Macau Poker Cup Warmup

OMG awesomeness. I have my buddy Doug in town from Toronto and we planned to go to Macau on the Feb 20th weekend. And then today I saw Pokerstars Macau coming out with a MPC Warmup for that exact weekend! Here's the full schedule:

FRIDAY - February 19

2:10 PM --> FREE-to-ENTER Red Dragon Satellite Special --> Buyin: FREE**
5:00 PM -->Satellite to Red Dragon Satellite Special --> Buyin: $500
8:10 PM -->Red Dragon Satellite Special - 5 SEAT GUARANTEE--> Buyin: $2,200


SATURDAY - February 20

12:10 PM -->Satellite to $4000 KO Bounty--> Buyin: $660
2:10 PM -->Satellite to $4000 KO Bounty--> Buyin: $660
3:00 PM -->1-table satellites to $4000 KO BOUNTY (On Demand) --> Buyin: $880
6:00 PM--> $4000 KO BOUNTY 150K GUARANTEE --> Buyin:$4,000

The plan is to get there on Saturday around noon and have lunch, show Doug around, go to a few casinos, have early dinner, and play in the $4k KO tourney. Inevitably we'll also party after the game and make it crazy! Who else is gonna go pls holla! Let's do some side bets for last longer or most KOs or whatever!

Bonus: 2nd Ultra for all Super Street Fighter 4 characters (except T. Hawk)

cool: Akuma, Cody, Guy, Barlog, Cammy, C. Viper, Ryu, M. Bison, Dee Jay, Ken, Dalsim, Zangief, Fei Long

lame (basically all super projectiles): Chun Li, Sagat, Gouken, Guile, Dan, Sakura, Rose

super lame: Juri (maybe it's just the demo guy being a sucker but it looks like a lot of nothing)

Macau Poker Cup (March 2010) Schedule

Here's what we (at least I) have been waiting for, enjoy.

Macau Poker Cup - March 3 to 7
Draft Schedule

Monday 1-Mar
2:10 PM Phase 1 - Red Dragon Satellite $240 220+20 1-in-5 players get entry to Phase 2 - Red Dragon
4:30 AM Phase 1 - Red Dragon Satellite $240 220+20 1-in-5 players get entry to Phase 2 - Red Dragon
8:10 PM Phase 2 - Red Dragon Satellite $1,100 1000+100 1-in-10 players get entry to Red Dragon

Tuesday 2-Mar
2:10 PM Phase 1 - Red Dragon Satellite $240 220+20 1-in-5 players get entry to Phase 2 - Red Dragon
4:30 PM Phase 1 - Red Dragon Satellite $240 220+20 1-in-5 players get entry to Phase 2 - Red Dragon
8:10 PM Phase 2 - Red Dragon Satellite $1,100 1000+100 1-in-10 players get entry to Red Dragon

Wednesday 3-Mar
12:10 PM Phase 1 - Red Dragon Satellite $240 220+20 1-in-5 players get entry to Phase 2 - Red Dragon
2:10 PM Phase 1 - Red Dragon Satellite $240 220+20 1-in-5 players get entry to Phase 2 - Red Dragon
5:00 PM Phase 2 - Red Dragon Satellite $1,100 1000+100 1-in-10 players get entry to Red Dragon
8:10 PM MPC Event No. 1: KO Bounty Event $2,000 1800+200 $500 per KO

Thursday 4-Mar
12:10 PM Phase 1 - Red Dragon Satellite $240 220+20 1-in-5 players get entry to Phase 2 - Red Dragon
2:10 PM MPC Event No. 2: Charity Event (50K Added Prizes) $1,000 500+500 charity 2 rebuys
5:00 PM Phase 2 - Red Dragon Satellite $1,100 1000+100 1-in-10 players get entry to Red Dragon
8:10 PM MPC Event No. 3: $3000 NLH 200K Guarantee 2 day event 200K $3,000 2700+300

Friday 5-Mar
12:10 PM MPC Event No. 4: Deep Stack 100K Guarantee 100K $1,500
2:00 PM MPC Event No. 3 DAY 2
5:00 PM Phase 2 - Red Dragon Satellite $1,100 1000+100 1-in-10 players get entry to Red Dragon
8:10 PM MPC Event No. 5: Red Dragon $1,000,000 Guarantee, Day 1A 1M $10,000 9200+800 150 player cap
10:30 PM Last Chance Mega Satellite - Red Dragon $2,200 2000+200 1-in-5 players get entry to Red Dragon

Saturday 6-Mar
12:10 PM MPC Event No. 5: Red Dragon $1,000,000 Guarantee, Day 1B 1M $10,000 9200+800
5:00 PM Phase 2 - APPT Macau $950 860+90 1-in-5 players get entry to APPT Phase 3
6:30 PM MPC Event No. 5: Red Dragon Dinner Break
7:30 PM MPC Event No. 5: Red Dragon, Day 2

Sunday 7-Mar
12:10 PM MPC Event No. 5: Red Dragon, Day 3
2:10 PM MPC Event No. 6: $500 Rebuy 50K Guarantee 50K $500 450+50
6:00 PM Phase 3 - APPT Macau $4,300 1-in-10 players get 40k entry to APPT Macau

I'm likely to play Day 1A of the Red Dragon so I can sleep in after the inevitable Friday night party. And yes, they've cancelled the Highroller tourney, wtf am I gonna defend?

Apps. Billions upon billions of them...

On Jan 5th Apple's App Store sold their 3-billionth app download. That's a lot of downloads. Let's put things into perspective and we would be able to see how much this behemoth has grown:

July 2008: 0 downloads (App Store Launched)

January 2009: 0.5 billion

April 2009: 1 billion

September 2009: 2 billion

January 2010: 3 billion

The App Store took a good nine months to achieve their first billion downloads. And then the 2nd billion took five months. And then the 3rd billion took four. Anyone wanna do over/under on how long it'll take for 4-billion?

Bonus: For anyone Street Fighter savvy (and yes that includes you Terrence), you'll wanna see this: (for everyone else, this is the latest trailer of the up and coming Super Street Fighter 4, showing off new costumes and new Ultra Combos)

Video Games | Super Street Fighter IV | Exclusive Features Trailer

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