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Nice Casino You’ve Got There\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Been feeling a little beleaguered by legal attacks on Portland’s card room scene<\/strong> instigated by, y’know, people who want to muscle out the competition? Don’t think that you’re alone, although there may be someone with more muscle pushing back.<\/p>\n

The Ilani Casino<\/strong><\/a> in Ridgefield, Washington is just about to open\u2014the Cowlitz Indian Tribe performed a dedication ceremony for the new Interstate 5 overpass yesterday\u2014the same day that the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the case<\/strong><\/a> where the owners of the La Center card rooms challenged the legal status of the tribe itself in an attempt to stave off its construction.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to know whether they thought they really had a chance<\/strong>\u00a0at this point or if it was some sort of last gasp of an\u00a0effort that kept the case going. Ilani has been under construction at the cost of\u00a0half a billion dollars<\/strong> since well before the case was up for consideration at the highest court of the land. The state of Washington doesn’t lightly undertake freeway overpass construction. And New Phoenix Casino<\/strong> just closed in La Center a couple weeks ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Indications are that Ilani won’t have a poker room to start<\/strong><\/a>, but as the largest gaming facility within an hour of Portland (assuming you can get across the Interstate Bridge in less than an hour), its large conference\u00a0area could conceivably host a regional or national poker tour stop<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Not Ready for Live at the Bike<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Everyone’s got problems this week.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Bicycle Casino<\/strong> was shut down yesterday<\/a> after a raid in a criminal fraud investigation involving\u00a0nine<\/em> state and federal agencies (\u201cEverybody wants to get into the action\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6at The Bike!\u201d) <\/em>According to CBSLocal, agencies involved included \u201cthe Los Angeles High Intensity Financial\u00a0Crime<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Area Task Force, the IRS, the California Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office,\u201d as well as US Immigration & Customs Enforcement. News late Tuesday says they’ll be opened back up by Wednesday afternoon<\/strong>, which may be good news for Christopher Sigman<\/strong>, who mentioned that he is supposed to be playing Thursday on Live at the Bike<\/strong> on the NW Poker group<\/a>\u00a0(it’s $5\/$10 NLHE, according to the calendar<\/a>, 7\u201410PM Pacific on Twitch<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>).<\/p>\n

From the Archive<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The sixth anniversary of Black Friday<\/strong> is coming up in a week-and-a-half (thanks, Obama!). It happened just a few months after I started the blog, which art the time consisted mostly of obsessively noting the results of every single game I played, no matter how small.\u00a0Encore Club<\/a><\/strong> had a $500 GTD Freeroll that day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks later, I had my first-ever win in a live tournament of more than two tables<\/strong>, at a promotional event for\u00a0<\/a>Portland Players Club<\/a>‘s\u00a0<\/strong>new ownership.<\/p>\n

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

I haven’t seen an announcement yet, but this\u00a0is<\/em> the First Friday of the month and there should be a $20K GTD at\u00a0Final Table<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>at 7pm, $80 buy-in with live rebuy and $40 addon. It’ll be my return to live poker after a couple of weeks off; I’ll be there with the Portland Poker Championship Series<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0trophy!<\/p>\n

Deal of the Week: Lucky Changes at the Battle of the Bay<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s the time of the year for the Battle of the Bay series at Lucky Chances Casino<\/strong><\/a> just south of San Francisco. BoB is a week’s worth of tournaments featuring first-place guarantees<\/strong> (rather than guarantees of the entire prize pool).The series gets started with a Super Satellite 22 April and runs through 1 May. There are five\u00a0events in the series, with first-place guarantees of $40K (13 April, $625 entry including dealer addon), $20K (24 April and 26 April, $375), $10K (27 April, $225), and $100K (entry days on 29 and 30 April, $1,105). All events begin at 9:30am, and they’re all one-day tournaments, except for the $100K, which ends on 1 May.<\/p>\n

Lucky Chances is another casino that tends not to report tournament results to\u00a0Hendon Mob<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/a>The last Battle of the Bay results they provided only included the winner’s name and\u00a0payouts<\/a>\u00a0for 27 players, but it did show $371K for the total prize pool (so 371 entries) and what looked like the results of a deal that gave about $80K to first and $50K each to the next three players.\u00a0Last November’s Gold Rush event with the same buyin<\/a> had a prize pool of $461K, 461 entries (45 payouts), and a more than $15K going to 10th place with $70K at the top.<\/p>\n

It’s entirely possible to catch a morning flight to San Francisco and make the start of the tournament with time to spare; the casino (in Colma) is less than 10 miles from the airport; maybe 15 minutes in weekend morning traffic.<\/p>\n

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