Got my flight tickets and I'm ready and set to go, I'm pretty excited due to the fact that this time I'm going with one of my best friends from Belgium and for sure I'll be meeting a lot of friends in Macau as well. The schedule looks very sweet, too bad I won't make it in time for the Team Pokerstars Bounty event. Here's the schedule for the moment:
Sun 31-Aug 12:30 Team Pokerstars Bounty Event^ $5,000
Sun 31-Aug 14:00 No Limit Holdem Red Dragon Day 2
Sun 31-Aug 15:30 Mega Satellite Main Event Phase 2 $2,700
Sun 31-Aug 16:00 Ladies Event ^ $1,000
Sun 31-Aug 21:00 APPT Macau Welcome Party
Mon 1-Sep 11:00 Press Conference
Mon 1-Sep 13:30 Main Event^ Day 1 Flight 1 $25,000
Mon 1-Sep 15:30 No Limit Holdem $4,000
Mon 1-Sep 17:00 Turbo Satellite to High Roller Mega $1,650
Mon 1-Sep 20:00 Mega Satellite to High Roller Event $15,500
Tue 2-Sep 13:30 Main Event Day 1 Flight 2 $25,000
Tue 2-Sep 15:30 No Limit Holdem $4,000
Tue 2-Sep 17:00 Turbo Satellite to High Roller Mega $1,650
Tue 2-Sep 20:00 Mega Satellite to High Roller Event $15,500
Wed 3-Sep 13:30 Main Event Day 1 Flight 3 $25,000
Wed 3-Sep 15:30 No Limit Holdem $4,000
Wed 3-Sep 17:00 Turbo Satellite to High Roller Mega $1,650
Wed 3-Sep 20:00 Mega Satellite to High Roller Event $15,500
Thu 4-Sep 13:30 Main Event Day 2
Thu 4-Sep 15:30 No Limit Holdem Teams Event^ $5,000
Thu 4-Sep 17:00 Turbo Satellite to High Roller Mega $1,650
Thu 4-Sep 20:00 Media Event
Thu 4-Sep 20:00 Mega Satellite to High Roller Event $15,500
Fri 5-Sep 13:30 Main Event Day 3
Fri 5-Sep 15:30 Mega Satellite to APPT Seoul $3,500
Fri 5-Sep 17:00 No Limit Holdem $1,000
Fri 5-Sep 20:00 No Limit Holdem 6-Handed^ (2 day if required) $10,000
Sat 6-Sep 13:30 Main Event Final Table
Sat 6-Sep 15:30 No Limit Holdem Deep Stack $1,000
Sat 6-Sep 18:00 Mega Satellite to High Roller Event $15,500
Sat 6-Sep 20:00 No Limit Holdem - 200k Guarantee - 1 re-entry allowed $2,500
Sun 7-Sep 13:30 High Rollers Event^ Day 1 $150,000
Sun 7-Sep 15:30 No Limit Holdem $500
Sun 7-Sep 17:00 Mega Satellite to APPT Seoul $3,500
Mon 8-Sep 13:30 High Rollers Event Day 2
Mon 8-Sep 15:30 No Limit Holdem $1,000
Mon 8-Sep 20:00 No Limit Holdem $4,000
Tue 9-Sep 13:30 High Rollers Event Final Table
Tue 9-Sep 15:30 No Limit Holdem $1,000
I will probably only be staying there until the 6th of sep, and try to catch a few tourneys besides my cash games and then I'll be travelling on to Bangkok for some holidays :)
Ryu
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
live cash games in Belgium
Howdy,
yesterday, I went to the casino in Oostende, and there were 2 tables running in cash games. First time for me that I played there, so it was a quite intresting experience. blinds were 2€/4€ - min buy-in 100€ max buy-in 500€
instead of rake, they charge every player 15€/hour for playing, which is quite hard, but well, I don't know if it's better then the 10% rake the casino's usually charges -_-'
anyways, I bought in for 500€ and was sitting pretty next to the dealer, which is my favorite position, and the only keyhand I played was when I was dealt AhAs, and the flop goes 2c3c5s , I raised pf 20€ and I got two callers behind me. I bet 40€ on the flop, one caller, one fold. Turn goes Ad. I shoved all in and the guy calls, river 7s. He turns over AKo and I rake in the pot with my set. There was another hand that was mentionable though. I had AT on the button and raised 16€ pf and got 2 callers. flop goes T23 , I bet 25€ on the flop, call, and the guy raised to 75€ .. wow on that board, what can he have? I'm thinking and I fold. turn goes 5. check, bet from that guy and the other guy calls 100€. river 7. the guy bets 150€. other guy calls and turns over 64 straight and the original reraiser shows 33. Good fold Ryu :p
anyways, I ended up a little bit after an hour, about 100€ while my other friend went up about 300€, so it was all by all a nice session for that one hour we played. I had fun, and I'm looking forward to playing some live cash again in Macau next month :)
Ryu
yesterday, I went to the casino in Oostende, and there were 2 tables running in cash games. First time for me that I played there, so it was a quite intresting experience. blinds were 2€/4€ - min buy-in 100€ max buy-in 500€
instead of rake, they charge every player 15€/hour for playing, which is quite hard, but well, I don't know if it's better then the 10% rake the casino's usually charges -_-'
