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- Monday
METRO500 P40,000 Guaranteed
Buy-in: P500 (Freeze-out) + 1 DICC 2012 seats
First deal: 2:00pm
The Metro 60K
P60,000 Guaranteed
Buy-in: P500 (Freezeout) + 2 DICC 2012 seats
120 Max, First deal: 7:00pm
Metro Schedule
The Metro Hosts The 1st Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament
More than 50 fabulous prizes worth over P500k at stake!
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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