{"id":1073,"date":"2015-09-23T07:30:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T14:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2015-09-23T20:07:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T03:07:28","slug":"pnwpokercalendar-planner-for-september-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"#PNWPokerCalendar Planner for September 23rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a big week for Portland\/Oregon players, though not necessarily here at home. First off, this, via dealer extraordinaire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/devin.sweet.50\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Sweet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150923_Chinook_ME-e1442873907414.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1074\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150923_Chinook_ME-e1442873907414.jpg\" alt=\"20150923_Chinook_ME\" width=\"960\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150923_Chinook_ME-e1442873907414.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150923_Chinook_ME-e1442873907414-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Chinook Winds Fall Coast Classic Main Event made it well over the $100K guarantee, exceeding my expectations, for which I am grateful, because that would signal that the series as a whole was successful and that they&#8217;ll still be doing them when I get an opportunity to get down there again. Andrew Johnson was the winner (h\/t tournament director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rebecca.long.1806?pnref=story\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca May&#8217;s Facebook post<\/a>). Devin posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10101796150516958&amp;set=pcb.936360629735276&amp;type=1&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">photo of the final table<\/a>; I can see a couple of faces (and backs of heads) that I recognize&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Rep Porter took down the Muckleshoot Summer Poker Classic Main Event on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Starting day 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Muckleshoot_C?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@muckleshoot_c<\/a>  I am 2nd in chips of 16.  48k for 1st&#8230;  It&#39;s a good day to run good<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RepPorter (@RepPorter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepPorter\/status\/646113090531012608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s all over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Muckleshoot_C?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@muckleshoot_c<\/a>   I won&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RepPorter (@RepPorter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepPorter\/status\/646174172251471872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Steve Chanthabouasy went deep in the Commerce\u00a0Poker Series $500K Main Event over the weekend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapcnews.com\/2015\/09\/cps-event-9-1650-no-limit-holdem-day-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">starting Day 2 in 7th place of the 56 remaining<\/a> (from 393 entries) but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapcnews.com\/2015\/09\/next-group-of-eliminations-28-36th.html\" target=\"_blank\">ending early in 29th<\/a>. Former Portland player Jeff Dobrin made the final table of another WSOP Circuit Ring event, at the Palm Beack Kennel Club in Florida, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsop.com\/tournaments\/update\/10VM\/all-ryan-van-sanford-all-the-time-four-remain\/\" target=\"_blank\">placing 8th of 615 entries<\/a>. And perennial favorite Angela Jordison has taken first place in yet another tournament, this time in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hptfans\" target=\"_blank\">Heartland Poker Tour PLO8 side event at Grand Sierra in Reno<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150917_Jordison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1075\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20150917_Jordison-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"20150917_Jordison\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wildhorse Fall Poker Round Up: Deal of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been around for years. And some of the players there have been around for a lot longer. But it&#8217;s still\u2014so far as I can tell\u2014the biggest poker festival in the Northwest, which, for much of the year looks kind of like a poker desert so far as large events are concerned. Yet Wildhorse keeps plugging along, running three series a year on the far side of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildhorseresort.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Fall_Poker_Structure_Sheets.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">schedule for the latest Round Up is out<\/a>, running November 5-15, and featuring eight $200 events, a $300 NLHE tournament, and a $500 Main Event, along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=680\" target=\"_blank\">High Roller game<\/a> they added a couple years back. And there are a couple $100\u00a0events, satellites, and a fair amount of cash action.<\/p>\n<p>Pendleton isn&#8217;t Vegas and Wildhorse isn&#8217;t exactly the Venetian. The no-alcohol policy in the casino might come as a shock to players used to playing\u00a0with a steady stream of beer or mixed drinks in their hands. The casino complex is eight\u00a0miles\u00a0from downtown Pendleton, and there aren&#8217;t accommodations nearby, so if you stay somewhere else for your trip because the hotel&#8217;s full or you want something less expensive, you&#8217;ve got a little driving to do. At least you won&#8217;t be snockered going back to your hotel. You also won&#8217;t be pestered by hordes of people passing out flyers for &#8220;girls delivered to your room&#8221; in downtown Pendleton. It&#8217;s an environment almost designed to force you to concentrate on your poker game.