Sunday afternoon game...

I have always been a weekend poker player since I work different shifts monday to friday but finding a game is another story. Aside from the saturday pagcor tourneys there really aren't any other ones around.

Finding a game sunday... I have always had a hard time finding a game that fits my schedule. You know, if you work early monday morning, it would be fun if you can play a game sunday afternoon and if you want to leave and rest after it's ok.

I want to find out if anyone would be interested in playing a NLHE tourney sundays around 1-2pm in the afternoon. I will follow the ever popular JG or Bar tour format. This is open to anyone interested especially those who are in the QC area, so please reply with your name if you are interested. This is just a survey right now and if we can get a game going that is when I will ask for more info.

More often than not it will be a 500 to 1000 peso buy in depending on how deep the pockets are of the people playing.

Let me know.

ACF5k+1K

Another successful tournament! Good job for the organizers. Just to let you know, we want more tournaments like this daily! Ok, maybe 1K+200 is good for a daily tournament.

Thought I wasn't going to make it but lucky the tournament started filipino time!

Started out the tournament with the usual players about 70+ players willing to duke it out for the coveted bracelet. Even had a featured table. Oddly enought this featured table yielded the most players out within 2 rounds.

Like usual I play my hand as I see that I might get lucky and I did get lucky a couple of times. Here are a couple of hands...

Pocket Q's, dealer raises times 3 of the blinds and we get one caller then me. I call and another player behind me calls.

Flop - A, K, 8. Everyone checks

Turn - blank... pre flop raiser bets 3k. Everyone folds and I think about it for some time and I call. Don't ask me why, I just did.

River - blank... I check and the pre-flop raiser checks... He shows an A, 10. Ok, so I didn't get lucky.

Here's another one...

I push, about 3200 left in my stack with AJ off, I get one caller with pocket 7's. I get lucky this time around and I double up. They move me to another table.

AQ off, I push with about 7k left in my stack, blinds are 500-1000. No callers. Next hand I get pocket 6's. I don't want any callers so I push. The big blind looks at his cards and thinks about it... he says... "CALL"...

I show my 6's and he shows his 8's. The flop makes his set. I stand up and there goes my game. Busted mid 20th place. Maybe next time. Funny thing, I busted on the bubble the night before. Can't get lucky everytime.

Good game.

Made it to the final table!

Whoa... MADE IT!

Ok, I made final table cause there was only one table! Hey, I showed up late. I had to take care of something back in the apt. Anyhow, usual faces. Pays to 3.

This was probably one of the fastest games I have ever played. Here are a couple of hands that I saw... talk about playing bad!

About 7 players remaining with 100-200 blinds. I raise with two faces times 3 getting just one caller.

The flop is 3, 7, 4 - the caller goes all in for about 2400.

I think for about 2 minutes and I decide to call and he shows me a 3 5 suited. 78% to 22%... I am so behind!

The turn is a face card... my face card! Lucky!

The river is a blank - what can I say, a total bad beat.

You got to get lucky sometimes. You go and play enough hands, you are bound to get lucky... "My Personal philosophy".

Good game.

You should call that...

I played a nice game the other day and I just noticed something that bothered me. A couple of players were probably not aware that telling someone what to do while they are not in a hand and other people are still in one is wrong. You never see it in the WPT so I am wondering where they learned it.

This is what happened... I was on the small blind and the big blind has been playing really tight, and our stacks are almost even, 6000+. I covered him by less than a hundred. The blinds are 500-1000 and there are only 5 of us left. Everyone folds and it is up to me, I push. The person to my right says, "you should call that." The big blind thinks about it for a minute and pushes as well. What do you think, was it wrong for the player that was not in the hand to say something that could influence the decision of the person who needed to call? If you are just starting to learn the rules, learn it! If you are not in the hand, shut up! Talk as much as you want after.

I admit that I made a mistake by pushing, I thought he would have folded. Anyhow, I bust 5th with no money. Oh well, lesson learned.

