Got Rice Crew Wins at Pokerstars lounge

Well we got successful results today, Jade and Mr Black came 1st and 2nd in the Sunday re buy madness.This was held at the poker stars lounge Macao which was all qualified from a free roll, so that was cool. I unfortunately went out 12th place. I had a good start but then had a really bad run and eventually was forced to go all in with jack 2. I had hope on the flop giving me 2 pairs with it, but the guy goes all in and has ace king and of course hits an ace then a king lol.

I did win this tournament last time with Mr black 2nd ill post some photos up from that day.

Today i tripled up with Jacks hitting a set at the beginning and won a few pots from bluffing. But because i was bluffing before getting queens kings and 10's i always got called pre flop with ace or king with raggedy kickers. This is normally ok except they kept hitting the over pair killing me. I also had King Jack and hit trip Jacks on the flop with an ace and a flush draw. The guy calls my massive raise and a diamond comes, I'm scared so i check but he checks. I cant believe it he called my massive raise with the ace. Knowing this I'm ready to go all in on the next card but what comes on the river?? an ACE giving him a bigger house. So he raises big, i fold showing my jack and shows me the ace i already know he has.

So after that Heel (not sure if that's the spelling) gives me the mic and asks me to mc lol I of course love the mic and away i go. I was just being my crazy self and they enjoyed it. I liked it as i got to commentate the victory of Jade and Mr black. In the end they actually said they'd split the 2nd and 3rd prize with the other guy left because we are cool and nice and we GOT RICE!. Also a little smurf came out of no where and gave me a cool pokerstars.net shirt. lol now i can be one of these guys who like to where stuff with pokerstars on it to pretend they are sponsored lol. Ill wear it a couple of times because its actually a cool shirt but after that you cheapies better sponsor me into some tournaments before i start wearing it any more lol. You ll see the potential. I also don't think they sell these ones its a special shirt !!

So after the victory we treated ourselves to some nice Korean bbq enough for 4 when there is only 3 of us and went of to buy our lucky cat. If you didn't know since our last win we decided to buy a lucky cat for our trophy cabinet each time we win a tournament or if 2 of us cash. So of we go but they suddenly don't sell them in our super market any more. So we journey on...... and on..... and on..... and on...... till we reach the venetian. We found this stone place where they have magical stones and we believed the cat led us here. So we got a magic stone of successful business and 3 balls with magic powers for each of us. I cant tell you the powers or you ll know our strength's, so hush hush. Mr black almost made us play Caribbean stud but i was like noooooo we want to stay on a high! so he said ok but then he got me agreeing when he said maybe the cat led us here to play one hand. Being really superstitious i said lets go! but then we decided nah since it was a long walk back lol.

We didn't get our cat tonight but well get it tomorrow and now i must shower before playing my 30 k tournament on spade club, ill update you on that later!

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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!

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!