Never let someone see your cards!

I went back yesterday for the 25 pound freeze out tournament and this time they managed to get 43 runners so the prize pool was pretty decent. I wanted to get first prize and i was so close to getting it.

I saw made in china again and we were all like yer see you on the final table but he got knocked out 2nd hand.He said it was because he couldn't concentrate as he was a designated dealer, but there wasn't really much thinking as it was an all in pre flop move he got knocked out with. To be fair he did have a hand pair of tens and got called by Ace king, you know how the story goes.

I Did ok, i knocked 7 people out so i got 35 pound in bounties and came 3rd. I'm not sure if what i did was a mistake but i asked a few people and they said it was correct. Ill give you more details about that and why you shouldn't let people see your cards in a minute.

In the beginning i was quite a big stack and had everyone under my control since they were all tighties, but then this crazy guy sat down. He had to put 300 in the pot for being late and called another 200, the pot was big with 2 others in there so i limped with 3h 4h. The flop was 10 s 5h and 6h. The first 2 checked and so i raised 1000 to take the pot there and then. The crazy guy who probably thought it was a re buy tourney called and the others folded. I figured he was a total donk so i wasn't worried. 9h came on the turn so i immediately pushed all in for his 1000 more which he snap called. The guy had Ah and 2c. I think it was because he wore a strong red t-shirt and had a lucky charm sitting on the table that gave him enough luck to hit his HEART giving him the nut flush. After that he was pushing and calling with king high on the turn card and hitting his high card. Fortunately he got knocked out before the blinds got to big and i became the bully once again.

On the final table i managed to knock 3 people out pretty quickly leaving the table with 6 people left. 5 people got paid and there was a small stack which had 2000 left and the blinds were 4000. This Small stack had the guy ill call Lloyd Mullaney behind it. He looked and sounded like him only difference being he had a shaved head. The guy got so lucky he kept wining all the all ins and got louder each time, it was so irritating. The last guy went out and 2 more followed pretty quickly leaving me big stack on the table with the other 2.

This is where i am not sure if i should have done what i did. I had over 60000 chips and i was small blind. The blinds were 4000 8000 and the dealer folded. The big blind was Lloyd Mullaney and he started playing tight, he still had 21000 on top and the other guy only had around 15000 and was big blind next so i pushed all in for the steal with queen 7 suited. To my surprise he snap called even though he always folded to me so i was thinking he had a monster. But in fact he had king 4 of suit. I realised he had looked at Rachel the whole time who was behind me. He picked up the fact she was looking at my cards when i had aces and she was saying 'why did you go all in pre flop, you should of just limped' She managed to see my cards and showed total weakness which he picked up on and obviously thought i had a lot worse. I wasn't in too bad a shape but nothing came on the board and he won with king high. I looked at Rachel to say don't look but she didn't understand and she looked again but this time it was a lot worse.

I was now dealer button and i was going to push with q2 suited. I didn't think Lloyd Mullaney will call me which he didn't as he just doubled up and thought its worth heads up with big blind who could have anything and id only lose about 15 if he won. As i was in motion going all in Rachel said 'don't do it' He snap called to no surprise with king 2 of suit and won again with king high. I cant say that he definitely would of folded but Lloyd Mullaney could have easily called as well making the odds worse. What rachel did without thinking was pretty silly,even though she didn't mean anything bad she was a big factor in me getting called both times. So don't let people see your cards! your not being mean your being clever. you may be able to hold a good poker face but your friend may not.

After all that i went all in with 5 6 of suit and hit 2 pairs but Lloyd Mullaney hit a bigger 2 pairs and i was out at third.

I question the play that i did when i was the dominant stack but i think i was right in doing it. The differences between 1st 2nd and 3rd prize was 100 each level so it was worth it for Lloyd Mullaney to fold. Next time id just make sure no one is looking at my cards!

ILL GET IT NEXT TIME!

