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Originally Posted by hotwings18
glgl dude. safe travels
ty
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Originally Posted by Mecastyles
yes you suck jdawgd
lol inorite, I'm so bad
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Originally Posted by The OG
Jdawg -- do you know where I can review last months (October) leaderboard finish?
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Originally Posted by zackryan28
I'm pretty sure you only get an email, but only if you're in the top 25. They reset it right at midnight server time, which is kinda lame.
If you email support, they'd probably be able to send you your details. Don't know how much effort you want to put into it though lol
Yea what Zack said, its lame that the previous month's LB doesn't stay on the site longer
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Originally Posted by yougotG0T
looking forward to a TR when you get to mexico or have the time, kid.
oh, and try to avoid mexican drug cartels and stuff
Hahaha yea, I plan on avoiding the cartels for sure, prolly will be grinding a ton anyway...so much so that I won't be able to find that much trouble.
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Originally Posted by Isitdur?
Pics of grindroom and view from Cabooooooo. Pls?
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Originally Posted by Charvy
Pictures of setup! Goodluck on the grind!
It's really nothing special at all, I have a desk against one corner of the living room with my 32" that I picked up today, and Starting Gun on opposite side overlooking the ocean with his desk and his setup which is nothing special either. Will try to post pics though if I end up getting access to a camera/buying one.
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Originally Posted by ChaseNutley26
Safe travels, J. And happy grinding when you get there. Don't enjoy the sun and hot wominz too much!
One question from someone who is looking to switch from turbos to ST to get in more volume: I read in your other thread that you cleared 92% RB for the month of your challenge. I think I saw that you play on Lock, correct? Anyway you could give a quick breakdown of percentages that make up that 92%? I play on RPM and the best I think I could get pre-leaderboard and rakerace (which they took away) would be under 60%. Ayuda, por favor!
Tyty . And my rakeback % is the same as everyone, I just add in the leaderboard $'s as my effective rb % (which winning/2nd in LB makes ur RB % go up a tonnnnn). Glgl!
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Originally Posted by bmess0
Get there soon! Let the grinding commence!
Yeaaaaaa buddy
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Originally Posted by Ice_W0lf
Pics of his view from Cabo will be tough considering he'll be over 1600km away from Cabo.
lolol
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Originally Posted by Donkey111
I partially disagree with you. I do think you should specialise and learn to crush your specialty when you start. But once you are close to the ceiling, there isn't that much left to study which gives you room for learning other games. And the hourly rate is not the only element to take into consideration. There is also your longetivity and interestingly point 3 is about how un-glamourous grinding for a living is. By grinding one variant of one game for donkey's years, you may win a lot of money but you also risk burning yourself out. It will also help you switch if you notice that after every passing year, your hourly keeps decreasing due to tougher competition in your main game.
Yea for sure, I actually agree with you, I was gearing that towards a beginner just so they get a good start and are able to move up stakes.
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Originally Posted by chilin_dude
Hopefully should be somewhere near landing now, hope he beats the border for once!
Pics required!
Also how was saying goodbye? Who cried, you or your mum first?
Lol nps at border, and no tears shed in my family, none of us close enough with each other.
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Originally Posted by Eldorian
GL! took me ages to read through the first two pages glad you made a new thread...
also, how does a SNE stacking deal work? do you have to give up part of the RB or only off your potential winnings? seems like a pretty bad deal for the stacker if it is the later as you aim for a black zero...?
not (necesarrily) interested in the specifics of your deal, but saw it in a couple of posts that ppl get stacked for SNE and am wondering how these deals work in general.
best of luck, subed!
Haha . And I have a 75/25 deal with my backer on all profits and RB, its just 1 base % on everything.
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Originally Posted by jdawg91
Poker is not a long-term "job" for 90% of people so having that backup plan is certainly very +EV imo. I myself haven't gone back to school mainly because I know I'd be wasting money; I wouldn't actually give it my all, so why waste the money? Now that certainly doesn't mean I won't eventually go back to school, it's just not for me at this time.
