i am pokermax
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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You Make The Call - World Series of Poker 2008 WSOP
Daniel Negreanu is the Poker God?
Funny All-In - World Series of Poker 2008 WSOP
Poker - Insane first hand!
You Make The Call - World Series of Poker 2008 WSOP
Daniel Negreanu is the Poker God?
Funny All-In - World Series of Poker 2008 WSOP
Poker - Insane first hand!
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March Madness
On A Roll, Baby!
Slow Roll
My WBCOOP campaign is over!
WBCOOP Main Event
WBCOOP Event #6 part 3
WBCOOP Event #6 part 2
WBCOOP Event #6
My Blog's new look
Fun Poker Night
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March Madness
On A Roll, Baby!
Slow Roll
My WBCOOP campaign is over!
WBCOOP Main Event
WBCOOP Event #6 part 3
WBCOOP Event #6 part 2
WBCOOP Event #6
My Blog's new look
Fun Poker Night
Showing only 10 of my recent posts,
click the dropdown button for older posts
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Online Poker and Bad Beats People with weak heart, stay away from online poker. Bad beat and online poker are mostly spoken in one sentence. If you are a regular cash game or tourney player, it would be best that you try to spend some time online. It will surely build your resistance to tilt whenever you encounter bad beats. Suck outs or out drawing a hand is a common occurence online. I not sure, but I guess they designed the software as such so you would get hooked on it. Afterall, it's so difficult to leave a table when you're stuck. A lot of the young poker phenoms now started as online pros, and have now crossed over to live games. Durr Dwan, Elky Grospellier, Ilari Sahamies are just some of the online poker sensations that have now invaded the a lot of the high stakes live games in Vegas and other parts of the world. You should see the range of hands that these guys play with! Check them out in HIgh Stakes Poker or Poker AAfter Dark. Online, these guys play between 12 to 20 tables at the same time. They spend more than 8 hours playing online. So if you put together the number of hands that they have played, a guy like Durr would have played more hands than a seasoned pro like Barry Greenstein. These online pros have seen more hands than any of the old-school pros, and since they are playing multi tables online and with time pressure, they can react quickly compared to a live game pro. They've seen a variety of hands, flops, turns, and rivers. They have figured out the odds on how their cards would hold up or suck out. It is for this reason that I have been spending at least 3 hours online everyday. I am hoping that the collective hands that I've played live and online would help me become a better poker player. As it is right now, I am very much surprised on how my game have opened up a bit. How I float with middle pair, and how I open a lot of pots with suited connectors. Eventually, my objective is to evolve and become a complete player, able to mix up my game, and being able to compete at a very high level. Clearly, like me, a lot of poker enthusiast are serious in improving their poker savvy, which is why playing poker is clearly a game of skill. |
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