{"id":4049,"date":"2021-08-02T00:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2021-08-02T00:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:22:49","slug":"pokermutant-in-play-july-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=4049","title":{"rendered":"PokerMutant In Play: July 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>it was a pretty restrained month for me. I fire up a lot of online tournaments\u2014about one a day, on the average this year\u2014but for various reasons I skipped a bunch of days this month, so the total to evaluate is remarkably small. It may be the smallest total I\u2019ve posted in a month for over a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1 July<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My favorite, the <strong>Ignition Casino $5K GTD NLHE Thousandaire Maker<\/strong>. It\u2019s a $75 buyin freezeout, with a $7 fee, and for about 7% of the players, there\u2019s a $1K cash payout. Basically a satellite with money payout. This one got 73 entries, I busted in 43rd place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6 July<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first live poker I\u2019d played since early March 2020. The <strong>Portland Meadows NLHE $1500 WSOP Satellite<\/strong>. I got there late, so the lot was jam-packed, but I parked a few blocks down Killingsworth and hiked to the club. I didn\u2019t get there until the big blind was already 600, managed to eke it out to 18th of 70. $100 buyin with a $20 door fee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/4B4921AB-B350-4272-B93F-0C0C9094045D-scaled-e1627854175414.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/4B4921AB-B350-4272-B93F-0C0C9094045D-scaled-e1627854175414-1024x599.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/4B4921AB-B350-4272-B93F-0C0C9094045D-scaled-e1627854175414-1024x599.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/4B4921AB-B350-4272-B93F-0C0C9094045D-scaled-e1627854175414-300x176.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/4B4921AB-B350-4272-B93F-0C0C9094045D-scaled-e1627854175414-768x450.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/4B4921AB-B350-4272-B93F-0C0C9094045D-scaled-e1627854175414-1536x899.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/4B4921AB-B350-4272-B93F-0C0C9094045D-scaled-e1627854175414-2048x1199.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/4B4921AB-B350-4272-B93F-0C0C9094045D-scaled-e1627854175414-500x293.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then a long gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">23 July<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I really didn\u2019t play a hand of poker\u2014live or online\u2014for two-and-a-half weeks. Weird.But with the return of the home game that started my time in 21st-century poker coming up, I fired up Ignition to play the nightly <strong>$2K GTD NLHE 6-Max Turbo<\/strong>. This $20 buyin\/$2 fee game starts out slow, with a lot of players flocking to the last stages to just throw their money at the wall to see if it sticks. Mostly, it doesn&#8217;t, because there are a few people like myself who aren&#8217;t afraid to punish people for their stupidity. About a third of the entries are re-entry (2 allowed), but I almost never ever do, because as I&#8217;ve said forever, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=393\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"393\">rebuys are for suckers<\/a>. This game got 129 entries (including 40 re-entries). Paid 24 places, I came in 11th and made a whopping 104% ROI. Only down $179 for the month so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Haven&#39;t played live or online for a couple weeks, but after listening to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HipHop101Trivia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HipHop101Trivia<\/a> on all the podcasts, fired up <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IgnitionCasino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IgnitionCasino<\/a> in the $2K GTD NLHE 6-Max and I&#39;m chip leader 2nd break in a row w just 9 to the money (18 pay) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2yFxpH3uNk\">pic.twitter.com\/2yFxpH3uNk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pokermutant\/status\/1418828103057559557?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">24 July<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Went to the home game for the first time in seventeen months. Outdoor deck in Tigard, Saw all the old gang, heard all the old jokes. Busted 6\/9 with my signature <strong>Mutant Jack<\/strong> hand <span class=\"inline-cards\"><span class=\"inline-card inline-card-h\" title=\"ace of hearts\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">A<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2665<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"inline-card inline-card-h\" title=\"jack of hearts\"><span class=\"inline-card-rank\">J<\/span><span class=\"inline-card-suit\">\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> to aces from the host, <strong>Vic<\/strong>. $30 buyin and a $5 addon. Got out in time to hit the <strong>J<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/thejoycinema.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">oy Cinema<\/a><\/strong> where I was working as a cashier\/projectionist\/toilet cleaner\/food handler for the 9:15 show of <strong>Road Warrior<\/strong> and chatted with my friend (for more than 35 years) and former boss <strong>Jeff \u201cPunk Rock\u201d Martin<\/strong>. Down $214 for the month, not counting my movie ticket, popcorn, and Diet Coke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_7077-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_7077-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_7077-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_7077-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_7077-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_7077-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_7077-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_7077-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">25 July<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Another $22 <strong>NLHE 6-Max Turbo<\/strong>. This one&#8217;s slightly larger, with 146 entries (45 re-entry). Still 24 paid but this time I make it to 10th. Still only 130% ROI for two-and-a-half hours. Down $185 for July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another near miss of a final table, going out 10\/142 in last night&#39;s $2K 6-Max Turbo. Only had the lead briefly well before we hit the money at 24 and was near the bottom on the bubble, so I&#39;m not too disappointed.