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I hope everyone’s year’s gotten off to a good start. Are we winning? At least we’re back to normal winter weather in Portland. The perfect kind of weather for being inside playing poker in the warm and dry.<\/p>\n

Aussie Millions<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Got a DM\u00a0Tuesday from one of the Aussie Millions promotional companies. They’ve got a drawing for a seat to the Aussie Millions Main Event<\/a>. The Main Event has three starting days: 24-26 January and runs for a total of five\u00a0days. It’s a AU$10.6K buy-in (US$7.4K) at Crown Casino in Melbourne. The flight alone’s going to cost $2K. But it is one of the premiere events in the world of poker, last year there were nearly 650 entries<\/a> and the\u00a0prize pool was over US$5M. And the Crown is 18+, so if you’re locked out of Portland\u00a0poker\u00a0because of Portland Players Club’s closing as the last of the alcohol-free clubs….<\/p>\n

Competition closes at midnight on January 14th Melbourne time, which is 5am Thursday morning here, so if you’re going to enter, make sure you do it today.<\/p>\n

The entry form’s built for Australian and New Zealand players<\/a>, so you have to trick the phone number and zip fields. You can just type in the first four number of your ZIP\u00a0for the postal code, but Australian phone numbers are eight digits with a two-digit prefix. It’s the same number of digits as US phone numbers, but the first two digits have to be in the range 02-08. If your number’s 503-555-1212, just use 0355551212 and it should work. What have you got to lose?<\/p>\n

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Monday Mix<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

My focus on the site is mostly on tournaments (hence the title “Pacific NW Tournament Calendar<\/a>,” duh), but there are a lot of “shootouts” around town. Technically, most of them are hour-long tournaments with one blind level, unlimited rebuys, and\u00a0a chip chop at the end of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Most of them are Hold’em (big surprise) but there’s one game that’s had a few homes where those of us with a penchant for odd games can get some more cards: the Monday Mix game hosted by Devin Sweet.<\/p>\n

It started off in BC’s underneath Aces Players Club on Powell, then moved to Portland Players Club last year. Now that PPC is resting<\/a>, it’s got a home at the Rialto Poolroom Bar and Cafe<\/a> in downtown Portland,<\/p>\n

The Mix offers a wide variety of games, with 20 or so different variations of Omaha, Stud, Badugi, and more, in addition to Hold’em. Blinds for the flop games are 1\/1\u00a01\/2<\/del> (corrected per Mix dealer Josh Harding). The Stud games are played 5-25 spread limit. My own personal opinion is that takes most of the interest out of limit stud games, with a $600 max buy-in and five rounds of betting that can go to $100,\u00a0you might as well just toss in your chips\u00a0and draw for a high card, but some people like it. Monday nights at 7pm.<\/p>\n

Rialto is also offering Sunday noon games of 4\/8 Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, in addition to NLHE at other times. Check the NW Poker Facebook<\/a> page for notices.<\/p>\n

PacWest Poker Classic<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The schedule for Oregon’s\u00a0other\u00a0<\/em>poker series, the PacWest Poker Classic<\/a> at Chinook Winds the last week of February is up. The schedule in the Tournament Guide<\/a>\u00a0PDF has some incorrect dates, but a spot check of the dates on the structure sheets themselves looks okay. More on this later!
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Note to other old people, PacWest’s Seniors tournament is\u00a0<\/em>55+, not 50+.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

This year’s Poker Pow Wow<\/a> is coming right up. It has five events over two weekends, from Friday, 22 January to Sunday, 31 January.<\/p>\n