Good game. Till next time.

Saturday ACF1k+200 Tournament

June 17th, another saturday...

This is my second tournament for the poker bar tour in the casino. I played before and I busted out early... pretty much the same as my first tournament. I didn't even reach the break!

To begin with, props for the organizers again for another successful tournament. I heard there were like 44 rebuys and 80+ players to begin with.

I show up maybe 45mins early for the tournament and I notice that there are only a couple of players. Not even enough to open up a cash table. How sad is that? SAD! I remember the first ACF Poker Bar tour tourney... an hour and a half before the start of the tournament and about 60 people were already registered and ready to go. What does this say about our poker community... it says we are getting really laxed, it says we have the mentallity of "we don't mind being late cause people will show up late anyhow and the tournament will wait for us". It's a reality. Good poker players have discipline. Now, you tell me, is showing up on time or earlier discipline?

I know some of you also say that patience is another virtue of a good poker player. Yes it is. Too bad I don't have too much of that one!

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Now for the tournament... Unlimited re-buy for the 1st 3 rounds.

The tournament starts... I sit in seat 7 table 7, before the tournament a couple of friends say that it is a lucky seat. I agree. Barbie Manila, seat 7-9, and a couple of familiar faces from past games. I know I need to watch Barb really closely.

First couple of hands I fold... then i get a j9 suited... why not, the flop hits j 5 2 rainbow. I bet and I get one caller. Turn - 8, the other player goes all in... I think about it for a long time and I call. I was dominated - she had J10. Lost about 3/4 of my stack. I was already saying, nice at least i got past the 1st break this time around.

A couple of other hands come in and since I am short stacked already, i was getting ready to push. I get K J suited and I push getting two callers. Flopped the nuts straight and I tripple up.

A couple of hands down the road again - I call 9 10 suited and I hit top pair. I push heads up. I get a caller drawing for a flush. Same guy who doubled me up before. I win. I am back in the game again. The table was broken down...

Next table... The Duke seat 2, A familiar face seat 3, Manesh (not sure if that is his name) seat 4, Barb to my left and some more familiar faces...

For some reason, my stack just dwindled down and I was in a hand with the Duke... i hit middle pair and the pot was big enough for me to call any bet. I do...

FLOP - A J 3 rainbow

Turn - K

River - blank...

The Duke protecting his A with a big bet on the flop... me stupidly calling with mid pair with a K kicker. Super lucky. Well, that was my main strategy to begin with... get lucky! Ha, ha!

After that I was on fire... making my stack rise to 14k then dinner break. Looking around I saw that Mario (The Director) had a huge stack. After dinner break 3 tables left about 24 players...

After a couple of hands or so, final two table... then final table.

Stack

1st - Hat guy (forgot his name) 30+k chips
2nd - yours truly 20+k
other players in the game, george, Barb, Brian, Manesh, Eric, Mario, One guy and Kit.

1st three hands 3 guys were out. Then another two, then one more.

This I have to write... 5 players remaining.

3 gets involved in a pot. Super big stack, medium stack and super short.

Pre flop the super short stack goes all in.

Disclosure

Telling another person what to do is totally illegal, collusion is illegal! Now if independently two players happen to do what they want on their own then that is not collusion.

Ok - here it is...

Flop J 2 8, both players check
Turn A, Super big stack goes all in. Medium stack folds
River 6, (medium stack says he had pocket 6's)

Winner of the hand, super small stack. Big stack was bluffing. His reason - he said that he rather have a filipino win. Which I can admire if it was something significant but not poker! You want to move up the money ladder in poker not want another "filipino" to win. Maybe there was more to it than that but... anyhow... next couple of hands the super big stack busts out 5th place.

Moral of the story - you figure it out!

Anyhow - finally final 4

Brian 4th
New guy 3rd
Me 2nd
George 1st

Good game to everyone!

I needed this 2nd place.