Five years ago, I was 3 days into my run as a live reporter at the WSOP<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n As previously mentioned<\/a>, I was the Superfan contestant in the\u00a0“Superfan vs. Stapes”<\/strong>\u00a0segment on the official\u00a0PokerStars\u00a0<\/strong>podcast<\/a> last week. This is the only exposure my card protectors have gotten in over a year!<\/p>\n The Portland Meadows<\/strong> and\u00a0Final Table<\/strong>\u00a0poker rooms are (as of this writing) operating at 50% capacity, per county COVID restrictions, so things are moving in the right direction. There are a number of other venues<\/strong> in the Portland-area running shootouts and some tournaments. They include:<\/p>\n If you’ve got some other places that accept walk-ins drop me a line on Twitter @pokermutant<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Around the region, it seems to be mostly card rooms picking up the slack, rather than the casinos.\u00a0High Mountain Poker\u00a0<\/strong>is back in Eugene, and the\u00a0Ontario Poker Room<\/strong> at the far east of Oregon has been active. Lots of reports from\u00a0Palace<\/strong> in the Seattle area. Mostly from\u00a0@dave_has_aces<\/strong>. Renton’s\u00a0Fortune Poker<\/strong> is running high hand announcements on the\u00a0NW Poker\u00a0<\/strong>Facebook group.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/dave_has_aces\/status\/1400884567599312897?s=20<\/p>\n The poker rooms at\u00a0Spirit Mountain\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Tulalip\u00a0<\/strong>closed before the pandemic.\u00a0Wildhorse<\/strong>\u2014which was one of the first large venues in the state closed by a coronavirus outbreak\u2014still hasn’t re-opened their poker room. Ditto for\u00a0Chinook Winds<\/strong>, though they have announced tentative dates for the\u00a0Fall Coast Poker Classic<\/strong> in September.<\/p>\n The biggest guarantee on a tournament I’ve seen so far is at the\u00a0Clearwater Poker Room<\/strong> in East Wenatchee:\u00a0$10K<\/strong>\u00a0GTD<\/strong>, which has apparently been running since April.<\/p>\n Keep an eye on\u00a0PokerAtlas<\/strong><\/a>, but call ahead before you head out anywhere is my advice.<\/p>\n Justin Mevs<\/strong> of Seattle is the first of two new names we welcome onto the Leaderboard this time. Mevs won the 186-entry\u00a0Venetian Deepstack Championship Poker Series #23 $25K GTD NLHE MonsterStack<\/strong><\/a>, as the result of a 5-way deal on 26 May. It’s Mevs’s 4th and largest recorded cash. Mevs debuts at #3961.<\/p>\n Congratulations to Justin Mevs of Seattle, WA who was the winner via a five way chop in our DCPS Event #23 $400 NLH MonsterStack $25,000 guarantee on 5.26.21<\/p>\n Justin takes home the DeepStack Championship bronze Coin and $8,485 pic.twitter.com\/r29ROWqtAc<\/a><\/p>\n — Venetian Poker Room (@VenetianPoker) May 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nPoker In the Ears<\/h2>\n
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