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I'm going to Macau in 12 days and will be playing the following tournaments:

25th October: $11,000 ($1mil Gte) Deepstack Championship NL

28th October: $15,000 PLO Championship

30th October: $8,800 (2mil Gte) NL

7th November: $8,800 NL

(All above amounts in are HKD so buy ins in GBP according to today's xe.com rate are £885, £1205 and 2x £707.

I will be selling 30% at a markup of 1.25 I will be playing regardless of selling or not and selling as a package only.

I have had my best ever poker year, with my first ever 6 figure month at online cash games in July. I play the odd bit of zoom PLO on stars but most of my action has come on other networks where I am playing mostly $200 through to $2k PLO though I have also played around 50,000 hands at $5k PLO this year and am up around 30 buy ins at those stakes. 

My mindset is great these days and I've spent probably a total of 6/7 months in Macau within the last 2 years so not only do I know a lot of the regulars but I've played a lot of live poker and I know a lot of the regulars and the style of the Chinese so I think I'm very well placed to do well in these. I won't be staying in a hotel, I will be in an apartment with my girlfriend so will always be well rested and prepared for every event. There are a few higher buy in things that will be the focus of attention for a lot of the better players so I've made the decision to play these tournaments and play cash games whilst the higher buy in things are running rather than sell for those or satellite into those also).

I live with some very smart poker players and that's been the catalyst to improving a lot in all areas this year.

Enough of blowing my own trumpet as I'm still a big nosed twat most of the time.

One other drawback is that I haven't played a lot of live tournaments in a while but the last donkament I played this year I finished 6th and without bad beat stories should have won :)

Will be selling in minimum 1% chunks as I'm always happy to have lots of funkers:

1% = £43.80
5% = £219

etc

5 please.

I'm still a big nosed twat most of the time.




much love for honest staking threads  :)up  vbol brassic or i'd take a piece cosington.

2.5% please

2 pls mate

5 pls conky :)

1% please . Bank details or Stars is OK

All booked so far cheers chaps. Pms will come soonish

2 please buddy

1% pls

19 gone 11 left all booked so far and 0.5 gone by pm

Could i have 2% please?

thanks

booked thx

2% please Conky.

Cheers Sir Wrinkles

I don't have any Bank Account details for you, can you PM them to me please?

Failing that, I could pay by an intermediary if you prefer. 

And could i have bank details as well please?

cheers

will pm everyone once sold out buddy - no rush.

"Optimistic".

Sent pms to almost everyone now.

Received from Redsimon only so far.

Much appreciate everyone who has bought a piece so far so will be offering first option to anyone here the same percent at the same markup for the WSOP main this summer coming.

rfgqqabc - 5%
Redbull - 5%
Redsimon - 1%
Numpty Dumpty - 2%
KillerKilsby - 1%
Horseplayer - 2%
Tikay - 2%
Toddswain - 2.5%
Amatay - 2% (why the fk are you donkeybob1?)

payment sent by bt as per pm

cheers

bold received. thx

No pm from you mate, can't send bank till wednesday but can get someone to sort if you want asap.

thats weird as im almost certain i sent you one. weird. wednesday is fine will get another pm to you now.

rfgqqabc - 5%
Redbull - 5%
Redsimon - 1%
Numpty Dumpty - 2%
KillerKilsby - 1%
Horseplayer - 2%
Tikay - 2%
Toddswain - 2.5%
Amatay - 2% (why the fk are you donkeybob1?)
Forthistle - 0.5%

bold received. thx

Amatay - 2% (why the fk are you donkeybob1?)

I believe that was a Typo - he told me he was often referred to as "DonkeyKnob".

[  ] Hung like a donkey

[ x ] Plays poker like one

I'll take 2.5% please Cos.

2.5 please. 

Both booked thanks chaps

Heading to Bangkok for one night tomorrow before flying to Macau the following day. Would be good to get all the pieces sorted and accounted for by the 23rd so that I can just focus on playing once I'm in Macau.

