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Old 11-24-2007, 02:33 AM
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Default APPT Macau Trip Report part 2, I’m Bond18 Bitch, Main Event

Yesterday was the satellites for the main event. At the time the event not only had its original 250 seats sold out, but apparently they were very much expecting to have 50 alternates and a full lock out. I decided to play one of the satellites, got deep, then failed to suck out AKs with 75o all in pre flop and missed out on my seat.

After the satellite I went back to my hotel room and found a PM from Timex, who said he’s three floors above me. I gave him a call and told him to swing by the room. I finally got to meet the man who (at current standing) ~$80,000 dollars I’ve lost. Whenever people up to this point had asked me about the WSOP and where I came up with the money I’d have the opportunity to say, totally lacking in sarcasm
“Yea well, I lost $61,000 of an 18 year olds money”
…pause
“but don’t worry, he’s not angry or anything.”
The expressions were worth the $61,000 alone, especially considering it wasn’t mine.

Timex and another 2+2’er (Frank, whose 2+2 name I can’t stop forgetting) came downstairs and we decided to hit the Venetian together. The casino is of course very similar to it’s Vegas sister casino, but the gaming floor is no immense it truly must be seen to believe. Rumor has it standing on one side of the main floor you can’t actually see to the other, and though I didn’t think to test it at the time I certainly wouldn’t have trouble believing it. Inside the casino is a river with gondola rides, not to mention theatres, luxury shopping, and all the assorted other amenities of a world class hotel.

The taxi line outside the Venetian looked at least half an hour long, so we elected to walk back. The Cotai strip is still heavily under construction, so the hotels are very much so spaced out. It will likely be 10-15 years before the strip is fully developed and looks something like Vegas, and at the moment walking from the Venetian to Grand Waldo (which according to some are “next to each other”) is a good 30 minute walk.

When we got back we went to the 2+2 meet up (which managed to attract five 2+2’ers in total) then hit the welcome party where we found several more. Earlier that day during the satellite I’d given the woman who does the Stars video blog interviews, Ali Lightman, who I’ve known from tournament poker in Australia, a quick interview. I told her that if she found me during the party I’d give her a truly ridiculous interview to remember. I think it speaks for itself pretty well. My bit is a little before half way through, select this link and choose video 5:
http://www.appt.com/news/apptlive/

Ali’s got a great sense of humor and loved the Chapelle show reference, and the party overall was pretty good for being in a loud club atmosphere mostly devoid of seating. I made sure not to go overboard on the alcohol since I needed to play the next day, then drank a couple glasses of water that night just to make sure.

I woke up today feeling refreshed and ready. I met a group of guys down a the lunch buffet to grab some food before the tournament, then headed down with a couple minutes to spare. It turned out that was largely unnecessary since the organizers spent half an hour giving speech’s about the event, then unleashed four Chinese dragons (so I thought, the Chinese guy next to me pointed out that they were in fact Lions) onto the crowd with a chorus of drums as they ran about through the rows of seats, bobbing, weaving and leaping into the air, with costumes that had moveable eyes and tongues just in case you needed an extra dash of mind [censored] in the morning.

Play gets underway somewhere around 1pm with our noon start time, and my table (which has 10 stacks dealt into it) contains Scotty Nguyen on my right, as well as my online friend Alex (Garage13.) We started with 10,000 in chips at 25/50 blinds.

Play at my table early was incredibly tight. Nobody gave up anything, and for the first few rounds there was maybe one or two flops per 10 hands. Scotty is up walking around for over 50% of hands, and when he’s seated spends a lot of time joking around. Of all the live pro’s out there, he’s very probably the most fun to have on a table. I actually got a few good hands to start off, but completely failed to get any action on them except maybe one call and a check fold post. Most my hands were very straight forward, and unfortunately didn’t get anywhere near enough hands to flat call people in position and make them uncomfortable post flop. I lost about 1500 chips on a K high flush draw in a multi way board that missed and an AKs that got 3 bet pre flop and had to fold to the C bet on the flop when my first interesting hand came up.