<\/p>\n<p>The tournaments themselves are larger than what can be run in any of the Portland venues. Last fall&#8217;s opening $100 event had 566 entries, and event the smaller spring opener (the first of the three tournaments in a row Angela Jordison won in Pendleton this year) had 533. The larger $300 and $500 events at the end both had more than 350 entries, with respective prize pools of $110K and $190K. Mid-week events are smaller, in the 200-entry range, down to something over 100 for HORSE, and about 65 for the High Roller.<\/p>\n<p>For those who haven&#8217;t made the trip before, Pendleton is about three hours east of Portland, depending on traffic. Rooms at the casino&#8217;s hotel run a minimum of $100\/night mid-week and more on weekends; they tend to fill up during the Fall Round Up. There are a number of hotels in the $55-$75 range at the Pendleton exits and in downtown, but as mentioned, a bit of a drive. If you&#8217;re traveling with others, you need to shuttle back and forth somehow or wait for everyone to finish what they&#8217;re doing (which can make the rooms at the resort look pretty attractive).<\/p>\n<p>Wildhorse and Seaport Airlines have teamed up to offer a flight\/room package deal the past couple of years, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildhorseresort.com\/hotel-rv\/rooms-rates\" target=\"_blank\">it looks like it&#8217;s still on<\/a>. Round-trip airfare for two (about a 70-minute flight each direction) Tuesday-Thursday,\u00a0one night at the casino, breakfast, $40 FreePlay, and a free shuttle each direction between Pendleton airport and the casino. All for $185.85 (and up). That&#8217;s about $100 cheaper than just buying the plane tickets. You have to call to make reservations; presumably you can extend the stay somehow for the right price. Seaport flies out of its own building\u00a0at PDX, so there aren&#8217;t the kinds of lines you get in the main terminal. You can save yourself some driving and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pokernews.com\/news\/2015\/04\/angela-jordison-wins-3-21250.htm\" target=\"_blank\">devise a\u00a0strategy to keep Angela from rolling over you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This Week in Portland Poker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not a lot of pre-announced specials:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/webhosting.web.com\/imagelib\/sitebuilder\/misc\/show_image.html?linkedwidth=actual&amp;linkpath=http:\/\/www.portlandplayersclub.com\/sitebuildercontent\/sitebuilderpictures\/Sept19th3kSatellitesFreeroll.jpg&amp;target=tlx_picpwl\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Players Club<\/a>\u00a0has a $1K freeroll on Friday at noon for the low-budget Hold&#8217;em player. A $5 membership gets you 2K in chips (as well as entry to the club for the entire day). You can get a pre-game 2K add-on for $5, and unlimited live rebuys ($10 for 4K) are available when you&#8217;re at or under 4K. Saturday, things go to the other extreme, for a $2K guarantee, $100 buyin, 30K deepstack Big O Hi\/Lo tournament (#devilsgame).<\/li>\n<li>Encore Club&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encoreclub.com\/fri-8pm.html\" target=\"_blank\">Friday night $14K guarantee<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encoreclub.com\/sat-8pm.html\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday night $8K guarantee<\/a> (both 8pm, both $60 buyin\/live rebuy, $30 addon, 15K chips) for the next several weeks have prize pool carve-outs of seats into next month&#8217;s $100K and $50K guarantees (respectively). NOTE: Encore has added an $8K guarantee tonight (Wednesday) at 8pm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other than that, it&#8217;s pretty much regular schedules, as players from Chinook and Muckleshoot try to run it up on the road\u00a0or lick their wounds at home. Look for some last-minute announcements of specials like the $2K 11am game Final Table ran yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Only a Day Away<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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 until\u00a0October 4th.\u00a0A 3-day $1.6K buyin $400K guarantee event has starting days Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Next Tuesday is the beginning of the last large-guarantee event, a 2-day $250K guarantee with $250 buyin and five starting days.<\/li>\n<li>HPT\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hptpoker.com\/data\/heartlandpokertour\/events2015\/daydetail265.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Thunder Valley<\/a>\u00a0runs through the weekend, with the main event starting tomorrow. Entry is $1.65K, and Saturday is the last starting day. Monday is the final table.<\/li>\n<li>The Card Player Poker Tour\/Bicycle Casino <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebike.com\/play\/major_tournament_big_poker_oktober_card_player_poker_tour_2015\" target=\"_blank\">Big Poker Oktober<\/a>\u00a0has entry days into their inaugural $300K event today through Friday. Sunday is a $50K guarantee, with mostly $150 buyin events over the next week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?page_id=651\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Northwest Tournament Calendar<\/a>\u00a0for more poker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a big week for Portland\/Oregon players, though not necessarily here at home. 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