<\/p>&mdash; Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pokermutant\/status\/1419693202618023940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">26 July<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Making the <strong>6-Max<\/strong> a nightly thing, but this game I don&#8217;t even make it to the end of the entry period. Out 33 of 63 (at the time). Just 33 minutes. Down $207.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">27 July<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Another cash in the <strong>6-Max<\/strong>. I get very lucky a couple of times but end up oout in 18th place after two hours and 40 minutes. 149 entries with 44 re-entries and 24 paid ($710 up top). My take is 68% ROI. Down $192.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Busted well short of the money in the Monday night $2K GTD 6-Max, min-cashed in Tuesday night\u2019s (18\/148) but had to crack AA (flopped a set w 88 and got them to call it off) and KK (aipf w JT) to do it. Out w AK &lt; big stack JJ &lt; ATs (shorter stack made flush) aipf w 15bb effect.<\/p>&mdash; Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pokermutant\/status\/1420293590903758852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">28 July<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I fire up Ignition a little earlier than the 10pm 5-Max after a couple of work nights where I was up past 1am and get into the 8pm <strong>$1K GTD PLO Turbo<\/strong>. I took 2nd in one of these smaller tournaments at the end of June, I&#8217;m a big fan of the <strong>Great Game of PLO&#x2122;<\/strong>, but I fall far short in this one: 27th of 45 entries. Buyin is $15 with a $1,5 fee, no re-entry, which is kind of refreshing in a PLO game. Down $209.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">29 July<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Another <strong>PLO Turbo<\/strong>. No dice. 30th of 47 (neither this night or the previous nighyt reached the end of registration, so that&#8217;s not an accurate number of the total entries. Down $226 for the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">30 July<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the <strong>6-Max Turbo<\/strong>. These games\u2014like most turbos\u2014tend to be short-stacked in the final stages, but it&#8217;s easy to make mistakes like shoving into the aces of the guy who&#8217;s just gotten lucky against your pair. Anyway, 7th of 135 (40 re-entries). $648 up top but I get a 268% ROI. Just over three hours. Down $167.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exact bubbled the FT in the 6-Max. Short stack shoved 97 w 12 left and I called w <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/snowmenNumNum?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#snowmenNumNum<\/a>, he caught 9 and chipped up from there playing loose and eventually I shoved into his aces. Cashed 5 of the ten 6-Max tournaments I played June\/July, but nothing better than 7th.<\/p>&mdash; Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pokermutant\/status\/1421392640797331458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">31 July<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Got into the \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IgnitionCasino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IgnitionCasino<\/a>\u2069 $1K PLO 15 minutes before first break with 10K chips. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ucUQRfyr50\">pic.twitter.com\/ucUQRfyr50<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pokermutant\/status\/1421681660391690240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The start of this tournament was almost laughable. You begin with 10K  in chips. I came in at the 80\/160 level and was down a couple thousand (15bb) in the first four hands. I doubled up on hand 5 when someone called my nut flush (and <em>the <\/em>nuts) on the river, I won the next two hands and doubled through the chip leader, then I doubled again just before the first break, knocking out the former chip leader and two others. I hit a set on the flop and we all managed to get everything in. I held against several draws. Had some setbacks in the next hour, but was back upon top by the second break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There wwere 78 entries in the tournament and a prize pool of $1,185. 17 places paid. My time in the tournament was almost exactly two hours and forty minutes (total time would have been 3:20) and I was there until the last, when my aces ran into a flopped two pair HU and I couldn&#8217;t recover. 1035% ROI! I end the month up $9! Just short of 20 hours. 45\u00a2 an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hubris, thy name is PLO. Doubled up the adversary when he hit a straight draw on the river against my aces just after the break, and it was 2nd place for me.<\/p>&mdash; Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pokermutant\/status\/1421715072406069253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it was a pretty restrained month for me. I fire up a lot of online tournaments\u2014about one a day, on the average this year\u2014but for various reasons I skipped a bunch of days this month, so the total to evaluate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=4049\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4055,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-poker"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/14524ABA-F5F8-4024-9391-9BF7930CDF2F-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1t0pn-13j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049","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=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4059,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions\/4059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}