The Road to APPT Seoul

I've gotten a total of 3 seats from the APPT satellite phase 1. These seats are for the 2nd phase satellites. The first 2 tournaments had already finished with me empty handed. I still have 1 phase 2 tournament scheduled for this coming Sunday. I plan to keep playing the phase 1 satellite and maybe get another seat and limit the field a bit.

I want that seat. I want to go to Seoul, Korea. And I want the chance to finally be able to play in an APPT event.

The Road to FPT5

Since Sept 11, 2008, I've been trying to get my hands on a seat for the Filipino Poker Tour 5.

I've played most the freeroll tournaments winning none of them. I was even called a donkey by a player after he kept checking his trips and I kept betting. Then after that hand, I kept going all-in every hand. For his information, it doesn't count as being a donkey if you bet first. At least I think it doesn't. Anyway, I was really sleepy and the satellite phase 1 will only give 10 phase 2 seats out of the 170+/- who joined. Too much work for a 1st level satellite.

I've played a $3 qualifier and finished 4th out of 7.

I've joined another satellite which doesn't get quorum.

I've listened to Lil' Joey's radio program for the first time in my life because I heard there a seat given there. (They start giving the seats out next week I think)

I may need to rethink this whole thing. I've been trying to hard that it's frustrating. The thing is, I want to play because it is a live deep stack tournament and I know I can go deep in that tournament but I just don't have the stake. (Certain circumstances require me to put my money elsewhere. We don't need to talk about them here.)

Neil Arce wins Metro75

I just saw the Metro's official website and found out that Neil Arce won the Metro75. It is a minor win compared to his other accomplishments but it just shows how versatile he is and that his skills as a poker player are above the others. Neil has placed in the money in the WSOP which very few Filipinos can boast of. He won the Filipino Poker Tour 3. And he just won the Metro75. He must be one of the most accomplished poker players in the Philippines today.

Filipino Poker Tour 5 - rescheduled

According to Ms. Sabs of PokerStars, the Filipino Poker Tour 5 has been rescheduled for October 4-5. Probably to make way for APPT Seoul which scheduled for September 26-28. I'm not really sure, I'm just guessing.

It just means we have more time to get those seats. There are several ways of getting seats for this tournament:
Metro 500 - Php 500 buy-in tournament every MWF 2pm at the Metro. Top 2 places get a seat for FPT 5.
Metro 75 - Php 3,000 buy-in tournament every Wednesday night at the Metro.
Metro Bounty Tournament - Every Sunday night at the Metro
PokerStars freerolls - Phase 1 nightly from Sept 11 - Oct 1, 8pm and 10pm. Predetermined number of winners advance to phase 2 every Sunday at 8pm.
PokerStars $3 qualifier - Phase 1 nightly from Sept 11 - Oct 1, 9pm. Winners get seats for $22 qualifier.
PokerStars $22 qualifier - Phase 2 every Sunday at 9pm.


I have my eyes on playing those freerolls. A total of 80 seats are guaranteed from the online tournaments alone. If you don't have a PokerStars account, click on the banner on the right.

Broke.

I'm broke. I have $0.04 in PokerStars and 0 FPP. I need to win some freerolls.

My PokerStars Username

I play in PokerStars under the name abaddon_ross. Abaddon is a name i picked up from the Bible, Revelation 9:11. No, I don't read the Bible. I was looking for a cool name and I chanced upon it in Google. Apparently, it's not as cool as I thought it was. But I got stuck with it. Don't ask me how to pronounce it because I don't even know.

Anyway, if you see me online, say hi to me. :)

Filipino Poker Tour 5 - coming soon

Here's something to look forward to. The tournament's going to be on Sept 27 & 28, 2008. Only 10k+1k buy-in and they guaranteed 2million. I'm guessing that because of the low buy-in, they may probably exceed the guarantee.