{"id":3413,"date":"2019-10-07T22:48:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T05:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2019-10-07T22:48:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T05:48:17","slug":"chinook-winds-fall-coast-poker-classic-series-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=3413","title":{"rendered":"Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic Series Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I was looking at the sweet, sweet trophy\u00a0Stuart Young<\/strong> won at the\u00a0Bend Poker Room<\/strong>\u00a0Monster Stack Main Event<\/strong> at the end of the month and realizing that there weren’t any trophies given out at the\u00a0Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When\u00a0John Gribben\u00a0and I chopped the second of the $50K GTD tournaments<\/strong> heads-up the second night of the series, my original suggestion was to make a deal, then play out for a set amount.\u00a0Tournament Director Matthew Moring<\/strong> said that was a no-go, any deal immediately ended the tournament (my suspicion was that had more to do with it being 5am than a hard and fast rule), so John and I agreed to an even chop. I asked for the win, John said he would like to get the picture because it was his first big win (and he’d pay me a little bit extra). I haven’t actually ever had a winner photo for a big tournament myself, and as it was, Matt took a couple of photos of the both of us as well as John by himself, and this is the one that ended up getting sent out.<\/p>\n

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But no trophy. If there had been or if there had been a casino championship on the line (as ther is for a\u00a0World Series of Poker Circuit<\/strong><\/a> series or at the upcoming\u00a0Wildhorse Fall Poker Round Up<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/a>the decision would have had to be a bit different. How much\u2014if anything\u2014would the trophy be worth to me in the negotiation? Do I care about the win on\u00a0my Hendon Mob\u00a0profile<\/strong><\/a>? Do I want to be known as being involved in only the third-most-egregious thing that Will Kassouf<\/strong><\/a> did?<\/p>\n

Do\u00a0Player of the Year<\/strong>,\u00a0Global Poker Index<\/strong>, or\u2014most importantly\u2014series champion<\/strong> points matter to me? If there’s a monetary reward (as at Wildhorse) or some other benefit that accrues to top performers (the\u00a0Global Casino Championship<\/strong> contenders on the\u00a0WSOPC Leaderboard<\/strong><\/a> can attend for free), then a friendly chop is not going to happen (#TeamNoChop<\/strong> c\/o\u00a0Angela Jordison<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Just for kicks, I went through and assigned points to players in the Fall Coast Poker Classic using the WSOP Circuit system for non-Main Event tournaments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1st \u2014 50 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2nd \u2014 37.5 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3rd \u2014 30 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4th \u2014 27.5 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5th \u2014 25 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6th \u2014 22.5 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7th \u2014 20 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8th \u2014 17.5 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9th \u2014 15 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Remaining 20% of those in the money \u2014 10 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Remaining 30% of those in the money – 5 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Remaining 50% of those in the money \u2014 2.5 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I didn’t count the Fall Coast Classic Main Event with the same point system as the WSOPC Main Events because it doesn’t automatically get the winner into anything (the winner at each WSOPC stop is automatically free-rolled into the Global Poker Championship) and because the price disparity between most of the events isn’t as great as at a WSOPC stop. My preference here would be to average out the points assigned to position in the case of chops, but the WSOP doesn’t do that. So here goes!<\/p>\n

First off are the folks who won events without accruing any other points: That’s 50 points each for\u00a0Casey Ring\u00a0<\/strong>(Main Event),\u00a0Adam Schneider\u00a0<\/strong>(Monday evening $10K GTD freeze-out with an 11-way chop),\u00a0Alex Kuzarov<\/strong> (#22 $40K GTD with a 6-way deal),\u00a0Robert Fitzgerald<\/strong> (#11 $10K GTD HORSE with what looks like a 6-way deal),\u00a0Robert Squires<\/strong> (#14 O8, maybe another 6-way deal),\u00a0Tri Ton<\/strong> (#1 $125K GTD), and\u00a0Jason Heiner<\/strong>\u00a0(#7 $40K GTD 6-max, looks like a 4-way ICM chop).\u00a0Andy Su<\/strong> won #2 ($50K GTD),\u00a0Michael Mackie<\/strong> got 50 points for #10 ($30K GTD Seniors, some sort of FT deal),\u00a0Gilbert Marquez\u00a0<\/strong>got 1st in #18 ($25K GTD Big O, 3-way deal involving\u2014oh, no!\u2014Angela, how could you?), and\u00a0Dan Anderson\u00a0<\/strong>took 50 for #21 ($150K GTD High Roller).<\/p>\n

Two players won a tournament and min-cashed another (2.5 points):\u00a0Carl Oman<\/strong> won #17 ($40K GTD Big Bounty) and cashed the 6-Max;\u00a0John Gribben<\/strong> won #5 (see above) and cashed the Main.<\/p>\n

Richard Imel<\/strong> took 11th in #5 (5 points) and won #13 Super Boss Bounty for 55 points.\u00a0Bohr He<\/strong> and\u00a0Kevin Buck<\/strong> are the first players in this list who\u00a0did not<\/em>\u00a0win an event but have more points than some of the players who did. Buck made the final table of #1, took third in #5, and cashed in #17. He was also at the final table for #5, took 6th in the 6-Max, and 9th in the Main Event.\u00a0Jake Dahl<\/strong> final-tabled #14 HORSE, placed 3rd in $14 O8. and picked up 15th in the Main Event for his 55 points.<\/p>\n

Cody<\/strong> Rogan<\/strong> was the third-place finisher for points with 57.5. He started strong with 4th place in #1, placed 4th again in #8, and min-cashed in #13 to pull just ahead of the rest of the pack.<\/p>\n

Michael Freedom<\/strong> is the runner-up in points with 65 after a 2nd-place in #10 (Seniors) and 4th in #22. 37.5 for the former and 27.5 for the latter.<\/p>\n

And the champeen is Graham Adam Duke<\/strong>, who picked up an remarkable 82.5 points, well ahead of the pack. Duke did not win a single event, but he made three deep runs, coming in 3rd in #2, 9th in #7 (which would be a final table except it was the 6-max), and runner-up in #21, the High Roller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was looking at the sweet, sweet trophy\u00a0Stuart Young won at the\u00a0Bend Poker Room\u00a0Monster Stack Main Event at the end of the month and realizing that there weren’t any trophies given out at the\u00a0Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic. When\u00a0John … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3417,"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":[3,49,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-poker","category-live-games","category-tournaments"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pokertrophy.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1t0pn-T3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413","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=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3416,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions\/3416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}