Happy St Pastricks day

Every weekend me, Rachel and Super geek Steven vu go to London for dim sum. We also usually get our money back on our secret machine which is code name Bishi Bashi. There is actually a game called bishi bashi so don't run off to one of those machines because its not that one. It's basically a gambling game we discovered which is skill based. It was our secret machine and before i went to macau we used to always jackpot it after dim sum. Unfortunately last Tuesday we lost 30 pounds on it but we thought it might be because it was a Tuesday. So today we went knowing strongly it should jackpot this time.

We were so eager this time we wanted to play before dim sum unlike the usual dim sum first then Bishi Bashi. We made our way to the machine all hyped up and ready to rumble but as we turned the corner we began to clench our teeth as a young couple had their dirty hands all over our machine. They were young and looked pretty stupid and had no skills compared to my tiger like reactions. We watched cursing them every time they bashed our bishi that we claimed way before they did. I began to relax because i realised i was right and they continuously made mistakes. They kept launching the money into the machine so i didn't worry so much. But to my amazement they actually completed the first round. It was quite a high prize but nothing really compared to what it would show if it was going to jackpot. The next round started and halfway through the timer they already made 2 mistakes, there should of been no way that they could of completed that round. To my amazement again ! they finished that round and i wanted to rip their heads off as the prize went halfway to the jackpot which showed it was going to definitely jackpot. Like the amateurs they were they collected.



I had hope as they left the machine but Steven asked them how they did and they said they actually go the jackpot 2 hours prior. This really twisted my balls up into a state but i remained calm and tried a few pounds in the machine. Of course there was no sign of it getting the jackpot again so we left.


We checked the poker room in empire as well for any tournaments but there wasn't any until 7.30 so we passed on that.


We noticed there was green all over London and after a little pondering we realised it was St Patricks day. We thought we'd get into the festive moment and get some funny hats and drink Guinness. I don't really drink beer at all but i did just because it was St Patricks day and everyone was doing it including 14 year old kids. We joined the festivities in Trafalgar square where they had a stage set up and tried joining in some dancing. We were completely lost Steven even managed to spill drink all over someone but luckily they were too drunk to care. He also had a fear of wearing his green on the bus or train like a little poom poom. He seriously made a really good leprechaun i think he should grow a beard dye it ginger and always wear a green hat. It would be epic.


We had some fun and took leave so we could try to set up a poker game at my house tonight. So far no luck because everyone seems to be on the lash.

Got Rice weekend madness

Well what can i say, not much didn't happen this weekend and it was full on madness. There was Death grips to nipple twists and the birth of the Got Rice most HATED hand!

It starts of with the 150 k guarantee yesterday which was Saturday. If you remember i mentioned it before, it was a 500 dollar rebuy tournament. There were about 92 runners and I sat on the table that felt like it was situated in the highest mountains of Alaska. The air con was on super cold and even though they apparently turned it down 3 times it was freezing out the whole table. i saw one guy order a cup of coffee and i ended up drinking about 9 cups to try to stay warm. I don't know if it was the cold air above our heads or the large amounts of coffee in our systems but people were doing the craziest things and lucking out. My aces were cracked by threes pre flop and i got a boat with 9's and the other guy had a boat with 10's on the turn. I had 9's another time and the flop was all 6 7 8 rainbow giving me an over pair and an open ended straight. I went all in and the other guy had 10's and they held. Also this guy went all in pre flop with 6's 3 times and won 3 times and it was against kings then aces then both at the same time, incredible.

