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My name is Vic de Guzman. I am an amatuer poker player from the Philippines. Though I play a lot of poker, both tournament and cash games, I still do not consider myself as a professional player. However, I consider myself a student of the game, eagerly learning and appreciating this mind-blowing card game. I am known in the Philippine Poker scene as POKERMAX. Why POKERMAX? A lot of people say that I bring so much action at the tables. I've had some Poker Tournament success in my 5+ years playing poker, namely, Champion of the 2nd season of the POKER BAR TOUR (2006), 2009 Filipino Poker Tour Champion wherein I bested a field of 667 (the biggest field in Asia) with a prize pool of 6 Million pesos, Champion of the 1st Rotary Charity poker event, 48th place in the 2009 Asia Pacific Poker Tour in Cebu, and several other tournaments wherein I placed in the money. I am currently a regular player at the Manila Bay Poker Club at the Mall of Asia and The Big Ace Poker Club in Mandaluyong.

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Out of the tourney
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
6:34 AM

I never expected myself to be out of the tourney this early. First, I limped in at late position with KQ. 3 people in the pot. Flop shows K Q 6. I hit top 2 pairs! First player bets 100. The other player calls. I raised with a bet of 300, and the unfortunate happened.......I got disconnected! By the time I got back in the tourney, my stack was down to 1,600. Ouch!

A couple of hands after, I get KK at UTG+2 position. I raised 3X the BB. 2 players called. Flop showed 6 6 Q. I checked. One player bets half the pot. The other player called. I raised with half my stack (feeling that no one would be playing with 6 since I raised preflop). The original bettor goes ALL IN. The other player folds. Putting him on AQ, KQ or QJ, I called. When the cards were shown, I almost fell off my seat when I saw that he played 6 2 offsuit. WTF!

So, for the WBCOOP Event #1, D' Ghostman bows out at 1528th place. See you in the next event!

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