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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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To be or NUTS to be?
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
2:42 PM

In one of the games I played a couple of weeks back, I played a very interesting hand in a 25/50 table. I was at the cut off position when the action got around to me. UTG+2 raised with a 200 bet. 3 other players called before my turn to act. My hole cards show QJ suited. At late position and having the pot odds to call, I made the call. Everyone folded around to the raiser. The pot now has 1,075 in it. The flop showed;

10, 9, 8

Perfect flop. NUTS. The original raiser bets 500. Looks like a continuation bet to me or at best top pair. The next 2 guys folds. The 3rd guy calls. He might have a draw. Since I find no threat to my hand, I flat called. The turn card was a;

Not a good card as it brings them closer to their draw, if they had a drawing hand. The original raiser checks. The other guy checks as well. I thought that the pot is good enough and that I would make it expensive for them to hit their draw. I bet 2,300 to a pot of 2,575. The original raiser calls while the other guy folded. The river card;

WOW! My nuts was now reduced to a mere 2 pairs and now I am playing the board. The original raiser makes an All In bet of 5,500. If he were playing KQ,

KJ, AK, then my hand is no good. He was the original raiser preflop. I have to give him credit for a big hand. A bluff is the only hand I can beat at this point. I mucked.

Be as it may, I dont think I will ever change the way I played this hand, 'coz no matter how many times we run this hand again, the chances of having that kind of a board is very slim.

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