Updated list:

rfgqqabc - 5%
Redbull - 5%
Redsimon - 1%
Numpty Dumpty - 2%
KillerKilsby - 1%
Horseplayer - 2%
Tikay - 2%
Toddswain - 2.5%
Amatay - 2% (why the fk are you donkeybob1?)
Forthistle - 0.5%
Dino1980 - 2.5%
Scotty77 - 2.5%

bold received. thx

Arrived in Macau today. Had a good sleep but felt bad the last 2/3 days in Thailand so just taking it easy.

Will either go play chinese at Ivey's apartment or watch Ramsay's kitchen nightmares in my room. Leaning towards the latter.

Only a few people left to send...

Updated list:

rfgqqabc - 5%
Redbull - 5%
Redsimon - 1%
Numpty Dumpty - 2%
KillerKilsby - 1%
Horseplayer - 2%
Tikay - 2%
Toddswain - 2.5%
Amatay - 2%
Forthistle - 0.5%
Dino1980 - 2.5%
Scotty77 - 2.5%
Jono3131 - 10%

bold received. thx

Just sent for this by bank.  GL

thanks mate, received.

Updated list:

rfgqqabc - 5%
Redbull - 5%
Redsimon - 1%
Numpty Dumpty - 2%
KillerKilsby - 1%
Horseplayer - 2%
Tikay - 2%
Toddswain - 2.5%
Amatay - 2%
Forthistle - 0.5%
Dino1980 - 2.5%
Scotty77 - 2.5%
Jono3131 - 10%

bold received. thx again.

Does anyone personally know Jono3131 or Killerkilsby? Would like to get in contact tomorrow if they don't reply to pms I sent today just to make sure they do or don't want their pieces.

I will not be updating the thread with tournament reports etc until after the series is over - all updates will be on my diary most days though.

Killerkilsby, Jono3131 - event 1 of the package is tomorrow. You can send to bank as per pm or to TonyKendall @ stars or GreekStein @ FTP.

If someone vouches for you here that's fine and I'll consider the piece as booked but if the pieces aren't received by Saturday 9am UK time I'm afraid the piece will have to be voided as I don't know either or you personally.

Hopefully you see this in time and can send not leaving the stake with a slight shortfall.

Ok Killerkilsby and Jono3131 unfortunately I have to cancel your pieces as haven't received replies or money from either of you.

First tournament is in 4 hours. Gym, food and then off we go.

Let's run like the sun!

Lucky 1% for CTV?

Will sort bank transfer ASAP.

Good luck Conky!

booked, send whenever


thanks Gramps

I'm now at city of dreams have registered for the tournament and now just snapping pictures of the place for tikay.

Didn't realise they had free wifi here (they don't at the Wynn) so will be able to post during breaks.

Best of luck pal

30,300 at first break from 20k starting. Table is pretty good.

Annoying when this happens, hope you don't get barred from the staking boards after this!

Gl mate.

Got 14.5k now about to go into 250/500 with ante.

Feel like I'm playing really well and I've made one tiny mistake and possibly one c-bet that you could argue is better not to make.

Anyhow feel good and I'm focusing like a deadman. Now I just need to try and play like him.

Busto. Will write an update now on my diary.

Not Wasted Alex  :)

I'd say it was.

Alex is free to use the Staking Boards.

I never said he wasn't Sir , it simply made me smile  , humour and all that !

Last I heard from his Lordship was that I wasn't. But you're word is good enough for me Tikay :)

your*

Also, Flushy can't tell you where you can and can't post. Tighty and the mods can, but Flushy can't.

Also it rather irked me that Jono3131 and Killerkilsby took pieces and not only didnt ship anywhere but haven't contacted me, even just to say, 'Sorry, played against you online, think you're dogshit and wanna cancel the piece'. Even that would have been fine.

when did jono3131 book? Or is this an in joke that whooshs everyone? (wasn't he a troll on other threads?

wow jono had the biggest piece too, tilt.

I don't read all threads anymore and didnt realise he was. I gave him action via pm.

It's really no big deal because whether I sold 10% or 40% I was going to play. It's more just the courtesy of non communication that annoyed me. I guess it highlights that the implementation of the 300 posts rule before posting on the staking boards is a good move.

Like I said, the actual percentages didnt matter in the end.

One thing I love about being staked is having funker and that potentially cost me several funkers etc.

