For the first time in our nation's history, Congress has passed comprehensive health care reform. America waited a hundred years and fought for decades to reach this moment. Tonight, thanks to you, we are finally here.
Consider the staggering scope of what you have just accomplished:
Because of you, every American will finally be guaranteed high quality, affordable health care coverage.
Every American will be covered under the toughest patient protections in history. Arbitrary premium hikes, insurance cancellations, and discrimination against pre-existing conditions will now be gone forever.
And we'll finally start reducing the cost of care -- creating millions of jobs, preventing families and businesses from plunging into bankruptcy, and removing over a trillion dollars of debt from the backs of our children.
But the victory that matters most tonight goes beyond the laws and far past the numbers.
It is the peace of mind enjoyed by every American, no longer one injury or illness away from catastrophe.
It is the workers and entrepreneurs who are now freed to pursue their slice of the American dream without fear of losing coverage or facing a crippling bill.
And it is the immeasurable joy of families in every part of this great nation, living happier, healthier lives together because they can finally receive the vital care they need.
This is what change looks like.
My gratitude tonight is profound. I am thankful for those in past generations whose heroic efforts brought this great goal within reach for our times. I am thankful for the members of Congress whose months of effort and brave votes made it possible to take this final step. But most of all, I am thankful for you.
This day is not the end of this journey. Much hard work remains, and we have a solemn responsibility to do it right. But we can face that work together with the confidence of those who have moved mountains.
Our journey began three years ago, driven by a shared belief that fundamental change is indeed still possible. We have worked hard together every day since to deliver on that belief.
We have shared moments of tremendous hope, and we've faced setbacks and doubt. We have all been forced to ask if our politics had simply become too polarized and too short-sighted to meet the pressing challenges of our time. This struggle became a test of whether the American people could still rally together when the cause was right -- and actually create the change we believe in.
Tonight, thanks to your mighty efforts, the answer is indisputable: Yes we can.
Set alarm for 10:30 AM, and ensure I'll get at least 8 hours of sleep the night before. At 9:30 AM theres some construction literally the floor right above me and all I can hear is hammering and sawing. Whatever that's fine, I prepare myself and wait in the lobby for a shuttle that's supposed to take me to the venue. The shuttle doesn't arrive until 12:30 (although it was scheduled for 12), and the event starts at 1. No problem, we get there right around 12:55. Then we begin the registration process. God, for a tournament that has a million dollar guarantee you'd think they'd hire people with at least half a brain. Registration process for maybe at max 50 people somehow takes 30 minutes because they had no idea how to streamline this into a logical process. I finally sit, 30 minutes after the tourney started.
Seat 1 is a high stakes nit, the rest of the table are giant donks, so I'm happy. I realize I haven't eaten anything the entire day so I start asking for servers to get me some food. This was at 12:30.
Throughout the tourney some donk in Seat 3 just runs amazing. He's like this 50 year old Philipino dude who looks like a nastier version of Humberto Brenes. I bet his picture will show up on pokerstarsblog or somewhere because he's probably going to win the entire thing given how he's running. He was literally calling Seat 1's utg open (which is AQ/AK at the bottom of that range) with 42o in UTG+2, flopping 442 and taking a ton of chips off of what must have been KK/AA for Winfred. He'd c/c c/c AKxx boards with TT and river the T and c/r. He'd bet out bottom pair 6-way on an Ace high board and make trips on the turn. He was literally smashing every flop.
Throughout this I'm not doing that well. At the start of the first break I'm around 22k after I induce some donk to bluff into me but I can't get hands for the most part. It's 3:00 at this point and I still haven't eaten. The 5 servers I told "HEY, come to me next I'm going to order some food" never came. I get TT in UTG+1 and iso UTG, some silent japanese guy who never once uttered a word. Huge luckbox calls, and this Japanese dude limp/reraises to like 5k and he only had 15k to begin with. My raise was only to like 600 (its 100/200/25 at this point), wtf?? So I obviously have no plan to try to flip for 80bbs so I fold. Later on, he limps SB vs my BB, I raise it up with K6o and he calls. Flop is Q43r and I bet like 40% pot and he c/rs literally like 6x my betsize. I really wanted to make a play but who knows wtf he could have, so I folded (the only real counter against this is to actually just make a hand and let him hang himself).
Finally at 3:30 pm I finally get a waiter to help me out. I order some stupid continental breakfast. 30 minutes later he comes back and tells me they're out of those. I sigh and re-order. I end up getting my new order of spaghetti at 4:30 pm.
