1
 |
Joeingram1 United States. May 08 2012 17:04. Posts 943 | | |
Follow twitter 
https://twitter.com/joeingram1
Everyone who reads 2p2 for hours a day is soooo bored right now and trying to find something/anything to read and occupy time so maybe I should be blogging more as a way to not only keep myself busy but maybe keep someone else busy for 2-5 minutes as they read/interact. This is Day 2.5 of my Workout/Diet prop bet and I am excited to eat the salad sitting in front of me right now. I found a salad bar/juice place that is supposed to be the healthy place the yuppies of Yaletown here in Vancouver go to, for a make your own salad and some fruit its 15 dollars lol, but whatever. Before I go to the gym to start my workouts I usually walk down the street to the healthy/most expensive grocery store known to man and buy a pre-workout "drink", 2 big bottles of water and then a post-workout "drink". I have no idea what exactly these pre/post workout drinks do but I trick myself into thinking they might be good and it is another good way to spend 14 dollars per workout I have found. My bank wire hit my account from Pokerstars and I don't really need more then 5k to live off of so now if I ever think about buying something, I just buy it. I really haven't spent to much money since my 400k upswing besides on getting my teeth healthy/looking better and maybe 10k-15kish on clothes/accessories (watch) so I think I'm doing good so far on that end.
Here is pic I took yesterday for beginning of workout prop bet, I took some with shirt off to gauge progress but I probably should keep those to myself and to various ladies lol
In my last blog I wrote how I was playing poker for PTR (tracking results site for noobs from fb) glory so to say and that once PTR stopped working that I didn't care anymore and lost a bunch of money. Someone said this is first step to failure which if you look at my results for the first 4.4 million hands that is confirmed because I think I have always been like that. I never really played to make alot of money, as long as I had 10k to be able to grind with and pay bills I was happy and fine. Something kinda changed during this last grind challenge where I realized I should stop being so -EV in what I was doing with my pokertime and do what I needed to do to win money. So I decided to stop playing 24 tables and play 1-4 tables because I knew thats what I had to do to be +EV and obv the results show for themselves. Once I won 100k that first month I was tempted to just not put much effort into it anymore but the thought of running up my PTR graph as high as I possibly could and the glory/excitement that comes from that came into my mind and provided me that motivation I needed to keep going. This sounds ridiculous to some but thats how I think about it and not really sure how to trick myself into changing that thought process. My goal before PTR went down was to get to 1 million profit on there and ever since it went away I've kinda been racking my brain and wondering around for a new goal and finally found one with my workout/diet prop bet, gives me something to focus on. Sounds even more ridiculous now that I would have stayed in Canada and kept grinding to try to get to 1 million profit for the sole reason of making my PTR graph look more awesome and not for the 1 million dollars itself lol, here is obligatory screenshot of final PTR for me
Lets get to what this blog post is all about. How is it to live in Canada and the process that goes into it. The original question was from NewbSaibot and he said
I'd like to hear more about life in Vancouver. I know for awhile you were living in a 10k/month penthouse or something, but for the avg joe how affordable are the nice areas of Vancouver? How is the weather year round? What other considerations should someone make if moving to Vancouver? Basically I'm really interested in living there for a variety of reasons, and because I've heard nothing but good things about the city. Overall, could you see yourself living in Vancouver forever? Or are there certain factors which might drive you back to the states?
Man this is a great question and I'm sure there are so many people that never left the USA to relocate anywhere for a number of reasons. I will write a little bit about my experience here so far and if anyone has anymore questions feel free to ask. I'll just start by going through the questions he asked. When I originally moved here we picked a place that was 5.8k/month sorta penthouse
This was obviously unnecessary but me and ballcup thought process before moving here was lets just get one of the sickest places we can because who knows if we will ever be able to again. So even though I was busto and rent per month was more then what my starting bankroll online was we decided to go through with it. I guess I had a lot of confidence in my ability to build it back up. I think Vancouver is affordable in the nice areas (Yaletown, Downtown, Gastown) for the average person who is relocating for poker. I would assume most people doing this have some money and are good at making more money from online poker and can afford it. I think the average 2br is anywhere from 2k-3k depending on how nice and for 1br you can find somewhere from 1.5-2k, I've been in alot of places downtown in these areas of town and they are all basically the same thing. Nice view, patio, in good shape. I came from San Diego where i was paying 2.4k/month in rent for myself so I was pretty used to these prices but for people coming from other areas this is like a what the fuck/holy shit type of thing. I think you may be able to find a bit cheaper prices in West End and Coal Harbor areas of the greater downtown area but I think prices will run pretty similarly. I would never come here and live outside of the little Island Vancouver sits on when you look on the map but I know you can find cheaper accomidations if it is that big of a deal. The weather here year round sucks, it is never warm out until yesterday, for the last maybe 7-8 months it has been a combo of cold/rainy/miserable outside. Good for staying inside and grinding but bad for going outside and enjoying. I'm not really too sure what other considerations one would make when moving up here, I guess knowing other people is good. I knew 3 people from our Vegas house that we moved up here with so always had people to hang out with even though I was busto/depressed when moved up here for the most part. We did meet alot of new people right away and if you open yourself up you'll be able to make new friends pretty easily. I would say I became pretty good-really good friends with 4 people I met in Vancouver that play poker. People come and go though which sucks but the opportunity is there to meet some people if you are here for a 3-6month time span. I think the city is beautiful, I live in Yaletown right now and it is great for walking anywhere and finding a ton of food options. When I lived downtown it was even better for finding 100s of different food options. If you are the rare poker player who likes to meet women you will have no problem doing this. I think I have met/been out with around 15-20 people and have probably tried like a 5 out of 100 to meet anyone in that regard. The crowd in the town is interesting, basically a mix of white people and asian people. Some indian/brown people scattered throughout but that is about it.
