Inspiration for a getaway somewhere in Europe?by Balzamon, July 09
What do you do when poker is tilting you, and the weather in Sweden is tilting you even more? The first half of this summer has been sooo bad in Stockholm, and another 1-2 weeks of 15 degrees and rain seems to be incoming. Really feeling like going somewhere else, but where?
Going with gf for around 4-5 days, looking for it to be fairly cheap. I would prefer it to be a mixture of a cool city with beautiful nature closeby (would like to do some hiking). But I suppose a sunny place with just good nature/water environment would be OK as well, not just a tourist trap place (ie Aya Napa, Sunny Beach, Magaluf, Split and so on) with a zillion people.
Never been to Eastern Europe, so thats feels kinda interesting, ideas that popped up in my head:
- Budapest: heard the city is AWESOME, how is the countryside close by? Hiking friendly?
- Prague: same about the city, but again, how is the surrounding area if you want to see something else than just a city?
- Belgrade: friend been there and told me its super nice, and cheap, and friendly. Again, more to do than just city life?
- Croatia: really want to go here sometime, but think I wanna go for a longer time, also seems to be really "in" to go to Croatia right now, is there any place that is not overcrowded but still worth going to?
- Greece: In genereal is there a good idea to go there right now? Be a baller when everyone else suffer? Where to go to avoid the tourist trappy places?
- Spain/Portugal: I would like to try some more surfing,where are some affordable places in July? Looked at San Sebastian where I've been before, but really expensive during this season...
Ideas on these places and others would be greatly appreciated. Also would be cool if some local could tip me of their area and possible give us some guiding when there
Update: After some extensive reading I'm focusing on Macedonia (Skopje) which sounds like a perfect combination of nature and good food and very priceworthy, Budapest, Prague and maybe Malaga (not sure if priceworthy, but sounds like a cool city with some chances of surfing?). Anyone been to / living at any of these places?
If anyone is new at poker but has some experience with Daily Fantasy (you know how to make projections in excel) hit me up. I'd be down to trade a couple poker lessons (nlhe, plo, hu or ring, whatever) for help with getting my DFS setup going.
Just started learning about DFS day before yesterday and plan to go hard.
Trawling the internet and came across this rhythm game who's objective is to unlock more advanced melodies by executing streaks. I dunno why but this shit is just art, and I cant stop watching. There's just something beautiful about taking something ugly like a blocky ass pixelated game and painting it with rich music and a ridiculous challenge, especially in a sea of battlefield games and $1000 video cards.
There's like 5 sequels to this game and a ton of levels each with their own tunes.
Anyone ever take a shit so good they took some time to enjoy a post-bowell movement smoke?
Man, so I was at this restaurant with some bomb ass home made, perfectly warm bread pudding with ice cream. Great coffee too. Tough not to think about a cig in that situation.
I will not even bring up the post-coital smoke with the (non-existant, fuck my life) bad bitch on instagram straight flexin.
My blood pressure and health was on point last checkup. It is a good thing I do not live in Paris.
What about the greenest endo leaf?
Do Medical Doctors, MD prescribe kush for anxiety, depression, bipolar out in places that are awesome?
Time to drink some more Monsters.
Peace, Love, and Tolerance
RiKD
ps Tolstoy is the shit. So, is Nabokov. So, is Flaubert.
Hey LP - long time no see hope all is well here are a few random things I've been up to lately.
Work
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I'm still currently work 3rd shift on our tech team for a big bank however I've began to interview for a few different sales positions within the bank; currently in my 3rd round of interviews for a Sales Analyst position which would eventually lead to a Sales Consultant role which has a nice compensation package that would bring the overall salary up to about 120-150 depending on performance ofc. The other job I'm interviewing for is a Financial Advisor - which would be EXTREMELY tough for the first three years as you build your business (generally only about 30% of FA's make it past the first few years - 50% are weeded out within the first 6 months) However after those first few years of long hours and hard work things would eventually get easier and more lucrative as you build your book of business and the nice thing for this position is the commission would not be capped, so it's all on how hard you really want to work with comp ranging from 25k (probably would be let go relatively quickly with those numbers) all the way past a million a year for the top performers.
Life
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I recently moved into a new (old) house with my gf - loving it, however with both of the job positions it'd mean I'd be relocating which would suck to deal with that and move AGAIN within a month or so. Seriously fuck moving, I never knew I had so much shit.
I have unfortunately fallen off the working out + eating well routine and am pretty much starting over as of a few weeks ago. Where I was about 275 at the start of June two years ago, I'm starting at about 245~250 this time around. The biggest factor is time to go, working third shift started off as easy but it has really dragged on my health over the past few years - so the sooner I can get out the better.
Poker
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I still play live 3-4x a month - I generally stick to the 6/12 limit or the new 10/20 limit game - and very rarely during the year I've freerolled up to the 20/40 game when the right players are in the game.
I also recently tossed a bit of coin back online with ACR for some fun (wow it's been so long since I've played online - such a great feeling!) I'll be looking to withdraw the amount I've deposited within the next few days as I'd rather not be burned later. So at least now what's left is fun money and I know the system works :D
As most of you know i did pretty shitty in live cashgames when i got here.
im re-dedicating myself to online poker and studying a lot more than i've been in the past couple months.
going to be playing some live mtts like the wynn 565, mostly making this blog just so when i load LP its a constant reminder to myself, but yeah, back to Bovada.
Was at the venetian last night with my roomie, she wanted to play 1/2 plo,i sat and watched that game for about 2 hours, probably the softest game i've ever seen. If I ever play live again its gonna be PLOlol, NLHE is so fcking nitty lol, there were like 3 regs at the table,was such a juicy game.
hrm, so whts comin up is EDC this weekend, I may or may not go, not sure, want to grind a lot, took like 4 days off and just did 2 mtts yesterday so i really need to be working a lot so I can do lots of live MTTs in July.
Back grinding online put 300 on takin it back up to the moon.
I talk about and discuss minimizing the objectifying of women in this world, yet I go spend $10.50 to watch Entourage and enjoy the show. I watch porn. Not super exploitation forced blow job stuff (does that make it better?) but I do watch it. I get off to a pretty face, tits, ass, and vagina. I check out the women with the great breasts in the low cut blouses, the women with that ass in the yoga pants, the feminine beauties in the sun dresses (does it make it better that they know what they are doing?)
I am a hypocrite.
I talk about and discuss the crimes occurring in Indonesia, yet I am rocking dope Jordans on the regular.
Yesterday was one helluva fckin day, had a poker buddy from Vancouver come over (hes usually deep in the main, Dave Pecassi or something like that) from Vancouver, we talked tournies like all night, but best all of..!
I moved in 3 days ago, been training my roomie who is a good live player in tournaments. He went into Day 2 Planet Hollywood like 10th/86 in chips (78k bb 1k)
now theres like 45 left, top 36 ITM!
really just taught him to 3bet his broadways and the frequencies his opponents really have stuff and hes just been BOSSIN
one time for the ROOMIE@LV!!!!!!!
Beendrinking lots of wine and getting 2 know my roomies the last few days hehe, geting back otg today after 2 day drunken stoned hiatus
GL LP,
Redrain I didn't know you haven't played in a year, no hu match, build ur life up and gl to you man.
i was drunk i took that comment personal, laughed when i got up.. ;P
gl to you and everyone,
if someone wants to br you for the hu game we can do it but i can't freeroll you to touch my br obv.
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