if you are going to be there longer term the area by tiger hotel (actually turn right when you reach tiger and go down that road and to the left) has some pretty nice apartments that arent too costly
ive been there 3 times and was a fantastic place, my last trip i went to manila to play the pokerstars manila megastack 6 series and placed 9th in the 3k freezeout, great food, great place, great people, very affordable accommodation and affordable cost of living, i suggest getting "grab" installed on your cell phone as its the safest and most convenient way of getting around. paranaque has some great places to stay, i particularly liked staying at shateau elysee condominiums near dona solidad ave. its safe, clean and close to the airport and the casino.
enjoy your travels there ladies and gents, if you have any questions feel free to ask me.
I plan to move to Philippines together with my girlfriend in September. My plan is to play live poker there for a living because I've heard that there are 2/4$ equivalent games running all the time which is a good limit to make a living imo.
However I have never been to Asia and I am wondering where in Philippines games are most attractive and best action? Manila? Or maybe in Cebu or Angeles City? Important for me is to have 2/4$ or higher action.
Next important point is accomidation. I guess Airbnb would be the best choice. Do you think I would find something nice for 2 persons for lets say 500-1000$ budget per month?
Played in Casino Filipino and Wild Aces. Both games were dry as ****. On 10% rake, we'd need big whales to make it profitable. But Filipinos are all weak tight. Yeah maybe I can make TOPS 5bb hour? Playing aggro pre flop and winning limped pots
However I have never been to Asia and I am wondering where in Philippines games are most attractive and best action? Manila? Or maybe in Cebu or Angeles City? Important for me is to have 2/4$ or higher action.
Next important point is accomidation. I guess Airbnb would be the best choice. Do you think I would find something nice for 2 persons for lets say 500-1000$ budget per month?
Thanks in advance
Best action is generally Solaire for Higher Stakes. Often have 500/1k running.
Around the bay where all the casinos are springing up you can get accommodation cheaper than say the Fort.
Can anyone give a current rake chart and games list for Solair? Any regular 100/200nl games there?
Yea should have 100/200 daily, for solaire and about everywhere else in Philippines rake is 10%(resort's world is only one with 5%) depending blinds, example: 25/50 max 300, 50/100 max 400 100/200 max 500 etc.
100/200 and its ultra nitty and quite a tough game now. Poker isn't really good in manila anymore appart for the odd tournaments running thne you have some good fish playing omaha for high stakes but its quite rare.
When I went to manila for a poker trip like 7 years ago I felt it was pretty nitty (same with Macau), sounds like there was only a small window of decent poker in the PI.
I'm feeling like Bangkok/pattaya actually have the best live games at the moment from what I'm hearing.
Forgot my wallet in a Chinese restaurant run by pinoys. They managed to find my cellphone number using ID in my wallet, called me and returned my wallet with everything inside. I had around 1k usd.... is the pinoys that nice in the Philippines?