I also can't understand why a properly rolled gambling professional would ever take insurance at 18 % ? Seems like wayyyy to much to give away

18-1 ≠ 18%. It's around 5.55%.

Removing the two kings, a 7 will hit 4.76%.

Pot was 4,445,000M$hk. So his assurance cost him around 35,115.5$hk. That's the principle of an insurance, to be minus EV, but to give you some mind peace.

And actually if a guy in the insurance group folded a 7, he should snap it

just had a nosebleed from reading this thread.

There is nothing like a trip to the Macau Big Game to get the adrenalin flowing. Have been away from Macau for a few months and rocked up at Poker King Starworld for a few meetings and wandered over to where the Big Game lumbers on. Got to the table and even at first glance, I’m like “Holy S…” what is going on here. Two well known international pros have got giant stacks in front of them and the rest of the table were all Asian players. There were literally so many chips on the table that there was no space to play. Pic attached below as a sample. The guys have been playing for 2 days with the odd 4 hour break here and there.

Then I looked more carefully and noticed a few “vouchers” floating about for HK$5m at a time as they had run out of physical big denomination chips. In total approx. US$20m of chips on the table!! Blinds when I was there was a mere US$4K/US$8K but they had been playing as high as US$12.5K/25K earlier in the sessions. Wasn’t a game I was keen to join with even the smallest stack sitting with US$1m in front of him.

It is amazing to think that this game has been running pretty much non-stop (other than when the team is overseas at a high stakes event elsewhere) for 3 years+ now. The atmosphere is still friendly and funny around the table.

The largest pot I saw at the table had a fairly quiet start on a KH 10S 7S board, which exploded with a 10D on the turn and a 5s on the river. After an unusual amount of tanking both a local and a pro, both ended up all in for a HK$40m (US$5.1m) pot. Lot of excitement ended up in a chop with both holding A 10.
Saw some pretty sick river bluffs with river bets of US$700-800k going in which were treated with much amusement at the expense of the folding player.

You can see why the biggest contingent of OneDrop players is going to come from the Macau crew, thinking of joining myself this year. Will be back in Macau next week, think I will play some US$1/$2 PLO whilst drinking a decent bottle of wine, those Big Game stakes likely to give me another heart attack!!

In after epic TH post, pic

Sick

Hah - normally would be many replies to this but FTP news trumps. Thanks for posting Tom. Always interesting.

I'm curious is pros like Dwan still tank a lot or if they keep it moving more to keep the game more fun for the non-pros.

Wow! tell us how much $$ each chip is !!

(fairly sure about this) brown chips are HK$10k, orange plaques are HK$100k and yellow plaques are HK$1M

^^ nice Jogging pants.... guess when ur that rich u just dont care n e more...

Also Tom u mention goin' to work WFT?! u play supper nosebleeds and have a job or are u a Businessman super Balla first?

I was thinking its Dwan because of the big stack, and the jogging pants

Big yellow slabs are hkd500k, smaller orange hkd100k and brown round ones hkd10k. Small pieces of paper- hkd5m. In response to q for work / poker. Unfortunately still work for a living (well at least to stop me getting bored and playing too much poker).

If there was a stream announced for this game the internet would implode

Those plaques are so ridiculous and tacky looking.

my thought too

Casino royale in real life

Wouldn't read too much into those sweat pants. There were at least 5 pairs at the table

When your rich your laxxed

pretty chill

Hmm paper chips you say?

A+

There are some really good and lesser known cash players in China, Just like the US years ago. Maybe more so due to the lack of big tourneys in that region and the concern of personal issues.

Tom, is that guy with big stack in the sweatpants a known US pro or chinese player?

A known Dutch player SuperSwag

Tom: always when u say the game is too big for you etc, you still end up sitting in the game playing. but not this time? get in there!