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PanoRaMa United States. Mar 22 2010 06:31. Posts 1655 | | |
APPT Manila TR (I lost day 1, btw).
Set alarm for 10:30 AM, and ensure I'll get at least 8 hours of sleep the night before. At 9:30 AM theres some construction literally the floor right above me and all I can hear is hammering and sawing. Whatever that's fine, I prepare myself and wait in the lobby for a shuttle that's supposed to take me to the venue. The shuttle doesn't arrive until 12:30 (although it was scheduled for 12), and the event starts at 1. No problem, we get there right around 12:55. Then we begin the registration process. God, for a tournament that has a million dollar guarantee you'd think they'd hire people with at least half a brain. Registration process for maybe at max 50 people somehow takes 30 minutes because they had no idea how to streamline this into a logical process. I finally sit, 30 minutes after the tourney started.
Seat 1 is a high stakes nit, the rest of the table are giant donks, so I'm happy. I realize I haven't eaten anything the entire day so I start asking for servers to get me some food. This was at 12:30.
Throughout the tourney some donk in Seat 3 just runs amazing. He's like this 50 year old Philipino dude who looks like a nastier version of Humberto Brenes. I bet his picture will show up on pokerstarsblog or somewhere because he's probably going to win the entire thing given how he's running. He was literally calling Seat 1's utg open (which is AQ/AK at the bottom of that range) with 42o in UTG+2, flopping 442 and taking a ton of chips off of what must have been KK/AA for Winfred. He'd c/c c/c AKxx boards with TT and river the T and c/r. He'd bet out bottom pair 6-way on an Ace high board and make trips on the turn. He was literally smashing every flop.
Throughout this I'm not doing that well. At the start of the first break I'm around 22k after I induce some donk to bluff into me but I can't get hands for the most part. It's 3:00 at this point and I still haven't eaten. The 5 servers I told "HEY, come to me next I'm going to order some food" never came. I get TT in UTG+1 and iso UTG, some silent japanese guy who never once uttered a word. Huge luckbox calls, and this Japanese dude limp/reraises to like 5k and he only had 15k to begin with. My raise was only to like 600 (its 100/200/25 at this point), wtf?? So I obviously have no plan to try to flip for 80bbs so I fold. Later on, he limps SB vs my BB, I raise it up with K6o and he calls. Flop is Q43r and I bet like 40% pot and he c/rs literally like 6x my betsize. I really wanted to make a play but who knows wtf he could have, so I folded (the only real counter against this is to actually just make a hand and let him hang himself).
Finally at 3:30 pm I finally get a waiter to help me out. I order some stupid continental breakfast. 30 minutes later he comes back and tells me they're out of those. I sigh and re-order. I end up getting my new order of spaghetti at 4:30 pm.
Before I can even finish my plate of spaghetti, my knockout hand happens: Old donk opens MP, Silent Japanese guy flats SB, I'm in BB with AsQs I decide to squeeze here and not call, I'm at around 40-50bb and I'm perfectly happy getting this in against Japanese dude and would've folded if the old donk 4bet me. Either way, it's HU to the flop with Japanese guy calling my raise oop. Flop Qc 5s 3d, and this was the first time all tourney I had actually flopped a pair. I bet 40% to induce another stupid ass c/r, but he calls. Turn 7x, he chk, I bet small again, finally he raises. At this point he has enough for roughly a 80% pot size jam on the river. I decide the board is way too dry for him to really call off anything here, so I tank (hollywood) call. River is the Ax, completely rainbow board. He jams, and at this point I only lose to a set. If he has a set, I have the only hand that even pays this off. Seriously, if he has like 33/55 here, I really don't know what he's expecting to get called by. But I digress, since I was SNAP calling his stupid ass anyway. I call and he shows 77, fuck my life.
I leave the venue and take a taxi back to my hotel. It's 5 PM and the peak of Manila weekday traffic. What must have honestly been a 10 mile drive took nearly an hour.
Naturally I am now in a pretty miserable mood - that I once again failed expectations of myself, my backers, etc. I have 4 more days here and I don't know what to do because my hotel is so far away from everything and it's dangerous at night and everyone wants to take my money one way or another.
Overall, I hate Manila, and I am never coming back. It's not being results oriented either; even if I won, I definitely wouldn't come back even if they freerolled me into the next one. It's an overcrowded, dirty city wherein random security guards have to pack ARs and big ass shotguns. I'll be staying away from live tournaments for a while, at least until WSOP or after WSOP.
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whamm! Albania. Mar 22 2010 06:43. Posts 11625 | | |
im filipino and i hate manila too lol.
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Well the security is probably because of Germany right? And might as well just stay at the casino and play since thats probably like, the safest place ever unless the guards stage a coup for all zee monniieeesssss |
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PanoRaMa United States. Mar 22 2010 12:13. Posts 1655 | | |
nah this was outside and away from the poker venue (but still in the "nicer" part of manila). straight up every security guard has a shottie or a rifle. actually, the security guards inside the actual poker venue only had batons lolol |
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i hate manila and i've never even been there |
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