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Bounty Winner<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

That medallion next to my card cap in the blog header is for winning a non-series bounty tournament at the Venetian. One of the final events of the Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza II this last weekend was a $15K NLHE Bounty tournament, and it\u00a0was won by Dwayne Heido of Tualatin<\/a>. Congrats, Dwayne! You can find other DSE winners here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Deal of the Day:\u00a0Stay At Home<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Deal each week is all about finding value. Usually, that means trying to extract the most for your poker-playing dollar by getting somewhere cheap where there’s a possibility of a big payoff.<\/p>\n

I have a friend who kind of snickers art the idea of driving to Seattle for a single tournament\u00a0or flying to Las Vegas for a few days to catch a few tournaments, but my contention is that if there’s some potential payoff that you can’t get at home (bigger prize pools, longer levels), then it can be worth it.<\/p>\n

That pretty much goes out the window this month. With the number of large events going on in Portland alone (see last week’s\u00a0April Is the Pokerest Month<\/a><\/em>), unless you’re in Las Vegas, LA, or\u2014God help you\u2014Edmonton for some other reason, there’s not much of a reason to leave town for poker value. Just the announced events (Final Table $20K and $100K, $200K of events during the Encore Poker Series and a $35K) are worth hanging around for\u2014I’ve gotten a couple of inquiries from people coming from out-of-town to play\u2014and it’s a certainty that there are going to be the type of last-minute announcements that I don’t get in time for the calendar that just\u00a0drive me crazy!!!!! Stop putting every special event\u00a0on Wednesday and Saturday, guys!<\/em><\/p>\n

Calm down. OK.<\/p>\n

Poker calendars across the West (and around the country) are exploding with events in the lead-up to the summer WSOP (which starts in 62 days). But until May, you can do it all here in Portland. Not that that’ll stop me from posting\u00a0another out-of-town deal next week.<\/p>\n

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