Looking ahead, what’s going to be a good “investment” of time and energy for Portland tournament poker players?

Muckleshoot Summer Poker Classic: Deal of the Day

The Classic consists of five events starting September 16th:

• Wednesday, September 16th. NLHE Shootout, $250 entry with $4K added to the prize pool.
• Thursday, September 17th. NLHE, $200 entry with $4K added.
• Friday, September 18th. NLHE, $300 entry with $5K added.
• Saturday, September 19th. NLHE, $500 entry with $10K added.
• Sunday, September 20th. NLHE, $750 entry with $20K added. Final table on Monday, September 21st.

Sadly, no Omaha tournament this series. What makes it a deal, though, is that beginning next Wednesday (August 19th), there will be $125 satellites for the series every Wednesday and Thursday evening through September 10th. The top 10% of satellite players get to choose between two options:

1. Saturday Package. Entry into the $500 Saturday event and two of the Wednesday-Friday events.
2. Sunday Package. Entry into the $750 Sunday event and one of the Wednesday-Friday events.

There are also $225 satellites running Sunday, September 13th (noon), Monday the 14th (7pm), and Tuesday the 15th (7pm) where the top 10% get entries into all five series events.

This Week in Portland Poker

• Tonight, there’s a special $8K guarantee ($50 buyin, no rebuy, $25 addon) at Encore Club. They’ve also announced a $35K guarantee ($200 with re-entry, $80 addon) for August 22nd.
• Saturday evening is a $3K guarantee special ($30 buyin with live rebuy, $20 addon) at Portland Players Club, which may not sound like much, but there are three feeder $500 guarantee freeroll satellites starting at 11am (2K starting stack with door fee, $10 optional pre-addon, $20 live rebuys, $20 addon). The top 5 players in each freeroll get a double stack in the $3K, $40 in cash, and entry into a last-longer pool. Coming up on the 22nd is a $2K guarantee Big O tournament ($100 buyin with live rebuys, $40 addon).

Only a Day Away

• WPT Legends of Poker at the Bike in LA (LAX) runs through early September.
• There was major flooding in Calgary the first couple days of the Summer Super Stack at the Deerfoot Inn, but it’s up and running through the 17th.
• This Sunday’s event at the Central Oregon Poker Championships in the Bend Poker Room is PLO8 ($100 buyin with rebuys, $40 addon).
• The first week of the Colorado Poker Championship, at Golden Gates Casino in Black Hawk, outside Denver (DEN), is over. It runs through the 25th.
• The Arizona State Poker Championship is a one-weekend $1,100 event starting Friday at Talking Stick Resort outside Phoenix (PHX).
• Coming up in Reno (RNO) the 20th to the 31st is WPTDeepstacks at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa.
• The HPT hits Colorado’s Golden Gates on September 4th, which overlaps another HPT series at Grand Sierra Resort in Reno on the 11th.
• The Bay 101 Open starts on September 8th.
• And the Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza 3.5 runs from September 10th to October 4th.

As usual, all these events are on the Pacific Northwest Tournament Calendar, with links.