tilted behaviour

With everyone either heading home, to Hong Kong or onto another event, I was left to my own for the day.

Originally my plan was to chill all day and sleep at the Grand Waldo Spa, but when GG offered me his room as he had booked and paid an extra night, I jumped at the chance. I brought my bags up to his room, checked out and made my way to the Grand Lisboa.

Being stuck so much for the trip, I really had to make sure I didn’t lose today and when I sat down at a new HK10-20 NLH table with HK$2,000 – it was game on!

A few orbits in there was a raise to 60 by a eurodonk and a re-raise by an Asian lag to 120. I made the call from the small blind holding 9♣ 9♥, as did the eurodonk, to see a J♣ 9♦ 4♠ flop drop. I fired out 250 and both players called only to have me shove for nearly two times pot for 1,775 when the 6♠ landed on the turn. The eurodonk was the only caller, and when the river fell the 5♥ he mucked at the sight of my set, and just like that I was up to 4,880.

I then managed to stack a guy when I opened A♦ Q♥ from late position to 150 after a few limpers. Only the big blind called and after checking behind on the flop, I turned a Broadway straight and put my opponent all in after he donked out. His Jacks (or so he said) went flying into the muck when no repeater landed on the river to see me push to 6,100.

My K♥ Q♥ then outdrew a short-stacked A♣ Q♠ when all the money went in on the turn with the board reading K♣ Q♦ 4♣ Q♣ 2♠ to see me hit 6,700.

Then things began heading south as I slipped to around 5,000 until my A♠ A♣ managed to see me climb to over 7,200 when an opponent shoved on me pre with King-high.

But then I got the phone call.

Hi Tim, it’s me . . . the guy behind your run bad so far this trip . . . oh good you remember, well you’ve been running well this session, but I have some unfortunate news . . . I’m going to have to flick the switch. Sorry buddy, maybe another time.

So the flick got switched and I proceeded to miss five flopped nut flush draws, six nut straight draws and about five missed sets.

I didn’t get stacked or anything, but saw my stack leak to 4,265 and courtesy of some new found tilt, I cashed out and grabbed a bite to eat.

With the sun well buried I went for a walk outside and ventured over to the Wynn to see what all the fuss was about. Their poker room was the absolute nizzles, and after chatting with Marvs for ten minutes or so I decided to head back to the hotel to pick up my camera.

I took a walk from the Sofitel back down to the Grand Lisboa snapping photos here and there before deciding to play some Baccarat.

An old time Asian gambler went on a hot streak and after originally being stuck I managed to grind out a HK$1,000 profit after wussing out on the size of my bets on the last few wins.

Cashed out and down like HK$16,000 for the trip after gambling run-bad and general expenses, I was quickly back in my hotel room to pack my belongings before returning home.

Macau at Night – Sofitel Macau, Grand Lisboa and Papa’s Snack Shach

Another day in Macau and another glorious sleep in!

Today we all checked into the Sofitel Macau at Ponte 16, but before I did, I decided to have a shower in the six-headed master bedroom shower.

Once I finished, Van returned to the room on a serious case of tilt! After losing in the cash games, he dumped a shit load on Baccarat and consequently loaded up four PLO tables on Full Tilt.

After getting changed I walked over to sweat him, but he asked me to leave as he doesn’t like people sweating him when he plays really high – obviously due to the fact that he was a little tilted.

A few minutes went by before he called me back into his room to check out a hand. Van held 10♠ 8♠ 8♥ 2♥ on a flop of 8♦ 5♠ 2♠ and got his whole stack in against TREX313 or Urindanger (can’t remember) with him drawing to just one out holding red Kings.

Van vacated his chair and started pacing the room waiting for the outcome.

”Tell me what happens Timmy . . . one time hold up!”

As I sat staring at the screen, the cards lagged before it went brick brick to see Van ship the 100k pot to be unstuck for the day . . . and have me in awe!

I checked into room 1135 at the Sofitel and everyone, minus Lynn and Craig as they were doing some preliminary filming, all met in my room to discuss what our plans were. With happy hour being free for GG, Heath and Kirsty due to their booking, we decided to head upstairs to chat about the hot topic at the moment – the transformations at PokerNews.

Basically we came to an agreement that I would be taking over next year, but I thought it would be better if I sat at the bottom of the hierarchy, and basically turned it down.

GG, Heath and I decided we needed to scratch our gambling itch and found a three card Baccarat game where it plays the same as normal, but instead you receive three cards and there is no draw. Also there is no tie, with the high card winning, and everyone that plays a box gets a hand.

I sat out (wisely) as GG and Heath lost HK$1,000 each before heading to a real Baccarat table.

GG began an epic battle with an old Asian guy by betting the opposite to whatever he would. GG started on a losing streak before betting player and squeezing out a natural eight and slamming it down. The Asian guy slowly squeezed out his cards before looking up at GG and saying, “bye bye” and rolling over natural nine.

It would be an understatement to say that GG was mad!

Eventually GG would be in for HK$6,000 on this HK$100 table, but after finding some run-good he would break even and retire to the room along with Heath. I quickly lost my HK$3,000 in a matter of three hands and joined Heath for an intense heads-up match . . . at least I won that!