Before I can even finish my plate of spaghetti, my knockout hand happens: Old donk opens MP, Silent Japanese guy flats SB, I'm in BB with AsQs I decide to squeeze here and not call, I'm at around 40-50bb and I'm perfectly happy getting this in against Japanese dude and would've folded if the old donk 4bet me. Either way, it's HU to the flop with Japanese guy calling my raise oop. Flop Qc 5s 3d, and this was the first time all tourney I had actually flopped a pair. I bet 40% to induce another stupid ass c/r, but he calls. Turn 7x, he chk, I bet small again, finally he raises. At this point he has enough for roughly a 80% pot size jam on the river. I decide the board is way too dry for him to really call off anything here, so I tank (hollywood) call. River is the Ax, completely rainbow board. He jams, and at this point I only lose to a set. If he has a set, I have the only hand that even pays this off. Seriously, if he has like 33/55 here, I really don't know what he's expecting to get called by. But I digress, since I was SNAP calling his stupid ass anyway. I call and he shows 77, fuck my life.
I leave the venue and take a taxi back to my hotel. It's 5 PM and the peak of Manila weekday traffic. What must have honestly been a 10 mile drive took nearly an hour.
Naturally I am now in a pretty miserable mood - that I once again failed expectations of myself, my backers, etc. I have 4 more days here and I don't know what to do because my hotel is so far away from everything and it's dangerous at night and everyone wants to take my money one way or another.
Overall, I hate Manila, and I am never coming back. It's not being results oriented either; even if I won, I definitely wouldn't come back even if they freerolled me into the next one. It's an overcrowded, dirty city wherein random security guards have to pack ARs and big ass shotguns. I'll be staying away from live tournaments for a while, at least until WSOP or after WSOP.
Progress/The Poker Blueprintby superfashion, March 22
After the cooler I wrote about in my last blog, I decided to take some time away from poker to clean my head. I ended up heading back to the same charity game last night and ended up ~$300 in just under 3 hours of nl200, which isn't bad imo. It feels good to profit from a game I know I can crush when I'm playing well. As for online, I'm up ~110 since Tuesday at NL10 in what I'd guess to be about 2500-3000 hands (it's hard to guess because PTR is so bad at tracking profit/hands and I don't currently run a HUD). Maybe it's a mild heater but I feel like I'm playing a lot better after taking some time off...making a lot of calls that I wouldn't normally make and profiting pretty well from them. I feel that playing live has helped my game a lot in the sense that when I'm online I think I'm playing like I have something to prove, whereas live I'm genuinely concerned about the amount of money I have on the table and force myself to play much better. This has really opened my eyes to how I am playing and I am playing far more profitably than ever before. I also attribute some of this success to the application of some ideas from various CardRunners videos as well as Aaron Davis and Tri Nguyen's "The Poker Blueprint."
A few weeks ago I wrote that I'd be reviewing "The Poker Blueprint." I have just finished the book and am cleaning up my notes before writing my review. I hope to cover a lot of the subjects of the book that I felt were very helpful as well as some that were a little bit confusing. With that in mind, I really enjoyed the book and feel like I have gotten more from Aaron and Tri's book than most, if not all, other books that I have read. I hope to have my review posted sometime within the next few days.
5100usd and counting down...lol
reputable members i send first obv. done a ton of xfers with a lot of old time posters here.
new accounts need not pm me or bother.
this site just tilts the fucking hell out of me even if i win.
My ears have been feelin clogged (mostly my left ear) for the past week or 2. It's not that they are infected, I just think there's hella wax in them even though I'm not too bad when it comes to diving into the ears with q-tips.
Do you guys think Kaiser has quick appointments for helping people with this kind of problem? Or is there some kind of do it yourself kit? Anyone ever had the same problem?
fuuuuu
Oh I remember a doctor taking wax out of my ears when I was a kid, so maybe....
ok i played this game for about a week straight with rare breaks in between. i have no exp whatsoever with dota so i started out with no stats games and then played some official games, randomed a hero every time to get a feel for the game, read the guides, watched games from honcast and basically... i'm sick and tired of feeding, failing, and having no clue whatsoever in general lol.
would anybody be willing to be my buddy and help a fellow lper get started properly? it's such a shame asking for this because i noticed an inordinate amount of hatred toward new players in this game. so much so that i myself have a ridiculously hard time not bashing on someone who seems worse than i am. but i mean.. lpers stick together, right?
