{"id":1049,"date":"2015-08-12T00:54:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T07:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2015-08-12T00:59:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T07:59:22","slug":"pnwpokercalendar-planner-for-august-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"#PNWPokerCalendar Planner for August 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking ahead, what&#8217;s going to be a good &#8220;investment&#8221; of time and energy for Portland tournament poker players?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Muckleshoot Summer Poker Classic: Deal of the\u00a0Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/muckleshootcasino.com\/casino-gaming\/washington-state-poker\" target=\"_blank\">Classic consists of five events<\/a> starting September 16th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wednesday, September 16th. NLHE Shootout, $250 entry with $4K added to the prize pool.<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, September 17th. NLHE, $200 entry with $4K added.<\/li>\n<li>Friday, September 18th. NLHE, $300 entry with $5K added.<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, September 19th. NLHE, $500 entry with $10K added.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, September 20th. NLHE, $750 entry with $20K added. Final table on Monday, September 21st.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sadly, no Omaha tournament this series. What makes it a deal, though, is that beginning next Wednesday (August 19th), there will be $125 satellites for the series every Wednesday and Thursday evening through September 10th. The top 10% of satellite players get to choose between two options:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Saturday Package. Entry into the $500 Saturday event and two of the Wednesday-Friday events.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday Package. Entry into the $750 Sunday event and one of the Wednesday-Friday events.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There are also $225 satellites running Sunday, September 13th (noon), Monday the 14th (7pm), and Tuesday the 15th (7pm) where the top 10% get entries into all five series events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This Week in Portland Poker<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tonight, there&#8217;s a special $8K guarantee ($50 buyin, no rebuy, $25 addon) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encoreclub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Encore Club<\/a>. They&#8217;ve also announced a $35K guarantee ($200 with re-entry, $80 addon) for August 22nd.<\/li>\n<li>Saturday evening is a $3K guarantee special ($30 buyin with live rebuy, $20 addon) at <a href=\"http:\/\/portlandplayersclub.com\/id74.html\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Players Club<\/a>, which may not sound like much, but there are three feeder $500 guarantee freeroll satellites starting at 11am (2K starting stack with door fee, $10 optional pre-addon, $20 live rebuys, $20 addon). The top 5 players in each freeroll get a double stack in the $3K, $40 in cash, and entry into a last-longer pool. Coming up on the 22nd is a <a href=\"http:\/\/portlandplayersclub.com\/id15.html\" target=\"_blank\">$2K guarantee Big O tournament<\/a> ($100 buyin with live rebuys, $40 addon).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Only a Day Away<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/worldpokertour.com\/event\/main-tour-wpt-legends-of-poker-season-2015-2016\/#eventTab1\" target=\"_blank\">WPT Legends of Poker<\/a>\u00a0at the Bike in LA (LAX) runs through early September.<\/li>\n<li>There was major flooding in Calgary the first couple days of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/deerfootinn.com\/casino\/poker-room\/\" target=\"_blank\">Summer Super Stack<\/a>\u00a0at the Deerfoot Inn, but it&#8217;s up and running through the 17th.<\/li>\n<li>This Sunday&#8217;s event at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1YkGGfa1LO835ZqTvC0Vq_0HITycCSdZGcMxn8C_uDbc\/mobilebasic?pli=1\" target=\"_blank\">Central Oregon Poker Championships <\/a>in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bendpokerroom.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bend Poker Room<\/a>\u00a0is PLO8 ($100 buyin with rebuys, $40 addon).<\/li>\n<li>The first week\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/coloradopokerchampionship.com\/pdf\/cpc13\/CPC-13.tournament-schedule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Poker Championship<\/a>, at Golden Gates Casino in Black Hawk, outside Denver (DEN), is over. It runs through the 25th.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingstickresort.com\/arizona-state-poker-tournament.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona State Poker Championship<\/a>\u00a0is a one-weekend $1,100 event starting Friday\u00a0at Talking Stick Resort outside Phoenix (PHX).<\/li>\n<li>Coming up in Reno (RNO) the 20th to the 31st is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wptdeepstacks.com\/index.php\/events\/1739-wptdeepstacks-reno-at-atlantis-casino-resort-spa\" target=\"_blank\">WPTDeepstacks at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hptpoker.com\/eventinfo.php?yid=2015&amp;eid=10\" target=\"_blank\">HPT hits Colorado&#8217;s Golden Gates<\/a>\u00a0on September 4th, which\u00a0overlaps another HPT series at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hptpoker.com\/eventinfo.php?yid=2015&amp;eid=17\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Sierra Resort in Reno<\/a>\u00a0on the 11th.<\/li>\n<li>The Bay 101 Open starts on September\u00a08th.<\/li>\n<li>And the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.venetian.com\/content\/dam\/lasvegas\/venetian\/master\/main\/home\/casino\/DSE_3.5_2015-Schedule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza 3.5<\/a>\u00a0runs from September 10th to October 4th.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As usual, all these events are on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?page_id=651\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Northwest Tournament Calendar<\/a>, with links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking ahead, what&#8217;s going to be a good &#8220;investment&#8221; of time and energy for Portland tournament poker players? Muckleshoot Summer Poker Classic: Deal of the\u00a0Day The Classic consists of five events starting September 16th: Wednesday, September 16th. NLHE Shootout, $250 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1049\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,49,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-poker","category-live-games","category-tournaments"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1t0pn-gV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}