So I won a Macau Event

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PanoRaMa United States. Oct 23 2009 00:13. Posts 1655

Yesterday I won event #1 of the Oct. Macau Poker Cup series. Just a small buyin tourney I wasn't even planning on playing. ~130usd R/A, and pretty much a turbo shove fest as well. 1st was $4k with free entry to the Red Dragon (the MPC main event, 1300 buy in) and I got a really nice glass trophy to boot, which I think is really cool because it's something tangible I can show to my parents etc. that sorta legitimizes what I do (with a tv appearance @ some huge event being the ultimate legitimizer)

Pretty much ran amazing from start to finish. Kinda regrettable actually, because when I won the FTP 50/50 at the start of 2009 I won like maybe 2 flips and the rest was sheer dominance and getting it in good. This time I just got it in horrible a bunch of times and sucked out, and despite being the chip leader at the FT the whole way through there were many times where I should've lost. Kinda wished I coulda used that run good for some bigger event

. There was also one point during the FT where utg1 opened for everything but 1-2bb behind, folded to me OTB and at this point I thought everyone had folded before me, so I'm like stealing any 2 here so I announce "all in" with my 52o then I see utg1 and I'm just like...well, fuck. He actually tanks for a bit and calls with a2s lol and I don't bink. But yeah I'm playing like my D-game this tourney and just binking like crazy.

What's funny is you know when people win live tourneys they pose with their chipstack + hole cards that won them the tourney? Well whenever my picture is up you're going to see me with my awkward chip stacking and the magical 43o that won me everything. So now everyone knows I sucked out

. Truth is by HU I had like 98% of the chips in play and he jams like 2.5bb so it's a snap call with any two, and I rivered a straight vs J7o.

Anyway, haven't been updating much because I've neither been doing good nor bad. Hopefully I can make another update after I ship the Red Dragon :D. I think if I get to ship that, along with like ~75k usd, I might have enough points to win the Macau Leaderboard and winning that makes you Asia Player of the Year or something. Additionally, I read the slow habit PLO book and it's very good and I've been looking to start training PLO hardcore, so that should be fun to write about as well as I try to get good in that. GL everyone