anyways, I bought in for 500€ and was sitting pretty next to the dealer, which is my favorite position, and the only keyhand I played was when I was dealt AhAs, and the flop goes 2c3c5s , I raised pf 20€ and I got two callers behind me. I bet 40€ on the flop, one caller, one fold. Turn goes Ad. I shoved all in and the guy calls, river 7s. He turns over AKo and I rake in the pot with my set. There was another hand that was mentionable though. I had AT on the button and raised 16€ pf and got 2 callers. flop goes T23 , I bet 25€ on the flop, call, and the guy raised to 75€ .. wow on that board, what can he have? I'm thinking and I fold. turn goes 5. check, bet from that guy and the other guy calls 100€. river 7. the guy bets 150€. other guy calls and turns over 64 straight and the original reraiser shows 33. Good fold Ryu :p
anyways, I ended up a little bit after an hour, about 100€ while my other friend went up about 300€, so it was all by all a nice session for that one hour we played. I had fun, and I'm looking forward to playing some live cash again in Macau next month :)
Ryu
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
lord oh lord
Hi :)
it's been such a while, and actually I have quite a few stories to tell, since my last blog post.. so I guess I'll start out with my trip to Macau. I went there with a friend from Singapore (Jason) and to be honest it was superfun :)
Macau has 3 venues now where you can play almost 24/24 live NL holdem poker. Two casino's have live card tables, and one is where you sort of sit behind a computer and see your hole cards on the screen, it's like playing online basically, but you can wave to your friend across the table lol :)
Anyways, I started some 10$/20$ at the Grand Lisboa casino and I managed to be amazed about the play. First of all you have to know that it's totally limping heaven.. and if you decide to raise a hand, be assured that definitely 5 or so will call your raise.. so I needed some time to adjust myself to the play. Also my friend said in chinese to the players at the table that I was some rich japanese kid who didn't know how to play poker and that they should be gentle with me. haha.. funny! :) Although I think by saying that they called me even more preflop :)
I managed to grind it up to about 3700$ (buy-in was 2000$ max) and then the keyhand came, one guy raised preflop, a caller between me and him, I 3-betted him with my AA and then he 4-bets me and I shoved all in preflop. He had KK and spikes an K immediately on the flop. It was my welcome to Macau bad beat I guess for the day -_-' . I tried to cool myself a bit, because I worked hard to grind it up and then lose it all in one hand where I had what I wanted.. but that's poker. I rebuyed immediately and at the end of the night, I somehow managed to get about 4500$, which made my day, since I still ended with some profit.. but how sweet would it have been if my aces would have held :p
Second day, I decided to move it up a little notch and played at the 25$/50$ table, there was only was 1 table, so I sat down with 5000$ (max buy-in) and checked out the competition. On my left side there were some americans who knew what they were doing and played pretty solid and some korean guy that was a terrible luckbox fish on the right side and also some tight/solid swedes in the middle. I played an awesome hand, where I had Qs7h and the flop goes Qd2d4h. I bet out, and the two americans called, and the korean guy. The turn came a 6d. so obviously the flush was there. I decided to check, the first american bet out, the second one called, and the korean folded. I looked at my hole cards again.. and slowly called. The river came a Td. I checked, and the first american betted again and the second one called. I slowly looked at my hole cards, putting on some act. Everyone on the table was looking.. I took my time and looked again and then reraised the pot size. The swede was already saying.. 'oh really???' 'flush for sure' Good comments, that helped :) so the first american was thinking and his fellow friend looked at him, no man he has it for sure... and they both mucked their hand, both had baby flush cards. Proudly I flipped over my top pair bluff cards and everybody on the table was laughing :)
I also hit a full house on that table, but then I was afraid of a higher full on the river, so I played it badly, so scared.. but I ended up almost doubling my buy in after that session.
The next day we decided to go to the newly opened pokerstars pokerroom in the Grand Waldo. The rake was almost half of what the lisboa was taking! It was awesome.. but the max buy in was only 1000$ on 10/20 so that kind of sucked. I ended up on a huge fish table, with a girl, some holland guy and two guys that could have been in an asian maffia movie. The game was super, they were playing all very bad and I ended up with a 4.5K stack in about 2 hours. I played a tournament 1000$ buy in donkament and ended on 6th position... which is the bubbleboy spot :D
After that I played some 20$/40$ at the Waldo and sitting on a shark table with two pro's. I somehow managed to get called 'fish' by them (I agreed) and won like half a buy in. So all in all good days and great fun in Macau.
