My Journey in Live Mid-High Stakes
08-19-2015
, 06:07 PM
I think your age and profile actually put you ahead of me.
08-19-2015
, 06:39 PM
08-19-2015
, 06:43 PM
08-24-2015
, 06:45 AM
Thank you for the kind words guys.
I did both - played at places for a weekend, and also for weeks. I was in both vegas and cali for quite a while. It's really awesome to stay in a new place for a long time. I love traveling but I hate being a tourist. Staying at a place for weeks lets you have a more genuine experience of what it's like living there. You get to try out more restaurants/bars (go to places you like multiple times 
), explore more areas. Having poker is awesome for this purpose - you can travel for as long as you want because you are working at the same time so it's justified. Since there aren't that many good poker hubs around, I think it's good to play somewhere for a few months and travel to the surrounding areas (with shorter/cheaper drives/flights) on your days off.
Don't lie I know you've read every word of it!
Hopefully creepiness is the most sincere form of flattery for RP?
If they aren't at my expense I'd love to hear them! 
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With regard to all of the travel, I'm curious what you think about the best way to do it? We both did a lot of traveling recently, and I think we both did it somewhat similarly... You didn't really stay anywhere longer than 2 weeks or so, right? I'm curious whether you think that's the best way to do it or finding spots for a month or so to grind a normal full-time schedule and then moving on and taking a week here or there totally off from poker, which also lets you visit regions/cities that don't have poker. The downside of that being that it can be hard to bounce back from total vacations in poker, and repeatedly doing it could be a challenge... The discipline aspect could be harder.
), explore more areas. Having poker is awesome for this purpose - you can travel for as long as you want because you are working at the same time so it's justified. Since there aren't that many good poker hubs around, I think it's good to play somewhere for a few months and travel to the surrounding areas (with shorter/cheaper drives/flights) on your days off. Don't lie I know you've read every word of it!
Hopefully creepiness is the most sincere form of flattery for RP?
08-24-2015
, 07:46 AM
08-24-2015
, 07:57 AM
Some pictures from my trip that began 4 months ago:
Lobstah roll, clam chowdah, clam strips, and seared scallop from a lobstah shack portland, maine (SO MUCH seafood there!!!)
I really got into oysters last year so of course I get to binge on these (0.50/ea happy hour in boston - with the average price of hotels at $240/night in the city, these are about the only things I can afford!)
Every dish seems to involve seafood in new england.. my heaven! The original white clam pie - the must try dish from new haven
NOT a pic of food.. NYC skyline
An attempted glamor shot of AC.. see it's not that bad on a nice day!
My view in vegas for a whole month.. unfortunately one of the few times I saw the sun (2nd day)
Red canyon. Not much of a hike because it was a pretty flat trail, BUT IT WAS SO HOT AND DUSTY - def one the most uncomfortable experiences for me. No idea how people used to live there.
View from the high roller
Dolphin watching in LA - saw a school of about two thousand. Pretty amazing - there were dolphins everywhere
Love the west coast.
San diego - more glorious beaches and sun
Got really close to some sea lions/seals
Disneyland - cali adventure (rant: most over-priced park ever for what it is, would never go out of biz because shame on the parents that didn't give their kids a childhood by not taking them to a disney park)
Aaaand back to food! Going north and now we are at seattle, WA
I used to watch this pretty decent AMC show called the killing, which took place in seattle. Every single episode showed it as being extremely rainy and depressing - but apparently it wasn't true all the time!
Going camping in the great big wilderness this week.. will be doing a bunch of fishing and hiking. Looking forward to disconnect from technology and navigate with a large sheet of paper. Will be setting up my first tent (and if that fails, sleep in the car
). Hope I don't run into a bear!
August summary
August went by rather fast for me. I only played about 50 hours due to the lack of games in the areas that I was traveling in. Ran bad in all of the biggest all in pots (like obviously) - one was a coinflip, one was an 80/20, and one was a 90/10 - for about 1200bbs total. Super annoyed that I won't have a chance to make up for it before the end of the month, but since I barely played much I get that it's just the negative side of short term variance. I'm sure if I played another hundred hours this month, I'd be doing much better. My camping trip will be a good break before putting in good volume again starting in september.
Lobstah roll, clam chowdah, clam strips, and seared scallop from a lobstah shack portland, maine (SO MUCH seafood there!!!)
I really got into oysters last year so of course I get to binge on these (0.50/ea happy hour in boston - with the average price of hotels at $240/night in the city, these are about the only things I can afford!)
Every dish seems to involve seafood in new england.. my heaven! The original white clam pie - the must try dish from new haven
NOT a pic of food.. NYC skyline
An attempted glamor shot of AC.. see it's not that bad on a nice day!
My view in vegas for a whole month.. unfortunately one of the few times I saw the sun (2nd day)
Red canyon. Not much of a hike because it was a pretty flat trail, BUT IT WAS SO HOT AND DUSTY - def one the most uncomfortable experiences for me. No idea how people used to live there.
View from the high roller
Dolphin watching in LA - saw a school of about two thousand. Pretty amazing - there were dolphins everywhere
Love the west coast.
San diego - more glorious beaches and sun
Got really close to some sea lions/seals
Disneyland - cali adventure (rant: most over-priced park ever for what it is, would never go out of biz because shame on the parents that didn't give their kids a childhood by not taking them to a disney park)
Aaaand back to food! Going north and now we are at seattle, WA
I used to watch this pretty decent AMC show called the killing, which took place in seattle. Every single episode showed it as being extremely rainy and depressing - but apparently it wasn't true all the time!
Going camping in the great big wilderness this week.. will be doing a bunch of fishing and hiking. Looking forward to disconnect from technology and navigate with a large sheet of paper. Will be setting up my first tent (and if that fails, sleep in the car
). Hope I don't run into a bear!August summary
August went by rather fast for me. I only played about 50 hours due to the lack of games in the areas that I was traveling in. Ran bad in all of the biggest all in pots (like obviously) - one was a coinflip, one was an 80/20, and one was a 90/10 - for about 1200bbs total. Super annoyed that I won't have a chance to make up for it before the end of the month, but since I barely played much I get that it's just the negative side of short term variance. I'm sure if I played another hundred hours this month, I'd be doing much better. My camping trip will be a good break before putting in good volume again starting in september.
08-24-2015
, 04:11 PM
08-26-2015
, 01:56 PM
08-26-2015
, 03:57 PM
Who's we? Is it the certain individual I kept bugging you about? 
08-28-2015
, 02:32 AM
Ok just off the coast from LA! One of those whale watching tours. I did one with a glass bottom so you can see dolphin swimming with the boat underwater.
Heard about the fire fighters that died in the fire - quite sad stuff.
08-28-2015
, 02:39 AM
08-28-2015
, 05:11 PM
So there's a new man in your life now?
08-28-2015
, 05:15 PM
09-09-2015
, 04:16 PM