Saturday, January 31, 2009

My famous bad beat story

I was talking to someone today in the pokerstars room in Grand Waldo and i started telling the story of my crazy bad beats, so i thought id tell all who haven't heard it yet.You are going to read this and think I'm ling that's how bad it was, but i kid you NOT this really did happen. This is a story Ive told so many times and that's the only thing i got out of it, a conversation.

So i go to the Wynn like normal and I'm grinding for hours, I'm up like 7000 hk doallrs so i had about 9000 something in total because i started with 2000. I'm on the 10 20 table so fishy things are expected to happen sometimes when i have a set and they call and hit a draw. So i hopefully will catch them with the nuts and get paaaaiiiidddd.

Now this all happened within 1 HOUR. I have 8 9 of spades, I'm on button so i raised 100 pre flop. I get 2 callers. The flop is 10, Jack and Queen OF SPADES giving me a STRAIGHT FLUSH. First guy bets 200 the next guy raises to 600 i don't want to scare them away so i call and the first guy folds. At this point i am hoping the guy has an ace high flush. Then the next card is another SPADE. The guy raises 2000 so at this point i know this guy definitely has a king or ace of spades .I reckon the guy wont run away and he almost covers my all in so its a nice double up and id be on my way home. So I'm all in. Guy SNAP calls. He shows Ace 9 his ace is a spade giving him a flush, but unfortunately for him i have a straight flush. I'm pretty happy but then what has to rain on my parade on the river??????? a KING OF SPADES!!!!!! giving him a ROYAL FLUSH!!.

I am on tilt instantly so the next hand i get i have king 6 off suit and raise 400 pre flop. i get 2 callers then the 3rd moves all in i CALL of course lol and others fold. Lucky for me the guy has ACES and donks get paid off in the Wynn so i laugh. And just like any other hand with king 6 i flop a full house. At this point i calm down a little and i get paid off with a couple of sets, as everyone thought i was a donkey from that one hand and completely forgetting i just lost with a straight flush.

It couldn't of been more then 45 minutes later i get a pair of 10's. I'm also not doing too bad i have almost 7000 in total and i was hoping i hit a set with these, get paid then go home. I raise 150 pre flop i get 5 callers believe it or not and I'm last to act again. Flop comes 10 10 king rainbow giving me QUADS, I'm over the moon. The first guy who was the one who lost to my king six, raises to 1000, next 2 people fold 4th goes all in for 2100 something next guy folds and I'm all in over the top. The 1st guy thinks about it and says ' i believe he has something', pointing to the first guy all in 'but i know your bluffing, you always bluff' Not realising even with king 6 i wasn't bluffing because i CALLED on tilt and didn't actually bluff since. He thought he'd probably lose 2100 but win the side pot with me which was 8000 something total as he had a couple of hundred less then me, so he CALLS. First guy all in shows ace queen drawing for a straight and the other guy who lost to me earlier shows ace king. So he has a pair of kings. I'm happy enough to show my quad tens and the guy must of been high because he shouts 'I KNEW IT' lol, I'm not sure which book tells you having quads is a bluff and to call if you think they have it. I start putting my jacket on but then the turn is a king, I stop, start sweating, take a big gulp and start to think no way, no way this isn't going to happen. It suddenly switches to slow motion as if my entire poker courier flashed before my eyes, ITS A KING!!!!!!! giving him bigger quads!!! i cant believe it and i want to choke the guy for saying once more 'I knew it, that's why i called' as if he made an amazing call.

I didn't make any donkey double up after that in fact i threw away another 2000. But don't worry i did make back my money and 2000 dollars profit later, after 19 hours of grinding! i was completely dead!. I didn't stay there to make my money, i stayed because after them crazy bad beats in a place where they didn't do bad beat jackpots or even give away something minuscule i was scared id get hit by a car on the way home.

so thats my TRUE story, so next time you have a bad beat ask yourselves, was it as bad as mine?

Friday, January 30, 2009

Spadeclub Today 31/1/2009

Over all i like playing on spade club but you do get off players that crush you by lucking out with bad calls. Spadeclub if you didn't know is a poker subscription site where you play freerolls with a chance to win prizes up to 30 k. They also have 3 stages to win tickets and money to Belagio tournaments which is cool. But the reason i play mostly is to try to win the yearly spoy ranking contest. To get ranking points you have to get on the final table to any of the cash freerolls or the Belagio or Caribbean tournaments.

Today i tried the 500 sit and go's because i wanted to use the points i win to enter the 2Nd stage of the weekly Belagio tournament which is 2,700. Last time i entered it was so annoying there was 380 something people so 38 people get tickets to the 3rd and final stage but i went out at like 40th or something with jacks to king 4 pre flop. Was horrible because the start of the tournament was 4 a m for me and so i wasted hours and hours with no sleep. i cant remember exactly but i think i finished at like 7 or 8 in the morning and didn't get much sleep because i had a live tournament at 3. 30 that day.

