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

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

So a pretty cool Main Event for the PNW.

Well-Aged Final Tables

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

PNW Poker Leaderboard

Key to the Leaderboard

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

Looks like a 7-way deal in this one.

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

This is just Nguyen’s second recorded cash.

Congratulations to Richard Mercier of Anchorage, AK who was the winner via a three-way chop in our DCPS Event #87 $1,100 NLH MonsterStack on 6/27/22

Richard takes home the DeepStack Championship silver coin and $68,600 pic.twitter.com/zxFOCbzvJ0

— Venetian Poker Room (@VenetianPoker) June 28, 2022

Carl’s so hot right now.

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

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

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

The Wynn tournament was an even chop with Wojciech Barzanteny.

Adam Hendrix topped the field of 1,446 in the 2-day WSC $1,600 NLH $1M GTD, earning $257,885. Congratulations Adam on the victory! pic.twitter.com/cRlSUjlJlV

— Wynn Poker Room (@WynnPoker) June 24, 2022