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\"poff2\"Kim\u00a0Poff<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the GoFundMe site for Kim<\/a>. A generous donation from Dan Pasko reached the goal on Christmas Day. Don’t let that stop you from continuing to help out.<\/p>\n

Mutant Poker\u00a0In Review: 2015<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It’s been a pleasure to bring you news and info on Portland and Northwest poker tournaments and players for the past year (or, at least, the last half of it). As I mentioned a couple of weeks back<\/a>, the blog’s been around for five years, but 2015 was the year I tried to do much more than write about my own games mixed with some analytical articles.<\/p>\n

I started running daily reports on NW players in Vegas for the WSOP and other series in early June<\/a>, combing reports for mentions of anyone from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia.<\/p>\n

Then, in the first week of August, I started running these weekly round-ups<\/a>, based on the tournament calendar<\/a> I’d been maintaining for a couple of years already.<\/p>\n

\"pokercal_jan16\"<\/a>For months now, I’ve been struggling with a display issue on the calendar. It looked fine to me in the edit mode, but there was an issue that added padding at the beginning and end of the blocks designating events that made it difficult to read single-day events (or the ends of some multi-day events that spanned more than one week). It was some fairly complex JavaScript that computed positions of the overlays and I was never able to get it figured out, but a different WordPress theme fixed it in a second, so you’ll see things look better\u00a0now. The trouble I go through for you guys….<\/p>\n

Then, a couple months ago, I egged you folks on to\u00a0affect the results of PokerUpdate’s “Most Memorable” televised poker hand<\/a>. That was sort of fun.<\/p>\n

I put up 110 posts over the year<\/a>, with a 38-day streak during the WSOP, but the top three posts on the site for the year were all put up before 2014 (“Sweet Spot<\/a>,” “How Good Is Good Enough?<\/a>,” and “Why Not Rebuy?<\/a>“).<\/p>\n

Anyway, now that the new year’s about to begin, there are lots of tournament options opening up (tip for newbies, events are colorized by geographic region: Nevada, California, Oregon\/Washington\/BC, and Other\u2014mostly Alberta, Colorado, and Arizona\u2014and there are buttons above the calendar that can be used to hide or show various regions).<\/p>\n

It’s been a treat. Hope we all have a good 2016.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u00a0Deal of the Day:\u00a0Tulalip Poker Pow Wow<\/strong><\/p>\n

You’d think that there would be a little more promotional lead-up to a 10-day poker series, but maybe Tulalip doesn’t need to do anything more than draw in the locals. Anyway, the January Poker Calendar<\/a> was posted the other day, and right there at the top is the 2016 Poker Pow Wow<\/a>, running from the 22nd to the 31st of the month. Here’s the schedule (there are some satellites to the Main Event running in the week prior to the series, as well):<\/p>\n

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  1. Two-day NLHE with 2 entry days (1\/22-23, with final on 1\/24). $235 buy-in. Structure sheet<\/a>s don’t specify re-buys, dealer appreciation, or fees, though there is a mention of ODAF in some of the notes below the schedule.<\/li>\n
  2. PLO8<\/a> with $150 buy-in (1\/25)<\/li>\n
  3. NLHE Seniors<\/a>. $235 buy-in (1\/26)<\/li>\n
  4. PLO<\/a>. $235 buy-in (1\/27)<\/li>\n
  5. Two-day NLHE Main Event<\/a> with 3 entry days (1\/28-30, final on 1\/31) with $10K added to the prize pool. $500 buy-in.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All events at noon.<\/p>\n

    If you’re at Tulalip for the $60 Main Event satellite on\u00a0the 20th, there’s a drawing for six Main Event seats.<\/p>\n

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