maker. Only 66% of the total of 1,130 players who came back for the second day would make the cash, and for the PNW players that figure was pretty much dead on, with 16 falling before the bubble.

Four players from the Northwest survived to Day 3 (out of a total of 142), with Bradley Zusman the best-placed of them at 19th and 667,000 chips. Micah Bell, the winner of the “Chosen One” competition this spring, sits in 42nd place at just under half a million. Par minder Kumar is just above the median stack at 354,000, and Darlene Lee has 163,000, which translates to 16 BB, as players will be coming back today in the middle of the 5,000/10,000/1,000 level 21.

UPDATE 8 June 15, 15:30: Micah Bell is the last PNW player in the field at the second break of Day 3, right in the middle of the field with 48 players remaining.

UPDATE 8 June 15 22:00: After losing a big hand to Erick Lindgren, Micah Bell was eliminated in a 3-way pot in 21st place, taking home $45,275.

Rank End of Day 2	Rank End of Day 1	Player	State	Chips End of Day 2	Chips End of Day 1	In the Money Finish Position
42	604	Micah Bell	WA	489,000	38,400	21
121	111	Darlene Lee	BC	163,000	91,100	53
65	416	Parminder Kumar	WA	354,000	50,300	65
19	697	Bradley Zusman	OR	667,000	32,100	72
	476	Jiazheng Ling	WA		45,800	152
	83	Brenda Tinjum	OR		101,100	164
	787	Cole Jackson	WA		27,100	169
	355	Jason Ackerman	BC		56,100	197
	198	Abraham Leavitt	WA		74,400	209
	724	Alan Snow	WA		30,700	235
	394	Christopher Paasch	OR		52,400	285
	257	Srider Nadarajah	OR		66,600	303
	954	Robert Corbeil	BC		18,700	317
	624	Michael Finnigan	WA		37,100	325
	503	Kheang Tang	OR		44,100	399
	818	Eric Lee	BC		26,000	419
	180	Cindy Stenbeck	WA		77,000	443
	327	Eric Vallee	BC		58,500	466
	714	Glen Ho	BC		31,000	468
	643	Calen McNeil	BC		79,600	481
	231	Robert Cheung	BC		69,000	494
	901	Chase Cooley	WA		21,000	515
	258	James Rostel	OR		66,500	572
	691	Chris Back	BC		32,300	588
	845	Douglas O'Neal	WA		24,600	611
	511	Dylan Linde	ID		43,600	637
	647	Michael Berdine	WA		35,400	646
	729	Yongshuo Zheng	BC		30,300	684
	110	Michael Palo	WA		91,100	693
	534	Noah Bronstein	WA		42,600	724
	583	Christopher Carmichael	WA		40,000	725
	67	Matt Jarvis	BC		109,100	--
	78	Byung Na	WA		103,800	--
	334	Kyle Ho	BC		57,900	--
	373	Carter Newhof	WA		54,500	--
	524	Robert Brewer	OR		43,000	--
	615	Daniel Tupper	WA		37,800	--
	622	Azariah Wojteczko	OR		37,300	--
	710	Kerry Moynahan	OR		31,200	--
	832	Joanne Lewis	BC		25,300	--
	864	Tracy Doss	WA		23,300	--
	940	Ricky Chow	BC		19,300	--
	967	Carolyn Powers	WA		18,200	--
	995	Joseph Bean	WA		16,500	--
	1,017	Graham Loucks	WA		15,100	--
	1,063	Aaron Duczak	BC		12,200	--
	1,103	Rajendra Ajmani	WA		6,500	--

2015 Series News

Posted on Sunday, 7 June 2015 by Poker Mutant

There’s a lot more going on in Las Vegas this month away from the Rio and the WSOP. Most of the attention is there because most of the big action is there, but Here are a few links I’ve put together to try to keep up on other series where Pacific Northwest players are having some success.

World Series of Poker
The big one, of course. PokerNews is no longer doing the live reporting, so the only place you can find it is at WSOP.com. Click on the event you want to see in the schedule, then you can see Results (payouts), Chip Counts (only relevant for live tournament and not for every player), Updates (all live reports), Prizepool (payout levels), and Photos. The Structure tab doesn’t work, see the structure sheets on the main schedule page. Added: Daily Deepstacks Results are here.

Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza III
The main page for the DSE has links to PDFs for the schedule, the structures, and the results. The only problem is they’re not particularly fast to update the results. ~~As of the night of June 7th, they hadn’t updated it since the 2nd.~~ Last updates were June 23rd.

Binions Poker Classic
Payouts and results are posted in blog form.

