{"id":1669,"date":"2016-10-22T16:14:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T23:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2016-10-22T18:12:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T01:12:31","slug":"pnwpokercal-planner-for-19-october-2016-late-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1669","title":{"rendered":"#PNWPokerCal Planner for 19 October 2016 \u2014 LATE EDITION!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Falling Down (On the Job)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The week I’m busy at work and don’t get things together early in the week and there’s actually stuff to mention in the Planner! On the other hand, some of it I didn’t get wind of until after my usual Wednesday morning post<\/strong> time, so hopefully all’s good. A couple people\u00a0mentioned they were wondering what had happened<\/strong> when there wasn’t anything new on the site the other day; I’m touched and pleased that people actually look for this little blog on a regular basis. I will try hard\u00a0not to let it happen again<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

Omaha By Way of Chicago<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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photo via WSOP.com<\/p><\/div>\n

One thing my late post gives me great pleasure to be able to report on is\u00a0Joe Brandenburg’s<\/strong> World Series of Poker Circuit win<\/a><\/strong> at Horseshoe Hammond, in East Chicago Friday night. Joe’s a mixed-game player, who holds his own in hold’em. I’ve played with him a fair amount over the years, and as a computer programmer myself (though less accomplished both there and on the poker field) I have to admire his skill, not to mention the fact that he\u00a0and<\/em> his daughter\u00a0Liz Tedder<\/strong><\/a> can crush tournaments. Did my best this summer to give them both a little notice in the live reporting.<\/p>\n

Is There Still Live Poker In Portland?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Last week, I asked this question when I mentioned not having had the opportunity to play much off-line poker<\/strong> for the past couple of months. My first game after the\u00a0Fall Coast Classic Main Event<\/strong> lasted four hands. Last week, I got\u00a0out to Portland Meadows<\/strong> for the first time since August (more on that below) and got through a whole level! Then last night I played the weekly\u00a0Friday night $10K Guarantee at<\/strong>\u00a0Final Table<\/strong>, and it sure seemed as if things were running just the same (from a player perspective)<\/strong> as they were before the summer\u00a0mishegas<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Meredith and River Rich at the Final Table $10K.<\/p><\/div>\n

I got there about 45 minutes into the tournament and noticed first thing that there are new “2 Hour” designations<\/strong> on most of the parking spaces in their lot. Parking has been less of a problem for Final Table than it was for Encore, but their customers do tend to soak up lot space in front of other businesses, like\u00a0Pizza Baron<\/strong> and\u00a0O’Reilly’s Auto Parts<\/strong>, as well as the rest of the strip mall. I meant to ask how that affects daytime customers.<\/p>\n

First hand I played, A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, I raised over a couple of limpers and got four callers, flopping Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, c-bet, got raised by one caller, went all in and he called with A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the turn for quads<\/strong> and a good start to the night. Hit a set of tens shortly after that, got up to three times the starting stack in less than half an hour. Twenty minutes later, after losing a chunk with a pair of tens, then a flopped set of nines where I somehow let 5<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> get to the river to catch a flush, I was back just above start.<\/p>\n

For several hours, I was playing just upstream from\u00a0Lisa Meredith, the 3rd-place finisher in this summer’s WSOP Millionaire Maker<\/a>.<\/strong> She was unaware of the\u00a0Pacific Northwest Poker Calendar (#PNWPokerCal)<\/strong><\/a>, but when she said she was looking for value in large poker tournaments, you know I spent some time plugging the site. Vicarious Living Through the Success of PNW Poker Players\u00e2\u201e\u00a2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Got up to 90+K at one point\u2014about 150% of the average stack at the time\u2014but ran A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> into 6<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> on a flop of A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and lost half my stack, never to recover. Went incredibly card-dead sub-10bb<\/strong>, and busted along with another player on a confrontation with Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> v A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> v 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, with the big stack taking it all after a king showed up on the board. Almost made a straight.<\/p>\n

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Green Meadows<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Had a nice chat with\u00a0Brian Sarchi<\/strong>, the man behind the\u00a0Portland Meadows Poker Room<\/strong> the other night (after busting a tournament and cash game in short succession). He said things are moving along well there, with weekday noon games more than doubling guarantees. The evening game I played had a $1K guarantee and $1,780 in the prize pool.<\/p>\n

Brian mentioned that Meadows hasn’t got any big events in the immediate plans (but there is a $20K at noon on Sunday, 23 October<\/strong>) but they have been settling into their operation. The poker room\u00a0has taken over the food and drink operations<\/strong> from Portland Meadows proper, and Brian said\u00a0they’re planning to bring in a<\/strong> chef<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

There were three tables running in the live section on a\u00a0Thursday night. Things seemed to be humming along much the same as they were in the first part of the year, but then I probably spent more time talking to Brian than I did actually playing poker that night.<\/p>\n

Just a Reminder<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I’m still looking for that angel investor to send me to the last\u00a0EPT Prague<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Devil’s Bargain:\u00a0Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up High Roller and Satellite<\/strong><\/p>\n

When most people plan on their trip to Pendleton for the Fall Poker Round-Up at Wildhorse Resort and Casino<\/strong>\u2014the largest series in the Pacific Northwest for many years running\u2014they plan for the $545\u00a0Main Event<\/strong> on the closing weekend, with maybe an opening shot at the $335 tournament the day before.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Last year’s Main got 379 entries, with a prize pool of $190K<\/a><\/strong> and made a nice bundle of $42K for Minh Leadao<\/strong>, who’s spent the year since taunting his Facebook followers from exotic locales in SE Asia and Australia. But like with most other large-field tournaments<\/a>, if you didn’t make the final table, you probably didn’t even even triple your money. Thirty-six places paid, and 18th got $1,351for a profit of only about 150%.<\/p>\n

The High Roller, with a $1,400 buyin and only 43 entries, only paid $18,585 up top, but the smallest payout in 6th place (the same Joe Brandenburg from up above) got $4,575, 200% ROI. This is just a feature of the top-heavy graduated payout structures in tournaments. (If this had been run as a Survivor-style tournament with payouts equal to ten times the player prize pool contribution of $1,400, there would have been four $14,000 payouts\u2014more than 2nd place paid, and one payout of $1,190. Just saying.)<\/p>\n

The cost of the High Roller has been dropping since the first one<\/a>\u00a0three years ago. They started at $2,000, went down to $1,500, and this year they’re at $1,100, presumably to capture a larger number of players.<\/p>\n

Even better, Wednesday night during the series (9 November), there’s a $225 Super Satellite for the High Roller, so you can potentially get a seat in the High Roller with 1 in 5 players in the satellite getting a ticket. Head out Wednesday with the money you could have spent on the Main, play the High Roller satellite, and if you don’t get a seat, play the $225 noon event running concurrently with the High Roller instead. And save on weekend hotel rates.\u00a0That’s<\/em> high-rolling!<\/p>\n

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

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‘Nuff said.<\/p>\n

Only a Day Away<\/strong><\/p>\n