{"id":747,"date":"2014-08-24T16:39:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T23:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=747"},"modified":"2014-08-24T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T23:39:30","slug":"six-weeks-110k-in-guarantees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"Six Weeks, $110K in Guarantees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between May 2011 and May 2012, I played 48 tournaments at the\u00a0Final Table Poker Club<\/a>\u00a0in east Portland. I cashed in exactly one of them, as the first player busted from the final table of their 2011 $5K Christmas tournament, winning a small prize and a bounty for knocking out one of the staff. I was winning tournaments elsewhere, so I tried not to let the bad run get to me. (My next cash there, I breezed late into a PLO8 game while I was waiting for a Bluetooth stereo system to be installed in my car just before I drove down to Las Vegas, took first place, and won enough to pay for the stereo.) Since then I have about an 18% ITM there.<\/p>\n

It’s not a fancy place, but it’s settled into position as one of the two big card rooms in Portland, and they have a monthly $20K guarantee that’s the largest regular event in the area. At $100 for the buy-in, with a rebuy available and a $50 add-on, they’ve gotten an average of about 170 entrants this year with pots over $28K. It runs on the first Friday of the month, and if there’s a fifth Friday, they run another, so three or four times a year there are two $20Ks running here consecutive weeks.<\/p>\n

Well, this week is the fifth Friday of August, which means there’s going to be two $20Ks in a row. But that’s not all! On Saturday, September 20th, FT’s having a $50K guarantee ($150 buy-in, 1 rebuy, $75 add-on). The last one of those pulled in over 300 entries, with a prize pool of more than $75K. So, over the next six weekends, there’s:<\/p>\n