WPT Thrilla in Manila, October 16-28, 2014
World Poker Tour to hold first tournament in the Philippines in October
WPT National Philippines: 13 total events from U$120 - $25,500 High Roller; ~U$125 super satellites on Oct. 16-18; U$2000 + $200 Main Event starting on Oct. 25.
My plan is to go with DirtArse and a Canadian pro. Anybody else considering going?
I believe pokerJAH's favourite, Filipina Ivy Teves, will be one of the RFG.... coming to Manila are WPT executive tour director Matt Savage, poker legend Mike Sexton, and the Royal Flush Girls.
WPT National Philippines: 13 total events from U$120 - $25,500 High Roller; ~U$125 super satellites on Oct. 16-18; U$2000 + $200 Main Event starting on Oct. 25.
My plan is to go with DirtArse and a Canadian pro. Anybody else considering going?
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Jeppe “JD” Drivsholm, who has spent the past 4 years in Macau playing the high stakes games: “The good thing about Macau is the presence of 24-hour action. You can walk into the Wynn anytime of the day and for sure, there’s a game going on, but Solaire has deeper buy-ins. I’ve seen guys here bought in for a total of 500 BBs which I really like. Also, there’s not much grinders here, which in my opinion, is good as I think the presence of too many grinders killed the action in Macau.”
There will be more media coverage than WPT Fallsview, including BJ Nemeth. DirtArse & I are tentatively going >= Oct. 16. I will teach him how to eat the duck embryo shown in Survivor - "balut." Look for us in the live streamed final table on October 28.
Nevermind Pokerjah, pics!
Looked at the airfare, and it came in @ $290 Toronto to Hong Kong.
I'm gonna head out to Vegas on Oct 5th for a five day cash game sampler
ahead of my holidays. I'll let you know how the experiment turns out, and then I'll make a call regarding Manila.
In the meantime, looks like I'm off for Sunday, so I might head down
to Brantford for the $550. See you there.
DirtArse
Air Canada... I work for the airline and can get steep discounts for my friends as long as I fly with them... Buddy has promised me a nice Philippinna for my troubles so I guess I have to go!!!:)
Its Filipina. Can you get me one airfare at that price??
I can take up to 4 friends with me, so yeah I could get you that price
if I knew who you were... Stay tuned to this topic, and maybe the opportunity will be there for CPF members to join us in the Phillipines if
they have a flexible schedules, and can commit on short notice. The plane leaves on Oct 20th with a return to Toronto of the 29th.
Good luck to DirtArse, who is going on a worldwide poker tour.
Thanks Buddy!
It's all set and ready to go!
I'm flying out on Saturday night on the 8PM flight to Vegas landing around
10PM Vegas time. I'll pick up my car and head straight to The Orleans for
a 12 hour session! I did not even book a hotel for that night since I plan
to play thru the night! Then it's off to the Riviera for some ZZZ's. The plan is to sleep in the daytime and grind from 6PM to 6AM til Wednesday!
Total cost of the trip is
Airfare = $0
Hotel & car = $280 - $65 picked up by AC, so total $215 for the 4 days.
The plan is to have a min gross profit of $1215 for the trip, and then I'll
consider it a success. That would net me a cool $1000, but to be honest
I won't be totally happy unless I double that! If I succeed, then Manila here we come!
so I'm also getting paid my salary to play!! Sweet!
But what about food?
You got yourself a great deal on a flight, car and hotel!
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I should be earning some comps... I think it will average out to about
$1.25 an hour so that would be about $60. Tthat should buy me a couple
of cheap eats... no fancy restaurants for me on this trip!
What games do you plan on playing? Guys here can offer advice on which rooms might be best.
Good luck!
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Probably spend all four days at The Orleans playing 1/3 and 2/5 depending
on which games look good. It has the lowest (Max $3) rake in Vegas, so
I'm pulling a Buddy on this and going for max +EV!
- Read the recent trip report of moose, including freerolls (probably not worth the hours spent away from cash games) and food deals.
- The biggest conventions that week are: 10,000 at Mandalay Bay (starts Oct. 7); 30,000 at Las Vegas Convention Cente (Oct. 8). Many of the 17,000 attendees at Sands Expo & Convention Center that ended yesterday may still be around this weekend.
- Last, play MyVegas on Facebook and mobile devices for Las Vegas deals on food, etc.
don't forget table selection, tho
we found no shortage of open tables at venetian and bellagio. others were kind of hit and miss. we only played on the strip, tho
1st session I played 10 hours at the Orleans and dropped $501. Card dead most
Of the night. Key hand A/I PF with JJ 3 way... I. Lose with JJJ88 to quads!
2nd session down $350.... Binnions... Key hand.... Lose a big pot with
A straight against a bigger straight. So down $850 after 13 he's..... Sheesh!
Then I headed over to the Nugget.... Sit down with $300... Five hours later I'm looking down
At a $1550 stack! That's what I'm talking about! Key hand, I mike a really tough shove with
top two for an $1100 pot.
So about $300 up so far... Behind target for now... Hopefully run good again tonight.
day 3 could have been much better had I not made two really boneheaded moves that
cost me $420.
Day 3 = +$385 nine hours @ The Nugget
Day 4 = +$311 nine hours @ The Nugget
So total just about $1K in 37 hrs. I'll try to do a trip report with pics when
I'm home and have access to real computer.
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DirtArse and I will hopefully soon be going fishing in the Philippines, in the poker room :fish: and hopefully in the world's #1-rated island, Boracay.