macau makes a good first impression…

Landed in Macau last night and headed straight to the PokerStars party hoping they would have free Kobe burgers. They didn’t, but they had some entertainment which made me forget my hunger momentarily.

Scattered around the party, PokerStars had hired something like 30 pole-dancers. It was all very risque and borderline faboulous. My delicate sensibilities were offended which was good.

I left the party to check into the hotel and when I returned, everyone had headed off to the clubs. Celina invited me up to TonyD’s room so I thought I’d head up and see what crazy shenanigans those boys were up to. I walked into a middle of a conversation about the value of c/r’ing AQ on a low dry board.

Taking this as an omen, I decided to get some food and grab an early night’s sleep in preparation for what could well be the last live tourney I shall ever play.

The city here is pretty amazing and the insanely huge new Venetian hotel towers over the skyline. Someone said it was the biggest or 2nd biggest building in the world, which sounds about right. The city is clean, organised and appears wonderfully rich and efficient. I had a small chuckle when I exchanged some cash at a vendor proudly advertising their rates with a large sign declaring “No Commission Charged”. They were buying AUD at 6.4 and selling at 7.5 but, hey, they don’t charge commission.

English is not widely spoken here so I stumbled around the hotel restaurants before deciding to take the safe option and order room service. The food here is just amazing - its really ridiculous, I may have to move here just for the food.

For some reason I couldn’t sleep so I stayed up late watching Friday Night Lights. The 2nd season is on Torrents now. FNL is really very addictive, and it will do a good job of carrying me through to Jan when S7 of Shield and S5 of Wire start back up.

I woke up very tired and headed down to the tourney, wondering what compulsive disorder makes me do this to myself. The dealers were mostly pretty terrible (and that’s being polite) but my table was friendly and soft so it wasn’t too painful for the first few hours.

I built up to near double stack after a few hours when a fairly loose player opened in LP with a small raise, SB called and I called with 64h in the BB. The flop was Kh-9d-5h I think. Checked to raiser who c-bet, SB flashed QQ as he folded (no 3bet pre and ck/f flop wtf?), I checkraised just under pot, effectively putting the initial raiser all-in. He tanked for a very long time, even moving his cards over the fold line at one stage, finally putting his stack in against his better judgement, showing down AA. Ok, tough spot, poor guy - it was good he took 5 min to decide if his AA was worth playing there, he wouldn’t want to rush things with such a tough decision. Board blanked and I’m down to 6k.

I lose an 8k pot with QQ vs 77 to a shortstack all-in and I’m ready to go but I win two very small races with two tiny stacks just to prolong the pain.

Half hour before dinner break, I hit TP with KQo on Qd-5d-2d board and call a donk’s flop bet. He slowrolls KKd. Slowrolling is awesome, I might start doing it if I ever play live poker again - why not if its not penalised.

I might play the 15k event as its 6handed I think but most likely not. Live poker is pretty retarded obv….in 6 hours there is no way we played more than 80 hands, maybe even a lot less. 15k is also a hell of a lot of money and it would suck to get deep and not cash…

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