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IMO Poker can only be a long term job if you some sort of side of business/invesment on the side or a sponsorship on the side...like you said grinding isn't as 'glamarous' as everyone says....grinding sngs to get SNE although profitable can IMO be determental to you mentally and physically...although its no more determental then a regular 9-5...you just have to know how to balance each...its justs my personal opinion that you can't be solely a poker player and expect to retire like the rest of the world...tho there are like 10% of poker players that do so...just my .02 that being said GL MAN!
Definitely agree with you there, which is why ive been heavily involved in staking and investing groups, and plan to do a ton more of it in the future.
tyty
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Originally Posted by Rusemandingo
So jelly.
They have walmarts in mexico?
Lol yeap, theres a walmart 20 mins away from me
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Originally Posted by Isitdur?
See you in 180s soon!
Lol **** no! stt's!
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Originally Posted by viktor shroom
how come your not on the grind yet hoesel?
Already played a quick sesh
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rakeback house lol
wp sir
Damn right, rb ftw
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Okay guys, I'm pretty tired as I only got 4hrs of sleep last night after a long day of travel and then have had a pretty long day today as well, so I'm going to give a short TR of everything that stands out on the day.
Cliffs:
-Arrived safely
-Didn't get stopped at border
-Live 20 mins outside city, next day neighbor is the
fox studio
-Looks better than the pics ITT
-City run today for groceries + monitor
-Bank acct/cell phone tomorrow
So left Chicago Tuesday at 6:15 chicago time and landed in San Diego at 10:25pm local time (was a 4 hr flight). Ended up being a bit of a mess finding Starting Gun as we arrived at different terminals, so I had to haul my **** like 20 mins down to terminal 1, but we ended up finding each other so was all good. We got to our hotel in San Diego about 11:30pm last night. Then we were up and on the road to Mexico by 10am, our driver, Rudy got us safely through the border and we didn't even get stopped which was sweet!
The trip in Mexico was pretty eye opening, basically the city itself is about 20 minutes from where we live, and in between the city and our resort is a pretty impoverished area on the one side of the highway. Def is kinda sad to see, and it makes you realize that even though you yourself are living in a sick place, theres a lot of poverty around you. Anyway, you get through the poor area, and you hit a military checkpoint with guys in full uniform, rifles strapped to back and all, checking people going through. Then our place is about 1-2 mins up the road, our next door neighbors are Hotel Calalifa and then Fox Studio (
http://www.bajafilmstudios.com/)....yes our neighbor is the Fox Studio in Mexico which is pretty sick imo
So we arrived to Calafia Resort about 11am, and Miguel was right there to take us to our condo. It's a pretty cool setup, gated community so we had to get buzzed in and then we drove over to tour 2 and got out and checked out our apartment. This place is pretty sick, looks better in person than in the pics. Theres a nice lounge in each of the towers and also a gym in each of the towers. There's also 6 (iirc) jacuzzi's around the resort, 4 being inside, and 3 or 4 pools as well. The beach area is pretty cool, can walk the entire beach down even to the Fox Studio which is pretty sweet, Starting Gun and I (or just him if im lazy
) are gonna walk it one of the next few days probably.
After checking out our new pad, we cabbed it into town (or part of the town) and hit up Burger King for lunch, and then ended up going to Walmart to get some supplies/food and my monitor. I settled on a 32" hdtv as I just stack my tables anyway so size > resolution. We also went to find telcell, which was a good 20 minute walk, and when we got there it was closed which was kinda sour, but we did find a nice grocery store that we'll probably hit up tomorrow or Friday. Then we headed back to the crib and unloaded everything and got on the grind for a bit to check out the internet...we definitely need to upgrade it as it lagged slightly sometimes. It's going to be a pretty ez fix though, no big deal at all.
jd4wg91 114 -$0.9 $7 0% -$102 - N/A Merge 11/2/2011 11/2/2011 SNG Only
Anyway, glgl to everyone tomorrow, pretty happy to be setup and looking forward to getting back onto stars! Will be going to the bank tomorrow to try to set up an account, and then heading over to telcell to get a phone.