{"id":1079,"date":"2015-09-30T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2015-10-02T19:45:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T02:45:15","slug":"pnwpokercalendar-planner-for-september-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"#PNWPokerCalendar Planner for September 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

For whatever reason, I’ve never\u00a0gotten into the bar poker scene, despite the fact that I live within walking distance of the One Good Hand games at Claudia’s<\/a> on Hawthorne Blvd. \u00a0So I was completely unaware of the World Tavern Poker Open 21<\/a>\u00a0until I ran across it on the November schedule at Hendon Mob<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Open (November 7-11) combines players from regional leagues in Texas, California and other West Coast states, the Midwest, and the UK for a series of low buy-in events at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. Locally, it looks like there are participating establishments in Milwaukie, Canby, and Oregon City<\/a>. It’s a slick-looking operation, at least, with a number of WSOP Main Event seats up for grabs by players who qualify for the Tournament of Champions<\/a>, held at the Open.<\/p>\n

You don’t need to be a member of a league to play the dozen or so non-championship events at the Open, though you do need to purchase either a WLPC Poker or WLPC Full pass ($55 or $85) to register for events (the Full pass gets you into the party at the Hard Rock). Tournaments on the schedule<\/a> range from $50 to $125 for buyins, with guarantees just in the $7.5K to $25K. There’s a Double-Shot tournament (one free re-entry); a Tag Team event; a Run It Twice event where only the top\u00a024 players are paid half the prize pool, then they play it out again for the other half; \u00a0and the ever-popular All In or Fold.<\/p>\n

This is not a series about life-changing money. Most of the tournaments are incredibly fast structures<\/a> on 15 or 20 minute levels. But it could be kind of entertaining to plop down in the middle of a bunch of drunken reprobates in Vegas for a long, lost weekend of relatively cheap poker.<\/p>\n

NorCal Redux: Deal of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

The end of the Wildhorse Fall Poker Round Up (last week’s Deal<\/a>), coincides with a couple of week-long series in Northern California that run from mid-November until the end of the month.<\/p>\n

First up is the WPTDeepstacks stop in Redding at the Win-River Resort & Casino, November 14-23. The photos of the poker room<\/a> certainly look elegant (though there’s no guarantee the tournaments will be held in them). The schedule hasn’t yet been released<\/a>, but the Main Event runs \u00a0the 20th-23rd, just before Thanksgiving, with a $1.1K buyin and a $150K guarantee.<\/p>\n

Redding’s a seven-hour drive from Portland (nine or ten from Pendleton), and it puts you in striking distance of Thunder Valley Casino, where the Ante Up Poker Tour holes up November 21-29<\/a>. The schedule<\/a> and structures<\/a> for the series are already available. In addition to Hold’em, there are PLO8, HORSE, and Limit O8 tournaments. The Main Event runs two days with the start on the 28th. It’s also a $1.1K entry and $150K guarantee. Lots of satellites scheduled.<\/p>\n

Skip Thanksgiving (November 26) dinner; you can call home to say: “Sorry, Ma. Can’t carve the turkey. I’m carving up the table!<\/em>”<\/p>\n

This Week in Portland Poker<\/strong><\/p>\n