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What is it about art directors and poker? Are they living in some sort of time vortex? Last summer,\u00a0Newsweek<\/em> ran a cover article on the dangers of online gaming<\/a>, featuring a kid holding an iPad displaying the five cards of a spade royal flush.<\/p>\n

About the same time, GEICO started running a pretty funny ad featuring Kenny Rogers<\/a> playing poker,\u00a0driving his tablemates to the point of desperation by singing the chorus to “The Gambler.” All the players are holding five cards. Nolan Dalla, the Senior Writer for WSOP.com, wrote a personal blog titled “Will Kenny Rogers Please Learn How to Play Hold’Em?”<\/a>\u00a0Admittedly, we don’t see the faces of the cards in this game, so they could be playing Big O or a 2-7 game, and the song does date from 1978, when Five Card Draw was more well-known than Texas Hold’Em, but the younger guys Kenny’s playing with are about as unlikely to be playing Draw as they are a Seven Card Stud game. Never mind, as Dalla points out, that they don’t have any chips or money on the table. Dalla mocks Rogers for the gaffe, but he’s just hired talent in the piece, not the person making decisions about the game they’re playing.<\/p>\n

The same goes for the latest in the bizarre Matthew McConaughey Lincoln car commercial series. Previously, he the ad agency had him do\u00a0some drawling metaphysical rambles seemingly-inspired by his turn as a burned-out cynic\/murder investigator\u00a0in\u00a0True Decective\u00a0<\/em>(though not appropriating the look<\/em> of the chain-smoking, pony-tailed, Russ Cohle, a guy\u00a0whose only fix for years to\u00a0the broken tail light on his beat-up truck was red duct tape). In one of the most recent<\/a>, he’s silent, simply smirking at the camera when\u00a0he gets back in the car following his (presumed) win after drawing to and tabling a six-high straight flush. And once again, in the only shot where you see the four players seated at the table, there isn’t any sort of betting unit in sight.<\/p>\n

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Final Table $100K: Deal of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Deal is usually a pick for out-of-town travel opportunities where you can maximize your tournament profit. For some players from the west side of Portland, SE 122nd and Division may seem<\/em> like out-of-town, but Final Table<\/a> continues to be one of the mainstays of poker in the city, and it’s first up this fall with a $100K guarantee tournament on Saturday, October 24th, at 11am. It’s less than 20 minutes from my house, the buyin is $300 (with a $100 addon, one rebuy, and a $10 door fee). How much more of a bargain can you find?<\/p>\n

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Final Table $100K Guarantee from March 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

When Final Table ran a $100K earlier this year, the prize pool made it to $133.5K, with nearly $34K scheduled for first place. You can see from my bustout photo above that all I did was contribute money in that game. Advance tickets are on sale now, you can be fairly certain that it’s going to be full\u2014even the spacious Final Table can only accommodate so many tables\u2014and parking’s going to be tight, as usual, though once you find a space, you won’t have to move your car every couple hours. Late registrants are likely to get stuck at the folding tables and chairs, rather than any of the newly re-felted main tables or comfy chairs used for the daily tournaments. I can walk down to Chavez &\u00a0Division in 20 minutes, so I’m probably just going to catch a bus.<\/p>\n

Final Table will be breaking tables down as fast as they can after the break and any alternates have been seated in order to get shootouts up and running. They’ve been running 1\/2 and 2\/5 every day; there should be plenty of action for players busting out of the $100K.<\/p>\n

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