Killerkilsby was last online on blonde October 26, 2014, 12:31:51 PM

Jono3131 was last online on blonde October 27, 2014, 07:34:35 AM

Yeah I was aware of that. I don't bear a grudge, it's no big deal but hopefully they don't do that on the staking boards again.

Anyway it's the PLO in an hour and a half. Let's do this! Excited

If you want/need to sell anymore now, will take up to 5% in the 3 tournaments left.  Let me know how much and I can send to stars.

Hate this kind of thing.

Just win it for rubs!!

Good luck mate :)

Hey Doobs thanks very much for the offer - that's very much appreciated. However I squared things off already so I'm set for the remaining 2 and a half tournaments. I will include u in the group of people that I will give a first reserve on 5% of my WSOP main event at the same markup as this package incase you're interested later in the year.

Ok we made day 2. There are 14 players left from 79 runners, 10 make the money. Will be on the button first hand when we go back with blinds at 500/1000. Average is about 57k and I have 36,400.
 
TR in my diary

Good Luck Cos.

Get it won!!!

Decent, best of luck

Go go go mate. glgl

Good luck mate

36 Bigs?

I'd sit out for the next 4 Levels.

11 left we have 81k. Average is 71.

Bubble time! Blinds 800/1600

Thought I told you to sit out?

Anyway, let us know when......

(http://images.realtytoday.com/data/images/full/6555/bubble-burst.jpg)

Lol sit out

Itm now middle of the pack

Goooooooo Cos.

 ;cheerleader;

(http://www.comoboom.com/wp-content/themes/comoboom/img/boom-logo.png)

Final 9 we're 6/9

Lovely job, keep it going.

GLGLGL

Crush It

Solid.

Gee EL

Ship It mate

Busted 8th in a huge pot for almost 2x CL with Aces in pre. Fuck our lives.

That's the cliffs version.

Longer version is on my diary.

Ok gotta try and be positive. Played great and put myself in the position. That's all we can do.

Going to try and get a good night's sleep and a workout in tomorrow before the start of tournament 3 and the $8.8k NL 2MIL gtee.

Brutal exit hand.gl for rest of tournies

Thanks for the gl wishes guys.

Got home and after a few hours chilling I went to sleep around 11pm. I woke up at 2am thinking it was morning already and it's now 11am and I haven't slept since. This means that I'm going to skip day 1a today and play day 1b instead. I don't want to be tired etc.

Playing 1b should be softer too as it's a friday though making day 2 will mean not having a day of rest inbetween which tbh I don't mind at all.

Ok event 3 of the package is off to a good start. We are chippie after stacking kings with 53dd. 22k and prob gonna be playing every pot for the next 2 hours so could be fun rollercoaster

5-3?

WTF?

Good luck, but please, play properly.

I play PLO, we don't fold to 3bets yo

Update: this tournament has been immensely fun so far. Nice players all chatting and enjoying the game and I've been involved in a lot of fun hands.

Got 20k ATM could be a lot more but bricked A5cc vs 1010 on 235cc all in and got set over setted too.

70 left from 248 today with 3 levels left to play. I have 42k atm with average at 37k. Blinds are now 600 1200 with a 200 ante and then go to 800 1600 and 1k 2k at end of play

FOLD FOLD FOLD.

PS - Good luck. 

37 left made it through from today's 248 and 29 made it through yday.

Average is around 65k and we have 42k.

Starting again really early tomorrow so I can't do a TR now as I need a good night's kip.

Blinds are huge tomorrow and it's going to be like a turbo shovefest so hope we run good.

50 paid from the 66 remaining.

gl from incred nutty

run good tomorrow Mr Greek

Good luck tomorrow mate.

Every faith you will do us proud tomorrow, win or lose.

GL tomorrow Cos

 ;cheerleader;

Good luck buddy, rungoot

Bubble time

The tension is unbearable.......

There's 30 left now. Average is 143k. I have 196k. Break time now but in 5 minutes the new level will be 3k 6k with a 1k ante so the comp is just a little bit fast!

Nice work (again) good luck

Wowzer.

Overnight there were 66 remaining....


