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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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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Mega Million Tournaments
Straight Flush....No Good!
POKER....... As I know it.
Online Poker and Bad Beats
March Madness
On A Roll, Baby!
Slow Roll
My WBCOOP campaign is over!
WBCOOP Main Event
WBCOOP Event #6 part 3
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Mega Million Tournaments
Straight Flush....No Good!
POKER....... As I know it.
Online Poker and Bad Beats
March Madness
On A Roll, Baby!
Slow Roll
My WBCOOP campaign is over!
WBCOOP Main Event
WBCOOP Event #6 part 3
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3 Million Tournament - DONE! Yesterday, I played at The Metro Card Club in their 3 Million Guaranteed Tournament. Starting stack was 10,000 and the blind levels increases every 30 minutes. My first impression was that, the starting stack didn't allow to be creative by making some plays at the pot. However, I felt that it was important to increase your stack within the first 2 hour (4 levels) coz you would be short stacked by then. In the first 2 levels, I already saw 3 AA's and 1 KK. I can't be running this good! However, with just min raises, my big hands were not paid off. I don't like how my tournament was turning out. With all those big hands, I was only able to increase my stack by 20%. I guess everyone else at my table shared my initial impression. The table was really tight!! Towards the end of the 3rd level (blinds were 100-200), I had QQ in late position. Before the action got around to me, there was a raise and a call of 650. I re-raised it to 2K total. The original raiser called while the other player mucked his hand. The flop showed; 6  K 8 The original raiser, who happens to be Pokerstars country representative Allan Escano, bets 1K. This is a bit puzzling for me coz the bet was so small relative to the pot of almost 5K. In order to define Allan's hand, I raised his bet to 2.5K total. He tanks and asked if I had AA or KK. He eventually called the additional 1.5K. He made it look like it was a "crying call". I figured he had AK. The Turn and the River card didn't help and were insignificant cards. It was checked down, as we both figured that there was no money to be made on the last 2 streets. I knew right there and then that I was beat. As expected, Allan showed AK. My stack was down to 7,500. Soon after, the blinds went up to 200-400 with 25 ante. Just like that, I was now down to around M of 8 (M represents the cost of poker per round, wherein if the blinds were 200-400, that's a total of 600. Add the antes for 1 round. If the table is 10-handed, then 1 round would cost you 250. Blinds + Ante = 850.). The blinds were now eating up my stack. My being card dead was not helping as well. In the middle of level 6, wherein the blinds were 400-800 with antes of 50, the action folded around to me with a suited K9 at the button position. I pushed my remaining 5,500 All In. The Big Blind wakes up with AK and ended my tournament. Today, I am hoping for a better run at The Poker Circuit at The Big Ace Poker Club. This is a 1 Million tournament with the champion, aside from getting a cash prize of around 230,000.00, will also get a seat to the $1 Million PAGCOR Tournament in 2 weeks and a seat to the Asia Poker King tournament in Macau. |
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