Texas Holdem Poker Manila

Festival Dates: Postponed

Texas Hold 'Em Bonus Progressive Poker Overview The objective of the game is to beat the Dealer’s hand by making the best five cards poker hand using player’s two cards (Hole Card) and up to five of the Community Cards (or Play the Board). Wild Aces Poker Sports Club Philippine poker started in early 2006 with one poker room located at PAGCOR’s Airport Casino. In the beginning, it was the only casino offering Texas Hold’em Poker. But after The Metro Card Club, the very first mortar & brick poker room in the country opened, numerous rooms followed suit. PokerStars LIVE Manila offers fourteen cash game tables with a wide range of limits to accommodate for every type of poker player. No Limit Texas Hold’em, Pot Limit Omaha and Badugi are available from stakes of ₱25/₱50 to ₱100/₱200 and above.

Venue

PokerStars Live at Okada Manila
Zone D, New Seaside Drive, Entertainment City,
Paranaque City, 1701, Metro Manila Philippines
Contact Telephone: (63) 266 29888
SMS/Viber: +639154121818
Contact Telephone for hotel room bookings: (+63) 288 80777

Dress code: Casual
Minimum age: 21 years+
NB: Everyone must bring a valid government issued passport or ID together with the Okada Rewards Circle Member Card to participate.

Buy-in

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Travel & Accommodation

PokerStars Travel offers a wide range of accommodation options, including discounted rates, specifically for PokerStars players. Further information will be emailed to all full package qualifiers within seven days of winning a satellite.

For accommodation information please visit: www.pokerstarstravel.com. If you have any questions about accommodation contact info@pokerstarstravel.com.

By Air

The nearest airport is Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport, which is roughly 8km from City centre of Manila. The airport operates daily flights to and from most of the world’s largest cities, and PokerStars Travel can arrange a transfer for you from the airport to your Hotel or Okada Manila. There is also metered taxi, coupon fixed rate taxi and airport buses connecting from the Airport to Manila City Centre.

Be aware that there are four terminals in Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport and they are not connected to each other. Make sure you know which terminal your flight arrives or departs.

Cash Games

PokerStars LIVE Manila offers 15 cash game tables with a wide range of limits to accommodate for every type of poker player. No Limit Texas Hold’em, Pot Limit Omaha and Badugi are available from ₱25/₱50, ₱100/₱200, ₱200/₱500 and above.

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Poker is believed to have been introduced to the Philippines during World War I by American soldiers who brought in the Bicycle brand playing cards. All playing cards in the country in the 1950s were imported and many were sold behind the counter or secretly sold by Maranao sidewalk vendors.

For many many years people have been playing a local version of the game of Poker with the use of 52 cards where 13 cards are distributed all face down to four players one at a time.

It is known in the Visayas and Mindanao as piat-piat or pusoy in Luzon. Most, however, call it Chinese Poker. The pot usually runs up to hundreds if not thousands of pesos, particularly those games participated by weekend professional gamblers, including government officials.

This game became so popular that those that could not afford cards themselves created their own deck of cards with some cardboard and pens so that they could play this ever growing popular card game.

Chinese Poker is played just like the 5-card stud poker with a twist. The last five cards should be arranged that it would be the best. The second group of five cards should be better than and that of the third group–the three cards.
For example, if the last three cards form a trio, the middle group should form a straight but not two pairs since the trio is higher.

The Chinese term for this is totyu or inverted or disarranged. With this you become outright the loser for the round.

The 13 cards grouped in 5-5-3 should then be arranged that the last five would be the best, the middle group better and the three cards as good or whatever.

With the popularity of Chinese Poker or Pusoy Filipinos easily found favor with the new game on the block and play the now popular Texas Hold ‘Em High Poker, which is played in casinos in Paranaque, Pasig City in clubhouses; Manila, Tagaytay and other cities in the country legally.

Entry fees are reasonably low at PhP1,000 or so but with the total tournament top prizes of PhP1 million or $20,000, many join the regular tournament sponsored by a club formed by a journalist.

Others are now into the bandwagon sponsoring Texas Hold ‘Em High tournaments with the same format of putting in $200 as entry fee for the elimination round. If you want to immediately join the championship game you have to buy in with P20,000 or $2,000.

Since Texas Hold ‘Em is simple many have been playing the game even clandestinely.

With the Filipinos’ propensity to gamble putting casinos in the country with Poker as the main attraction could be a profitable business. The government casino operator is eyeing an Entertainment City in the heart of Metro Manila– at the reclaimed land near the popular SM Mall of Asia, one of the biggest malls in Southeast Asia.

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