Villain in the hand was a young German kid who for some reason was dressed like a very much toned down lil’holdem. He had three bet one of my raises earlier when I had AKs and lead a QT7 flop that I folded to. I had a fairly agro image, mostly the result of having some good hands.
Effective stacks: ~8500. Blinds 25/50, I hold AsQs in MP1.
Preflop: Folds to me, I raise to 150, button (German) calls, SB calls, BB (never showed) folds.
Flop: 9s 8c 7s
SB checks, I bet 350, button calls, SB folds.
Turn: 2c
I check, button checks.
River: 6s
I lead 1250 hoping if he has the bottom straight he won’t fold, and if he has the top straight he’ll make a very bad committing raise. Instead he folds.

The interesting hand came up between Scotty and I, as well as a very straight forward player behind me. Blinds 50/100, effective stacks about 9000. I hold 44.
Preflop: Folds to Scotty in MP2, Scotty raises to 325, 1 fold, I call, CO thinks about folding for a bit then elects to call, 3 folds.
Flop: Ah 7d 5d
Scotty checks. I’m pretty sure CO wasn’t thinking about calling with an A pre flop since it seems more automatic unless he has a weaker one. I decide to lead 700. CO quickly folds and Scotty check raises to 2400. I fold.

Things were quiet for some time and I continued to get good starting hands that couldn’t get action. At 100/200 I finally had an interesting hand develop:
My stack: ~9000
SB: ~7000
I hold Ad9d in the BB.
Preflop: Folds to SB, SB completes, I raise to 600, SB calls. SB is a 30ish Asian guy from Hong Kong who seems mostly straight forward though is a bit more TAG than most of the newer players.
Flop: Ah 7c 5d
SB leads 1000. I call.
Turn: 7d
SB leads 3000. I go into the tank. Leading this flop and betting so large by the SB has really been unlike him so far, but I’m almost 100% positive he’s raising AJ+ here pre flop. I think the only A he shows up with that beats me here is AT, and if that’s the case I’ll suck him out a good % of the time anyway. I look over at his stack and find he’s left himself with about 2400, and move in. He taps the table and folds.

The very next hand I get involved again. The UTG player is a young Australian who seems tight and decent but is more so a live cash games player. I hold AKo in the SB.
His stack: ~11k
My stack: ~14k
Preflop: UTG raises to 525 (he wasn’t opening too much, especially not in EP) folds to me in the SB,I call, BB folds.
Flop: Kh 8c 4s
I check, UTG bets 600, I call.
Turn: 6c
I lead 1600, he thinks it over and calls.
River: 7s
I lead 2600, again he thinks and calls, then tables AKo. Fair enough. I think in live that line gets more value then going after him on the flop, since he’ll always fold without a K on the flop and often check behind on the turn without one.

A few hands later a hand develops with Scotty Nguyen. Blinds 100/200
My stack: ~13.5k
His stack: ~15k
Scotty has been mixing it up a fair bit, open limping pre flop, raising 3X, raising 4X etc. He has yet to min raise. I hold 8c Tc
Pre flop: Folds to Scotty in MP, he raises to 400, 1 fold, I call with, guy behind me calls, folds to SB, he calls, BB (never showed up) folds.
Flop: 2s Td Qd
Everyone checks around. The SB seems disinterested and the player behind me is very straight forward and would always bet here with some sort of hand.
Turn: 7s
SB checks. Scotty starts laughing and bets 1600. I can’t figure out one hand in his range that a good player would check on this board into 3 players that beats me, except maybe something like JTs. For the most part I think he just sees two players that are always folding, and since he knows I’m agro mostly thinks I’ll be betting my decent hands on the flop. I call, and both players behind fold.
River: Th
Scotty checks. I bet 3000. After about 3 seconds he check min raises to 6000. Oh god this is so gross. I’ve seen Scotty 4 bet pre flop with 83o in the main event and pull some sick moves, but he’s also totally sober so far today and hasn’t really been getting out of line. He seems capable of putting me on a missed draw and trying to raise me off it with some missed hand of his own, and I’m not sure how much credit he gives me for a T. I call and he quickly tables 22.
“Haha!! All you have to do is check to them Baaaaaaby!!”
I rip my wallet out of my pocket and open it up.
“Hey Scotty you want what I got left in here as long as I’m gonna pay you off all day?”
“You know it baaaaby! Hahaha!”

