ItalianoGACKT Official Weibo update. Translation below:
Today is the day of the APL【Asian Poker League】
that’s held in Beijing, China.
As a part of Team Japan,
Team Japan has been invited to Beijing for this tournament
so I came here for just one day.
I first had lunch with everyone,
then we head off to the competition at night.
While the 3 of us slowly took our time eating,
we discussed about tonight’s team competition.
And a few hours later,
it’s finally time to enter the venue.
This time,
there are over 1000 people participating
in APL’s main event.
We came all the way here
just to get the trophy.
I wonder how far can we go.
The famous Chinese players are definitely
gathered among the powerhouses from the Asian countries so
I do wonder how far can we go.
While smoothly crushing the teams from the other countries,
we managed to survive the preliminary round.
At the table where China, Japan and Korea are seated together,
the Chinese team kept attacking hard.
From then, we impressively crushed the other teams one by one,
and somehow,
with our spectacular and overwhelming strength,
we managed to arrive in the finals.
However,
the number of chips that the other teams in the finals have
is more than double to our team’s.
In the 3-team finals,
there are 2 teams from China
and our Japan team, and us 3 teams will be going against each other.
The finals started at 3 in the middle of the night.
Honestly, my fatigue was at it’s limit.
The next confrontation was a deciding game,
It’s a very interesting match.
I went All In and lost.
Then I was knocked out and Team G Japan
was left with 2 people in the battle.
After this, with the steady advancement of those two,
they remained as part of the last 4 players but
for some reason, the more TAKUMI’s chip count increases
the more the opponent worked to thwart the exchange of chips between our team members,
and in the end, they produced a straight and we lost.
We were so close to 1st place.
I’m overflowing with fatigue.
By the time we ended, it was around 5 in the morning.
Fatigue was hitting at me like waves.
The joy of being in 2nd place was very much overwhelmed
by the disappointment of losing when the goal was right in front of us.
Poker is deep.
That’s why it’s fun.
And I’m disappointed to death.
This is poker.
There’s a mountain load of huge lessons to be learnt in life.
Today as well, while learning those lessons, it seems like I definitely can’t sleep from the disappointment.
Damn it…
It was just one more step too.
Just one more step.
Source: GACKT WEIBO
Translation: GACKT ITALIA Team
Translation © GACKT ITALIA