ps. damn you bemannerpenner for sending me a beta key this shit is addicting
This is the story of my experiences living in China. Keep in mind this is all from the months between September 07 - August 08, where some laws, legislation and attitude towards foreigners were slightly different. I wrote this in response to an 2p2 inquiry on what it's like teaching in China and for any general advice ... so a lot of what you will read is specifically geared to help people become successful ESL trainers and to have a positive experience in doing so:
You'll notice I talk a lot about 'doing your research'. That is because the forums of Dave's ESL Cafe are littered with personal horror stories written by people who allowed themselves to be tricked into some appealing job offer, flew over without doing any research, and proceeded to get bludgeoned into a bloody pulp by school admin who are used to taking advantage of rookie teachers. You need to thoroughly research the school you will be working for, the people you are dealing with, the city you'll be living in and any of the other teachers there. The abovementioned forums are great for that. I would also recommend ESL Teacher's Board and Dave's ESL Board for actually finding jobs.
As a personal example of what happens when you don't do proper research, a friend of mine who I spoke with during my time in China, had such a positive perception of my experiences that he decided to put school on hold for a year and go try it out. He posted his resume on some foreign site, accepted the first job offer without doing any research, and flew off on a whim without contacting me or asking for any help whatsoever. He arrives in Hong Kong, flies over to Hangzhou which was the closest airport to his job, and waited there 2 hours for his "pickup" before grabbing a taxi and showing him the address of the school which he had fortunately printed out. 300 RMB later (which is a very long taxi ride in China) he arrives at the school, finds the director who he had been dealing with, introduces himself and is then greeted with something along the lines of:
Mr. Ming: "Ah, Mr. Adams welcome to China, sorry about the transportation issue we've had a lot on our hands and there was some confusion."
Jason: "Uhh, no problem I suppose. I'm actually really tired and I'd like to get to my apartment which was promised in the contract and rest a bit if you don't mind."
Mr. Ming: "Ah yes ... about your apartment ... it's not quite ready yet so you'll be sleeping in a guesthouse down the street for a few weeks."
Jason: "Uhmm..."
Mr. Ming: "And as for now, go ahead and leave your bags in the teachers office. We have a class starting in 15 minutes and the parents would like to observe you."
The school ended up not having a valid foreign teachers license so he wasn't able to get his work visa and was forced to leave the country 30 days later. The "apartment" ended up being a sh*thole and he wasn't reimbursed for either of his flights or visa costs. Nothing was as promised. He later searched the school on Dave's ESL Forum and found someone who had experienced the same thing. Now this is obviously the worst experience possible, but not an uncommon one and it all could have been avoided by just doing some research. My advice is ask a ton of questions. Post on Dave's. Google the school. Ask to speak with someobody who currently works there and ask them a million questions re the school, management, other staff, city life, nightlife, food, girls, etc. In my experience they have all been more than willing to help. And if something seems shady, look elsewhere.
I'll now begin my own tale. I spent the 6 months prior to moving to China in 21 other countries scattered around the Middle East/Europe. It was the most epic backpacking/scuba-diving trip imaginable ... a long story for another time. I ended up in London with about 2000$ in my bank account and my options limited; it was either go home or try to continue my adventures elsewhere. I had heard about teaching English in Asia before but I had never pondered it for more than a few minutes. I stumbled on Dave's ESL forum and sent out a bunch of PMs asking for life advice. Nobody wanted to help me as I just had a couple college courses under my belt with no TESL certificate nor experience ... and just as I was about to pack up my bags and call it a trip, an angel disguised as a 40-year old degen whoremonger msg'd me out of the blue and said teaching in China woud be np and he'd guide me through the whole process. So I proceeded to research every major city in China, picked 5 I wanted to live in and sent out ~150 CVs/resumes/photos in a 24 hour period. I was taught that Chinese recruitment agencies were super discriminatory and if you had a white face and spoke English you could work just about anywhere. I woke up to 3 pages of unread gmail, and spent the next 2 weeks researching and speaking with each and every school until I had narrowed my choices down. Making sure they were all lockdowns, I immediately flew to Hong Kong as I was beginning to feel I had imposed on my London host way too much at this point. By the way, back then Oasis Hong Kong ([url]http://www.oasishongkong.com/[/url] - now bankrupt) used to run a London - HK flight for 400$, which shipped it pretty crucial considering my bankroll at the time.