Well anyway after the rebuy period which was 2 hours!, I took total control of my table. I built up my stack to become big stack on my table, then we were moved out of the Himalayas. I was Pretty pleased with my stack but once i reached the table i was moved too i was gobsmacked. I thought my table was crazy during the rebuy period but it was nothing compared to the table i was moved to or even the ones surrounding it. The big stack was like 6 times my stack and i now felt pretty inferior. Lucky for me the big stack was actually playing the safe game so i got to take control. I doubled my stack to around 40 000 then some guy who was a super amazing donk started trying to fight back. I first started folding to his free betting then i began to get pretty annoyed. At the point where i really just wanted to take him down before he built his stack up i got kings. I raise, he of course re raises me so i push him all in for 20 something thousand. He tanks for a bit then he says hes committed after putting 5 000 in so he calls. he turns 7 9 and of course hits 2 pairs. I am Down and i lose a little bit more when he free bet me again. But then i doubled up off him when he called my all in pre flop i have ace king and he had king 7. But after that the donkey called my raise pre flop when i had queens. Calls my half pot bet on the flop and my all in on the turn. The board is all low 10 highest and no straight or flush. He has ace 7 high. HITS an ace on the river. So at on the last 2 tables i only have 8 thousand left when i push all in with ACE QUEEN. there is 16 people left and 10 get paid. The big stack pushes his stack all in over me. I read him to have a weak ace so i hoped to break the curse. Jade and Mr black both went out at 24th and 26th and they both went out with ace queen on two different hands. But then Johnny who should have turbo folded after the big stack pushed all in said he was thinking. I was like what do you have to think about? Then he said i know I'm losing to you but i think i can win a side pot with the big stack. If this would of happened its means he risked his WHOLE Stack with 6 people left to go out, to break even after this hand. He decides to call. EEE ORRR he has ace jack!!! the big stack has ace 9. I'm ahead but then the flop gives him a jack, then i get a Queen BUT OF COURSE he gets his trip jacks!. What can you do ey? The joke is he ended up winning

Well after that we all went to eat Korean. One of Mr Blacks students sunny also came down for the night. We decided we were going to drink then go to the fashion club where i expected to do some mc stuff. We had a bottle of vodka, small bottle of coke juice and 2 bottles of beer. I hate vodka by the way. Any way we first started off playing mahjong for drinks but it was going too slow so we did black jack, baccarat, high card 5 card poker then 3 card. Sunny got a Flush and we decided if any one got a flush well all do 2 shots which was half a glass, but sunny suddenly said it was 2 glasses each lol. At this point people were already tipsy and sunny who seemed like a quiet gentle fellow started getting quite aggressive. He also rigged the 3 card poker so Mr Black had to drink the remaining vodka straight and kept topping his drink up.

Rachel then gave a coaching session and gave her best advice for tilt control which was, if they raise you when your on tilt get your magic stone ball and throw it at their face lol. After losing 2 top ups advising Mr blacks students what to do with their hands in a cash game, we thought its time to set off. Sunny made it clear Mr black would have to sexually please him if he didn't get him a , and these were hes exact words 'a bitch that night.'

All was good and i was sober enough to mc and not fall off the stage and it was a good party. But then Sunny's inner beast came out. He was acting as if something had happened and started death gripping us trying to drag us off. I tried ignoring him as i was on stage mc'ing but he was pretty strong for a little skinny guy. He also kept doing it to Jade and Mr black. It was funny as he did it to random people he thought was them as well. Rachel started getting a bit upset so i had to try and calm him down. I first asked Mr Black to sort out his student and give him a spanking or something but he just gazed into the air and smiled. Then it happened he must of triggered something and luckily it wasn't too violent but i started nipple twisting him every time he gave me the death grip. I also got him to drink more so he would relax as well. It was funny as he actually kept beating me in rock paper scissors so i had to do something. Since we were drinking out of a can and he needed to be calmed down what i did was pretend to drink each time i lost but not actually drink anything. Soon enough he was on the verge of collapse so he lost his death grip powers and tried grabbing Mr blacks genitals every so often.

