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Deal With It<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Portland\u2019s Devin Sweet<\/strong> dealing the Main Event feature table on Day 1B, with 2006 champion Jamie Gold<\/strong> at right; photo from a post on NW Poker by Lorenzo Melgoza<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

One of the things about watching\u00a0World Series of Poker\u00a0<\/strong>coverage this past month or so on\u00a0PokerGo<\/strong> that’s been making me poker-itchy has been seeing so many of the people I worked with last year, both reporters and dealers. The reporters are mostly caught in the background in occasional shots, but the dealers are right there in all of the action, usually covered by two or three cameras on the table. I covered the mixed games as a reporter last year, the better dealers tend to work the mixed games, and they tend to be the dealers assigned to feature tables, so many of them are familiar.<\/p>\n

None of them is as well known to me as\u00a0Devin Sweet<\/strong>, though, because there’s no need to go to Las Vegas to see her in action. She’s been around Portland as a dealer and player (she won an event at Pendleton in 2011), she’s been involved in managing the Chinook Winds series for several years, and she was up in the early rotation for coverage of Day 1B on at the Main Event, dealing to Jamie Gold <\/strong>and\u00a0Scott Abrams<\/strong>. So keep an eye out for her as the tournament plays out.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Not Gonna Happen<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The July issue of CardPlayer<\/em><\/strong> magazine has a bizarre ad for the\u00a0World Heavyweight Poker Championship Invitational<\/strong>, with a “100 Entry Cap | Largest Buy-In | Largest Prize Pool” and “Largest First Prize Payout in Poker Tournament History.”<\/p>\n

Supposedly taking place in Reno in mid-December the “Biggest Fundraiser Poker Charity Event in History” (it doesn’t mention a charity for what<\/em>)\u00a0sports a $1,888,888 buyin, and more than $30M for first place.<\/p>\n

I have to say, despite the fact that I do not expect anyone reading this to be planning to play it, the general vibe\u2014not to mention the quality of the materials and the fact that social media for sponsor\u00a0Caviar Affair<\/em> hasn’t been active for four years\u2014doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence.<\/p>\n

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Rachel O’Neal<\/strong>‘s Facebook post of her stack in WSOP Event #66: $1,500 NLHE<\/strong>.<\/p><\/div>\n

#PNWPokerLeaderboard<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

James Tercek<\/b> from Vancouver was top of the new names in this week’s Pacific Northwest\u00a0Hendon Mob\u00a0<\/strong>stats, making it to 13th place in the\u00a0Ultimate Goliath<\/a><\/strong> at\u00a0<\/a>Planet Hollywood<\/strong><\/a> at the end of June.The $600 tournament beat the $500K GTD by nearly $160K, with $1,078 entries.<\/p>\n

Forest Grove’s\u00a0Nathan Paul<\/strong> got his first recorded cash in a big way, taking 4th in last Saturday’s $235 Daily Deepstack<\/strong><\/a> at the Rio.\u00a0Stevie Ackerman<\/strong> of Spanaway more than tripled his recorded tournament earnings by taking first in the same event.<\/p>\n

Rachel O’Neal<\/strong> is a Portland attorney who uses the slogan \u201cMake Them Pay \u2014 In Spades\u201d<\/strong><\/a> on her web site. She’s been playing poker for a while, but took down her first three recorded cashes on three consecutive days last week (technically). She made it to the final table of a 948-entry\u00a0$235 Daily Deepstack<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on the 4th of July (one of two O’Neals at the final table; the other was from Georgia). On the 5th of July, she played\u00a0Event #66: $1,500 NLHE<\/strong><\/a>, grabbing 80th place on Day 2 (6 July, but it’s recorded at Hendon Mob as the starting day). Then she apparently jumped right into the 7pm $365 Daily Deepstack Turbo<\/strong><\/a>, taking 44th there for a small cash. After a couple of days of no cashes (maybe she had to rest) she struck again, at the\u00a0Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza Event #87 $100K GTD Bounty<\/strong>, for another 44th place (there were 464 entries, with a prize pool of $150K plus $93K in bounties.<\/p>\n

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Late regging the 25k PLO 125k chips @ 3k and I have 10% to sell at face if anyone wants it?<\/p>\n

— E-TAY (@e_tay) July 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n