So i played 2 500 point sit and gos and usually they are actually pretty good players so i don't know why i got these 2 bad callers which lucked out on me which were in similar situations.
In both i was chip leader and the other guy was just under me, one was a couple of hundred less then me and the other was like 80 less. In both there was like 5 of us left and 3 get paid. Now for one of them this guy would raise 300 throughout the game if he had aces or kings and less with queens or lower. so pre flop he raises 300 so i immediately knew what he had and no one else was in the pot so i called wth queen 5 suited. the flop comes qD 5H 5C. so i flop a house. i knew this guy would raise so i checked. he raised 200 so could see he was scared of the 5 any way, so i just raised to 600. the guy thought about it for a while and i thought i should of bet smaller but then he re raises me to 1500. So I'm obviously all in and I'm thinking did i get it wrong does he have set queens giving him a bigger house.This guy should know all through this sit and go when i bet big i have everyone beaten it was obvious. HE CALLS! I'm a little scared but then just as i thought he has kings. I know poker so i didn't celebrate yet but still what comes on the turn A KING! and if it wasn't bad enough what comes on the river A KING!. Its times like this that i question myself, is poker really a game of skill? But to be honest in the long run where the stats do make sense good play triumphs you just got to hope that the stats hold out in bigger games lol. That's why i prefer playing multi tables on cash games online, because it levels the playing field so you win more then getting bad beats. If bad beats were always happening then there wouldn't be a bad beat jackpot in certain places because the prize wouldn't be worth it. And i know everyone including myself sometimes thinks, the bad beats only happen to me!

For the other 500 sit and go like i said it was all pretty much the same situation accept pre flop the guy just calls the blind and I'm big blind with ace 3. Just like the other game i flop a house. The guy raises quite large like 700. I know hes probably just trying to take the pot maximum an ace with a good kicker so I'm in good shape to go all in. HE CALLS! shows and shows a pair of jacks. The turn card comes its a 5 I'm good the river card comes I CRY! its a JACK! giving him a bigger house. Terrible.

I just wonder sometimes do they realise its not worth doing that up against a stack that will take you out, the only stack that can take you out so close to getting paid.EVEN with kings on a flop like we had. Sigh... i don't know

well till next time!

No time to sleep in HK


Well i did say itll be back to work on poker from today but as it turns out Hussein doesn't like being a lonely traveller and dragged me and Jade with him to HK. I'm not complaining since he paid for our tickets and it turned out to be quite productive.

The selling point Hussein had for Jade was he'd take us to watch Bolt which is the new animated movie about a deranged dog who thinks hes got super powers. Unfortunately every cinema was fully booked for the day. So since we were on a mission to see it, we actually ended up literally waiting with no sleep till the next morning to buy tickets for the first showing. We only just managed to successfully complete our mission even though we were queuing up an hour before opening times which was 9 in the morning. And even though we were right at the front because there were no other seats left surprisingly enough the film was pretty good.

So what did we do in between all this? Well what other way is there to kill time then to go on the lash and as jade was saying all night get wankerred. I'm not usually much of a drinker any more but since my friend was here and to be honest Ive never had much chance over the years to have a drink with him, we got smashed. My friends from London who live in HK were the ones who actually took us to this pretty good club in TST. They ordered 2 bottles of Black label and mixed it in one jug with water and another jug with green tea. I don't know whether it weakens the alcohol effect but it does completely weaken the taste and they claim it is still strong and gets you drunk before you even realise it. Well i did get jolly but not drunk but then again i am a bit of a heavy weight when i seriously drink. My friend also introduced me to a guy who does a lot of events so i could try and see if i could get work from him. I just point blank said let me just take the mic even though the other mc is doing a heavy job and ill show you my skills. Even though i drank quite a bit when it comes down to doing my shit i get it done where ever, when ever and in what ever circumstance. So i did my thing and the guy was on it straight away which was cool So hopefully i could start making a bit of money doing some mcing at clubs. On top of that the guy i think who brought the mc and dj possibly was interested in doing stuff and even help me get music produced and stuff so the night ended up being pretty productive.

After that we drank more in a restaurant and ate loads of food. After 6 though there wern't any clubs or anything to kill time so we did a couple of things that might be good pointers for anyone who is too cool to sleep in a bed. We didn't find much point in getting a hotel or anything since we wouldn't be sleeping in it long and if we did fall asleep we would miss the chance to watch Bolt. SO firstly 24 hour MC Donald's. Its perfect It may not be bed and breakfast but you can buy a breakfast or just a coffee and if you want sleep with your he'd perched on the table. We got bored so we went to explore after an hour and if you want to see the sites at the same time as getting a cotch spot for cheap the tram is for you!. Also after we got the tickets for Bolt at 9 for the showing at 11 45 we sat on the really comfortable sofas in the Hagendaz and al fell asleep for 2 hours without buying anything and with no disturbance. So that's a hot spot , o the building is the shopping mall in kowloon tong.

