{"id":2317,"date":"2018-01-24T06:33:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T14:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2018-01-24T00:27:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T08:27:42","slug":"pnwpokercal-planner-for-24-january-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2317","title":{"rendered":"#PNWPokerCal Planner for 24 January 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Portland Poker Nexus<\/h2>\n<p>Portland poker writer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingpokertells.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Zach Elwood<\/strong> <strong>(<em>Reading Poker Tells<\/em>, <em>Verbal Poker Tells<\/em>,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>and<\/strong>\u00a0<em><strong>Exploiting Poker Tells<\/strong><\/em><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingpokertells.com\">)<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>was interviewed on the penultimate episode of Season 4 of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/thechiprace\/cr-s04-e06-output-001-mixdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Chip Race<\/strong> podcast<\/a>, by Irish pros\u00a0<strong>David Lappin<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Dara O\u2019Kearney<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong> Zach&#8217;s segment starts about 15 minutes in and lasts for 20 minutes, it&#8217;s worth checking it out.<\/p>\n<p>The same episode features the second half of a\u00a0<strong>Phil Hellmuth<\/strong> interview that has nothing to do with the Northwest but is a prime example of cluelessness, in which he expounds at length on how sad it is that the haters hate\u00a0<strong>Chris Ferguson<\/strong>, all for no reason he can see.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, poker nit personality\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hiphop101trivia\"><strong>Carlos Welch<\/strong><\/a> also makes an appearance ( as he has on a variety of other podcasts over the past few years. He was on the verge of moving to Portland a couple of years ago, and it appears he may still be on the verge. He got his teacher certification last summer. (I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">playing with Carlos in a Thousandaire Maker a couple months back<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The plan is May when the weather turns, but possibly the last part of April as well if I&#39;ve busted my roll by then. I&#39;ll sub during the day and teach gas pumping classes in the evenings.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carlos Welch (@HipHop101Trivia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HipHop101Trivia\/status\/955923222150578176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last but not least in the personality parade is one of the new faces on the latest session of\u00a0<strong>Poker Time<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wormharkin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jeremy \u201cWorm\u201d Harkin<\/strong><\/a>. I owe Jeremy a debt of gratitude for providing me a place to stay (for money, natch, but at a decent rate) when I was in Las Vegas for the 2016 WSOP. And I agree with him that they need to run some PLO on Poker Time.<\/p>\n<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\/3rpkM2sbFfc?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<h2>\u00a0#PNWPokerLeaderboard<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hinchcliffe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hinchcliffe-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hinchcliffe-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hinchcliffe-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hinchcliffe.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapcnews.com\/archive\/2018\/1\/15\/player-profile-chris-hinchcliffe-winner-of-event-1?rq=hinchcliffe\">Chris Hinchcliffe<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapcnews.com\/archive\/2018\/1\/15\/player-profile-chris-hinchcliffe-winner-of-event-1?rq=hinchcliffe\">&#8216;s player profile for winning the opening\u00a0<strong>$1M GTD opener at the Los Angeles Poker Classic<\/strong><\/a> says Northern California, but Hendon Mob says\u00a0<strong>Olympia<\/strong>. There was a 3-way ICM chop; Hinchcliffe had nearly two-thirds of the chips in play. It was his fourth final table of 2018\u2014so far he&#8217;s had three figure, four-figure, five-figure, and six-figure cashes (not in that order).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ron Brown\u00a0<\/strong>of\u00a0<strong>Spirit Lake, Idaho<\/strong> bested a field of 160 at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/event.php?a=r&amp;n=482919\"><strong>WSOPC Event #4<\/strong><\/a> at Thunder Valley before turning around and beating 128 in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/event.php?a=r&amp;n=482924\"><strong>Event #8<\/strong><\/a> then taking 12th in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/event.php?a=r&amp;n=482928\"><strong>Event #10<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/a> The three cashes more than double his tracked lifetime tournament earnings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wild_west_poker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wild_west_poker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wild_west_poker.jpg 820w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wild_west_poker-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wild_west_poker-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wild_west_poker-397x300.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>This Week In Portland Poker<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmeadows.com\/poker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wild West Poker Tour<\/strong> at\u00a0<strong>Portland Meadows<\/strong><\/a> this weekend. Seven events including a 6-Max, Bounty, High Roller, and a Survivor. I&#8217;m looking forward to all of them, but the 6-Max is during a work day\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6might be a lot of sick poker players that day.<\/p>\n<h2>My Time Is Coming<\/h2>\n<p>A down week for me in more than one way since the last Planner. I sat out my usual Friday evening game at Final Table because of some other obligations, and had a mid-afternoon event on Saturday that prevented me from making it up with the weekly $10K at Portland Meadows or the Main Event at Tulalip. So it was a strictly online for me. Busted three\u00a0<strong>Thousandaire Maker<\/strong> tournaments, dumped four buyins in PLO and PLO8, and played thirteen other NLHE, PLO, and PLO8 tournaments, with only one cash, and that wasn&#8217;t particularly big, even though it was 6th in a field of 177. I was double-tabling on Friday and Saturday nights, holding first and second place in two of the tournaments for a while. Then I wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/firstandsecond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/firstandsecond.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1201\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/firstandsecond.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/firstandsecond-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/firstandsecond-768x304.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/firstandsecond-1024x406.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/firstandsecond-500x198.