First APA Video from yours truly :)

Video of APA Poker coaches Ryu Dang and David Tam doing a *free* introductory course with a trainee. Sign up at http://www.asiapokeracademy.com/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=registers&usercode=APA7801V&sid=7801&Itemid=10 to receive your FREE introductory lesson today with referral code "APA7801V"

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Asia Poker Academy Thailand

Well this is it, get ready for this... as promised, I have started this new project and you can find all the details right --> HERE <-- Remember to register under referral code "APA7801V"

Free Coaching Videos, Freerolls available, and even Free starting bankrolls, just check it out and sign up for a free account! You can't lose out on anything by registering, it's completely free!
if there are any issues, don't be afraid to post something on the forum or send a mail to support

I already have bookings until around January for the room, still accepting students for online coaching ofcourse, and/or grinding for APA points, feel free to email me for positions on the waiting list! will be keeping you all updated on the forum :)

Ryu Dang

Big Project Coming Soon

Hi guys, sorry for another long period without any updates.. but I have been pretty busy with everything as usual :D The trip to Macau was pretty good, basically it was more a holiday trip then really a working trip, but I did do some other work relating stuff which gave birth to this new upcoming project...

Basically I will be the head poker coach for an existing coaching site and become their official Thailand office.
I can't really reveal any more details, since everything is still in the works and we still need to work out a proper structure.. but just know you will be able to get quality poker coaching soon at an affordable price from quality coaches from Thailand poker pros. Awesome no? ;)

I am very excited about this project, because it will also mean that there will be a lot of great opportunities like, people moving over and living in our Thailand grinders house to get live coaching, which is obviously a lot better and have a taste of Thailand's great nightlife ;)
Don't miss out on this chance of a lifetime!

more details will be following soon!

Ryu Dang

poker robot

Yep, have been working my ass off, did like 60k hands in 2 weeks and I'm up in overall + getting a ton of rakeback, so it's been all good past month. Going to get ready now for my live grind in Macau :) Flying in on this Wednesday, hope I run good this time, but I think I need a small break from the online grind anyways. I just booked a one way ticket, so I don't really know when I will be back to Bangkok... I guess I will just see how things fare over there (or when I run out of Hong Kong Dollars lol).

Got a sick promotion right now for the APT Manila main event, upcoming this 21st of August, so I'm definitely going to participate in that one as well, hope I can pick up a good cash once in my life in a big tournament event.. I feel ready haha :D

Will try to write another Macau trip report once I get back.. and I hope my students won't go busto while I'm away, because I won't be bringing my laptop this time, so it will be hard for me to be very reachable.

Cheers!
Ryu

The Good and The Bad

I guess I should start with the bad :p things haven't been working out very well at the tables, I ran like a dog on the high limit tables which got me in a horrible downswing, and I'm stuck a ton of monies for the last month :(

What about the good things then? during the bad run I did work a lot on my game and my biggest weaknesses, which is mainly heads up, so I got coaching for that and it has been paying off a lot for sure. I feel lot more comfortable now playing in HU situations.
I guess I can't really say I have been playing very bad, just very unlucky and a ton of cooler spots. Oh and meanwhile I picked up staking a friend (and coaching him also), and the rest of my students are doing very well, all of them are up on the microstakes, well maybe not all of them. Only my brother in law who is gambling on the midstakes with no bankroll is stuck a little bit :p But that's his own choice, he still is up on overall though :p The rest have been going stable and making profits for like 6 or 7 weeks in a row now. Small amounts but well its microstakes :p I guess that makes me proud as well that the work they have put in is paying off.

I got a trip planned back to Macau end of this month, get out of the online grind for a bit and hope to do better this time in the live grind. I feel very confident about my game right now, so let's hope for the best. Oh I switched playing on a different site now also, mostly because there were almost no midstakes games running anymore on my previous site.. back to holdem manager and HUDs :D well at least I can post some graphs in the future so you can see how clearly below EV im running haha ;)

good luck to you all
Ryu Dang

still alive :)

Hi guys,

I know I haven't been updating much, but I have been pretty busy doing poker related stuff but not really fully committing all my time grinding. Things have been working out pretty slowly at the tables, swinging ups and downs, but in the end mainly end positive, so that's a good thing :D

I have been dedicating more time to my affiliate-rakeback business for poker players, since I think they deserve more of my attention now since black Friday.. if any of u guys were in a black hole, basically the biggest pokersites like Pokerstars and Full Tilt poker have been sued and withdrawn now from the american poker market, leaving a ton of players without a home to play in. So I thought it was a nice opportunity for me to pick up on the market changes and secure some good deals and proper stable spots where people can grind out on. So players still looking for some deals, just hook me up and we will work something out.

