{"id":1935,"date":"2017-04-19T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T14:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2019-09-18T10:49:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:49:54","slug":"pnwpokercal-planner-for-19-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1935","title":{"rendered":"#PNWPokerCal Planner for 19 April 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DLNI0AND4rU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gearing Up<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are just\u00a040 shopping days before the beginning of the\u00a0<strong>World Series of Poker<\/strong>, but some of the other Las Vegas series start even earlier than Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokernews.com\/news\/2017\/04\/las-vegas-poker-calendar-best-tournaments-2017-summer-27442.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>PokerNews<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokernews.com\/news\/2017\/04\/las-vegas-poker-calendar-best-tournaments-2017-summer-27442.htm\"> has a day-by-day calendar of events<\/a> at several venues starting with\u00a025 May, showing\u00a0<strong>start time<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>guarantee<\/strong> (if any),\u00a0<strong>buy-in<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>fees.<\/strong> It&#8217;s nicely\u00a0laid-out\u00a0but doesn&#8217;t really hold a match to\u00a0<strong>Kenny Hallaert&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/8f949eiqi7swl7q\/WSOP2017.xlsx?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">summer poker tournament spreadsheet <\/a><\/strong>which is\u00a0<em>the<\/em> comprehensive source for info on Vegas offerings (and starts on 15 May, with the opening of the\u00a0<strong>Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza III<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Another consideration you might have is\u00a0<strong>how good a structure<\/strong> is the tournament you&#8217;re thinking about playing? Two Plus Two poster\u00a0<strong>plog<\/strong> has a site that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowspuppiessunshine.com\/pokercalc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evaluates tournament structures through a mathematical formula<\/a>\u00a0to derive something they call <strong>S-Points<\/strong>, and there&#8217;s a<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbowspuppiessunshine.com\/pokercalc\/tournaments.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">list of 2017 tournaments that have been calculated out for you<\/a><\/strong>. At the top end of the S-Points in the WSOP Main Event (339), at the bottom is the WSOP&#8217;s $1K Turbo Bounty (34). It shouldn&#8217;t be the end all of how you decide which events to play, but it can be another tool in the box.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Young &amp; the General<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wildhorseresort.com\/casino\/poker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Results from the\u00a0<\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wildhorseresort.com\/casino\/poker\">Wildhorse Spring Poker Round Up<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>are available on their site, and local player (and a former owner of\u00a0Aces Full)\u00a0<strong>Bill &#8220;General&#8221; Patten<\/strong> had a decent weekend, taking <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wildhorseresort.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Event%20%2311%20No-Limit%20Hold'em.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1st place in the Friday tournament<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>after finishing 2nd in Thursday&#8217;s (non-High Roller) event.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;d be remiss\u00a0if I missed mentioning\u00a0<strong>Max Young<\/strong> rocketing to the upper section of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsop.com\/2016\/circuit\/leaderboard.asp\">WSOP CIrcuit Leaderboard<\/a>. <\/strong>As of today, he&#8217;s in 4th place on the national ranking, with an even 200 points. With only three more stops on this year&#8217;s circuit (Cherokee&#8217;s already under way, Baltimore starts next week, and New Orleans is in three weeks), he appears\u00a0to have a lock on a seat to the Global Casino Championship. He picked up <strong>four more cashes at the Council Bluffs stop<\/strong>, with three final tables and a brush with another Circuit ring, losing heads-up to the guy who&#8217;s at the top of the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>High Roller<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Poking at the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/ranking\/3471\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hendon Mob Oregon All Time Money List<\/a><\/strong>, for the first time in a while, I saw a name that didn&#8217;t look familiar high up. With nearly <strong>$900K in earnings<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Vitaly Rizhkov<\/strong> sits in 8th place among the\u00a0<strong>Tam Nguyen<\/strong><em>s,<\/em><strong>\u00a0Joe Brandenburg<\/strong>s, and\u00a0<strong>Jordan Rich<\/strong>es. Looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/player.php?a=r&amp;n=468839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rizhkov&#8217;s cashes<\/a>, you can see that they&#8217;re all from last spring and summer, and <strong>all from just six\u00a0High Roller events at Aria<\/strong>. Four $25K buyins and two $50K buyins (for a minimum of $200K in buyins in the events he cashed in). He also played in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parttimepoker.com\/you-snooze-you-lose-300k-aria-super-high-roller-bowl-sold-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>$300K buyin Super High Roller Bowl<\/strong> <\/a>(without a cash).<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, I was caught flatfooted on this one. I&#8217;ve been following poker\u2014specifically poker players in Oregon and Washington\u2014for a couple of years now, and I thought I had relative familiarity with the big names (if not always the faces for the names). Rizhkov is an <a href=\"http:\/\/startuplabs.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Azerbaijan-born entrepreneur<\/a> who\u2019s once wrote an article titled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/entrepreneur\/2015\/04\/19\/what-i-learned-from-sacking-100-employees-and-losing-1-5-million\/#.tnw_fTXxTxmL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#8220;What I learned from sacking 100 employees and losing $1.5 million.