I arrive in Hong Kong. Despite my history in travel, the culture-shock of Asia hit me pretty hard. I felt lost and disoriented. I didn't understand anything, I was surrounded by tons of people, I had no money and I didn't even have a legit degree. What if something went wrong? I was scared, but I was determined to make this work. I found a cheap hostel and finalized my China Visitor's Visa (which lasts 30 days), then on the advice of my forum friend I took a tram across the border to Shenzhen. Shenzhen has inexpensive and nice hostels, and is also much cheaper/easier to fly out of once I managed to decide which city I wanted to work in. It was a difficult process because I'm a huge nit and I like to analyze everything down to the last minute detail, but time & money were limited so after a few last minute phone calls and emails, I ended up choosing English First International in Suzhou. EF is a massive franchise with 150+ schools in China, and 1000+ worldwide. Naturally, as a franchise, the reputation of each school will differ greatly based on the quality of its management and the quality of its teachers, so you need to be meticulous when doing your research. The Suzhou location had good reviews, and the manager was a super relaxed Brit who ended up being the funnest, nicest, most relaxed alcoholic degen of a boss I've ever had or heard of in my life. Suzhou itself is an absolutely gorgeous city with both an industrial high-tech Westernized side that has shopping, restaurants, nightclubs, gyms, skyscrapers, large foreigner community, and a very traditional Chinese side with gardens, museums, tea houses, pagodas, street peddlers, canals, archways, ancient architecture and of course the natural hustle and bustle to be found in any major Chinese city. (Wiki: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzhou[/url]). It's a surprisingly cheap city. Very nice apartments can be found for 1500-2000 RMB and, my favorite, all you can drink + all you can eat very clean and very nice sushi houses for 100-120 RMB. Some of the best food I've ever had in my life, super amazing service, fresh fish and by 'all you can drink' I mean all Japanese imported beers, domestic beers, cold/hot Sake and an assortment of some local stuff that was always too strong for me. Great place to hang out before bar hopping. There were a lot of Mexican restaurants, all the American chains (TGIs, McDs, KFC, Chillis) ... basically everything to keep your culinary side satisfied without being too over the top. Suzhou is also just a 40-minute speedtrain from Shanghai, so very easy to go out for the weekend or even just on a Friday and take the 6AM back home. I spent a TON of time in Shanghai and have some epic stories from those weekends, but I digress. Suzhou, at the time, was perfect.
With an online scan of a fake Associate's Degree (which I never had to show anyone) and no TESOL cert, I was able to get my 1-year work visa with no problems through my employer. I wouldn't expect this to be the case nowadays, especially since our owner had connections in the government ... though from what I hear this seems to be pretty common nowadays so who knows. My salary was 8,000 RMB, from which 1,500 RMB/month was subtracted for my apartment and I would receive an 8K bonus upon contract completion which was referred to as airfare reimbursement. I worked M-F averaging about 30 hours per week including all prep/travel/office time. This is an amazing deal as you will come to learn during your quest to find teaching jobs.
As far as work was concerned, once again because of proper research I was able to do exactly what I wanted. I taught adults only, ranging between ages 16-50. Class sizes as stipulated in the contract never exceeded 20, and averaged around 10. Super comfortable. My students were all eager to learn and I would often be treated to amazing dinners and outings. The classrooms were modern; proper amenities, white-board, chairs, jukebox, monitors, etc. As far as content, all ESL teachers in China generally follow the same guidelines. The students are put in a skill level ranging between 1 - 16. Levels 1-2 are taught by the Chinese staff, and 2+ by foreigners. The course classes will normally be twice a week, for 3 hours with 3 x 10 minute breaks. We covered a wide range of subjects, all designed to improve vocab, pronunciation, sentence structure and essentially allow the students to hold a 2-3 thread deep conversation in any given field. The first class is always a struggle, but once everyone gets going and comfortable it becomes a very enjoyable experience. And what's cool in China is there will always be someone in your class who is super loud and loves to talk without a filter. They are usually extremely friendly and will invite you to eat at their house and introduce the city to you. Because of their perception of foreigners, this will often involve a lot of drinking and girls. I went out with all of my students at least once, and I would say 99% of them were all super friendly and hospitable, but the ones who were loudest were always the most aggressively flamboyant with their offers of friendship.
