{"id":3314,"date":"2019-09-11T10:19:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T17:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2019-09-11T10:19:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T17:19:35","slug":"2019-chinook-winds-fall-coast-poker-classic-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=3314","title":{"rendered":"2019 Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic \u2014 Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My plan to do daily updates about the events here took an early hit, but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=3311\"><strong>in a good way<\/strong><\/a>, as the five of you reading the blog already know.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday (seems like so far away at this point) started off well. There was a 10-Seat GTD Main Event Satellite at 1pm (no 11am game because of the restart for the $125K from Saturday).<\/p>\n<p>There was a decent turnout for the satellite, which was good for the series after the overlays in the three events Saturday). I did reasonably well and picked up a voucher.<\/p>\n<p>That wrapped up in almost exactly four hours, with 18 of the 80 entries getting seats.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5490-e1568216410351-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5490-e1568216410351-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5490-e1568216410351-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5490-e1568216410351-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5490-e1568216410351-444x300.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5490-e1568216410351.jpg 1207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The satellite ended just as the $50K GTD tournament was starting. There had been a nearly $20K overlay on Saturday, and I was sort of expecting that Sunday might be more of a bath for Chinook, but by the time registration closed, they&#8217;d just met the guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>I busted in the second level, if I remember correctly\u2014things are already getting a bit hazy\u2014and rebought. 99 &lt; AK, even though I&#8217;d had pocket aces twice in an orbit. So I needed to make 18th place to break even on the event. It took nearly six hours of play for me to get any traction; I flopped a set of kings against king-queen to double up, which put me over average for the first time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">29 left. I have 10bb. All ins spreading like zombie virus<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pokermutant\/status\/1170966911930097664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I cockroached along for three more hours, getting progressively shorter as we approached the bubble. There was a long period there where it seemed like every all-in won, so the other short stacks just slipped down the ladder a little more. A couple of gross situations where king-jack shoved and was called by the table leader with king-queen, with a jack on the flop. Then he had another chunk taken out on the next hand (maybe not as gross as the guy in the $125K who lost with aces twice in short succession to break his big stack).<\/p>\n<p>I finally got back over chip average with queens over jacks at the eight-hour mark, with four players to go before the money. We had a redraw at three tables just a few minutes before the bubble broke, which went by so fast that I completely missed the announcement and had to verify that we were in the money with Matt Moring, who was running the day&#8217;s show.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5493-e1568217939547-1024x558.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5493-e1568217939547-1024x558.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5493-e1568217939547-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5493-e1568217939547-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5493-e1568217939547-500x273.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5493-e1568217939547.jpg 1207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the event is kind of a blur. Maybe it was the fact I&#8217;d been playing more or less constantly for 14 hours, maybe it was the Long Island Iced Tea I allowed myself when we were down to two tables and someone else was buying. I do know that I got incredibly lucky. More than once.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">10 players left. Just got AA twice then set of 4s.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pokermutant\/status\/1171001131423526912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We made the final table just after 3am, but it took almost an hour to get from 9 to 7 players. We were down to 5 when I lost a bit of ground calling a short stack who shoved seven-eight with my pair of sevens. The river was both an eight and made him a flush, but I survived.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">HU <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HW4LOdZbCv\">pic.twitter.com\/HW4LOdZbCv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pokermutant\/status\/1171030355245068289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Incredibly enough, chopping was never really brought up as we continued on into the early hours. We lost three players in the half-hour between 4:30am and 5am, so it was just me and Olympia&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>John Gribben<\/strong>. That was when I proposed a chop.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reasonably confident in my heads-up ranges and strategies, but at 5am,who knows? There were 3.3M chips in play between us, but the blinds were still only 20K\/40K, so we had over 80bb between us, so it could have gone on for quite a while and I was really looking forward to playing the 6-Max. Which started in just six hours.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3323\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3323\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/really-event-5-1024x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/really-event-5-1024x550.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/really-event-5-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/really-event-5-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/really-event-5-500x269.