Derick Hernandez Eliminated On Day 3 of WSOP 2008
One day shy of making it in the money, Derick had a very big chip stack and could have cruised into day 4. The poker gods decided otherwise, and in a table that had only one bigger stack, Derick got Pocket Kings. After some aggressive betting pre-flop, on the flop, and on the turn, on the river with a board of 
, Alberto Font moved all in against Frederick Hernandez. Font had Hernandez covered. Hernandez made the call and showed 
and Font showed 
. After the hand, Font moved up to 773,000 in chips and became the new chip leader.
Although we did not have any of our local guys cash this year, they still had a strong showing making it to day 3 in a field of over 6,800 other hopefuls.
Congratulations to Neil and Derick for representing the country and showing the world how good our poker players really are!
Posted by The Metro on July 14, 2008 under News & Updates. 3 Comments.
Derick Hernandez Makes Day 3, Busts Out Phil Gordon
WSOP Day 3: Our Philippine and METRO contingent to the WSOP 2008 got down to the last player after Neil Arce busted out due to a bad run of unavoidable hands. Derick Hernandez, Metro player and local poker professional, cruised through day 2 and will start day 3 with 282,000 in chips, not far from the top chip leaders.
It was a roller coaster ride for Neil Arce, who at one point had over 200,000 in chips. A bad run with big pots crippled him to 80,000 just 6 hands after getting up to 200k. The blinds eventually caught up and he was forced to make a move and pushed with K-J and did not hit. He finished a day shy of being in the money, but again a strong showing for him.
Derick Hernandez, on the other hand, showed excellent form and skill when he slowly but surely amassed a good stack of chips, even with uber-pros like Phil Gordon at his table. The highlight of his tournament so far was when, On a flop of 
, Phil Gordon bet 40,000 into an 84,000 pot. Derick thinks for several minutes before announcing all in. Gordon only had 41,000 behind, and he then tanks for several minutes. He then got up from the table and said, “Well, I don’t have it, but I don’t think he has it either.” Gordon called.
Gordon: 
Hernandez: 
Gordon then started calling for a ten. The turn falls the 
, and Gordon continued to call out for a ten as the 
hits the river.
After the hand, Derick moved up to a formidable 282,000 in chips.
Go Derick! Go Philippines! Go Metro!
Posted by The Metro on July 11, 2008 under News & Updates. 1 Comment.
METRO Champion Neil Arce Makes Day 2 of WSOP Main Event
Representing The Metro Card Club and more importantly, the Philippines, current FPT Champion Neil Arce showed his winning form by making it to day 2 of the World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas. Neil Cashed in last year’s WSOP, winning $51,000 making 222nd place in a 6,500 player field. Also making it to day 2 is Derick Hernandez, another METRO player and local poker veteran who made the APPT final table last year.
The 2008 World Series is being contested by 6,844 players, all fighting for the lion’s share of the $64,333,600 prize pool. Of those players who started, 666 will walk away with at least $21,230. The last person standing will take home the coveted WSOP Champions Bracelet and a cool $9,119,517 in cash.
Neil goes into day 2 with a stack of 95,900 while Derick is right behind him with 87,000. The Average stack is Somewhere around 30,000.
Let’s root for our countrymen and fellow Metro Players to make it deep into this contest and represent the Philippines in the poker world once again!
Go Philippines! Go Metro!
Posted by The Metro on July 8, 2008 under News & Updates. 1 Comment.
Neil Arce Wins Metro 3 Million / Filipino Poker Tour 3 Event
At the METRO 3 Million main event last sunday night, Neil Arce, known in the local poker scene as “Dirty Ice Cream”, beat out a field of 111 of poker’s finest minds en route to his first FPT Championship, a P3 Million Peso Guaranteed Tournament hosted by The Metro Card Club, the best poker room in the country. The final table was perhaps the most star-studded of any that can be remembered in the local poker scene’s history. It included Franco Mabanta (4th place, one of the most successful local high stakes poker players), Ronald Singson ( 3rd place, world ranked poker player and APPT Manila money-finisher), ( 2nd place, Successful high stakes online and cash player and also an APPT money finisher), Ed Marcelo ( 5th place, consistent tournament finisher and WPT Philippines 4th place finisher), among others. Notably, the top 5 players were all exclusive METRO players, and can be found in the METRO almost everyday playing high stakes cash games and touornaments. Neil, who was at one point on the verge of elimination, showed masterful play once he finally obtained a sizable chip stack which led to his epic comeback in his heads-up match with Erick Sia
Neil Arce earned his place in local poker history as the first ever Local Filipino player to cash the World Series of Poker in 2007 at 222nd place out of 6,500+ poker professionals, winning over $50,000 in the process. His win in this tournament probably ranked up there in his list of accomplishments as he bested the best final table full of players he considers his peers.