The students in a normal English course have the option of attending "conversation" classes, which are shared by the entire teaching staff and usually held in either beginner or advanced language levels. They are generally 60 minutes long and can be quite fun. The DOS (Director of Studies - in this case my new British friend) chooses the topics for each week which range across various avenues from entertainment, life in America, grammar, bad habits, music, fashion vocab, business development, etc. Literally everything is covered. All you do is ask a lot of questions, write any new vocab that comes up on the whiteboard and explain anything confusing. Ask students specific questions that generate discussion. Because these classes can sometimes get quite large (20+) I would divide the class into groups of 4, give out discussion sheets with several questions + vocab, ensure everyone speaks English only and make my rounds through each group offering my own insight and giving feedback. Then I'd bring everyone together every 10 minutes and ask what was talked about in each group. Honestly sometimes 1 question will generate enough vocab/discussion for a whole lesson. I actually still have all my old lessons if anyone wants to see them.
Some schools in major cities will outsource their teachers to big companies for some serious money; in our case, we were sending teachers to Logitech, Samsung, etc for 200-300$/hour. I believe the Suzhou-Singapore Industrial Park (SIP) has the most manufacturers in China, if not it's way up there. I was eventually piloted on these programs and became one of our major CLT trainers (Corporate Language Teachers). We were teaching medium to intermediate business language to the upper-level staff, including some of the major management heads. The content and course design was built to cover every possible scenario in their business. While my English is far from technically perfect, I was apparently very good at igniting discussions and forcing all the students to speak in the classroom and use new vocab. I was young and full of energy, and became friends with a lot of my students who I went out with frequently and participated in some insane Chinese debauchery (KTV salons with hundreds of girls, 30000$+ RMB tabs, exotic restaurants, etc.) My DOS and the co-workers I made friends with often joined us. My life was amazing.
This is a picture of me with one of my first ever business classes. This is about the average class size, and a nicer than normal classroom (which is normally a conference room):
I also have some experience with teaching kids. One of our (female) French teachers was fired for sexually abusing some of the staff (myself included), and I volunteered myself to finish off her course, which I discovered was only 2-weeks in so I was basically starting from scratch ... but I loved it. I taught 5-10 year olds as their 2nd English class ever. Very beginner - but they were all super cute and we just played interactive lesson games all day. I started off my first class with a game where I took a big stuffed panda, looked at a front row girl and said "Hi name name is David. What's yours?" and passed it to one of the kids. They had to pass it around the whole class till everyone had a chance to speak. I immediately spotted Jack as being the troublesome one, as he took the bear, ran to his friend across the room and stuffed it in his face, screaming a bunch of local-dialect and lolling on the floor. They all started laughing and it was super easy from there. There are a lot of tools online on how to teach kids in fun and interactive ways. The situations where it is not very fun at all is when you have a classroom of 30 kids, 10 times per week with the parents dropping in on lessons to make sure you are being harsh enough with their child. Once again, proper research is crucial.
But life in China is not for everyone. As I recently pointed out to someone on Two Plus Two, Thailand can be a great first stop for most newcommers to Asia. It's cheap, fun, easy to get by and the culture is super friendly. Not as much of a demand for English teachers or even a structured foundation to find jobs, but they are there and if you decide to teach in Thailand I would suggest using recruitment agencies, followed by individual research. It's a nice, casual entrance into what life can be like in Asia. Do a 6 month stint, and then use your experiences to move on elsewhere if you so desire. That is, if you're able to make it out.
Back to China, a lot of people don't make it here. You need to be extremely open-minded. You need to be willing to learn the language. And you need to be willing to go with the flow as opposed to coming in with certain expectations and when things go slightly awry you get all bent out of shape. When it comes to the Chinese and dealing with foreigners, there seem to be a lot of screwups so if something happens to you during your time here, be calm and deal with it in an appropriate manner. Don't let them run over you, but don't cause a fight either.
As far as culture-shock, most people experience it in different ways. There are a lot of mannerisms in mainland China that a lot of people find repulsive. They spit on the streets, elbow on the bus, don't look when crossing roads, chew with their mouth open and speak very loudly, to name a few. I always thought it was funny, and we all have our vices - but some people just couldn't handle it. As far as racism, it definitely exists. Asian ESL teachers are treated just like any normal Chinese staff. You won't get paid as much as us, and you'll normally teach low level classes even if you have a PhD and graduated from Oxford. I saw very few black/brown people, but from my experience they were not treated poorly at all. Perhaps some slight discrimination, but nothing drastic. If you are white and without heavy accent, it's easy shmeazy. Attach a clean photo with your resume and getting a job will never have been so easy. Everyone wants a white teacher. Lastly, there are a LOT of people in China and this takes a while to get used to. Some people thought the amount of people and blooming business industry created a culturally bland atmosphere, but I feel this way about a lot of major cities so it has no relevance to me.