"....Average is around 65k and we have 42k...."

Been gambling have we?

Keep it going.

This is 2 cashes from 2, good work that.

Congrats Cos.

22 left we have 202k blinds 4k 8k and avg stack is 195k. Shoooooot

Presumably, we are playing this one?


30th October: $8,800 (2mil Gte) NL

If so, & I have read your posts correctly, it must have exceeded the Guarantee by a very long way indeed.

Keep it going, & brighten up a dull & overcast November morning in the UK. 

2 cashes from 3!

Pob Lwc Mr Stein

Useless.

5k 10k blinds. Button just shoved 110k into my bb. I called A5 he had k5 and we lost. Woulda had over 400 now got 170.

16 left

Ouch.

Never mind, 'tis what it is.

Keep shoving.

Conky Conky Conky, oi oi oi. 

13th

Bugger.

Not a bad effort though, 13th of 400+, right?

Disappointed with the final result.

The tournament had a very quick strcuture and we didn't get any hands or set ups in our favour from 4 tables out.

With 3 tables left however, I definitely got a good seat on a great table. Everyone seemed so intent on laddering that they were playing really weak.

I was able to chip up from 120k to 310k and go well above average without showing down more than 1 hand.

When we moved table I sat down and first hand I got AQ in the hi-jack. I open to 16k at 4k/8k and the big stack 3-bet to 41k. I really considered all options here and ultimately decided to fold. He was very keen and quick to show me AK suited which I think is not a good show by him but made me feel good that I made the right play.

Unfortunately the A5 vs K5 hand proved to be crucial with 2 tables left. He shoved button for 110k and we call in the BB. We would have 450k if we held and 200 if we lost with average at 250k and just in a really nice position to just bully it up. The board rolled off   Th Ts 2s Ahrt 7h which is a nice run out for  Kh 5h.

That proved to be the turning point. We raise/folded one hand after that and raised and took down another.

My bustout with 13 players left - I had 174k with blinds at 5k 10k with 1k ante and in 6 minutes they were going to 6k 12k 2k so I shoved the sb with QJo when it folded to me and the big stack in the BB woke up with AK. The flop was a reasonable sweat  Qd Td Kc but it bricked off for another frustrating result. I'm pretty sure the shove here is unexploitable but I'll ask some tournament grinders whether they think it's optimal or not. Very interested to hear opinions.

I'm disappointed to have not run better but that's tournaments and I feel like I'm playing really good at the moment so hopefully I can save the win for that last tournament. We didn't want the 730k HKD anyway....

Unlike the PLO tournament that left me very upset and tilted, I feel fine about this one. Just standard. I can't wait to get some fucking sleep now.

Yeah - think there were around 430 runners in the end.

Thats the beauty of the beast with tournaments I guess. Only 1 guy is going home truly happy at the end of the 2 days.

It's also kind of a stupid motivation I have to play them. I have improved my game no end in the last year - both in PLO and in NL and even though I definitely believe it's cash for dough and tournaments for show, maybe the reason I want to win some tournaments is for validation. Why I want that, who fucking knows? ego I guess even though I feel I have far less of an ego than I did when I was far less proficient at poker.

Live tournament grinders have my respect. Gruelling thing they are and have definitely given me a lot of food for thought about all these people selling at big markups in the main event. I won't be buying in anyone for more than 1.3 this summer.

Yikes, that was an ugly run out in the A-5 v K-5 hand.

What a game this poker is.

The guy I bust to today at least won the donkament. Likewise the guy who got there with AA vs my AA in the PLO also won that one.

With one event to go we have cashed for a total of 98,300 HKD. Hopefully we can treble that with the last tourney but it's a freeroll now...

Guys I missed today's tourney. I've been grinding perhaps a bit too hard and it caught up with me today. I just felt shitty and a bit run down. I decided I wouldn't play my best and opted to stay home and relax. If I'm feeling better which I likely will be by tomorrow I will replace the $8800 tournament with the $15,000 (HKD). (For sake of easyness etc there will only be markup charged on the first $8800 of the tournament as per the original OP.

Please can everyone confirm whether they are ok with that or not? If anyone doesn't answer I will go with majority decision which I assume will be a yes.