I'm definitely going to be back, and hopefully be able to hit something big at the APPT Macau and if not, try to grind some side cashgames again for sure. Lately I've been totally back in the grind and making some good money on the tables, so I'm definitely not complaining. I also started making some videos from my play and shared it with my friends as some form of 'test', and it's quite fun to see and hear yourself play, I don't think I'll share it online though. Anyways, I'll better try to keep my blog more up to date, so I'll try to post more stuff and more hands in the near future.
Ryu
it's been such a while, and actually I have quite a few stories to tell, since my last blog post.. so I guess I'll start out with my trip to Macau. I went there with a friend from Singapore (Jason) and to be honest it was superfun :)
Macau has 3 venues now where you can play almost 24/24 live NL holdem poker. Two casino's have live card tables, and one is where you sort of sit behind a computer and see your hole cards on the screen, it's like playing online basically, but you can wave to your friend across the table lol :)
Anyways, I started some 10$/20$ at the Grand Lisboa casino and I managed to be amazed about the play. First of all you have to know that it's totally limping heaven.. and if you decide to raise a hand, be assured that definitely 5 or so will call your raise.. so I needed some time to adjust myself to the play. Also my friend said in chinese to the players at the table that I was some rich japanese kid who didn't know how to play poker and that they should be gentle with me. haha.. funny! :) Although I think by saying that they called me even more preflop :)
I managed to grind it up to about 3700$ (buy-in was 2000$ max) and then the keyhand came, one guy raised preflop, a caller between me and him, I 3-betted him with my AA and then he 4-bets me and I shoved all in preflop. He had KK and spikes an K immediately on the flop. It was my welcome to Macau bad beat I guess for the day -_-' . I tried to cool myself a bit, because I worked hard to grind it up and then lose it all in one hand where I had what I wanted.. but that's poker. I rebuyed immediately and at the end of the night, I somehow managed to get about 4500$, which made my day, since I still ended with some profit.. but how sweet would it have been if my aces would have held :p
Second day, I decided to move it up a little notch and played at the 25$/50$ table, there was only was 1 table, so I sat down with 5000$ (max buy-in) and checked out the competition. On my left side there were some americans who knew what they were doing and played pretty solid and some korean guy that was a terrible luckbox fish on the right side and also some tight/solid swedes in the middle. I played an awesome hand, where I had Qs7h and the flop goes Qd2d4h. I bet out, and the two americans called, and the korean guy. The turn came a 6d. so obviously the flush was there. I decided to check, the first american bet out, the second one called, and the korean folded. I looked at my hole cards again.. and slowly called. The river came a Td. I checked, and the first american betted again and the second one called. I slowly looked at my hole cards, putting on some act. Everyone on the table was looking.. I took my time and looked again and then reraised the pot size. The swede was already saying.. 'oh really???' 'flush for sure' Good comments, that helped :) so the first american was thinking and his fellow friend looked at him, no man he has it for sure... and they both mucked their hand, both had baby flush cards. Proudly I flipped over my top pair bluff cards and everybody on the table was laughing :)
I also hit a full house on that table, but then I was afraid of a higher full on the river, so I played it badly, so scared.. but I ended up almost doubling my buy in after that session.
The next day we decided to go to the newly opened pokerstars pokerroom in the Grand Waldo. The rake was almost half of what the lisboa was taking! It was awesome.. but the max buy in was only 1000$ on 10/20 so that kind of sucked. I ended up on a huge fish table, with a girl, some holland guy and two guys that could have been in an asian maffia movie. The game was super, they were playing all very bad and I ended up with a 4.5K stack in about 2 hours. I played a tournament 1000$ buy in donkament and ended on 6th position... which is the bubbleboy spot :D
After that I played some 20$/40$ at the Waldo and sitting on a shark table with two pro's. I somehow managed to get called 'fish' by them (I agreed) and won like half a buy in. So all in all good days and great fun in Macau.
I'm definitely going to be back, and hopefully be able to hit something big at the APPT Macau and if not, try to grind some side cashgames again for sure. Lately I've been totally back in the grind and making some good money on the tables, so I'm definitely not complaining. I also started making some videos from my play and shared it with my friends as some form of 'test', and it's quite fun to see and hear yourself play, I don't think I'll share it online though. Anyways, I'll better try to keep my blog more up to date, so I'll try to post more stuff and more hands in the near future.
Ryu
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