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Filipino Poker Tour

The televised event's gonna be on the 26th of this month. I've been playing the online freeroll satellite for three straight days now. First night I placed in the hundreds I think -- I was not ready and was excited the entire time. Yesterday I placed 35th. Today I placed 17th. Will I place 9th tomorrow and 5th the day after? We'll see. If the trend holds I'll come 1st on the seventh night.

So Close

..was I to the 2nd Round of APPT-Seoul. Last night I finished 11th place. They needed 10!

When we were down to 15 I knew I had a huuuge chance of making it. I was 11th at the time. One more went out. I was 10th! Time to calculate. I was sure I was gonna get in. I didn't have to play a hand. With four players behind by around 3,000 in chips I was as good as there.

But no, someone made a desperate move to overtake me. Succeeded.

Now I was back at the bubble. Fortunately, the player in tenth wasn't even playing. He was sitting out. Didn't look great for him: I was ahead by 900+ and he was seated right before me. WRONG! He was in perfect position. This I only realized on my last hand. He posted Ante. I posted Small Blind. Ante was 400, Small Blind was 2000. "Mogs, you idiot!"

Will Someone Please Buy Me for Christmas:

It's still two months away. More time to save up! I want the WPT one. Gimme, gimme, gimme.

Mr $0.42

I just won my first PKR $5 freeroll tournament! Respeka tha 3rd placah! Damn proud!

Something for Nothing 2

Just finished playing a $1.00+0.10 tourney at PokerStars. Finished 2nd overall. $160.44! By far the biggest I've won playing poker online. Next best is $34, which I got playing 4,051 opponents. This time I had to deal with only 1,411. Haha.

Down to the last two, my opponent had a small advantage in chips:
We battled blinds for about ten to twenty minutes when finally a hand came: JJ. I made a standard raise of about 4 times the blinds. Got re-raised. I pushed all my chips in. Got called by Ah - 2h. Flop came K J T, turn X [I forgot], river Q! Argh.

APPT-Manila is over. Congratulations, Brett!

Dude, I don't know you but kudos for a job well done! Although it's sad that you're not Asian, it's all good. Especially the fact that you're only 22 - talk about prodigy. But I hope we Pinoys grab the next two legs and represent Asia in the Finals.









Here are the top ten placers here in Manila and the dollars they took home (or squandered on our ladies):

1. Brett Parise (USA) $179,775
2. Ira Blumenthal (Thailand) $113,858
3. Nicholas Bamman (USA) $62,921
4. Van Marcus (Australia) $44,940
5. Maor Feldinger (Isreal) $35,955
6. Roger Spets (Sweden) $26,966
7. Bas van Liere (Netherlands) $20,974
8. Kazuhiro Sato (Japan) $14,981
9. Derrick Hernandez (Philippines) $11,386*
10. Steve Junhee Yea (South Korea) $8,390

*Special mention to Derrick from Baguio! Reprasentingahhh.

Pokerstars.com APPT-Seoul Freeroll

Although the Manila leg is over, our quest for Asian poker supremacy is far from over. Freerolls for the APPT-Seoul have been running and will be running until the 15th of September over at PokerStars.com. Just like the Manila Freerolls, the multi-table freezeout starts at 7pm - with over 300 players per night vying for the ten seats to the 2nd Round on Sept. 16.

Les Pairs

I have to comment on this. There's this one player at PokerStars whose picture displays snowmen [pair 8]. The name -- les pairs. From Ottawa. Love it!

The Metro Php20,000 Freeroll

The Metro is having it's first Freeroll Tournament tonight. Prize pool is a guaranteed Php20K! First come, first served. 50 players maximum. Oh how I would love to play!

From 45 to 100

Last night Mr. 45K played his seat [which he won the night before] in the level 2 satellite for the Asia Pacific Poker Tour. He was chip leader of the 5-player final table when he made the offer: They get the seats [4 total], he gets Php100,000. Good deal! 5th place was supposed to receive 37.5K. Since he wouldn't be able to play in the main event, 45K opted for the money and the new monicker. Congratulations, Mr. 100K!

Something for Nothing

Just finished playing Pokerstars.com's $250 FPP [Frequent Player Points] Freeroll. Won 1st place! $34.51! hahaha.. Yesssssssssss!! There were 4,015 entrants and I outdrew them all! I'm so lucky today. Let's hope I win tonight's APPT Satellite. 6:11pm: Alas! There's no satellite today.

Pokerstars.com APPT Freeroll

Hah! I placed better this time.. 25th! Went in with A9. Got called by AQ. Ass.

Just Can Thought

In poker, do they call them running cards because they're harder to catch?

Pokerstars.com APPT Freeroll

Argh! I finished 27th last night. Went all-in with AK and got called by a suited A5. 5 paired. Ass.

APPT Level 1 Satellite

Tonight will be at Checkpoint Louie's Bar, 208 Doña Soledad Extension, Bicutan. Buy-in is Php1400+100.

Asia Pacific Poker Tour

Manila will be hosting the first leg of the first ever "three-legged" tournament. Buy-in for the Main Event is a beggarly $2,500. For cheap lemons, Level 1 Satellites are being held at different locations around Metro Manila [Sidespin, Capone's, UCC, Can't-Remember-The-Rest] with a buy-in of Php1,400+100. Winners of Level 1 move on to -- yep, you guessed it -- Level 2, buy-in for which is Php12,500+. Those who advance from here get a seat to the Main Event -- like winning $2,500 = Php114,450.

For even cheaper lemons like myself, main sponsor PokerStars.com offers Freeroll tournaments everyday at 7pm. The top 10 of each tournament moves on to compete for the Main Event seat. Today I finished 63rd out of 210. I lasted an hour and a half and got knocked out playing pocket 10s against ladies. I lost to a fellow Pinoy residing in Korea -- who cares?? I digress.