{"id":3869,"date":"2021-05-05T07:11:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T14:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2022-02-08T12:27:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:27:35","slug":"pnw-poker-leaderboard-cinco-de-mayo-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=3869","title":{"rendered":"PNW Poker Leaderboard \u2014 Cinco de Mayo 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found myself\u00a0<strong>giving advice on where to play tournaments in Vegas<\/strong> to a friend heading down there the other day, almost like old times, even though I haven&#8217;t played live for fourteen months and I probably won&#8217;t for a while yet, though I did get my second COVID shot Monday.<\/p>\n<p>I may have to start up the Calendar one of these days soon.<\/p>\n<p>Tentative dates have been announced for the\u00a0<strong>PACWEST Poker Classic at Chinook Winds<\/strong> this fall. As for the other large tournament series venues, Wildhorse Casino hasn&#8217;t yet re-opened their poker room, and Muckleshoot doesn&#8217;t even list poker on their game list on the web site.\u00a0<em><strong>Late-breaking addition, it looks like limited indoor seating will be back in Multnomah County as of Friday, 7 May.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/PACWESTclassic\/status\/1385404176558067714<\/p>\n<p>In Portland, both\u00a0<strong>Final Table<\/strong> (celebrating a tenth anniversary this month) and\u00a0<strong>Portland Meadows<\/strong> had to close again on April 30, because of state COVID regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, I played my first game in the online <strong>bombpot Poker\u00a0Kate Brown Third Shutdown<\/strong> poker series running this week. Ran my queens into aces in the 6-Max after 40 minutes. Mostly been confining myself to the nightly $2.20 buyin\u00a0<strong>Big O on Actioncards<\/strong>, and the $22\u00a0<strong>NLHE 6-Max<\/strong>\u00a0<strong> on Ignition<\/strong>, both of which I enjoy enough to ignore the fact that I haven&#8217;t cashed since some early successes. After bombing out of the bombpot tournament, I played the Ignition 6-Max for 95 minutes and made a profit of $2.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">$2K GTD 6-Max Turbo, 6 players from the money. 2 hands before this, I was 9\/24 and called 5BB all-in with 99; A4 flopped trips. After this, out on the bubble.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F3UUPZRwBL\">https:\/\/t.co\/F3UUPZRwBL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pokermutant\/status\/1387663419180916744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Action is hot and heavy in Las Vegas and Florida this edition of the\u00a0Leaderboard. Starting off in Vegas!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Park\u00a0<\/strong>of Feberal Way was the runner-up in the 200-entry\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/event.php?a=r&amp;n=709301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venetian DeepStack Extravaganza #28 $20K GTD NLHE MonsterStack<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on 21 April. It&#8217;s good enough to move him from #222 to #213.<\/p>\n<p>The 199-entry\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/event.php?a=r&amp;n=709289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Venetian #24 $40K GTD NLHE MonsterStack<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0final table on 18 April was host to two PNW players. <strong>Maria McAlpin<\/strong> from Boise picked up 3rd, moving McAlpin from #786 to #657, and Poulsbo&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Dan Barker<\/strong> took it down, climbing from #455 to #391.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jesse Kertland<\/strong> (Ellensburg) made the final table of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/event.php?a=r&amp;n=706423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown $50K GTD NLHE 6-Max<\/strong><\/a> in Florida. A 6th-place finish in a field of 570 jumps Kertland 25 spots on the Leaderboard, to #357.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aaron Thivyanathan<\/strong> goes from #536 to #461 with a 62nd in the massive 2,482-entry\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/event.php?a=r&amp;n=705287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WPT SHRPO #18 $2M GTD NLHE Championship<\/strong><\/a> (23\u201427 April). The prize pool was nearly $8 million,<\/p>\n<p>No movement for #10\u00a0<strong>Dylan\u00a0<\/strong><b>Linde<\/b>, despite a 12th place finish in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/event.php?a=r&amp;n=706471\"><strong>WPT SHRPO #28 $200K GTD NLHE Deep Stack<\/strong>.<\/a> It was another tournament of conservative guarantees or pent-up demand, with a prize pool of 1.36 million from the 287 entries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dylan Wilkerson<\/strong> had the only non-NLHE result of this edition, with 6th in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/event.php?a=r&amp;n=706473\"><strong>WPT SHRPO #29 PLO Deep Stack<\/strong><\/a> with 168 entries. He holds at #14 even though he also had four smaller cashes during the series.<\/p>\n<p>#1-ranked PNW Leaderboard player\u00a0<strong>Seth Davies<\/strong> continues to maintain his lead. He came in 4th in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pokerdb.thehendonmob.com\/event.php?a=r&amp;n=706431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WPT SHRPO NLHE Super High Roller<\/strong><\/a> (21\u201422 April, 42 entries). He can console himself that he didn&#8217;t get the W \u00a0because he\u00a0<em>did<\/em> win the online\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pocketfives.com\/articles\/seth-davies-wins-final-ggpoker-spring-festival-25k-for-956k-score-634766\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>GGPoker Spring Festival #109-H NLHE Sunday Millions<\/strong><\/a> just a week later.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/PokerGOnews\/status\/1385239476859977731?s=20<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Day 1 of the $25k High Roller concludes at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shrpo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@shrpo<\/a> with 24 players remaining from the record-setting 145-entrant field as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chris_D_Brewer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Chris_D_Brewer<\/a> leads ahead of @seanmperry1.<\/p>\n<p>Read all the Day 1 action here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j5VAgNUpKi\">https:\/\/t.co\/j5VAgNUpKi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6MfdnHvLq7\">pic.twitter.com\/6MfdnHvLq7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PokerGO Tour (@PokerGOTour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PokerGOTour\/status\/1386914870789017602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Coming in just ahead of Davies in the SHR was\u00a0<strong>Christopher Brewer<\/strong>, whose 3rd place there combined with a 6th in the 145-entry\u00a0<strong>WPT SHRPO\u00a0#24 NLHE High Roller<\/strong> jumps him from #60 to #34 on the Leaderboard. Oh, to be young and insanely talented at high stakes poker!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I&#8217;d even take just the young, these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found myself\u00a0giving advice on where to play tournaments in Vegas to a friend heading down there the other day, almost like old times, even though I haven&#8217;t played live for fourteen months and I probably won&#8217;t for a while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=3869\">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":[49,310,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-games","category-pnw-poker-leaderboard","category-tournaments"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1t0pn-10p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","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=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4444,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions\/4444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}