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!
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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
WBCOOP Event #4
Gone again!
WBCOOP Event #3
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Slow Roll Wikipedia defines Slow Roll as "To delay or avoid showing one's hand at showdown, forcing other players to expose their hands first. When done while holding a good hand likely to be the winner, it is considered poor etiquette, because it often gives other players "false hope" that their hands might win before the slow-roller's is exposed." The key words here are "poor etiquette". But how come a lot of players get a kick out of slow rolling another player? Slow rolling happens in both live and online games. Some of the usual practice is to timebank and leave it til 1 second before making the call preflop with Aces. However, not everything that seems like a slow roll online is really a slow roll. Keep in mind that people can have slow internet connections or be playing multiple tables, creating a delay in their actions. At the same time, if someone lets his clock run down, then uses his time bank and lets that run down to a second before calling with the nuts, then it's ok to put a curse on his family. It is in the live games were most slow roll happens. It is when all betting is done and the river card has been shown, and the guy with the winning hand or nuts would be the last to show his hand in a slow and deliberate manner, making the other guy hope that he won. Now that's bad.Getting a guy to tilt when the hand is over is just low. In some card rooms in the U.S., you can get kicked out of the card room, or worst, you get a bloody nose for slowrolling. I am one guy who doesn't have a lot of patience for slow rollers. I call them out. At times, just to control my emotions, I just leave the table or call a time out for myself. Rarely can anyone to put me on tilt, but slowroll is oust one thing that really gets to me. |
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