The Poker Mutant will be retiring (mostly) from poker on 1 January. This is the latest installment in his thrilling countdown to the End of Times.
Had some trouble connecting to Ignition Casino early in the evening, so I ran a few MTT simulations at Advanced Poker Training. About 9:30, I got into the $4K GTD NLHE Turbo and it looks like I’m about to make the money. Finished 13th out of 469.
The Poker Mutant will be retiring (mostly) from poker on 1 January. This is the third installment in his thrilling countdown to the End of Times.
Played an Ignition $4K GTD NLHE 6-Max and ran into kicker problems.
Three $2 NLHE Jackpot Sit-n-Gos, the last of which was a $10 payout and I won that one.
Flopped a set of fives in a multiway pot in the nightly $4K NLHE Turbo and was the fourth all in. Biggest stack with a flush draw made it on the river and knocked the other three of us out.
My last hand in an Ignition $4K GTD NLHE Turbo https://t.co/E1qI49308A
— Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) November 5, 2018
The Poker Mutant will be retiring from poker—not unlike Fedor Holz or Vanessa Selbst—on 1 January. This is the second installment in his thrilling countdown to the End of Times.
Got in a morning Igniton Poker $2 NLHE Jackpot Sit-n-Go and binked another 5x payout. Got nines in on a queen-high board and managed to get beat by a player with [qx jx], but I turned the tables when he made a loose call, I doubled up twice, knocked him out, then took the win.
Ran two more $2 Jackpots after dinner. In the first ($4 payout), the other two players got into it in the first two hands, and we lost the first player on hand three. I was behind in chips on the last hand with [tc 9h] and called a raise, turned top pair, then shoved but lost to [2s 9d] as he’d flopped the deuce..
Jumped into another one right away and it was another $10 payout. I got lucky with [ac ah] on the second hand against a pair of sizes, then ground the other player down in 10 more hands.
Did another couple while watching Chris Wallace laugh his creepy Penguin laugh on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Lost one. Won one.
Late-regged an Ignition $500 GTD O8 Turbo just before the first break, folded until I won one hand, got moved to another table, hit two pair then folded on the river with a counterfeited low and an obvious bet from a player who hit trips, and went out a little later 60th of 79.
Lost three more jackpot Sit-N-Gos, including a $10 payout. Busted out of that on the first hand calling against jacks with an ace, then got HU in another and had him on the run until he doubled up with ace-king against my ace-queen.
Last one of the night I was up 2:1 then back to even after getting [kx qx] in against queens with both a king and queen on the flop, then having my double-up thwarted when my turned trips lost to a flush on the river.
The Poker Mutant will be retiring from poker—not unlike Fedor Holz or Vanessa Selbst—on 1 January. This is the first installment in his thrilling countdown to the End of Times.
Got a cash bonus from Ignition Casino and played one of their $2 Jackpot Sit-n-Gos on a break at work. Got the 5x multiplier that paid $10 to the winner of the three-person tournament, and I knocked out the first player, but I got unlucky in a 70/30 situation during heads up and didn’t get the prize.
Friday night’s tournament at Final Table was a $10K instead of $20K because of the Wildhorse series, but it had a good turnout. I did well despite not having much in the way of premium hands. My best pair was tens (I did make quads) but I busted a table short of the money, after flopping an open-ended straight draw in a multiway call of a short stack all-in. I made my straight on the river, but Casey Ring hit top pair on [7x 4x 4x], and bet enough to put me all in to call. The [7x] turn knocked me out.
The last couple days of the Chinook Winds Fall Coast Classic were extra-disappointing, mostly because I didn’t cash, but also because it was the last trip I have planned before I hang up my card caps.
#FallCoastClassicPokerTournament @ChinookWinds Event 14 $100K GTD NLHE 6-Max less than 25 minutes away pic.twitter.com/d5MWwHTGXd
— Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) October 26, 2018
Event #14 $100K GTD NLHE 6-Max got off to a bad start, as I flopped a set of queens early but got caught by a turned Broadway. Another pair of queens went bad and I was down nearly 20K from the 500K starting stack in the second 50-minute level. I managed to claw my way back to starting stack, but the decision to play back against an aggressor who was consistently attacking my blinds cost me my tournament when I called from the big blind with [3x 5x], flopped bottom two pair, re-raised his continuation, then led out on the turn. With almost half my stack in good, the river paired the wrong card on the board and my two pair was counterfeit. I shoved, and he eventually called with an over pair, knocking me out.
Player went all in for 6K. Big stack calls. I bet 20K from BB w KK. K was exposed in deal. Big stack eventually folds. Shortie has TT. Board runs out AQJ9x. “Third kings of the day!”#FallCoastClassicPokerTournament @ChinookWinds Final Event $200K GTD NLHE
— Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) October 27, 2018
The next day’s Final Event $200K GTD NLHE went better at first. In addition to three pairs of kings in just over four hours, a late registrant sat on my right picked up kings in the small blind when I had aces in the big blind, and ended up all in for a full starting stack preflop. By dinner break, the end of registration, and the addon, I had more than three times the starting stack.
#FallCoastClassicPokerTournament @ChinookWinds Final Event $200K GTD NLHE starting after end of registration with ~125K but I’m not the table chip leader. Lucky AA v KK in the blinds. pic.twitter.com/XsF85IVJc4
— Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) October 28, 2018
A gentleman named Don (think the Lone Biker of the Apocalypse from Raising Arizona if he’d retired and gone to live in Palm Springs) held sway over the table, with a couple of Portland regs chipping away at my stack until I was down to about average over the next ninety minutes. Then—like a dream—it was all gone in a hand where I put 60bb in with top-top on the turn against an over-pair shove. Busted by a pair of nines two days in a row. A bit bittersweet, because Chinook Winds has been where I’ve had the most recorded cashes, and I’m not going to be playing there again in the foreseeable future.
https://twitter.com/PACWESTclassic/status/1056831186805256192
Tonight is the first event: the one-and-only super satellite for Saturday’s High Roller in Pendleton. No commentary here, just a link to the schedule and structures.
Results from Chinook haven’t posted yet, so news for PNW players is a little slim, but Mercer Island’s David Oppenheim picked up a couple nice scores in the past few weeks, with 3rd place finishes in the Muckleshoot Fall Classic Event #5 and at Run It Up Reno Mini Main Event. They’re his two largest recorded cashes, by a significant margin.
Oregon’s Landon Moore grabbed 15th in the Venetian $500K GTD Championship in mid-October, an event headlined by Steve Sung and Joseph Cheong. It’s Moore’s second recorded cash.
James Romero cashed 7th in another big tournament, the 113-entry WSOP Europe Event #8 1M NLHE High Roller.
#FallCoastClassicPokerTournament Event 5 $75K NLHE. HELP! I’m in a @StokersPoker / @Mawkswell sandwich!
— Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) October 22, 2018
Back in the States, Max Young won WPT Deepstacks San Diego Main Event just before he returned to Oregon to play at Chinook Winds.
Our last update of this edition is (once again) Dylan Wilkerson with 6th place of 68 entries at WSOPC Hammond Event #13 NLHE High Roller.
