I also think DaWarsaw could benefit and increase his hourly if he dropped the tables to 4 or 6 tables max.

Reason: I play the same stakes and have played against him.

Thanks

I happen to live in Thailand. So I'll give you my 2c.

Your budget greatly depends on you and where you stay. Anywhere near the beach is way more expensive than somewhere in the north of Thailand. I would say the minimum you can live on is about 1k/month including rent. But realistically if you stay in a nice app near the beach go out every weekend, want to eat some western food occasionally and barfine a girl in the weekend. You will be looking at 2k/month easily.

Wow 2k a month is expensive compared to what I've heard. (Living there I'm sure you know better than most) what is the rent per month like of a nice beach apartment vs a nice apartment in the north? ATM I'm in melbourne and my living costs are about that as well.

Thanks

do you know the costs of living comparison between mexico and thailand??

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

=D

I think I started considering going some place nice to play poker few years ago. At first, I wanted to go to Miami, FL, perfect weather, beaches, English as a language, nice city and of course, The Heat I was almost sure of moving there while I was there on New Years Eve, just before my first PCA in 2010. But then... Black Friday happened.
On the same year I went for 3 weeks to Barcelona, Spain, my favourite city in Europe. I was there between two tournaments, Estrellas in Alicante and Unibet Open in Barcelona, grinding online in meantime. I liked it and wanted to go there for longer time, but soon enough PS was forced to introduce PS.es and it did not work either.

Thailand works great for us, some of my friends are currently considering staying here longer or go to another place later, like Brazil or so. At the moment, I do not know yet. I like being here and I was also thinking of going to places like Carribean or Costarica. Mexico sounds nice as well but I have some security concerns. Are they reasonable, I don't know, probably not.

As for know, I will be going back to Poland in March/April (I will be flying half the world to PCA in January as well) and then I will see. Maybe I will stay in Poland for half of a year or a year and then go out again.

It is really tough for me to say. It is too early and we came only to Phuket, did not go to another places in Thailand. I think you can find a very nice place to stay for ~500$ and even something not bad for ~200$. You can easily eat for $10 a day or less. You can add some internet/water/electricity costs at about $50-$100. And the rest is up to you.

afaik mexico the northern part is very dangerous thou south like cancun not at all..

you can check it by looking sometimes at www.blogdelnarco.com mainly all bad things happen north from capital.

once upon a time i have watched some documentaries about drug wars in mexico, read a book LOS SENORES DEL NARCO and basically look through internet as it was some kina of a hobby this criminology, i also lived there for 2 month in ciudad de mexico and have not met any kind of violence at all thou friends from there told me i should be cautious and while driving do not stop at red signal after 11 pm..

costa rica is also perfect.

if i may spare two words from myself it would be nice for me to be there too as i speak fluent spanish and intermediate portuguese.

i recommend brazil too. spent 1 month last year there travelling. the weather in RIO changes like in mountaines but cities like Fortaleza, Recife, OLinda and beautiful Morro de Sao Paulo are just amazing and weather is sooo nice!! higly recommend OLINDA and maybe Fortaleza. Sao Paulo is one big gotham city but i got that impression from only 24hours ive been there so i may overstate..

For the guys playing 100zoom. The fullring zoomgames that run sometimes with like 10-20 entries are ridicilously soft. They often play 4-6 handed and are way fishier than the regular zoom games.

good luck

Hi DaWarsaw!

I'm new on stars.com (I'm Italian, so I had to relocate to Malta in order to play stars.com)

We played sometimes togheter fwiw But I have a question for you. Why are playing 50 and 100 NL instead of 100 and 200 NL?

I'm playing 100 and 200 NL zoom and I think that will be possibile to make SNE playing 8x zoom on 10k hands/day as you are playing. So why you are not going to SNE?

'Regs, come join our fishy games!'

Lol.

I guess I could also go for 4x200 and 4x500 and make double the Elite!
And more seriously, I think most of the players know exactly which stakes/number of tables they want to play and why. The can be million of reasons, some of them more general, some of them more personal. Whatever works for one person may not work for another, etc. So, everyone of us knows what wins him the money, and let's stick to that

Now, to the summary of the last week:

IT'S SHAVING TIME!!!

The volume was again around 40k but this time I broe almost even on nl50 and had a nice 7,66bb/100 winrate on nl100 so I am now finally the green. I was planning on shaving right away, but honestly I got used to my beard and do not really want to say goodbye to it. I will just trim it now a little and see what happens next. But this mini challenge is over now.

Other good news is that I may hit another $1600 bonus this week but it may not happen due to WCOOP tournaments. I have played two events yesterday and concentrate just on them so no cash hands during that. I also had this lovely feeling of playing for 8-10 hours until 8am and finishining few hundred players before money
But overall, I will try to keep the pace of 35-40k hands and that would get me another bonus.

Here are the current total stats and the graph:



Total hands: 373,162
Net won (EV): $767.90 ($2,097.43)
bb/100 (EV): 1,61 (1,88)
VPP earned: 76,048
FPP earned: 266,168
Bonuses, milestones: $3296
Total after rb: $4,425.80

Good luck at the tables,
DaWarsaw

Damn I wish I had half your workethic. gj

Yeah I was just asking because you have a great work ethic and you are a winning player, so I don't understand why not take the extra money from SNE.

Congrats for the recent results, and pls don't shave eheheh

I am not ruling out moving to nl100 and nl200 at some time in the nearest future. For now I want to see where this challenge will end. Also, would have to make huge adjustement to my game: SPEND LESS MONEY! That's my worst leak

And actually already trimmed a little

There's definately NO way someone who takes 350k hands to make 7bi at nl100 doesnt lose 2-3bb/100 @ nl200+

Stay at 50-100

What would make more sense would be dropping your stars status for a 60-70% rb site. With that volume at nl50 you could make 200-300$ a day in rakeback

Thanks for advice. I think I have answered to similar post before.

No offense but you should def try playing around with a variance simulator and see over what kind of samples a winning player can be losing. Also you should take into consideration that maybe DW enjoys the prestige of being one of 2 (I think) Polish PS pros + you obviously can't even know what sort of deal he has with Stars.

I think you actually meant your advice kindly, which is always nice to see on this forum, but just let the man do his thing. He's been very successful for years so he knows what hes doing.

Shows what kind of discipline OP has in not tearing you a new one.

Daw is an awesome guy, that's why he doesn't give a **** and why he's a team online guy.

Being a Stars Online isn't so Stars can show off their dick size of all their baller top level pros representing them, that doesn't really help the game.

What helps the game/stars is having some nice social people to motivate a new generation of grinders

Honestly I have no Idea why everyone gives him such a hard time, for 8 tabling zoom he's absolutely crushing. What more of a winrate can u expect playing 2000 hands/hr

Its 1200h/hr just 4 tabling - he probably is getting 2k/hr. I agree with everything you just said. This thread is super motivating. This guy is living his dream on a beach in Thailand. Whether he is playing low stakes or mid stakes is extremely irrelevant.

You realize someone making 8-10bb/100 at 50nl that 10-12 tables 1-3hrs a day will make more than him right?

I just don't get it.

Definitely jealous of his volume though. Moving to Thailand cost me my motivation. went from playing 6hrs a day to 1-3 and even now outside of Thailand i still cant grind more

I would love to see a large sample where someone is winning at that winrate at nl50 12 tabling, does not seem at all realistic to me.

Feel free to post a graph and the hourly/winnings to prove me wrong