Punt away

Yup, happy with that Mr Conk.

Yep go for it mate

Sounds good.

Yea fine

win

Just caught up.

Well done and unlucky?

in

Guys my apologies. I felt pretty awful last night/yday and when I woke up today before the event I wasn't feeling good at all.  I didn't think it was wise to play if I wasn't sure that I could give my best.

Obviously the last event + markup will be refunded and then I will sending everyone transfers. Pokerstars is by far easier for me here than by bank.

Hopefully someone else can double check my working because if it's wrong it's unintentional!

$8,800 refund @ 1.25 = $11,000

PLO cash = $51,700

NL cash = $46,600


Total = $109,300

1% = 1093hkd = $141 USD according to today's XE rate.


Glad there is some profit on the stake but stll feels like one that could have been huge slipped away here.

That cracked me up Sov

Well done Cos

lol Sov had a late 1 ball

figures look fine.

stars is ok redsimon (forest avatar)

oh right. didnt think he had a piece.

Stars is Fine Cos.

Top effort and Very WP.

4ththistle on Stars.

Thanks.

I'm pretty good at staking

Stars is fine for me.

sovietsong

Demonic16 please mate. Enjoyed the package, really well run. Get 'em next time.

Sweet! a return and I didn't even send you any money! Might be the best stake I've had all year. x

Conky.

'Stars is no good for me, & I gather "Bank" is a headache for you.

If it helps, please send it via 'Stars to either Scotty77 or Redsimon, & they can settle me up via Bank.  (Hope they don't mind, am sure they won't).

I'm ok doing this.

Don't worry, as it turns out, stars is now no good for me either.

Just after posting I busted the few K i kept on stars (maaaaaaarvellous).

Now I got the headache of changing up HKD and getting it to my bank. Please bear with me for a few days guys. I don't actually know what the best way to do it is. Anyone headed to macau any time soon?!

thanks for regular updates and wp

Sorry for the delay on this guys. I still haven't managed to sell the HKD to anyone for pounds but I will just pay everyone on saturday and sort the HKD later. It's a nightmare to do payments from here with no card reader so I want to call my bank and do them all in one go.

Please can anyone who invested send me a pm with bank details and Stars name.

Sorry again for the delay, I've been busy this week grinding 14 hour days in cash getting gang raped day in day out.

It's been a thoroughly fun week.

Fk Macau :)

Sorry for the delay guys, I'm fucking useless.

Started shipping xfers.

So far I've sent monies to:

Forththistle
Redsimon (for your piece and Tikay's)
Amatay
Sovietsong


Stars is easiest atm for anyone who can take monies there. Pls pm me names

Received Cos.

Can you remind me how much I need to send to Gramps?

I'll ship it to his bank asap

Great stake, let me know if you do another package!

$282 to the old boy.

Will do though my own incompetence and utter lazyness with sorting out pieces and xfers etc may mean it will be quite some time before the next one.

Not received???

Received Cos.

many Thanks.

Beginning to think donkeybob is a very apt name. You have received. I sent yday to your stars.

Recieved £180 last night via redsimon.

Thanks Mr Conk, appreciated, it was a fun sweat & we got a return, always nice.

Thanks to Simon for helping sort the payment, too.

No Stars here i am afraid

Bt the only option for me i think unless someone can help

if cos trf your share to me on stars I could bank trfr it to you if that helps?

That is more than fine by me as long as it dosent put you out

Helps a lot thanks Simon, will do

aww thankyou constantinioatay

If it helps I can sort someone out to take stars off you and they can send me bank

Sent $282 to Redsimon for Horseplayer's piece. Have also forwarded Horsey's bank deets to redsimon. Thanks very much for that chaps.

Return also sent to Mr Ryan of Spittles via Stars, tyty

Received on Stars, cheers.

Will do bank to bank to Horseplayer now.

shipped £180 by bank should be in your account now horsey :)

Just checked and received

Thanks for your help Red

get yourself a CTM sim card for $100 and a topup for $100, buy the data package for 168 HKD gives u 2gb for a month. plus you get some free macau calls

Since then I got the 500 hkd sim which includes unlimited internet for a month.