After that I have to hang mostly tight due to my stack size and fail to get a lot of good hands. I flat call my friend Alex with KK once and jam over his flop bet on a 39sJs board and he quickly folds 88. Outside that I try to take advantage of the players stacks who never showed up, but the SB’s and buttons in front of those stacks act difficult by flat calling and 3 betting me with a decent frequency.

My stack has dwindled to about ~4200 at 100/200 with a 25 ante when I peer down at 44 in the BB. I have yet to three bet anyone pre flop. The player on the HJ is a middle aged Australian guy who seems to open at least once a round in LP and always raises a full 4X. It folds to him and he makes it 800. It folds to me and I jam in knowing he’ll snap fold 77 and down, and maybe even 88. He thinks it over for a moment, asks how much it is, looks over at my stack, and says “okay I call” then tables JJ. My 44 fails to suck out and my tournament is over.

Ali Lightman catches me as I walk away and says we have to do another interview (at this point it looks like it hasn’t been uploaded yet since the internet here is really slow.) When I have a link I’ll put it in the thread or next trip report, but basically I stood there and told her I was very shocked to find out I was, in fact, not one of the badest mother [censored] of all time, and that I’d be in my room crying and eating ice cream.

It was a strange tournament overall, and pre flop I really did run like god. My pre flop hands included; AA twice, KK twice, QQ once, 99 once, AKo once, AKs once, Aqs, all in the span of about 3 hours.

After I bust I found both Timex and Frank have long since busted, so we find Tufat and go over to a local Korean BBQ. I come back to find Bondgirl still in with Elky sitting on her left with a massive stack. She tells me some of her hands and it sounds like she’s played very well all day.

When play ends for the day she’s got 29,800, good for about 70% of the average and has lucked out with a really great table draw for the next day. The entire day tons of people kept coming over to tell her how huge it would be if she won and how enormous her endorsements would be. The fact is, as a trilingual attractive Asian girl who was born in China and raised in Australia, she’s got huge marketing potential. The annoying part is figuring out which guys come over with legitimate goals for everyone to make money, and which are Captain Tom’s in wait. I’m mostly staying out of it and just hoping she runs super good and can buy me a balla ass house and Xbox room. Gogogogogogo Bondgirl.
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Old 11-24-2007, 02:46 AM
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Default Re: APPT Macau Trip Report part 2, I’m Bond18 Bitch, Main Event

glglgl bondgirl

nice read bond
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Old 11-24-2007, 03:03 AM
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Default Re: APPT Macau Trip Report part 2, I’m Bond18 Bitch, Main Event

it's funny that bond, with all the class in the world, would be placated by an xbox room.
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Old 11-24-2007, 03:12 AM
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Default Re: APPT Macau Trip Report part 2, I’m Bond18 Bitch, Main Event

i'll be down in an hour or so to sweat
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Old 11-24-2007, 03:16 AM
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Default Re: APPT Macau Trip Report part 2, I’m Bond18 Bitch, Main Event

Bondgirl is ITM, though lost big flip to be over average.
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Old 11-24-2007, 03:26 AM
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Default Re: APPT Macau Trip Report part 2, I’m Bond18 Bitch, Main Event

lol, nice read again. quality interview
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Old 11-24-2007, 03:49 AM
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it's funny that bond, with all the class in the world, would be placated by an xbox room.

[/ QUOTE ]

I find it highly unlikely you've played Halo 3 before to say something like this. Come to Aussie Millions and we'll bust it out.
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Old 11-24-2007, 03:52 AM
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Default Re: APPT Macau Trip Report part 2, I’m Bond18 Bitch, Main Event

Holy [censored] Bond girl QQ>AQ>AK AIPF for major pot.

Also had KK all in pre vs AKs but got chopped.
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Old 11-24-2007, 04:58 AM
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Holy [censored] Bond girl QQ>AQ>AK AIPF for major pot.

Also had KK all in pre vs AKs but got chopped.

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Latter: Booooo

Former: yayyyyyy!!!!

Take it down Bondgirl!

Oh, hilarious interview bond, and I need to make some money so I can take off january and spend lots of money travelling to Aussie
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Old 11-24-2007, 06:49 AM
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I didn't know Bond was so attractive. That shirt/jacket was completely pimp.

New undertitle: The baddest motherf**er of all time
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