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!