{"id":5422,"date":"2024-03-18T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2024-03-21T22:33:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T05:33:42","slug":"2024-chinook-winds-pacwest-poker-classic-two-min-cashes-per-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=5422","title":{"rendered":"2024 Chinook Winds PacWest Poker Classic, Two Min-Cashes Per Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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More in This Series<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. St. Paddy\u2019s Eve<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Two Min-Cashes Per Day<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Satellite Unlocked<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Cashless<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. More Like Big Ow<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Testing My Limits<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Three Bounty Problem<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Don’t Dream It<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Just a short note today because that’s all I really have time for. Lots of time yesterday morning, because I wasn’t really able to get to sleep the first night here. No issues with the room or anything, just restless from allergies. So I went into the day with less than an hour of sleep after driving down to Lincoln City<\/strong> and playing poker for 12 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Event #1 $100,000 Guaranteed NL Hold’em Day 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    I didn’t have enormous expectations coming into the day<\/a> with just 14 big blinds (I’d forgotten we still had about half the 6K blind level after stopping for the night, so it was more than 10). Somehow, I managed to creep up the pay scale from #56 in chips at the start of the day to cash out in 42nd. Then I ran ace-king suited into the big stack’s aces and it was over. More than doubled my money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Event #2 $25,000 Guaranteed NL Hold’em<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Running on less than an hour’s sleep and playing poker for an hour was probably not the ideal time to enter a tournament that was likely to go on for 12 hours, but I did it. Got seated at the same table as Darrel Dier<\/strong> (@guano on X.com), who I met down here back in 2013 when (if I remember correctly) he was associated with the early days of the Chinook Winds series through the Deepstacks Poker Tour\/Oregon State Poker Championship<\/a><\/strong>. That gave me the opportunity to show him the photo I took of the Greatest Poker Hair Assemblage of All Time, which I took while I was reporting at the WSOP back in 2016 (Darrel’s in seat 9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    My performance in the tournament wasn’t stellar, though I did still have it together enough to fold kings on a straighty-flushy low-card board when Darrel made a river overbet in a 3-way pot that got called by the other player in the hand (straight for Darrel vs. two pair).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Got aces cracked in another 3-way pot when the short stack’s ace-four flushed on the river. Doubled up with a Mutant Jack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Prize pool for the $25K GTD. Just doubled my short stack w A\u2660\ufe0fJ\u2660\ufe0f > 77 #MutantJack<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ox2WqtTJuS<\/a><\/p>— Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) March 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>