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Php1.5M Guaranteed ...What you see is what you get!
Guaranteed Prize Pool: Php1,000,000 in CASH plus 4 seats to the Asian Poker Tour (APT)
Looking at it they did a little trick here so it's basically a 1.5m gtd with embedded seats (4 seats would be close to 500K). So it looks like an overlay when it isn't, they need 500 players which at this stake thru 2 days will be np. So basically no chance of overlay, might still play it for the heck of it.
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Originally Posted by PItom
How many people are the RW satellites getting?
The RW sats, with no fee IIRC, have around 100-120players on avg. I expect it to increase in later weeks. Top18 or so will be paid, as usual, lame sums unless ur in the top. I'm unimpressed by the structure but it isn't terrible.
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Originally Posted by KaizenK
do you find RW cash games juicier compared to Metro CC?
At this point, I would say I've done a pretty good job of investigating the more popular live venues in Manila, that at least have 50/100.
RW is loaded with terrible old regs that play there a ton, a few femme fatales that are better off in baccarat, the occasional WHALE and when I mean whale I mean a **** big blue one. If you get a 1/1/2 going on especially in the weekends, with a couple rich guys spewing - be prepared for massive EV. The autostraddle games in the weekend play on average pretty deep, expect 300bb avg stacks. Good games play slightly higher than $5/10.
To judge the venues I've been playing at, I would say the following based on my experience.
-RW>=Hyatt. The average table is close but RW have 3-4 tables as Hyatt only have 2. Tableselect tables with deep stacks and spewy regs.
-Hyatt>>Malate Poker Club>>>>Metro. MPC won't consistently have 50/1, and actually it is the only room where rake is capped as high as 500. Free beer though, which makes up for it if you wanna chill and drink while u play.
Not taking into account the 1/2/5 AS games at Metro, I am not rolled for them yet and can't make a judgment, Metro is by far the worst place to play cash games.
Metro has tons of house players, aka hired regs that are "paid" a couple grand per day. These won't be better than at best average 50nl regs, but they have decent fundamentals - and they softplay each other extremely obviously. If you have a couple mill I would suggest try Metro "high stakes" games (they have at least 3 fish). If not, RW is your best bet.
For drinks, ur gonna spew if you wanna drink at hyatt/rw. Beers are minimum 200 and it tilts me.
Further notes:
-Hyatt has free food, coffee, ice tea and coke. Hyatt has allowed semi-expected tipping.
-RW you can get simple dishes for p100 that are pretty convenient. All non-alcoholic drinks are free.
-RW has prohibited tipping. You CANT tip dealers or the cashier. Waiters/waitresses accept small tips. With no tipping culture at all, this makes RW the most profitable place to play.
All rooms except MPC have 10%, cap at 400.
Edit: I forgot to mention Pan Pacific. You will have trouble finding 50/100+ there. What's cool though is that they promote some PLO, so if you wanna go play some live PLO that's ur best bet.
Last edited by fanapathy; 08-10-2010 at 04:46 PM.