Arce’s payday of P1.1 Million for winning the tournament included a seat to Pokerstars APPT Manila 2008 worth $2,500, which was one of the bigget payouts in local poker, representing the continued growth and popularity the sport today. He said all throughout the tournament: “i don’t have a chip lead right now and im even kind of short stacked, but i know i’m going to win this tournament.”
He turned out to be right all along.
Congratulations to The METRO players for showing everyone that The Metro is the place where Champions play!
Posted by The Metro on July 1, 2008 under News & Updates. 8 Comments.
P1M Charity Poker Tournament in The METRO Davao
- Buy-in: P20,000 + P2,000
- Registration: Starts at 12:30 PM on July 12, 2008
- P1,000,000 pot guaranteed.
Click on the poster above for more details on the P1M Grand Opening Charity Poker Tournament in The Metro Card Club Davao.
Posted by The Metro on June 24, 2008 under News & Updates. No Comments.
METRO 3M Guaranteed Filipino Poker Tour Pokerstars satellites!
The 2nd METRO 3 Million Guaranteed Tournament is coming very soon!
Win your seat for FREE in the weekly freerolls or qualify for as low as $3 at PokerStars.com!
Be a part of this exciting upcoming Filipino Poker Tour Event #3 at the Metro Card Club, Manila from the 28th-29th of June, 2008.
Here are the details:
FREEROLLS!
Phase 1 – Monday to Saturday, 7 pm Asia/Manila Time – Top 25 into Phase 2
Phase 2 Final Round – Sunday 7pm Asia/Manila Time – 3 seats guaranteed!
Commencing from the 2nd of June 2008.
Week 1 – finishes Sunday June 8th
Week 2 – finishes Sunday June 15th
Week 3 – finishes Sunday June 22nd
The Filipino Poker Tour Weekly Cash Satellite:
Monday to Saturday 7.30pm Asia/Manila Time $11(10+1) 1 in 10 win a Sunday Filipino Poker Tour $100 Qualifier entry.
Monday to Saturday 8.30pm Asia/Manila Time $3 rebuy tourney – unlimited $3 rebuys for first hour & $3 add-on. Sunday Filipino Poker Tour Qualifier entry awarded for every $100 in the prize pool.
Sunday 7.30pm $100(92+8) Filipino Poker Tour Qualifier
Filipino Poker Tour tournament entry only given away for every $800 in the prize pool
Two seats guaranteed!
Commencing from the 2nd of June 2008.
Week 1 – finishes Sunday June 8th
Week 2 – finishes Sunday June 15th
Week 3 – finishes Sunday June 22nd
The Filipino Poker Tour Monday 2nd Chance for half prize Cash Satellite
Monday 9.00pm $50(46+4) Filipino Poker Tour Qualifier
Filipino Poker Tour package given away for every $800 in the prize pool
One seat guaranteed!
Week 1 – finishes Monday 2nd of June
Week 2 – finishes Monday 9th of June
Week 3 – finishes Monday 16th of June
Week 4 – finishes Monday 23rd of June
The Filipino Poker Tour Last Cash Satellite
Wednesday, 25th of June 2008 7.30pm $100(92+8) Filipino Poker Tour Qualifier
Filipino Poker Tour tournament entry given away for every $800 in the prize pool
Two seats guaranteed!
The Filipino Poker Satellites can be found under the ‘Events’>’Special’ tab in your PokerStars game lobby.
Posted by The Metro on June 2, 2008 under News & Updates. 1 Comment.
The METRO SUMMER SERIES Final Results!
The METRO SUMMER SERIES, a series of poker tournaments hosted by your one and only card room The Metro Card Club, ended last weekend with the hugely successful Team Poker Tournament that brought 19 teams (a total of 95 players) playing for a pot of P285,000 and bragging rights as the best poker team in the country. After a whole day of intense poker shootout action, the winners were finally crowned!
Here are the winners of the team tournament:
Champion Team: 5th Street–Aris Alipon, Oging Sicat, Derek Chiongbian, Verns Buckley-Chiongbian, Lal Gopwani
2nd Placer Team: Team Crocks–Eric Mendoza, Rinah, Vic, Melvin (the Miracle)
Last 3 Players Standing:
1st: Rinah of Team Crocks
2nd: Derick Chiongbian of 5th Street
3rd: Jun Amito of Pata Team
Before the team tournament, there was the First METRO HEADS-UP CHAMPIONSHIP with a P160,000 guaranteed prize pool. The event started with 32 players battling in hard-fought heads-up battles, eventually ending with the final four poker players, all of whom were veteran poker players in their own right. Last man standing and multiple poker championship title holder Eric Mendoza (P70,000) ended up beating Nicky Filart (P40,000) for the title of Heads-up Champion. Semi Finalists were Metro Players Neil Arce (222nd place, WSOP 2007 main event) and Miguel Cuneta (who won P25,000 each.)
The Ladies Tournament had the women players from the local poker scene battle it out for the title of The Metro Ladies Champion plus a big chunk of the P50,000 guaranteed prize pool. Myla Casasola ended up besting the field and winning the championship.