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/really-event-5.jpg 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It says Event 2 but this was really Event 5<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So John and I chopped.\u00a0<em>After\u00a0<\/em>we&#8217;d agreed, I asked for the champion photo, since I was pretty sure I had a slight chip lead. John said he wanted it, because he&#8217;d never had one. I hadn&#8217;t either, but Matt said he&#8217;d take one of both of us, and when John said he wanted to hold seven-deuce as his winning hand, I figured he might not mind if I did the old antenna trick. So congrats to the both of us!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/50k-winners-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/50k-winners-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/50k-winners-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/50k-winners-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/50k-winners-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/50k-winners.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got back to the motel about 5:30, didn&#8217;t manage to get to sleep until after 6. Then daybreak hit and I needed something to drink at 7, and couldn&#8217;t get back to sleep despite trying. So it was off to the 6-Max (after a trip to the bank, thank you Chinook Winds for taking debit cards for buyins) where I was a little light-headed from both adrenaline and lack of sleep, but had a very good time as people ribbed me about talking so much about the night before. Or early morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prize pool up for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChinookWinds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChinookWinds<\/a> @PACWESTclassic $30K NLHE 6-Max <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4iDQCMNLdh\">pic.twitter.com\/4iDQCMNLdh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pokermutant\/status\/1171186828747014144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 6-Max was going well and I made it down to about 40th place, then played one of those small blind hands because of an ace and a couple of limps that you would have thrown away in any other position. I was about 40bb deep with\u00a0<strong>Nick \u201cWonka\u201d Getzen<\/strong> on my left, with ace-three and I called behind the limpers. Nick checked and the flop was something like ace-X-five. Nick and I got involved through to the river with a jack and queen coming and\u2014not believing he had an ace at that point\u2014I shoved. He seemed to really consider folding, and I knew I was in real trouble when he was musing about whether I could have somehow caught an ace-jack. He did eventually call with the ace-five, and I went to the showers.<\/p>\n<p>I ran into\u00a0<strong>Toma Barber<\/strong> at the break before the end of entries. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?m=201311\">I met Toma here at Chinook Winds six years ag<\/a>o before the casino decided it could do a better job than the\u00a0<strong>Deepstacks Poker Tour<\/strong>. He was sitting next to me as a short stack on Day 1 of the first $1K+ buyin tournament I cashed (though it was a min-cash). Toma went on to take sixth.<\/p>\n<p>I asked if he was in the 6-Max and he said he was waiting for the freezeout in the evening, so in a flush of cash and haze of fatigue, I bought him in. As before he made it deeper than me, though not quite to the money. My fifth-ever stacking adventure!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/salmon-e1568220918906.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"738\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/salmon-e1568220918906.jpg 738w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/salmon-e1568220918906-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That was it for me on Monday. I got a nice dinner at the casino steakhouse overlooking the beach and headed for some sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday was back to more losing. I had a great breakfast with Toma at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.60scafeanddiner.com\"><strong>60&#8217;s Cafe &amp; Diner<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 then went back to my room before walking down the beach back to the casino. I went up to the cash area and got into the 2\/4 O8 game. I sat next to the dealer in seat 1, but then the guy in seat 2 moved away from me and I started to wonder if it was the fact that it had been pretty warm out on the beach. I stayed for 90 minutes to donate a hundy, then had to catch a ride back to the hotel to shower and change because there wasn&#8217;t enough time before the HORSE tournament to walk. Not the plan but you need to adapt.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh once again, I set my sights to HORSE, but fizzled out on a hand where I had a pretty good draws but the guy on my left had even better draws and a better hand in the end. Disappointing to bust before the payouts were even posted when I&#8217;d skipped the Senors tournament in the morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Numbers for the HORSE @PACWESTclassic <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l79AMZuFpK\">pic.twitter.com\/l79AMZuFpK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pokermutant\/status\/1171638080207577088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After that, it was time for another shot at a High Roller satellite. Once again it missed the number of players needed to justify the 4-Seat guarantee. Made it about halfway through but nowhere near the vouchers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5535-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5535-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5535-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5535-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5535-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_5535.jpg 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Does that catch us up? Plan for the day is my dad&#8217;s arriving in town this morning. 1pm is the Omaha Hi-Lo tournament. 5pm is another High Roller satellite (which I hope to not be in).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My plan to do daily updates about the events here took an early hit, but\u00a0in a good way, as the five of you reading the blog already know. 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