Black Jack — February 2024

Not a positive month! On the Ignition NLHE Jackpot Sit-and-Go front, 21 games and 8 cashes, but I narrowly lost the 5x payout games I got into, so I’m down 5 buyins for the month.

Only played 3 of the Beaverton Quarantine games in February. They’re every Friday night, usually a couple of games a night, over the PokerStars Home Game system. Had a good January, cashing 3 out of 7 games but I busted all three of the February tournaments I played.

Drove out to Last Frontier early in the month for their Freezeout tournament and I was one of the early busts.

Then there was the Portland Winter Royale, a joint venture over four days at Portland Meadows and Final Table. I just played the Meadows tournaments, making it halfway through the opening Freezeout tournament, then having to rebuy after just one round in the $500 Saturday event when a guy sitting into the big blind immediately to my right said “This might be my best hand of the day” before he’d looked at his cards (at least I thought it was before he looked, self-doubt started creeping in almost immediately). I had queens under the gun, raised, and called a 4-bet from him pre-flop, then continued after his check on the six-high flop, he raised, and I put him all-in, which he called with his kings. The turn gave him a set, then an ace came on the river, so if he’d had ace-king like I put him on, I would have been dead anyway. Never got above starting stack on the rebuy.

You can tell me how wrong I am in a couple weeks at the Chinook Winds PacWest Poker Classic.

Pacific Northwest Poker Leaderboard

Key to the Leaderboard

  • Name and home town (according to the player’s Hendon Mob profile).
  • The player’s most recent ranking in the PNW Poker Leaderboard in italics. If this is their first time on the Leaderboard, an em dash ()
  • Their new standing in bold, preceded by the pound sign (#).
  • Their change in status on the Leaderboard (with an arrow indicating up or down), or a black club (♣) if this is their first appearance.
  • For each of the tournaments that are being recognized in this Leaderboard:
    • The name and link to the Hendon Mob listing for that tournament.
    • The player’s finishing position in the tournament and the number of entries.
    • The tournament prize pool in US dollars.
Samuel Sisay (Seattle, Washington)
#2198
1st of 330 entries, $108.9K prize pool
Kale Satta-Hutton (Portland, Oregon)
#4564
#2094
+2470
2nd of 790 entries, $182.9K prize pool
David Howat (Calgary, Alberta)
#628
#519
+109
3rd of 417 entries, $290.9K prize pool
Taylor Hart (Newberg, Oregon)
#159
#143
+16
7th of 917 entries, $1.3M prize pool
5th of 152 entries, $304K prize pool
Andrew Rogers (Anchorage, Alaska)
#130
#111
+19
1st of 458 entries, $650.3K prize pool
Dien Le (Bellevue, Washington)
#97
#94
+3
2nd of 272 entries, $132.6K prize pool
Jimmy Lee (Edmonton, Alberta)
#70
#69
+1
1st of 59 entries, $74.6K prize pool
Amichai Barer (Vancouver, British Columbia)
#16
#15
+1
7th of 1747 entries, $9M prize pool
Adam Hendrix (Anchorage, Alaska)
#8
#8
0
5th of 1033 entries, $1.3M prize pool
5th of 1659 entries, $2.5M prize pool
Chris Brewer (Eugene, Oregon)
#2
#2
0
2nd of 49 entries, $3.1M prize pool
4th of 31 entries, $1M prize pool