I think I could see myself living in Vancouver for a long period of time but taking many vacations. I have felt like a prisoner trapped in Canada though for most of my time, I know many of my friends have left and come back without issue but since I have had my car here I always felt a little iffy about flying out and then for some reason not being able to get back into the country so I chose to just stay here. I originally had a 3 month visitors visa, I applied online for an extension for 3 more months and got that mailed to me and then I applied again online for 4 more months and was approved again, thats how I was able to stay longer then the 6 months everyone on the forums talks about. It was a super easy process and one I would recommend to anyone looking to legally stay up here longer. I kind of want to write the Canadian government a letter for letting me stay so long and make all this money lol, I actually think I might do this. The wantingness to keep writing is kind of fading away right now but I think I hit on alot of important things/main topics people ask about often so if anyone has anymore they want to know go ahead and ask.
Going to eat now and get on with the day but if i feel like blogging more today or something comes to mind then I will
|
|
| | Last edit: 08/05/2012 17:09 |
|
|
1
 |
RaiNKhAN  United States. May 08 2012 17:17. Posts 4080 | | | |
|
| The biggest Rockets, Sixers, and Grizzlies fan you will ever meet! | |
|
|
1
 |
Raidern Brasil. May 08 2012 18:19. Posts 4243 | | | |
| |
|
|
1
|
F4Zi United Kingdom. May 08 2012 18:36. Posts 3462 | | |
hey im going to visit vancouver for like 7-8 days.. think 29 may to 7 june if you got a chance to hangout |
|
| My girlfriend started blowing me and then she stopped, I went on tilt and donkey punched her. | |
|
|
1
|
2c0ntent Egypt. May 08 2012 18:50. Posts 1387 | | |
can still go for 1 million profit and show a hem graph of it  pay a graphics artist to make it look sweet |
| |
|
|
1
 |
Stroggoz New Zealand. May 08 2012 18:51. Posts 5304 | | |
say 'dont play with youseff' 10 times quickly |
|
| One of 3 non decent human beings on a site of 5 people with between 2-3 decent human beings | |
|
|
3
 |
PuertoRican United States. May 08 2012 19:34. Posts 13054 | | |
Lookin good kid, keep up the good work~ |
| |
|
|
1
| |
how long will u in Van for? |
|
|
1
|
jvilla777 Australia. May 08 2012 21:13. Posts 1348 | | |
soon I will live like this! #BAWSS! |
|
| longple: ur missing the point! this is an attempt to get away from the bumhuntmentality! | |
|
|
1
 |
PanoRaMa United States. May 08 2012 23:04. Posts 1655 | | | |
|
| http://panorama.liquidpoker.net | |
|
|
0
 |
NeillyJQ United States. May 09 2012 02:29. Posts 8947 | | |
epic man =) keep it up 4 LP! |
|
| Just remember you need to be god damn sure about their tendencies. -Artanis11 http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/neillyaa/ | |
|
|
0
|
D_smart_S Bulgaria. May 09 2012 03:43. Posts 688 | | |
dude, put some curtains behind the TV. Otherwise it would suck watching it during the day. The TV-police is here! |
|
| Zep: When I said I feel obligated to troll, it was a figure of speech | Last edit: 09/05/2012 03:44 |
|
|
1
 |
gos . May 09 2012 10:12. Posts 95 | | |
sick ptr graph, congratz. gogo for the million |
|
|
1
| |
You check out any of the action at the Edgewater or the Riverrock? Should Check out Ensemble on like Thurlow and Robson decent high end restaurant thats not super over priced. I became a sick food critique after living in Coal Harbour for awhile |
|
|
1
|
TimDawg United States. May 20 2012 18:16. Posts 10197 | | |
| | On May 08 2012 18:34 PuertoRican wrote:
Lookin good kid, keep up the good work~ |
|
|
| online bob is actually a pretty smart person, not at all like the creepy fucker that sits in the sofa telling me he does nasty shit to me when im asleep - pinball | |
|
|
1
|
Joeingram1 United States. May 22 2012 04:03. Posts 943 | | |
| | On May 09 2012 14:21 FarmMylife wrote:
You check out any of the action at the Edgewater or the Riverrock? Should Check out Ensemble on like Thurlow and Robson decent high end restaurant thats not super over priced. I became a sick food critique after living in Coal Harbour for awhile |
Went to ensemble once, was okay but not really my type of food, friends liked it. I go to edge sometimes, going tomorrow for 1k 6m tournament. I usually stick to the yaletown places to eat lately as I hate leaving my house lol |
|
|
|