So anyways I'm going to catch some serious zz's then tomorrow i have to start work on stuff for the poker training stuff.

peace!

Heres some pics and also some from other trips to hong kong






















Wednesday, January 28, 2009

kung hei fat choi











kung hei fat choi !
So its the year of the Ox and hopefully that will be the year to remember! Year of the ox reminds me of my really close friend Ray , Miss you mannnn lol I haven't played much poker since last Saturday because my good old school friend came to visit me from Beijing. Took him round Macao even though everything was closed, which it will be for a week and played hours of Rock Band on our newly bought Xbox 360. Man we were rocking it out until like 3 in the morning and we got no complaints! i love it!


Unfortunately we walked all around Macao but didn't find one dragon dance! and since everything was closed we ended up going into two small dingy restaurants as we called them and got ripped off lol. we ate out of a dish in one of them which was smaller then the palm of my hand, the picture in the menu was bigger!. Luckily they had big bottles of tsing tao for 10 mop each and played a a drinking game which got us shouting pretty loud, like we didn't stick out enough as it was in the restaurant we were in. The other one we went to was just plain bad i always finish food and even though the portions were almost as small as the last place i didn't want to finish it.


Along the way to fisherman's wharf we went through he sands where Hussein had a go on roulette. He won the first go on the computer making 100 dollars to 360 but then put 500 on a table game and lost. During that Jade kept telling me to borrow 100 dollars because she had a feeling. And according to her all the numbers that came on the table at each roulette table we past, she would of chosen. I believed her a little as i know her lucky number is 4 and most of the Numbers were 4. We worked out if she put all her winnings each time on the numbers she would of won 8 million something hk dollars. So seeing as i had to make up for making her miss out on that money she 'definatley' was going to win i had a go at some carnival type game they had set up at fisherman's wharf to win a red Ox teddy bear.


They had a dice game set up and initially its meant to be the game lucky and you win 3 times you choose a prize but i asked can i play liar and they laughed and said of course of course like i had gotten myself into a trap and it was easy money for them. What they don't know is i play this for drinking games a lot in London and i don't like to down cups of Chivas and tea each time i lose so I'm pretty good. I am also a Poker pro now so my poker face when im losing is pretty useful in this game. So the first round i was ling and caught her out when she tried ling back with the number i said. 2Nd round was really good she said a number 5 6's i had no 6 and i took a risk and said 6 6's because i new she had 5 6's and then i said go on make my day and say 7 6's as if really i wanted her to open by saying the opposite, but i really did want her to say 7 6's and she said it... BAM! i opened with no 6's at all and won the 2nd round. now the 3rd round she should of seen it coming but she was pretty frustrated and they all were flabbergasted by what was happening and she opened when i only said 5 5's and of course there were 5 5's and i won the teddy bear for Jade. Shes happy now!


So i got time to just have a bit of fun while my friend came through my neck of the woods and relax a bit but now i got to get back to working hard. I also came up with a good idea i want to do Which is start a poker training school here. DON'T NICK my idea well you wont know how i am going to do it any way and you don't have Mr black so its OK. So keep track of that if your interested in improving your game.


HAPPY NEW YEAR!




Sunday, January 25, 2009

Belief and Hope is the real super power!

The worst part of being treated badly is you feel sorry for the person.

The worst part of having your money stolen is you gave it to them with trust. The sad thing is in your heart you would do it again since they said they needed your help.

You could cry if you were left to feed yourself and the one you carry on your back after everything was stripped from you, or you could choose to stay strong and look for a solution.

If you have been used and trust has been diminished with someone close to you it doesn't mean you lose faith in others, they may be the ones the universe sent to make it right.

Loved ones may be in trouble and you may blame yourself and accuse yourself of being selfish for fighting. You may think an alternative path may fix things over time, but time cant be turned back and you may never know of this burden they could be carrying.

You could have all the reasons to hate a person who thought they had the power to crush your dreams, but really its you who would let hate consume you and stop your dreams from becoming a reality.

Life could get to a point where you think everyone was right and maybe everything was just an excuse to escape the real world. But wont you feel the same in any circumstance if it wasn't going right? PROBLEMS come into any scenario or the word wouldn't exist.

Good things happen and bad things happen that's life. Whats great about life is it keeps going on. You must cherish every moment even the worst and believe in yourself before the dream, as your the one who carries it. Be faithful to it and don't let 1 sad person or even 2 change anything or they have succeeded. EVERYTHING happens for a REASON.

