Jeffrey

Some of your probably know me as Failsafe from starcraft. I'm semi-new to lp.net and to poker. I’ve stalked around the forums a bit out of curiosity but I haven’t felt that I was a strong enough poker player to really contribute useful advice. Now that I’m damned to be back in the USA for at least 9 months without any real prospect of leaving, I’ve got nothing to entertain me. So, I’ve decided to adopt poker as serious hobby.

All that said, this seems like a great poker community, and of course it’s very interesting to watch ex-starcraft players continue with their lives. I’m throwing up the blog here to attract some attention and hopefully to entertain a bit. I know that without pictures this will go totally unnoticed, so here's a picture of me imitating the asian smile, as well as some pictures of China where I've been studying a bit of Mandarin.

Me, imitating the asian smile and drinking a remarkably sexy (albeit it girly) beverage.





Kunming, China, the city where I studied, and capital of Yunnan Province. As some of you know there was a bus bombing here a month ago. The actual bombing took place on my route to school, and even at the exact time that I would have been travelling. By a huge stroke of running good I happened to have rescheduled my class for an hour later so all I saw was the fallout. 2 were killed and 19 others were injured, however





Really great Chinese advertising with special english translation.





So I'm back from China, and America is horrible. Auburn, America is boring; the people are boring; the nightlife is boring; my school is boring; food is boring. Where's my fucking MSG? If China taught me anything, it was that real food numbs your mouth at the first bite.



Anyway, so far so good as poker goes. I started playing about a week ago, and aside from a massive tilt episode where I spewed off all my winnings, I feel that I've become a significantly better microstakes grinder. Back in China, I was contemplating poker as an analogy for life while I was high on ecstamethasy and reading high stakes forum threads when I had some (surprisingly) empirically fruitful insights.


My poker level is somewhere around better than NL25 but without sufficient nit-resistance or nit-bashing to really beat NL50 with a satisfying winrate.

Also, hello to crownroyal, vegable, k2o4 and other starcraft friends who might be reading this <3

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Haven't posted a blog before on this site. Granted it's pretty self-explanatory, but most things are - and it's never stopped me from fucking up in the past.

It's been a year or so since I last played BW. I'd intended to quit beforehand because I developed a ridiculously severe case of CTS (the nerve condition, not good poker play), and I didn't want to travel to the poorly organized WCG regionals. I was offered a last-minute opportunity to qualify online, but without any time to practice and with the CTS leveling my apm at like 180, down from 300, not to mention idra, artosis, skew, nyoken in my bracket, I just went out and got hammered the night before. I woke up late for the qualifier, got hammered by nyoken, hammered artosis, and was ultimately hammered a final time in the crucial match with idra. Anyway, I'm sMi.failsafe from starcraft.

I'm leaving for China tomorrow at 3 a.m. CST to study economics, the culture, and Mandarin Chinese. My flight leaves from ATL to LA or some Cali city, then from there to Ghuangzhou. From Ghuangzhou to Kunming. Hoping my million to one against crashing holds one time. I've been adjusting my sleep schedule hardcore, partially because, with the end of the semester, I finally can, and partially to mitigate jetlag. Quite tired as of now as a consequence of a lot of pool and drinking last night at my parents' house with my friends from high school, and from being awake a long time at a stretch.

So I'm testing this blog, and I've got a camera for the trip. I'll test it now as well so that I have a before and after China picture comparison. I plan to relentlessly grow my hair and beard while in China as I have no desire to pack a razor or shaver.





These pictures confirm my suspicions that my parents' cocaine addictions played hell with my genetics. Granted, I'm adopted, so it's all speculation, but the massive assymetry is pretty damning.

Once I return from China, I've got a surgery scheduled to repair my wrist. If all goes well I'll be able to play poker and starcraft again in about four months. Staritng to feel nauseated from lack of sleep and food, and I've gotta move fairly heavy stuff today, so good morning, and good night.

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