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1201px) 100vw, 1201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hand of the week goes to the $10K Bounty tournament I played where I got <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-h\" title=\"king of hearts\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">K<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2665<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-d\" title=\"king of diamonds\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">K<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> in with 19K against two stacks of 14K and 7.5K. The small stack had <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-c\" title=\"ace of clubs\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">A<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2663<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-s\" title=\"ace of spades\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">A<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>, and the middle stack had <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-s\" title=\"king of spades\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">K<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2660<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-h\" title=\"ace of hearts\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">A<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span>, So I&#8217;m losing more than a thirds of my stack to the aces, but I should still be gaining some chips\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6unless the case ace hits\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sharemypair.com\/smpvideo\/embedhand\/id\/35413\/w\/600\/h\/450\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Only a Day Away<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I missed a few tournaments this month when I was rounding up stuff for the calendar. Colorado, Alberta, Callifornia\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6I&#8217;ll try to get back on track.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercecasino.com\/tournament\/los-angeles-poker-classic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Los Angeles Poker Classic 25<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 at\u00a0<strong>Commerce Casino<\/strong> keeps plugging along.There&#8217;s a $350 buyin HORSE tournament tomorrow, with a 2-7 Triple Draw\/Omaha Hi-Lo\/Stud Hi-Lo mix game on Friday and NLHE\/PLO mix on Saturday. Omaha Hi-Lo Monday, Stud and Big O (Pot Limit) Tuesday, NL 2-7 Single Draw Wednesday, a bigger HORSE ($570 buyin) next Thursday, and Triple Triple Draw (A-5, 2-7, and Badugi) on Friday. Truly a great week if you&#8217;re a fan of the mixed games. And that doesn&#8217;t even count Saturday&#8217;s Social Experiment II (no phones, hoodies, or sunglasses), the Action Clock this Friday,<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wynnpoker.com\/signature.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wynn Signature Weekend<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>starts today. The highlight is the $250K GTD $600 buyin tournament (3 entry days). There&#8217;s also a $300 buyin Survivor tournament on Sunday with a $2.5K payout.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oceans11.com\/tournaments\/san-diego-classic-january-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ocean\u2019s Eleven San Diego Classic<\/strong><\/a> starts tomorrow with the first of three entry days for the $150K GTD ($250 buyin).<\/li>\n<li>There may still be a seat into the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonesgamblinghall.com\/events\/2018\/1\/26\/1100-buy-in-single-table-sit-go-tournament\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Stones Gambling Hall <\/strong>$1,100\u00a0single-table Sit &amp; Go<\/a>; three players make the money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Register you seat now at the Saloon cage for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StonesLivePoker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StonesLivePoker<\/a> $1,100 buy in Single Table Sit &amp; Go!<\/p>\n<p>Plays on January 26th at 5pm<\/p>\n<p>100k chips<br \/>9 players<br \/>30 minute levels<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StonesLive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StonesLive<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yv0MT20mml\">https:\/\/t.co\/Yv0MT20mml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GEGA-000412<br \/>1800GAMBLER<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stones Gambling Hall (@StonesGambling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StonesGambling\/status\/955608018267258880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The $300\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/muckleshootcasino.com\/core\/files\/muckleshootcasino\/uploads\/files\/FLYER-0118-POKER-CROPPED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Muckleshoot Deepstack<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is Sunday at noon in Auburn.<\/li>\n<li>Monday is the beginning of the first\u00a0<strong>Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza<\/strong> of 2018. Opening day has a $12K GTD PLO\/PLO8 tournament. The Venetian teams up with the\u00a0<strong>Mid-States Poker Tour<\/strong> to present a $500K GTD tournament with $1,100 buyin next Thursday and Friday.<\/li>\n<li>The annual\u00a0<strong>Winter Super Stack<\/strong> is at\u00a0<strong>Calgary&#8217;s Deerfoot Inn<\/strong> next SWednesday. Thursday is the first of three C$550 Mega Stack entry days, and there&#8217;s a C$330 PLO Bounty on Saturday. No guarantees, but the opening event last year (same buyin) had a prize pool of $128K in US dollars, with the $1,500 buyin Main Event (starting 9 February) reaching US$250K.<\/li>\n<li>Alaska Airlines has seasonal direct flights from Portland to MIlwaukie, Wisconsin, but winter is apparently not the season. I&#8217;m going to throw\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsop.com\/tournaments\/schedule\/?groupID=1403\"><strong>WSOP Circuit Wisconsin<\/strong> <\/a>into the mix anyway, since you can get there direct from Seattle and prices are reasonable (less than $500 RT). The Main Event for this stop has a $750K guarantee. Starts 1 February.<\/li>\n<li>1 February is also the start of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspo.com\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>US Poker Open<\/strong> at\u00a0<strong>Aria<\/strong><\/a> in Las Vegas. The events have buyins of $10K to $50K, but there are supposedly side events in the mere three figures, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pokeratlas.com\/poker-tournament-series\/2018-u-s-poker-open-aria-las-vegas-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Poker Atlas<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heartland Poker Tour\u00a0<\/strong>hits Colorado at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hptpoker.com\/eventinfo.php?yid=2018&amp;eid=3\">Golden Gates<\/a> again two weeks from today,<\/li>\n<li>8 February is the first of three entry days (four flights)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runaces.com\/LoveOfMoney\"><strong>For the Love of Money<\/strong><\/a> in\u00a0Minneapolis at <strong>Running Aces<\/strong>. $350 buyin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember to keep an eye on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23PNWPokerCal&amp;src=typd\">#PNWPokerCal Twitter hashtag<\/a> and the <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>The Portland Poker Nexus Portland poker writer\u00a0Zach Elwood (Reading Poker Tells, Verbal Poker Tells,\u00a0and\u00a0Exploiting Poker Tells)\u00a0was interviewed on the penultimate episode of Season 4 of\u00a0The Chip Race podcast, by Irish pros\u00a0David Lappin and\u00a0Dara O\u2019Kearney. Zach&#8217;s segment starts about 15 minutes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2317\">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":false,"_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-2317","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-Bn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","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=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}