{"id":1718,"date":"2016-11-30T07:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2016-11-29T23:33:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T07:33:06","slug":"pnwpokercal-planner-for-30-november-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1718","title":{"rendered":"#PNWPokerCal Planner for 30 November 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Portland Poker Holiday Championship Series<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s time!\u00a0<\/strong>Tomorrow is the start of the first series in Portland since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokernews.com\/news\/2016\/09\/the-cancellation-of-pokerlandia-25757.htm\" target=\"_blank\">closure of <strong>Encore\u00a0Club<\/strong><\/a> this summer. Encore ran eight\u00a0incarnations of its\u00a0<strong>EPS<\/strong>\u00a04-tournament series (the last of which was in April). Then there was a week-long series for the\u00a0<strong>opening of Portland Meadows Poker Room in May<\/strong>. Both of those series featured $100K guarantee tournaments. The\u00a0<strong>Portland Poker Holiday Championship Series<\/strong> (four events total alternating at\u00a0<strong>Final Table Poker Club\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Portland Meadows) doesn&#8217;t shoot quite that big, but it&#8217;s a sign that both rooms are healthy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d expect all of the events to reach capacity (I know a couple of guys betting on the turnout for the $30K at Meadows), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/415541628483848\/permalink\/1206276056077064\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Angie Lynne Schulz<\/strong> at Final Table posted in the NW Poker Facebook group<\/a> on Tuesday night hat they were taking pre-registration because of a 230-player cap on the Friday night $30K (call\u00a0503-719-5457 for details).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1711\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0900.jpg\" alt=\"img_0900\" width=\"952\" height=\"1097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0900.jpg 952w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0900-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0900-768x885.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0900-889x1024.jpg 889w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 952px) 100vw, 952px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The #nitcast Cometh<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spirit gave me $50. Expires this week. Gotta go somewhere. PDX it is!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carlos Welch (@HipHop101Trivia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HipHop101Trivia\/status\/803845046927818752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Deal of the Week:\u00a0Last Chance at the Bike<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebike.com\/pdf\/tournaments_yearly\/WSOPC%20Event%2020%20500k%20dec%202016.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebike.com\/pdf\/tournaments_yearly\/WSOPC%20Event%2020%20500k%20dec%202016.pdf\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"550\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My travel schedule has been a bit constrained since I got back from working at the WSOP this summer, and for one reason or another (mostly a job), the only trip out of town that I&#8217;ve managed since then has been to Chinook Winds, which didn&#8217;t go so well. I&#8217;ve even had to miss some of the bigger special events here in town, and the same thing&#8217;s going to happen with the Holiday Series this weekend, because I&#8217;ll be at the coast.<\/p>\n<p>And I didn&#8217;t make it to EPT Prague, my target for six Decembers.<\/p>\n<p>So, with schedules winding down for the holiday season and still a lot of family stuff happening before the end of the year, is there any (cheap) way to make a big hit and maybe stash something in the old Christmas stocking?<\/p>\n<p>What about the last event of the WSOPC series at the\u00a0<strong>Bicycle Casino<\/strong>?\u00a0<strong>Event #20<\/strong> is a <strong>2-day tournament<\/strong> with\u00a0<strong>14 entry flights<\/strong> (2 each day for a week from <strong>13\u201419 December<\/strong>). There&#8217;s a\u00a0<strong>$500K guarantee<\/strong>, and the buyin is\u00a0<strong>$200+$40<\/strong> (yes, that&#8217;s 16.67% rake, actually 19.17% once 3% of the prize pool is taken out for &#8220;administration fees&#8221;). <strong>10% of the field passes through to Day 2<\/strong> (on 20 December). <strong>If you make it to Day 2, you immediately get $400.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can <strong>enter and re-enter through level 6<\/strong> (25-minute levels), and you can <strong>enter multiple flights<\/strong>. Players who <strong>qualify for Day 2 more than once<\/strong> play the biggest stack they qualify on Day 2, and the <strong>other stacks are removed from play<\/strong>, with the <strong>player getting another $1,600 for each removed stack<\/strong> ($2,000 total, including the $400 qualification payout).<\/p>\n<p>There are still some inexpensive flights to LA from PDX for that weekend, less than $400 including two nights in the Quality Inn across the street from the casino (I stayed there on my way back from Vegas this summer). It <strong>might seem counter-intuitive to spend $500 to fly to LA to play a $240 tournament<\/strong>, but there will be<strong> six\u00a0qualifying flights for a $500K prizepool\u00a0between Saturday at noon and the end of Monday<\/strong>. A <a href=\"http:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/event.php?a=r&amp;n=317553\" target=\"_blank\">similar $500K event in the summer of 2015<\/a>\u00a0(with a somewhat different buyin structure) drew 2,318 entries, making a prize pool of $796,564, with about half of that divvied up between the last 10 players. (<a href=\"http:\/\/thebicyclecasino.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/wpt-event14-returning-players.html\" target=\"_blank\">26 players qualified twice, 6 players qualified three times<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Only a Day Away<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellagio.com\/en\/casino\/poker.html\" target=\"_blank\">WPT\/Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0runs through 11 December. The lower-buyin (by which I mean less than $5K) events are mostly done as of Thursday, with an 11am PLO tournament for $1,090. There is another $1,090 NLHE event on 10 December, but anything else in that price range is a satellite to the $10K buyin Main Event.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deepstacks Poker Tour&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/deepstacks.net\/files\/DSPT-CHAMPIONSHIP-Schedule_structures_lores.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Championship series at the\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/deepstacks.net\/files\/DSPT-CHAMPIONSHIP-Schedule_structures_lores.pdf\"><strong>Grey Eagle Casino\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/deepstacks.net\/files\/DSPT-CHAMPIONSHIP-Schedule_structures_lores.pdf\">in Calgary<\/a>\u00a0is running and continues despite some guy driving his car into the Event Center (as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10103467062136970&amp;set=p.10103467062136970&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">documented by one of my summer WSOP colleagues<\/a>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ellesriracha\" target=\"_blank\">@ElleSriracha<\/a><\/strong>).\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/15181268_10103467062136970_5657995287668404951_n.jpg?oh=818f2eaed7a457312445ca701b784c7f&amp;oe=58CB7A48\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"636\" \/><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebike.com\/play\/major_tournament_wsop_circuit_event_dec_2016.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>World Series of Poker Circuit<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0<strong>The Bicycle Casino<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0starts tomorrow.<\/li>\n<li>The Venetian holds the December edition of its\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.venetian.com\/content\/dam\/venetian\/casino\/poker\/deepstack\/2016\/DWE_2016-Schedule.pdf\">Weekend Extravaganza<\/a><\/strong><strong>\u00a0a week from today<\/strong>, then the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.venetian.com\/content\/dam\/venetian\/casino\/poker\/deepstack\/2017\/NYE_2017-Schedule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">New Year&#8217;s Extravaganza<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>begins 22 December.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember to keep an eye on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23PNWPokerCal&amp;src=typd\">#PNWPokerCal Twitter hashtag<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?page_id=651\" target=\"_blank\">PNW Poker Calendar for upcoming events!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland Poker Holiday Championship Series It&#8217;s time!\u00a0Tomorrow is the start of the first series in Portland since the closure of Encore\u00a0Club this summer. Encore ran eight\u00a0incarnations of its\u00a0EPS\u00a04-tournament series (the last of which was in April). 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