It’s been a busy month for players from the Pacific Northwest and not just for those of us who were down at the Chinook Winds Fall Coast Poker Classic a couple of weeks back.
The big winner of the period was (mostly former) Portlander George Wolff, with a win in the British Poker Open Event #2 PLO at Aspers Casino in London, a £10,500 buy-in tournament with 30 entries, followed by the 2nd place finish in BPO Event #7 PLO, where 15 players put up £26K each. Wolff moves from #41 to #28 on the PNW Poker leaderboard as he closes in on the $1M mark in earnings.
We’ve mentioned before that it’s tough to move up a spot one you hit the top end of the Leaderboard, but James Romero did it finally, pulling himself into the #9 spot from #10, as one of only 2 US players in the money at Merit Poker Retro in Kyrenia, Cyprus. His 7th-place showing in the $5K buyin #13 $2M GTD NLHE Main Event was just enough to move him ahead of Rep Porter.
landen Lucas (Portland) had a good month, as well, coming in 2nd at WPT Deepstacks San Diego NLHE, a $1,100 buyin tournament with 252 entries, then heading north to WSOPC Thunder Valley #12 NLHE Main Event, where he came in 8th. He moves up nearly 1600 places on the Leaderboard with his two biggest-ever wins (a phrase you’re going to be hearing a lot in this edition), to #426.
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Dipping into the results from Chinook Winds, Forks, Washington’s Daniel Anderson eclipsed his other Hendon Mob results (4 of them) by winning the Fall Coast Poker Classic #21 $150K NLHE High Roller, beating 65 other entries that put up $2,500 for the buyin. He goes from #1945 to #511. 2nd place wasn’t the first cash for Graham Duke (Hillsboro), but the other two on his record were earlier in the week, at the same series. Duke debuts at #748. It was far from the first recorded cash for Adam Barker of Bonney Lake, Washington (who I met because I was flopping sets of aces against his buddy in that day’s $40K GTD), but it was his biggest. Barker rises from #768 to #494. 4th place was Jake Davis‘s second (and largest) cash. The Corvallis resident enters the Leaderboard at #1431.
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Salem poker veteran Casey Ring and Portland newcomer Rich Bak chopped #24 $250K NLHE Main Event, with Ring picking up his biggest cash and Bak picking up his first. Bak enters the Leaderboard at a very respectable #653; Ring moves from #434 to #254. Portland’s Chris Dillard picked up 3rd, and moves more than 2000 spots to #987. Long-time Beaverton fixture Sam Nguyen grabbed 4th and a 75-place jump to #303. Portland newcomer Danny Lee‘s first cash (5th place) pops him into #1782. And Rafael Stern (Seattle) moves from #1208 to #877 with a 6th-place finish.
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A first cash for Portland’s Tri Ton in Event #1 $125K GTD NLHE puts him in at #1064. George Waller (Seattle) and Salem’s Ty Ege tied in second and third; Ege debuts as #1606 and Waller rises from #805 to #572.
Carl Oman (Ridgefield, Washington) picked up the win in Event #17 $40K GTD NLHE Big Bounty, jumping 55 places to #342.
Andy Su (Portland) won Event #2 $50K GTD NLHE (The One With the Big Overlay), and moves up 14 places to #176.
John Gribben (Olympia) and I (the Poker Mutant, Portland) chopped Event #3 $50K GTD NLHE after 12 grueling hours. John enters the Leaderboard at #1879 and I (the Poker Mutant) climb into the 3-digit range, from #1110 to #836.
Back outside of the beautiful Chinook Winds Resort Casino, Heartland Poker Tour East Chicago $200K GTD NLHE Monster Stack saw David Oppenheim (Mercer Island, Washington and no, not that David Oppenheim) get his best cash, with a 6th-place finish. He rises from #607 to #461.
Michael Palo (Woodinville, Washington) picked up 12th place at HPT East Chicago #11 NLHE Main Event, in a field of 579. His deep run moves him 13 places, to #157.
Finally, Dustin An of Redmond won the Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza III #4 $35K NLHE Monster Stack, jumping nearly 40 places to #306.
Still no full results from the Wildhorse Summer Poker Round Up; Fall is upon us in just 6 weeks. Probably be some action coming up on the Leaderboard from Run It Up Reno next month, as well as WSOPC Lake Tahoe and more!