Live Blogging: Metro Poker League Championship

200k guaranteed
4 players ITM

630 pm Players are introduced.

Table 1: Bong T, Erwin, Boy A, Franz, Henry N, Tata A, Jib, Alex C, Mike G, Nate L

Table 2: Rebel, Aris C, Reggie B, Ali, Kirby, Bong L, Flo, Lala, Daniel, JVA

650 pm Boy A goes all in on the 1st hand.

724 pm Boy A is out at 20th place.

727 pm Erwin set 10s vs Bong T straight with KJ on the flop. Erwin gets FH on the turn. Bong T is out at 19th place.

Sorry for this. Got busy and wasn't able to push through with the full live blogging.

Update...
5th place Jun Villa-Abrille who ranked number one in the MPL Board.
4th place Henry "Da Mang" Nucum, a house player.
3rd place Young gun Jib "Jiborat" Garcia also known as the FISH.
2nd place Tata "Bin Laden the Terrorist" Almaden

CHAMPION LALA "THE LADY" MEJARO, the only female player in the MPL's Top 20.

Congratulations! What a great way for Lala and the lady players of Davao to end 2010!

Good luck to all our MCCD players for the next MPL season which began yesterday, January 3. See you at the tables! :)

Donkey and Fish According to Wikipedia

Are you a donkey or a fish?

Don't know what that is? Let Wikipedia tell you...

HEE HAW! A donkey, simply put... is a poker player who calls a bet or raise even if he/she does not have a hit or a draw. Even if the other player obviously has a good hand.

A fish, on the other hand, is one who plays poker badly, giving his opponents the chance to get or "fish" all his money or chips away.

Images courtesy of Flo "The Blowfish" Aguilar featuring Mike "the Duke of Hazzard" Gemepsaw, Reggie "the Fish" Braceros, and Jib "the Fish/Donkey" Garcia.

BO Makes Me TILT!

Ria says... "I'd rather lose my money than sit with you the entire night."

While watching the Talking Heads episode on "Hygiene," I suddenly remembered something... poker players with BO! BO is body odor. OH MY!

Imagine being cramped in close proximity with 8 other guys plus a pretty dealer. Nice situation for a single girl to be in, right? WRONG! Admittedly, most of the guys in my club, sorry boys, aren't good-looking.

Worse, some of them have BO. :-&

Not all of them have it though. But there are just some nights when committing suicide is a healthier, better option than sitting through hours with a guy or guys with a smelly armpit, bad breath, or various combinations of BO. Sometimes, these are combined with various smells of alcohol and smoke.

You know how bitchy and scary I am when I'm on tilt, please let's avoid this situation. It's a very unsavory and unattractive one. It's pure torture to play in a tournament when your seatmate or seatmates have BO. :( In cash games, it's tolerable since we can always change seats or tables... hopefully, the club ain't that full.

Yes, guys... I know that you were probably working the entire day, sweating it out in the gym, or playing basketball. Given that... let me introduce you to something called DEODORANT. And something else named BABY POWDER. And oh... toothbrush, toothpaste, mouthwash... or hello there... GUM!

Guys... deodorant is cheap. And you must use it! Please, please, please take a shower after working out at the gym or playing basketball or whatever shiz game or sport you play. And baby powder is cheaper. I loooove guys who smell like baby powder. I prolly won't fall in love with you, but at least you won't make me tilt and get bitchy.

And yeah, ya know... perfume, cologne, whatever! I know it's a pain to be bringing perfume or cologne everywhere. But most of you have cars, right? Keep it there. Or if you don't, please... just sit far from me.

I know I'm not the prettiest girl in the club, and probably not the nicest smelling girl in there... but at least I try my best to smell good. That's why mah bag is that big ya know. I bring with me a toothbrush and toothpaste ALL THE TIME! And yeah, perfume or body spray, baby powder... and admittedly DEODORANT.

So you know... if you sense that I am sitting a few inches from you farther than our usually cramped area would allow or leaning away from you, ask me for some mint, or maybe some cologne or baby powder.

And if I tell you you reek of alcohol and yosi, it's not just me being maarte. K? You really do smell.

Piso lang po ang VFresh na binebenta ng guard. :P

And before I forget... please refrain from removing your shoes while playing. Foot odor is not attractive. Guys... FOOT POWDER! Or alcohol. Especially when you decide to leave your shoes in your car and decide to wear slippers to the club. ALCOHOL!

And OMG! This is not related to BO but general hygiene... Please do not pick your nose or scratch your butt while playing. Or lick it after you eat peanuts or whatever pulutan you're having. Use the tissue. We have lots of it. And once, again... ALCOHOL!

Please... at least try? THANKS!