Golden Nugget Grand Poker Series
Information’s posted by Ante Up Magazine.

Aria Poker Classic
Haven’t figured out where to find this yet. Results go to Hendon Mob, but they don’t post hometown info for all the events.

Wynn Poker Classic
You can find redraws (without locations) and winners at wynnpoker.com.

Planet Hollywood PHamous Poker Series
Posting results on Google Drive.

A (House) Piece of the Action

Posted on Sunday, 7 June 2015 by Poker Mutant

In the STAR TREK episode “A Piece of the Action,” Captain Kirk breaks up a mob war by inventing a card game called “fizzbin,” see? Then he goes on to broker a peace between the warring mobsters by setting himself up as Godfather and taking the titular piece of the action, see? Yeah, that’s what he does.

Not that that has any real bearing on the topics for today, which are the ethics and issues (and economics) behind a tournament organizer (specifically, someone who’s on the hook for any overlay) participating in the tournament.

Several weeks back, a thread popped up on 2+2, claiming that the sponsor of a small tournament series had offered to refund half the buy-in to players, in exchange for half of any profit in the tournament. The tournament had a guaranteed prize pool, not enough players had entered the tournament to fund the prize pool with entry fees, so the sponsor of the tournament would be forced to pay any portion of the guarantee not matched by player fees, something that is known as an overlay.

For the purposes of this discussion, let’s assume all of these things are true: 1) The guarantee was unmet by player contributions. 2) The sponsor was committed to honoring the guarantee. 3) The sponsor was actually offering to buy half the profit from players. Is this a good idea?

Balance of Terror

Conventional wisdom would say there’s no way for the sponsor to lose money with this plan. Some of his players win some money, he doesn’t pay them as much (because he’s bought half their action), and he offsets a portion of the overlay. In reality, things can get messy.

For simplicity’s sake, let’s say the tournament has a $15K guarantee. It gets 100 entries at $100 each, with only $10K contributed to the prize pool. With 100 entries, the top 9 players will win all the money. In this scenario, the sponsor is out $5K in overlay.

If the sponsor can get the 9 players who win all the money to agree to his terms (and nobody else), he will have refunded $450 in player fees, making the amount players contribute to the prize pool only $9,550. But he only has to pay $7.5K in prize money, so he’s actually ahead by $2K!

On the other hand, if 9 players who don’t cash take the deal, the sponsor not only still has to pay out the original overlay but is also out the $450 in player fees that have been refunded.

If he can get everyone to agree to the split? He only pays out $7.5K–half the guaranteed prize pool–but everyone’s only paying $50 per entry, and with just $5K contributed by players, the overlay is still $2.5K.

There’s obviously some potential for mitigating losses with this strategy, but as the sponsor, if you whiff on picking winning players, you’re actually out even more money than the initial overlay.

Opinions on the sponsor’s action varied, with some claiming that it would be irresponsible for him not to try to offset his losses, and others decrying it for creating the impression the “house” was trying to cheat the players out of the prize pool. On this, I have to come down in the middle, since the more action the sponsor buys up, the more money they stand to lose, unless they pick the right people. It’s a gamble, just like any other situation where someone backs several players in the same tournament.

Amok Time

There’s a similar but distinct situation that is far more problematic, which I’ve seen happen in a variety of venues. In a tournament with an overlay and multiple re-entries allowed, the sponsor uses the overlay to put in one or more players who can play a high-variance style, with the intent of building up a big chip stack, knocking out non-sponsored players, and the ability to re-enter at no cost to either the player or the sponsor. In our example tournament above, the $5K overlay represents 50 buy-ins. With low registration early in the tournament and a large expected overlay, a sponsor could make a deal with several players to take more risks, with the promise that they’ll be bought back in by the sponsor several times, if need be.

So long as the number of entries and re-entries by both non-sponsored and sponsored players doesn’t exceed the guarantee, the sponsor isn’t taking on any extra risk. But they’re essentially playing against the people who have put up money to play in the tournament, and one of the things that has distinguished poker from casino table games has always been that you’re playing against other players, not the house. The sponsor of a guaranteed tournament is assuming risk when they announce the guarantee. They expect to make their costs back through entry fees and other spending by the players. But if it looks like their bet isn’t going to pay off, putting a thumb on the scale by using house money against the players they’ve brought in with the promised guarantee smacks of unethical practice.

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Monthly Archives: June 2015

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Pacific Northwest Poker Players vs. the WSOP Millionaire Maker, Pt. 2

2015 Series News

A (House) Piece of the Action

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