The first tournament of the series was the Metro Tournament of Champions, which featured champions from all previous major Metro Tournament. As expected, the veteran sharks of the poker tables at Metro came to show who the real champion really is.When the dust finally settled, Philip Abadilla emerged as the first Metro Champion of Champions! This fine player already has two Metro75 championship titles under his belt, and is a common face in any final table of the major metro tournaments.
Champions Tournament Winner Philip Abadilla
That ends The METRO SUMMER SERIES for this year. Great poker, great players, fun and exciting events, all thanks to the great staff at The Metro Card Club and the awesome local poker community.
What’s next? The Pokerstars Filipino Poker Tour METRO 3 MILLION GUARANTEED II is right around the corner!
Stay tuned for information about satellites and other events coming up!
See you at THE METRO!
Posted by The Metro on May 20, 2008 under News & Updates. No Comments.
Metro Team Tournament Updates
2008 Metro Summer Series TEAM TOURNAMENT Structures
Buy-in: P15k
Prize Structure: [Last 2 teams and last 3 players from the final table get to be paid]
Champion Team - 50%
2nd Team - 30%
1st Player - 10%
2nd Player - 6%
3rd Player - 4%
Starting Stack: 5000
Blind Structure:
Elimination (Shoot Out) [20mins per level]
25/50 50/100 100/200 150/300 200/400 50 300/600 50 400/800 100 600/1200 100 800/1600 200 1000/2000 200
Final Table [30mins per level]
500/1000 100 1000/2000 200 1500/3000 300 2000/4000 500 3000/6000 500 5000/10000 1000 7000/14000 1000 10000/20000 2000
Point System:
Elimination
1st +16pts final table 2nd 14pts 3rd 12pts 4th 10pts 5th 9pts 6th 6pts 7th 5pts 8th 4pts 9th 3pts 10th 2pts
Final table
1st 32pts final table 2nd 30pts 3rd 28pts 4th 26pts 5th 25pts 6th 22pts 7th 21pts 8th 20pts 9th 19pts 10th 18pts
Posted by The Metro on May 13, 2008 under News & Updates. 1 Comment.
2008 Asian Poker Tour
Venue: Dusit Hotel Makati
Metro Satellites:
- Level 1 Supersatellites
- Buy-in: P2k + 200
- Schedule: Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays @ 8 PM
- Level 2 Satellites - 1 seat guaranteed
- Buy-in: P12k
- Schedule: To be announced.
Posted by The Metro on April 24, 2008 under News & Updates. No Comments.
Heads-Up Tournament Updates
*Buy-in: P5k+500
*Dates: First Elimination Round — April 20, 2008 (Sunday)
A specific time will be designated for each match (starts 3pm onwards)
*All entrants are required to register on or before April 20, 2008 @ 2pm
All succeeding rounds will all be on the championship date which is on April 26,2008 (Saturday) @ 2pm
*Structure:
The tournament has a unique, single-elimination, bracket-style format modeled after college basketball tournaments. Win a match and advance to the next round; win six matches and be crowned champion.
Players are divided into four brackets – Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, and Spades – and advance by winning a heads-up match against their randomly drawn opponent. The structure of the brackets then determines every match thereafter. The semifinals are comprised of one player from each bracket, with the winner of the Spades bracket playing the winner of the Clubs bracket, and the winner of the Hearts bracket matched up against the winner of the Diamonds bracket. A best-of-three final match then determines which of the two finalists is crowned champion.
For the first round, each player’s seat will be picked randomly. A definite schedule will be fixed for each match for the first round which will be on Sunday, April 20, 6pm onwards. Then the other matches will follow through according to the brackets given.
The succeeding matches will be on the championship day, which is on April 26, 2008
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Prize Structure:
1st Place = P70,000
2nd Place = P40,000
3rd & 4th Places = P25,000
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Blind Structure:
20 minutes/ Blind Level
First Round
Starting Stack = 10,000
Level 1___________50-100
Level 2___________100-200
Level 3___________200-400
Level 4___________300-600
Level 5___________400-800
Level 6___________500-1000
Second Round
Starting Stack = 20,000
Level 1___________100-200
Level 2___________200-400
Level 3___________400-800
Level 4___________600-1200
Level 5___________800-1600
Level 6___________1000-2000
Quarter-Finals
Starting Stack = 40,000
Level 1___________200-400
Level 2___________400-800
Level 3___________800-1600
Level 4___________1000-2000
Level 5___________1500-3000
Level 6___________2000-4000
Semi-Finals
Starting Stack = 80,000
Level 1___________400-800
Level 2___________800-1600
Level 3___________1000-2000
Level 4___________2000-4000
Level 5___________3000-6000
Level 6___________4000-8000
Finals
Starting Stack = 160,000
Level 1___________800-1600
Level 2___________1500-3000
Level 3___________2000-4000
Level 4___________3000-6000
Level 5___________4000-8000
Level 6___________6000-12000
Posted by The Metro on April 16, 2008 under News & Updates. 1 Comment.
