As mentioned in this week’s Planner, I appeared on the Part Time Poker podcast with game designer and poker writer Alex Weldon and 2015 WSOP $10K HORSE champion Andrew Barber. The topic of discussion was originally about setting a betting … Continue reading
Bovada $2K NLHE 6-Max When we left off on Thursday, we were somewhere between 17 and 13 players remaining in a 143-entry 6-Max tournament that started hours ago. I’m publishing equity charts of every deal five days a week until the … Continue reading
PacWest Poker Classic Event #1 $40K NLHE Day 2 My table draw was more or less ideal for a short stack, with six players in essentially the same shove or fold situation I was, a couple of the bigger stacks in … Continue reading
No, the Poker Mutant hasn’t gone into hibernation, although with a trip to the doctor and the snow and the vagaries of the work schedule, I haven’t had as much time to devote to updating the blog as I’d promised … Continue reading
I’ve been doing the Pacific Northwest Poker Leaderboard in one form or another now for over seven years, since well before I “retired” from regularly playing live tournaments. As people have noted, I still show up at some special events … Continue reading
2018 Chinook Winds Fall Coast Classic It’s here again! The Fall Coast Classic is my last planned excursion before the Poker Mutant phase of my life is over, and I’ll be in Lincoln City from Saturday morning through to at … Continue reading
My Time Is Coming “Coming” or “up”…we’re going to find out in three months. Dropped into The Game last week for their advertised PLO evening and found out the game had gotten going a little early, and everyone (well, five … Continue reading
My Time Is Coming The last couple of weeks have been pretty light on poker for me since I headed to Moolack Beach just north of Newport with my wife and friends two weekends ago, Got a great AirBnB on … Continue reading
My Buddy Dave If you’re been playing the games and stakes I’ve been playing for most of the past decade, you probably know David Long, who’s been in the hospital since last week. I wouldn’t normally intrude on anyone’s illness, but … Continue reading
Brian Pygon I didn’t know Brian well, despite having shared Jeremy Harkin‘s Las Vegas house with him and several other folks the summer of 2016, but he was always a friendly and solicitous face to see, especially when other folks you might … Continue reading