If you can handle all that, do your research, make a friend or two and land a decent job, you'll have an absolutely amazing time. Chinese girls are beautiful and there is a sexual revolution going on now with the gradual infiltration of Western media and philosophies ... it makes them super curious and receptive to foreigners. Just be careful. I was having such a good time that in my youthful vigor I stumbled into a deep relationship with a married woman who I met in Shanghai and it did not end well. That being said, Shanghai clubs are sick and if you're into live music there was a lot of underground stuff going on when I left. An amazing city, but too congested and expensive to enjoy living for me. The rest of China is super super cheap. I would say that without a doubt the best experience I have ever had in my life was the 2 months I spent with my two friends traveling around China. I highly recommend Lonely Planet: China if you ever wish to embark on such a journey. Just imagining being back there makes me miss it so much. We spent 50 bucks a day and slept very well, ate very well, did a bunch of sports activities and of course, tons of binge drinking with locals and expats. The drunkest I've ever been in my life was a night when we were crossing across Hunan province, we got off at a random village (Xinjiang) and found our way to the only guesthouse in the whole village. Xinjiang we later discovered is listed in LP as one of the few homes to the Miao ethnic minority group, and has some truly epic scenery. The only other people we saw in the guesthouse were the staff who were dressed in very peculiar garments, an Australian couple and a few Japanese tourists. It was getting dark and before we knew it the sub-tropical climates of western Hunan kicked in we and found ourselves in the middle of a massive rain shower. The manager suggested we could all eat together and he'd have the staff cook for us. Without a doubt one of the best meals I've ever had. Anyone who has been to China before will admit that Hunan food is the nuts. So halfway-through the feast as everyone is chatting in Chinese and getting to know eachother, music start playing and a group of elderly Miao women come in singing a local song and holding up a massive pot of homemade "whitewine" (BaiJiu) which is like 60% alcohol and super potent. I couldn't really understand the tradition, and perhaps it was explained to me at some point, but all I recall is everytime they started singing and waving that pot around somebody's head, one woman would tilt your head back and the others would force a funnel into your mouth and drown you in some of the strongest sh*t you can imagine. We had a blast, and to this day it was the only night I've ever completely blacked out on. Woke up the next morning to some beautiful scenery and fresh dumplings, paid our 10$ and took off.
We split up our itinerary, deciding to spend half our time in big cities and half our time in small cities, with the rest scattered around 2-5 day hiking trips (Tiger Leaping Gorge, Yellow Mountain, Juizhaighou, etc). The scenery in China is absolutely stunning. I suggest everyone watch the BBC series Wild China and of course Planet Earth for some extra motivation. I don't have many pictures on my laptop and I'm a terrible photographer but these were taken from the 2 day hike at Yellow Mountain.
An awesome hike, with one of the best sunrises I've ever seen in my life coupled with the most hazardous trail I've ever been on. Wish I had a better camera. The area can get a bit touristy, hence the paved roads, so choose your timing carefully. Coupled with Tiger Leaping Gorge and a tour of their respective provinces, I'd say you have a pretty solid trip. Whatever you do or wherever you end up traveling, try to find someone you mesh with to do it with and it'll make your experiences a whole lot more memorable. China can be a fascinating country for some people, and a hellhole for others. I think if you meet the criteria listed above you should do alright. Best of luck and if anyone needs help feel free to contact me.
disappointing live poker night..by Luckb0xx, March 20
Started with a 2/4 shortstack game with 100€ max buy in.. its just so wait list doesnt get too long and mostly for players who are waiting on the bigger tables waiting lists!
I ran ok didnt really make profit or lost anything.. when i finally sat down at the 2/4 table with some of my favourite fools at the table ^^
long story short..
I pick up red QQ in the CO (9 handed game) when straddle is on
3 limp- I raise to .. 56€ with ~870€ stack and guy with big sunglasses big headphones and acting like a pro every fucking hand whether hes involved or not.. ~~ he also had a huge stack + several 500€ notes in front of him and well.. he snapcalls in the bb
flop comes 579 hh he checks i make it 3/4 pot he calls, turn is a Q and he reaches for 2 100€ chips and throws them into the pot and i insta-shove obv with like a bit over 700€ left
he thinks for like 20 seconds then calls with 56ss for no fd and bottom pair + gutshot
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