Author: Roy Pedersen

When We Failed Keeping Up With The Joneses

The video from All-in Translations’ ASEAN Gaming Summit Invitational Poker Tournament is finally ready. It shows how Rhys Jones and Anastasia Bauer from Zustro.com eliminated player after player before meeting heads-up in a duel that would decide who is the best poker player in their marriage.

The top 3 prizes were already decided on when they were down to 3 players, and Claude Henoud from Real Time Gaming Asia was awarded the 1st price – a return trip from anywhere in the world to Summit of iGaming Malta (SiGMA). Rhys Jones wanted the bottle of champagne at the closing party and his wife Anastasia Bauer preferred the weekend trip for two to Boracay – with compliments of All-in Translations.

The prizes for the rest of the final table finishers was a VIP entry + dinner at SiGMA in November.
10th place: Jiten Melwani from BitGameLabs
9th place: Will Yeh from Genesis Gaming
8th place: Pierre Wuu from PokerStars Live
7th place: Amis Wu
6th place: Ron Alon from Orientalgroup.com
5th place: Vincent Huang from NewOrientalClub88
4th place: Johan Koningslehner from JackpotJoyGroup
3rd place: Claude Henoud from Real Time Gaming Asia
2nd place: Anastasia Bauer from Zustro.com
1st place: Rhys Jones Zustro.com
Erica Cheng from All-in Translations’ Asian Business Development team and Bill Beatty of Calvin Ayre competed in a more personal battle and they were both among the first players to be eliminated. Beatty won the heads-up.

The tournament was played at the PokerStars Live Room at City of Dreams Manila.
CEO of All-in Translations Roy Pedersen was very happy with the outcome of the tournament.
“I think everybody truly enjoyed it. A thousand thanks to the people at the Manila PokerStars Live Room for organising, Asia Gaming Brief for promoting, SiGMA for providing such great prizes and the Manila Video Team at Calvin Ayre for documenting the whole thing on video. I hope to do something similar with all of them for another event!” Pedersen said.

Pentasia All-in League: Early Bird Discount Deadline Coming Up

April 4th is the last day to enter the new and improved Pentasia All-in League at the lowest possible price: €500.
All you have to do is drop an e-mail to roy@allintranslations.com to confirm.
As of April 4th (and 1st of every month up until the deadline on September 1st), the price will increase with €25 each month. Through this approach we hope to get many teams on board early on and gain more time to plan an exciting league.
9 teams have registered so far:
Gaming Innovation Group
Leo Vegas
Oddsring/Twin.com
Reactivation Group
Aspire FC
Bethard
ZP Services
SD Services
Catena Media
if you have any questions, just let us know.
Also please like the new Facebook page. We will use this page to keep everyone interested up-to-date and will create “events” for all the games, among other things.

Drama at the Weigh-in: "Bill you’re such a Fish!"

At 18:00 local time in Manila we will announce shuffle up and deal for All In Translations’ ASEAN Gaming Summit Invitational Poker Freeroll at the PokerStars Live Room at City of Dreams.
There will also be a heads-up battle between Calvin Ayre’s Bill Beatty and our very own Erica Cheng.
Below you can see what happened when they weighed in yesterday (it wasn’t pretty nor friendly!).

Thanks also to SiGMA for providing great prizes!

Freeroll, Turbo and Dealer's Choice. This Poker Week in Manila for Dummies

This coming Thursday we will host the official freeroll poker tournament of ASEAN Gaming Summit. We have also confirmed that a private dealer’s choice cash game table will be opened for us at the PokerStars Live Room at City of Dreams Manila whenever we can round up a few players.

If you are not a poker expert, you are probably baffled about all of this, so below you have an explanation of everything you need to know about the poker being played in the Filipino capital this week.

In a poker tournament, all players are given a certain amount of chips and then the tournament is played until one player is left with all the chips. Usually, there is more than one prize though, depending on the number of players. In our tournament on Thursday, there are (GREAT) prizes for the top 9 finishers. The tournament is labeled as a freeroll, meaning it is free to enter (as opposed to a tournament with a buy-in). As for the structure, we will be playing No Limit Hold’em Turbo.

In a poker cash game, you can come and go as you please. You enter with the amount of chips you desire (usually within a minimum and maximum depending on the blinds), and can cash these chips in whenever you want. The cash game table(s) we will host this week will be played with «dealer’s choice». This simply means that the dealer chooses which poker variant he or she wants to play. The options are Texas Hold’em No Limit, Crazy Pineapple No Limit and Omaha Hi Pot Limit. The blinds will be set at a medium level.

The difference between Texas Hold’em No Limit and Crazy Pineapple is that you are dealt three hole cards instead of two, and you have to discard one of them after the betting on the flop.

In Omaha Hi, you are dealt four cards and they key is that you HAVE TO use two of those cards at showdown (not 1 and not 3 but 2).

Thursday’s freeroll (which has great prizes) starts at 6 pm sharp. The cash game is open whenever we can gather a group of players. Just email roy@allintranslations.com if you are interested.

That leaves just a few terms unexplained. Since I am late for the networking event this evening I will leave that in the safe hands of our friends at PokerListings.

PS: Thanks to SiGMA for providing the prizes which includes a return trip to Malta (during SiGMA) from anywhere in the world. All In Translations is providing the 2nd prize which is a trip for 2 to Boracay.

Great Response, Position Vacant at Pentasia All-in League

The response has been great since we released our plan about a new and improved Pentasia All-in League. In just one day 9 teams have confirmed their participation:
Gaming Innovation Group
Leo Vegas
Oddsring/Twin.com
Reactivation Group
Aspire FC
Bethard
ZP Services
SD Services
Catena Media
The early bird rate is available till 3rd April – keep’em coming and make it easy for us to plan a great league!
POSITION VACANT – LEAGUE MANAGER
We are looking for someone to manage the Pentasia All-in League on a semi-daily basis. In order to free up a decent salary it would be ideal if this person can also be the head referee.
Key responsibilities:

Head up Captain’s meeting before season starts
Update rules
Make sure rules are enforced and followed
Collect team registration forms
Liaise with venue on a weekly basis (Luxol)
Create events for all games on Facebook
Register the results for said games
Communication with teams
Manage equipment, making sure there are good balls available for all games
Find and manage a team of referees
Help coordinate the banquet at the end of the season

Working hours would be roughly Monday 2030-2300, Tuesday 2000-2230, Wednesday 1900-2230 + a few weekly flexible hours outside of this.
Starting date: 1st October 2017 (plus a few hours here and there prior to that).
The successful candidate has the following skills and qualifications:

Passion for football
Organisational skills
Experience as a referee (ideally)
Motivated
Solution oriented
Reliable

This is a great opportunity if you want to work part time with football and management and get a foot in the door of the gaming industry, working with two very successful and long standing companies like Pentasia and All-in Translations.
Applications with cover letter and CV to roy@allintranslations.com as soon as possible and before April 3rd.

See you on the road!

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