No matter what you think you are always in control of every situation.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Who wants fish fingers?

Well when you put the words Macau and poker in the same sentence you will find the word fish also finds its way in. This is the reason a lot of players including myself fly in from around the world to get a big catch. Unfortunately these fish occasionally bite, because macau is a gamble gamble place where superstition is at its highest and funnily enough lucky charms seem to come through more often then not.

The other night we went back to the place i vowed never to set foot into again, the Grand Lisboa because the Wynn is overly packed these days and i couldn't be arsed to wait a couple of hours for a table. You ask why i feel this way? its simple too many bad beats by being outnumbered by super fishes. One scenario topped the whole thing. I have king 2 flop is 2 2 10 and there are 2 spades giving them a flush draw 1 guy raises next guys all in the following guy all in i push my all in over them all as i know them well and i know all three are on flush draws which they were. My stack is huge like almost 8000 and max buy in is 2000 and the guy after me who i thought was good and conservative calls me almost covering my whole stack. Also take in consideration this guy only put 20 dollars in pre flop so hes not committed to call his whole stack which was 7000 something. So i figured he must have a 2 as well but i think my king kicker would own but in fact he has a pair of 10's! with a 7 kicker or something so of course im over the moon but then what happens next ?? a 10 ! comes on the river!

So any way im back at this place and as the saying goes fishes don't stop swimming Well i just made that up, and i sat on the table with cash signs covering my eyes and a smile on my face because out of 10 people 6 were major fishes and the biggest one in macau was also sat next to me who i will talk about. So this guy is indian you might of heard of him if you were in macau because he somehow miraculously won the apt qualifier giving him a flight, hotel, ticket and also 39k in cash on top i think. This is the same guy who calls on the turn with ace 4 his whole stack when someone had pair queens and pushes all in. The board being queen 7 10 3 rainbow and hits an ace on the river. So when i was at the cash game all i could see was him losing pots every time luckin out on a few but mostly losing calling big raises with ace high jack high. So there was 2 times i put him all in and lost. 1st time the board was Ace 2 jack and turn came 6 he called my flop bet and pre flop bet which were both 300 i had ace king i then put him all in on turn he calls he shows 8 2 and then a 2 comes on the river. A tear slowly drops from one of my eyes.The next time im all in with him i have aces preflop all in and he has 4 q of hearts and he gets a flush. So in the end i just couldn't beat this amazing poker pro.

So basically i didnt have fish for dinner once again at the grand lisboa so next time its back to the wynn. The wynn also have a lot of fishes but there is a good mix of good players so it balances out. which is why i think its so crowded there now. And also its red in theme so it brings in the superstitious ones lol which is all! So good luck on the felts and remember fishes do get lucky so if your in macau remember your rabbits foot peace!

The Beggining of my Cinderella story

So where does it begin? I could start from when i was born but it might not be for the faint hearted, so ill start from last September when i decided to sell all my belongings and make a new start to a promising future. To be honest i didn't have poker as my initial drive but only as a money maker on the side. I first dropped everything to come to Macao to push my music in Asia alongside ayi jihu a Chinese r n b singer trying to make it. But come December money i made in poker was borrowed by my boss then claimed to be his, so lost. On top of that i gave all the rest of my money to my boss at the start for rent and living which he kept. Then he didn't pay 2 months rent which led to us getting in a lot of trouble and forced to move out of the apartment. Also even though i wasn't staying with him anymore he decided not to return the money i gave him at the beginning which was enough for me and Rachel.


I have never been a quitter and i always grow stronger and i believe the universe will sort all this stuff out in the long wrong. I may not do things how I've planned and this road isn't going to be easy due to my circumstances but I've ended up starting all over again accept this time i have no money and i have gone poker pro. So follow the journey of my very own Cinderella story Fortunately for me i have a good friend who has helped me out with my living problem and we have also formed an asian poker crew called Got Rice. This crew is made up of me (C-red) Rachel (Jade) and Jason (Mr Black). We want to be the first cool asian poker crew , hip, fresh and brand new. Also i have quit the music label I'm on and trying to do it legally but to those reading this who follow my music, don't worry it doesn't mean I've quit rapping it just means i have to take the long way round and finance myself taking this road.


So i intend to build a roll from nothing doing freerolls at pokerstars in grand waldo. I have won quite a few already which shows promise but no major pay out yet. Also i am aiming in the long run to try to win spadeclubs' spoy contest which is won by accumulating the most spoy ranking points in a space of a year for a big reward. Ill keep you all updated on results once the website is up.


Never give up hope and things always happen for a reason so don't cloud your vision with tears and stay strong and focused.