As for coming trips, I have decided not to go to the WSOP this year, since the black Friday event will definitely have a huge impact on the event, having a ton of less players, due to no satelite events and it will probably be a lot tougher then previous editions. So I have just decided to make another trip to China (get my visa before leaving this time :p) and hit Macau again for a decent time of live poker grinding. I still think the games are very good there, less ofcourse then a few years ago, but still very profitable imo.

And last but not least my students and closest friends have started to actually grind now on microstakes, playing mainly NL10 after about 8 weeks of getting poker theory by me. And I'm glad to say they are doing pretty well, making a lot of progress, I might even dare say faster then I have expected. So I hope they can catch up on flop experience and keep up the good work and stay focused on their task while moving up the limits.

Ryu Dang

Macau Trip Report

First of all let's start with the beginning, the plan was to take the express link from Macau to China mainland for 2 days of relaxation and degenning before we would actually start working. Me and Dave finally managed to find the correct link and the bus stopped us at the border, however according to the wikitravel we could get a visa on arrival, but the immigration said that the visa office was closed, so we got send back to Macau. We took a cab back to the tourist center and asked some questions on how to get a visa, but alas, nothing was possible so we just gave up and just booked in our hotel at overprized prices ofcourse :p Meanwhile Kane a friend from Singapore was already in mainland China and was waiting for us, and was walking around waiting for my confirmation, because I booked the hotels already in China in advance (yep another 160$ or so thrown away). He was in all panicking mode until I managed to catch him on MSN while he was in some random internet shop :) Told him to get back to Macau :p

Since the tournament started already, we decided to take a look and I found out that I could actually enter the first day already although, I couldn't register online. Just needed to pay the entry fee in cash. I was playing pretty well and got pretty deep until one hand that busted me out in a dramatic way.

I was on the BB and got dealt 5h2d and a few limpers, so I checked and the flop came T52 rainbow
I was second chipleader and the chipleader bets out (he only covered me by about 2000 chips though), I decided to flat his bet there, turn came a 6h, now there is a backdoor flushdraw. He decided to barrel it again, I tank for a bit, looking down again to see if I had the blocker heart on the flushdraw and shoved it in.. he snapcalled with QhTh, having top pair and now the backdoor flushdraw. Sadly enough the river came a 7h which terminated my first day. Still got a nice photo and mentioning on the pokerstars blog though :p which you can find back here: http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/pokerstars_macau/2011/macau-millions-day-1a-levels-11---15-bli-079959.html and the chipleader ended winning Day 1.

I thought I played very decently throughout the whole week though, but I just ran very bad, during the tournaments I lost keymoments like 77 vs A2 preflop all in and there was a hand on the second day that was pretty interesting I think. Blinds were 600/1200 with 100 ante.
UTG made a minraise to 2.4k , UTG+1 made it 6k, I peak down on the button and I see AKo, so I decided to shove 26k into a now 11k pot, I think even if I didn't have a premium hand, it would have still been a good move with all the dead money inside. Sadly enough the UTG+1 guy who had the same amount of chips as me, decided to gamble and couldn't let go of his TT and won the flip. I think if I would have won that flip, it would have been again a totally different story..

Same things went on on the cash game tables, just a ton of coolers and sick beats. I had this pretty nasty hand with TT on a KT8 flop, turn came an 8, river came an A, which made the flush complete, and yeah sadly enough he had the QsJs to complete his straight flush versus my turned full house. Ran against a few flush over flushes and a few set over sets also, pretty much the story of my life at the moment.. same thing when I got back home and started playing online, I lost AK vs AK preflop all in, then KK vs AK, then AA vs AK and then set over set and then flush over flush... lol talking about having a bad run :p Anyways, I still feel very confident about my current play level though, think it will turn around eventually and I definitely got some life upswings during the macau trip, had great fun and gained a ton of experience :)

Ryu Dang