{"id":2870,"date":"2018-12-08T17:54:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T01:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2018-12-08T19:09:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:09:13","slug":"pnwpokercal-planner-for-08-december-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2870","title":{"rendered":"#PNWPokerCal Planner for 08 December 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>#PNWPokerLeaderboard<\/h2>\n<p>No new additions to the leaderboard database, but the top cash is for someone who&#8217;s never been mentioned here:\u00a0<strong>Roderick Chavez<\/strong> from Bellevue took 1st place at the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/event.php?a=r&#038;n=522354\">WPT Five Damond NLHE Seniors<\/a><\/strong> tournament Wednesday at Bellagio, beating out at least three others at the final table with more than $500K each in lifetime winnings. Roderick has about $44K\u00a0<em>after\u00a0<\/em>winning more than $30K in the tournament. A veery nice way to close out the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dylan Wilkerson<\/strong> continued his streak to the end of 2018, winning\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/event.php?a=r&#038;n=516472\">WSOP Circuit Planet Hollywood #4 NLHE<\/a><\/strong>, a $400 buyin with 176 entries.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It felt good to win and bring home the trophy!!.. it was not an easy road to victory either!!.. I had to fight hard to win. At beginning of HU I was down 3-1 in chips.. took me 45 mins to dismantle my opponent and take home the Trophy!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BQcZDQDyzu\">pic.twitter.com\/BQcZDQDyzu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steve Chanthabouasy (@snchan01) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/snchan01\/status\/1070139016094277632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Chanthabouasy<\/strong> says he&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/snchan01\/status\/1070549449070374913\">out of the mix games<\/a> and focusing on NLHE tournaments for the big money, which he&#8217;s certainly got a point about after winning the 174-entry $560 buyin\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/event.php?a=r&#038;n=522350\">WPT Five Diamond #4 NLHE<\/a><\/strong>. There was a deal heads-up, and the other player got a little more money, but Steve got the win.\u00a0<strong>Angela Jordison\u00a0<\/strong>may be laying odds as to which lasts longer: my poker retirement or Steve sticking to NLHE.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You\u2019ll be back. Two cards in cash games = boring!!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Angela Jordison (@Angelajordison) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Angelajordison\/status\/1070561619472736256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rafael Lebron<\/strong> from Puyallup made the final table of the\u00a0<strong>WSOPC Planet Hollywood $500K GTD Main Event<\/strong>, taking 9th place. If you aren&#8217;t familiar with Lebron, his fourth-ever recorded cash was winning a bracelet in the $3K buyin Limit Hold&#8217;em 6-Max in 2016. That was four days after he was runner-up foor a bracelet in the PLO 6-Max.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, a 26th-place finish isn&#8217;t enough to get you on the leaderboard even if it&#8217;s a big buyin, I try to limit it to significant ROI or I&#8217;d be overwhelmed, but Auburn&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Thomas Kornechuk<\/strong> took that spot in the $3500 buyin\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/event.php?a=r&#038;n=498460\">WPT Seminole Hard Rock Main Event<\/a><\/strong>, which had nearly 900 entries, so yeah. It&#8217;s good enough.<\/p>\n<h2><del>One Month<\/del> Three Weeks\u00a0<del>One Hundred<\/del>\u00a098 Kay<\/h2>\n<p>The chances of beating my self-imposed deadline\/goal of $100K in earnings by the end of the year is getting increasingly more unlikely. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2856\">Last night&#8217;s liquidity error at the Final Table $20K<\/a> really reduce any possibility of putting together the seed money for a trip to somewhere I could run it up. The shot at the WPT Five Diamond is gone.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty much down to Venetian events at this point, unless something happens where I can look further afield.<\/p>\n<h2>This Week In Portland Poker<\/h2>\n<p>Next weekend will be all about the<strong> Portland Meadows $30K GTD NLHE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/30k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/30k.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2836\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"460\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Only a Day Away<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wynnpoker.com\/signature.cfm\"><strong>Wynn Signature Series<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/wynnpoker.com\/signature.cfm\"> <\/a>runs through Monday.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wptmedia.wpt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/S17-WPT-Five-Diamond-World-Poker-Classic-Schedule-2018.pdf\">WPT Five Diamond<\/a>\u00a0Main Event<\/strong> at\u00a0<strong>Bellagio<\/strong>\u00a0starts Tuesday.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/coloradopokerchampionship.com\/CPC-2018-Winter-Series\/CPC%20Winter%202018.pdf\">Colorado Poker Championship Winter Series<\/a><\/strong> runs through 19 December at\u00a0<strong>Golden Gates Casino.\u00a0<\/strong>The $1,100 buyin Main Event has three starting flights on 13\u201415 December.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Bicycle Casino<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebike.com\/play\/major_tournament_wsop_circuit_event_december_2018.php\">WSOPC Los Angeles<\/a><\/strong> Main Event is this weekend, but they host a Quantum event next week with $250K GTD and a $350 buyin. Two flights a day from Wednesday through Saturday.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.venetian.com\/casino\/poker\/deepstack-extravaganza\/dss-dec-2018.html\">Venetian\/CardPlayer Poker Tour Deepstack Showdown<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0ends 16 December with a tantalizing $3,500 buyin $500K GTD starting 14 December.<\/li>\n<li>Closer to home, in the Sacramento area, is the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stonesgamblinghall.com\/sgh3081_december-poker-series\">Stones Gambling Hall December Chill Poker Series\/Run It Up Stones<\/a><\/strong>, through 16 December.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sroselius\/posts\/10156960609194766\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-08-at-5.50.18-PM.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2874 aligncenter\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-08-at-5.50.18-PM.png 497w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-08-at-5.50.18-PM-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-08-at-5.50.18-PM-365x300.png 365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The last event (ever) on my calendar is the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.venetian.com\/content\/dam\/venetian\/casino\/poker\/deepstack\/2018\/DSE_DEC_2018-Schedule.pdf\">Venetian Deepstacks Extravaganza V<\/a><\/strong>. Which starts 20 December. There&#8217;s a $100K GTD the first weekend, and a $260K GTD Monster Stack just before the New Year\u2019s ($400 buyin).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The cards in the header were up by the cash registers at the Mall 205 Dollar Tree this afternoon, in case you&#8217;re looking for stocking stuffers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#PNWPokerLeaderboard No new additions to the leaderboard database, but the top cash is for someone who&#8217;s never been mentioned here:\u00a0Roderick Chavez from Bellevue took 1st place at the\u00a0WPT Five Damond NLHE Seniors tournament Wednesday at Bellagio, beating out at least &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2870\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2872,"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-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-poker","category-live-games","category-poker-calendar","category-tournaments"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_4832.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1t0pn-Ki","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","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=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}