lol awesome story

Gullanian, will be in UK in Jan for the ICE Gaming Show, there will be a fun party then, PM me and will get our marketing lady to send you an invite (hopefully you won't be disappointed). Must have been out the UK too long, don't get the benches line.

Matt, true Freddy Deeb took me to the Cleaners. Pot calling kettle on the shirts, from a man who routinely looks like the joker in either a purple suit or some sort of shiny green material What's your next TD event?

Yes, if a few years old..

Ouch and Touche!

THIS is Tom Hall?

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=109708

Wow...

Squibz, maybe it happened before somewhere else but this was from late last year. Happy to have a friendly wager / charity donation bet and post the CS chat (in chinese with translation and player name blanked) if you think its an urban myth .

When I get some time at the weekend maybe I should post some stories from the gambling world in Asia as am pretty sure you won't have heard most of them, but maybe for another thread as not all are about poker and guess best to stay on topic.

Stella what's happening??

Woah... Some players must dislike that CS a lot!

Thanks again for sharing.

haha, no think Hendonmob have mixed up 2 Tom HAll's, all the results outside Nottingham are mine and I havent looked that young for about 20 years

My work here on2+2 is complete and I can return to my home planet Matt quoted my post, so I have to do an appreciation reply...

In 2004 Matt refereed my first 1K satellite to the ME, (Binions) HU, I didn't want it and was short and got 3.5K out of it Thanks Matt!

In 2006 Matt was TD at the "Pokerdome" and a better host you can't possibly find. Thanks Matt!

In 2009 my car broke down for the big Commerce $300, 400K guarantee tourney. I was broke and lived in the Valley, a good 40 min from Commerce. Called Matt... a stretch limo showed up, took me to the tourney with time to spare... and back after I busted. THANKS MATT!!


Scalia, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Savage...

Tom Hall.... is a LEGEND

If you go to gallery there are other pictures of a different person. Is that you?

I hesitate to answer as having seen the photoshop skills of some of the people on 2+2, I may end up being stuck on the front/back end of a fish/donkey/some other animal but yes that would be me looking happy just before I tried to bluff Freddy Deeb and busted

yeah I'm hoping the hand history was at least a bit off due to memory or something because that would be one of the biggest blunders of a hand for that type of money of all time

Would love to hear more degen stories!

Can you tell us a bit about Asian players vs American vs Euro players? I know that Asians are fearless and bring more of a gamblers approach rather than strategical. Anything else that you can add?

Thanks for the report!

Hi Tom!

Just getting ready for bed. Since our regular players didn't quit todays game til 4pm today, as I last checked...there is no big game yet. Btw its 1am Macau time. Our world team china member Winfred, who's also our CEO of poker king...is playing a small 1k-2k hkd game with Johnny Chan, Chau Giang and this one guy from China ....who I refer to as the "king of bluffing"....he's a newbie at the game...but very entertaining. without learning the basic fundamentals of poker ...his first game ...he asked me "can u teach me how to bluff...my friend taught me to bet preflop, the flop, the turn and huge on the river and I'm guaranteed to win" ... That was his strategy for a while. Lolz...of course he got caught. He can lose a couple mill playing 500-1000k hkd...which is what he started out with. And moved from that to 10k-20k all within 1 month time. That's his whole poker playing lifespan so far... ONE MONTH. But he's still famous for bluffing Chau out of a huge pot with King high...when Chau had Ace high.... Chau's still talking about that hand everyday. And refers to him in chinese as "the king of bluff". He normally plays 5k-10k and 10k-20khkd...but I think most our players are resting up for a big game tommorrow. I'll keep u all updated in the morning if anything exciting happens tonight. If not... Stay tuned... 24 hrs from now...there should be a big game with phil + durr!

Just got news also that jeff lisandro and ted forrest are playing 300-600 PLO right now. So wil update that tom as well.

Good nights All

And Tom! Can't wait to see u this weekend. Btw... Tom does throw the baddest parties EVER!!!!!! Apt pool party was crazee! And Matt... I've never seen anyone win so much money at a dice game in a karaoke room where everyone else is getting drunk! Props to u
Stella

This is the beginning of the sickest thread ever created in human history.

They might as well close the rest of 2+2 and rename the site:
www. Nosebleed Cash Games at APT Macau(Durrrrr, Ivey, Juanda, Giang).com

This thread has now become the sole inspiration for my life. Rosetta Stone Mandarin Chinese FTW

lol chau. calling that kid king of the bluff will only make him want to bluff more and more.

I don't doubt that something like that happened, but I've heard a story with the same basic idea (Chinese guy doesn't know that he can fold) from a few different people. I guess last year would be more or less right as far as the time line - although it seems like a lot longer ago. Two years ago was when the games (the games most of us play :|) in Macau were sick soft, they're still not terrible, but I doubt they'll ever be as good.

To elaborate more, I don't think that poker can really take off in China any time soon. I know that Stars thinks they have an in w/ the Chinese government or something that will give them exclusive rights. I know that there are small sites/skins sprouting up that "solve the cash-in/cash-out problem" as their business model, too. The fact is that the pokerstars site is blocked in China, and they also made an official announcement regarding cracking down on payment processors.

Oh, also, sidebet on who wins the obvious race between Durrr and Ivey to make one billion dollars in China first?

Isn't that the point?
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Didn't the Chinese guy see others at the table folding...?

I really want to see that CS chat log.

Edit: Don't think you're making it up bty, just can't believe it until I read it.

i hope tom's parties in london in jan can top the wsope ones. hellmuth drunk was quite a sight.

Fwiw Benches is a make of clothing worn by student types. This thread makes me want to qualify for some APT events next year.

Somehow, these folks' lives (and the level at which they play poker) make mine seem pretty boring!

Tom Hall, heard you live in Hong Kong now right? Do you party at D-I often?
Lets party together soon huh?

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I'm assuming you didn't read my original post, because this doesn't make any sense whatsoever, I was pretty much saying the contrary.