Travels! Any Madrid/SA ppl here?by Ket, January 10
Hi guys. Happy 2012! Let's achieve our goals this year!
So earlier today I booked a last minute trip for 3 weeks from next week because why not. I'm headed towards South America and am gonna meet up with a small group of close mates that already out there, including my housemate Tom who prob needs no introduction on here. Pretty excited for the trip, here's my rough itinerary:
- Tues 17 Jan fly from London in the morning to Madrid. It's a connecting flight to Buenos Aires but I did it in such a way that I should have a day to quickly check out Madrid. Are there any LPers in Madrid who wanna meet up for dinner/a beer/show me around a bit next Tuesday? That would be awesome if so! Pls msg me asap!
- ????????????? from Jan 24th to Jan 28th. Haven't decided yet. My friends are going to Rurrenabaque to mess about in a jungle. As I hate bugs I think I would enjoy that about as much as Karl Pilkington did on An Idiot Abroad. I may just suck it up and join them for the experience and to say I did it. Open to any suggestions, anything unmissable? Next stop is in Peru so was considering Lima on the shortlist for this slot of time, any LPers in Lima who wanna show me around? locoo is that where u are?
- Get to Cusco, Peru on 29th. Check out the sights there for a couple of days, acclimatise to the altitude a bit. Then a 4 day jungle route (ffs no bugs plz) to Machu Picchu including downhill biking, rafting, 2 days trekking and last day hike up to MP itself. Looking really forward to this except for bugs. One rest day in Cusco after this before...
Would love as much feedback as I can get about any part of any of this. For example, what can you do in half a day in Madrid? What shouldn't we miss in Buenos Aires? What are some things I should consider doing to fill in "??????????"?
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Right before the end of 2011 I went on a 6 day trip, 2 To Jamaica, and then went to St Maarten for 4 days, I planned on playing poker some but had to finish the last 20k VPP when i got home because bad internet connection. St Maarten is awesome, cool locals, good food, lots of activities, Ziplining 1000 feet in the air, windsurfing, parachuteing, French and Dutch side and kind of affordable to live as some places had 500/month for all inclusive. The internet was kind of slow but to be expected when living in hotels. I found some reliable internet providers having service at 1000kbs(is that fast enough to run multiple 24 tablers off a single connection?) Anyways its an attractive to place to live as poker plaer, and I am highly considering moving back. Anyone ever considered places like this? seem to be a good alternative to the Thailand type destinations many poker players find themselves in.
just wanna share some updates on my progress. Was feeling good about my game last couple months, but now when I checked my HEM to make some screenshots, I can see I still suck.
Put in very little volume since last update, but was dealing with some rl stuff, moved twice since november, my main desktop comp died + working 40hrs/week in my job. But now everything is sorted and I already started grinding volume/hours I am happy with.
I feel like I improved my game a notch since last update, much love to everyone commenting on my hands, especially Talented Tom and other midstakes+ ballers. So good for my game & confidence.
I am than not afraid to try knew things - when I know it was a good spot for triple barrel or calldown - I dont get mad when I lose the pot and can keep on grinding my a-game. + it feels rly good to own other regs when I have good idea about their range and can outplay them. Doesn't happen often //
Tryin to focus more on fish tho - trying to play lots of pots with them - adjusting my opening/flatting/squeezin/iso ranges to table conditions - e.g. when fish is in the blinds, my opening ranges widens significantly from every position.
I have often the most laggy stats from all regs at the table when I have some huge mark on my right. Quite sure I am spewing a ton as well, as I am getting into lots of marginal spots, but many times I managed to stack the mark before the other regs did.
Feel like I improved my sense for gameflow - I can tell when regs start to be fed up w me constantly isoing mark at the table and I think I have an edge on most of them in preflop reraising game (e.g. when I see the crappy hands they are tryin to outplay me with, bet sizing tells,.. basically looking for what I was doing wrong like 1/2 year ago))
Still lost in TONS of spots tho - usually playing oop marginal made hands and/or playing w/o initiative.
Thats all for now, will add some pics and maybe more random rambling laters.
Lost about 10 k over the course of the month... I am not at all surprised although I have been a bit discouraged lately... I ran like god for a few months so I suppose it was inevitable to go on a down swing... I decided to drop down to 24 and 3 6 for a few thousand hands and enjoyed the wonderful fun of busting even and losing piles of huge plus ev spots... O well thats Omaha and not alot you can do about it
Over all I am very happy with my year in general and will be putting alot of time into my business in 2012.
If there is interest I may post as far as I have gotten in my business plan and see if anyone can post comments or info maybe some suggestions on how I can improve it as I am relativly new to the process :D
You think it's a good idea to start to dabble in Hero Poker now that the road towards regulating Poker in the U.S. is on the upswing? I just want another source of income while I start my personal training career as a part-time trainer. It's either part time as a personal trainer and working as a waiter at a restaurant I used to work at, or part time personal training and grinding the nl25-nl100 range. I'm all rusty from not playing ever since Pokerstars got shut down in the U.S. , but my thought processes are still probably decent enough to herp derp the 25nl-100nl.
Some of you may remember my brief love affair with a Nissan 370z. That deal went south after the dealership fucked me and tried to change the contract after I already had the vehicle for a week and put 500 miles on it. I told them to fuck off and gave back the keys. Went back to car hunting and settled on a Mustang this time. It's cheaper, faster, bigger, and more comfortable. This time I made sure to pay the dealership in CASH so there would be no fucking around like "well you see there was a problem with the paperwork son, we need you to come back here and pay us more".
I had this car custom ordered straight from the factory. By the time I was given the keys it only had 5.9 miles on it. Only a handful of asses have touched the drivers seat. I went so far as to tell them not to even unwrap/wash it upon delivery. I drove it home dirty as fuck covered in dust and plastic from shipment. Had it detailed and windows tinted the next day, and began work on my first fun upgrade, a new car nav kit. You can see it in the youtube video below sort of documenting the installation. I turn giddy as a schoolgirl every time I see it light up and begin driving. Turned out exactly like I wanted it to. The only other upgrades I can think of would be new exhaust/speakers but even those I am supremely satisfied with.
the elusive witty comebackby bigredhoss, January 08
after a random incident at the grocery store i have decided that i wish to acquire the ability to make witty comebacks. any info that could make the learning process quicker and easier is appreciated.
i just got back from the grocery store to buy some milk, and since it's like 2am here the place was basically empty (just 1 register open), there was a customer ahead of me in line but i think she was the only other customer in the store, also maybe 6-7 guys stocking shelves in the aisles.
anyways, i was in line waiting for this girl in front of me to figure out how to scan her credit card or whatever. the cashier was a guy probably around my age (early-mid 20's) with long red hair and vampire-white skin and overall kind of dirty appearance. i put my milk and a couple protein bars on the belt, and in a random outburst of sociability he asked, "Did anyone say you could buy that [implied smiley face]?"
i did not expect to be interrogated in the grocery store so i was pretty much taken off-guard and really didn't know what to say. i paused for like 4-5 seconds (which felt like a minute) shifting around uncomfortably then looked at him and said "no".
now it was his turn for an awkward pause, and eventually he said "it's no fun if you don't have a witty comeback". i realized that he was right, and that it would in fact have been a more enjoyable moment if i had had a witty comeback. but unfortunately this is a skill i have yet to acquire, although that will change soon.
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