&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1938\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rizhkov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1938\" class=\"wp-image-1938 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rizhkov-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rizhkov-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rizhkov-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rizhkov.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vitaly Rizhkov, via Poker Telegraph<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>From the Archive<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Coming from a <strong>mostly non-gambling family<\/strong>, I never set foot in a casino until a trip to New Orleans when I was 42, when my brother asked my wife and I to meet with him at Harrah&#8217;s. Since<strong> I didn&#8217;t start playing poker (again) until a few years later<\/strong>, my first experience playing in an actual casino was after I started the blog. Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Quinault Beach<\/strong><\/a>! Not long after that, I won a noon game at Encore, which got me into the (then) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>monthly Champions Freeroll<\/strong><\/a> (taking second to<a href=\"http:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/player.php?a=r&amp;n=491468&amp;_ga=1.110379532.882170544.1284629756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong> David Moshe<\/strong><\/a>), and I became some sort of casino whore after my first taste of the forbidden, with unfruitful trips to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Spirit Mountain<\/strong><\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Foxwoods<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This Week In Portland Poker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing announced as of press time.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/battle_of_the_bay_2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/battle_of_the_bay_2017-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/battle_of_the_bay_2017-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/battle_of_the_bay_2017.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>Only a Day Away<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?page_id=1903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liz Flynt Spring Poker Classic<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>at\u00a0<strong>Hustler Casino<\/strong>\u00a0continues through the end of April. The series&#8217; big event starts Saturday, a $500K GTD with five entry days ($350 entry).<\/li>\n<li>Calgary&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Deerfoot Casino\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?page_id=1905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spring Super Stack<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0starts today, with the C$1,100 Main Event (C$100K GTD) up front. Entry days through Saturday, with finals on Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/oceans11.com\/tournaments\/san-diego-classic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CardPlayer Poker Tour<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/oceans11.com\/tournaments\/san-diego-classic\/\"> has a stop at San Diego&#8217;s\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/oceans11.com\/tournaments\/san-diego-classic\/\"><strong>Ocean\u2019s Eleven Casino<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0starting tomorrow. It&#8217;s a $150K GTD tournament with $250 entry.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitwynn.com\/documents\/WynnPoker_SignatureWeekend_NLH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Wynn Signature Weekend<\/strong> $250K GTD<\/a>\u00a0starts tomorrow. Three days of entry ($600) and Day 2 on Sunday.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkingstickresort.com\/phoenix-scottsdale-casino\/poker\/getaway-classic-poker-tournament-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Talking Stick Resort&#8217;s Getaway Classic<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0starts Friday, with three tournaments ($200, $300, and $300, respectively).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/luckychances.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Battle of the Bay<\/strong> at\u00a0<strong>Lucky Chances Casino<\/strong><\/a> in Colma starts with a super satellite \u00a0to multiple events in the series on Saturday, which guarantees between $10K and $100K to the first-place finisher. Sunday is the first event, with $40K guaranteed to first place.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.little-creek.com\/casino\/poker-room.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Little Creek Casino<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is running\u00a0WSOP package satellites Tuesdays in April at 7pm. $255 buyin plus a dealer addon, every 10 players in the tournament gets an entry to the $1,500 Millionaire Maker and $750 in travel expenses. In May, there will be four Monster Stack packages available.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercecasino.com\/tournaments\/series\/cal-state-poker-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Cal State Poker Championship<\/strong><\/a> starts next Friday\u00a0at <strong>Commerce Casino<\/strong> in LA (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last week&#8217;s Planner<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Two weeks from today is the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.venetian.com\/content\/dam\/venetian\/casino\/poker\/deepstack\/2017\/MAY_WE_2017-Schedule.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Venetian May Weekend Extravaganza<\/strong><\/a>, featuring a $340 buyin $100K GTD tournament.<\/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\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PNW Poker Calendar for upcoming events!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gearing Up There are just\u00a040 shopping days before the beginning of the\u00a0World Series of Poker, but some of the other Las Vegas series start even earlier than Memorial Day. PokerNews has a day-by-day calendar of events at several venues starting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=1935\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,49,308,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-poker","category-live-games","category-poker-calendar","category-tournaments"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1t0pn-vd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}