Well we got home safely and tucked into bed to get some rest for today's 100 dollar rebuy madness. I finished on the bubble again losing a big hand with ace jack suited. But the pokerstars lounge was actually closing today as they are relocating to the Macao side which is a bummer, so we played a few tournaments after. They gave us till 2 AM to organise and play whatever tournaments we wanted. We played 3 more tournaments after the 100 rebuy. One was a 500 freeze out which i also bubbled in 3rd place. Then 2 more 100 rebuy full of madness tournaments. The 1st one Mr Black and Jade came first the 2nd Jade Came 1st which was cool. We ended up with Jack Nicholson Riki, Texas and the 3 of us. Was funny as just us doing a 100 rebuy the pot was over 4000 and we paid 1st and 2nd.

Also i did the stupidest thing as i was phased out from this worn out week. I wanted to raise a pot. The blinds are 25 50 and it was raised to 100 but for some reason i said raise to 80 and threw in a 100 chip which counts as a call and waisted a chance to build a pot for my aces. I think i did this because i suddenly thought i was playing a 10 20 cash game for some odd reason.

Well any way My crazy weekend has worn me out and my face and body need rest and rejuvenation. Ill upload photos and vids later so you can check out the craziness first hand!

OFF TO BED

Just came 2nd in a freeroll 591 people Lost with queens to ace 7 all in pre flop T.T





BEST SONG EVER!




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News Report + Funny story

So things are still moving smoothly. I have just finished the intro for the APT (Asian Poker Training) videos. I had to basically do it twice which is so long since i think I'm doing things the long way. I'm completely self taught in design which is one of my other talents. But i think i always do things lets say in a special way instead on conventional ways lol. But anyhow ill upload it so you can check it out.



Things are still looking promising in my music stuff on top of everything.



The weather has gotten nice and sunny so i was able to drag jade out for a jog. Its quite pleasant as there is a free mini track and field where we can train. Not mini like a mini golf course just not full size. Shes aiming to lose a stone in 2 weeks so no baking cookies or brownies which isn't good for me as she makes the best brownies!



Its quite cool as well in Macao as they have these outdoor gym type playgrounds everywhere, its quite funny. Although the old folk round here are more active then the young ens so they tend to hog the machines. That reminds me of a funny story.



When we used to stay at hotel royal there was a park in front of it with the gym stuff and a seating area. And it was surrounded by flower beds, Now one day we were walking back to the hotel and it was starting to get dark not completely and we saw the bushes move slightly. Next i noticed a newspaper on the floor, then i was SHOCKED! I was with jade and after the silence we burst out laughing. It was an old man squatted taking a shit!. He heard us and it startled him, as he was still in the process he almost fell into it. After we stopped laughing and got far away enough we became puzzled because about a meter more of a walk from where he was squatted was a public toilet! Well maybe he was really slow and really needed to go.



Well till next time



PEACE

It's getting Gooood

Well like i said things will always get put right if you hang in and right now that's just whats happening. It could be because of the magic balls the cat lead us to or maybe the cat we ended up buying the next day that moves by itself, but what ever it is its bringing us a lot of sweetness to our journey.

I forgot to write about the results of the 30 k game on spade club but i got in the money on that out of almost 3000 people and the night before i cashed in on a 50 k tournament on pokerstars with 2 - 3 thousand runners as well.

Jade has been doing pretty well in her tournaments and we have poker times which is the top Asian poker magazine interested in sponsoring her. They are going to put her on the front cover of their magazine in march which is really cool. Also i think all of us might be getting sponsored into charity events by being representatives for them.

Thanks to My good friend in HK who introduced me to the promoter to try and get me a job mcing after he heard what happened to me, iv'e met up with the promoter again in Macao. I also found out after doing my research that the parties they do which is banana is actually one of, or basically is the biggest party promotional team. I went to fashion club to meet him and showed him what i could do for 15 minutes for the owner of the club to see and its all good, they were happy and I'm going to definitely get work. the first one might be on 20Th of this month in fashion club so come and support me.

And to top it all off, i finally found a really good basketball court so close to my apartment and people to play with. And even though my body is aching like mad this morning i feel goooood.

So always keep your head high and stay positive and maybe buy yourself a magic ball.




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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

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!

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.