Hey guys!
The Songkran festival is celebrated in Thailand as the traditional New Year's Day from 13 to 15 April. It coincides with the New Year of many calendars of South and Southeast Asia. The most obvious celebration of Songkran is the throwing of water. Thais roam the streets with containers of water or water guns (sometimes mixed with mentholated talc), or post themselves at the side of roads with a garden hose and drench each other and passersby.
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In the past year or so I've been trying to make a more than usual effort to improve myself as a human being. I want to learn things than can lead myself towards a happier life, better understand of the people around me and to improve my self-awareness. I just came across this video and tought it would be a good idea to share it. Enjoy!
Hey guys!
If you dont know yet I challenged myself into making 20K playing MTTs in Thailand in the next 6 months starting in February. I bloged about it a couple entries ago so if you wanna know more about it take a look.
Here is how I'm doing so far:
Yes I know, almost 1 month gone and I havent made any money.
I'm feeling pretty good about it actually! I've been putting some good game volume and have learned a lot so I dont feel it was a waste of time. I strongly believe I'm gonna be able to accomplish this challenge. My average buy-in is $6 cause I have a pretty nitty BR Management. At the moment my BR is $2.9k. Take a look at my BR Management Chart:
Very nitty right? I like it this way cause I know MTT variance is pretty crazy and I hate mixing my finances with poker, so I rather make sure I will never need to put a penny in PokerStars ever again.
Lets keep this forum active guys! Dont let LP die.
And grind hard!
Cheers!
Hey guys!
Was supposed to blog this a week ago but I got banned for 14 days for posting "dick in the ass" in the Valentines Day Presents thread lol This is like the 3rd time I got banned in the last 3 months or so, and dont know if I'm being a dick or LP is turning too gay and boring but anyway. I'll try to be a nice boy from now on.
OK, about Thailand now!
I've been here for a month already and it has been a great experience overall. The biggest problem for me here is the food, I'm sooo picky with my food and thai food isnt even close to the kinda of food I like. Lucky me my girlfriend cooks very well our good old brazilian food so thats nice. Of course I can find nice places to eat out but I have to be very carefully about my choices otherwise its imposible for me to eat out.
We rented a 2 bedroom apartment very close to the Thong Lo BTS station so that makes a lot easier for us to go anywhere since the traffic in Bangkok is jammed all the time. We have a couple(I really mean a couple, a man and a woman) of brazilian friends living here, the guys works for the brazilian embassy in bangkok. Their compainenship has halped a lot adapting to Bangkok and having more fun that we would have if we didnt know anybody in the city.
We are paying 35,000TBH/month for rent, thats around $1,200 USD, kinda of expensive but our place is so nice and well located that I think it is worth it. We have a nice pool and gym in the building and the view is great! I'm living a lot better that in Brazil for sure, where a used to pay $1,000 for a very small studio lol.
Internet in my building is very good but the cable tv in thailand sucks. We didnt even signed it cause channel selection was so poor that it wasnt worth it. Instead what did I do? I signed netflix. "but netflix is not available in thailand" you may say! yes I know that! I'm using an amazing proxy service that I already used in Brazil (even though Brazil already has netflix available) in orher to access USA Netflix. It is the www.unblock-us.com ! Costs $5/month, its really easy to setup and NEVER fails. I configured my router so every device in the apartment can connect directly thru the proxy, really amazing stuff.
Pics of gtfo
where I grind whenever I can
main bedroom (1)
main bedroom (2)
main bedroom's toilet
guest bedroom
kitchen
living room
my supplements, damn those are hard to find in thailand!
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174...ailand-modeling-1149325/#post30774535
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Hey guise!
First off let me start introducing myself: I'm 22 (just turned 3 days ago) my name is Arthur and I'm brazilian. Just a few weeks ago I quit my daily job for a federal court in Brazil where I made around 40K USD/year. Other than that I work as a professional model and I make quite a good amount of money from that. My girlfriend is also a model, we are gonna be moving to Bangkok in a few weeks to work there as Bangkok is one of the fashion centers of the world, so we can make a lot more money there as models than here in Brazil. We are already signed with Bangkok Modeling agencies so that's nice.
Obligatory pic:
(Me and Her)
Poker: Right now I'm a MTT grinder! In the past I've played a lot of cash games, grinded about 700k hands up to NL100 and broke even all the way. After trying a lot of different things I decided that MTTs is the only format I have a big enough edge to keep me on the grind and happy at the same time. Anyway, my goal is to give poker a real chance for the first time!
My goal is to make $20K USD in the next 6 months! I won't need that money to live cause modeling will be more than enough to make a living in Thailand. Some may ask why I'm doing this since I already have a nice source of income and the answer is simple: I love poker! Some difficulties I will find along the way:
-Will have to keep in shape, cause its essencial for my work
-Will have to manage a nice social life with my girlfriend
-MTTs schedules in Thailand will be crazy. Most of the big tournies will be running from 1am to 7am Bangkok time.
-Modeling will keep me busy 3 days a week tops, so I will try to grind at least 4 days a week, including sundays.
I'm planning on spending around $1.5K USD/month in Bangkok. I've been told that it's very cheap to live there and I will be splitting expenses with my girlfriend so I think that's a good budget to have.
I will try to update this thread daily starting on January 12th. In the next few days I wont be playing cause I'm speding a few days in my parents city before moving to Bangkok. I'm arriving in Bangkok on January 25th! Wish me luck!!
We obviously will not ask you now to pay for that time period.
This is like the 3rd time I got banned in the last 3 months or so, and dont know if I'm being a dick or LP is turning too gay and boring but anyway. I'll try to be a nice boy from now on.
