Hi Keyser,

It's good to hear from you, after almost ten years of active duty service in the Marine Corps I've decided to change course and I'm moving out to D.C. this summer to work as a federal government contractor. My wife and I are buying our first home and are very excited, we close in 3 weeks!

I still play poker from time to time. Recently I've been playing tournaments on Bovada and noodling around at .5/1 and 1/2 NL. The games have changed, but they're still profitable. Are you still playing online?

Best,
Quark

good to hear from you! cool you're moving to DC, I went to college there, great place to be.

And yeah Bovada still feels like fish city even if most other site's in the world aren't. It's nice. I'm not grinding much right now but I'll be playing again in a month or two, still heavily involved in poker of course.

As far as the rest of how I'm doing it's a bit tl;dr: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/10...-stay-1518817/

cliffs: hand brain injury. it sucked. recovered really well though. going to enter the real world at some point after i do volunteer work for a while. all's pretty much good beyond that.

oh hello, dead thread on dead site. I just wanted to share something I found interesting today.

I had an appointment with my neurologist today and I had talked to my primary care doctors and others about this before, but I wanted to know what he thought since it's his field. So my memory is just odd. Basically I forgot a lot of things about some silly topics, like it took a long time to find out the name of Bruce Willis because I couldn't remember the names of any of his movies or see him showed up on an American famous actors list. This was like 7 months ago. But pretty much through this whole time I happened to remember anything poker related just as well. Well, most things. I forgot the names of former HSNL ballers and such but the game itself was just stuck inside. Odd I could remember basically what to do vs. a small 4bet, or what to do with this or that hand facing a 3bet in these positions, but I can't remember the name Bruce Willis?? WTF.

So I asked and he said that in a lot of ways our brains are basically held in a bank vault on some topics. Like obviously going completely brain dead makes you forget everything (basically all the data is deleted imo), but if something was important to you and studied hard it just gets locked away and doesn't disappear. It also matters exactly where your brain was damaged since info is stored in some parts but not the other. So I guess my injury hurt my movie knowledge side of my brain but was far away from my poker spot, and that's nice. :-)

I get the added benefit that past memories can get stronger but newer ones go away more often. Like when I entered the como I was watching the 2014 World Series (baseball), and when I woke up I thought it was STL vs. KC when it wasn't. Yet I remember specifics of baseball games I watched my brother play when I was 12. Like where he hit the ball and if he got a double or a home run, etc.

This worked well with poker because I was pretty lazy my last 2 years or so as a professional. I was doing well at the stakes I wanted to play and I didn't really need to study new findings or stay up to date, but of course I had studied as hard as possible for the 8 years before that, so the important stuff stuck around and since I didn't learn much new stuff it never even existed in the first place.

I haven't gotten back to the grind yet except for a few months ago because I have some other life things on my plate, but I plan to start the grind in the next month or two because I am confident I can still do well.

even tho 2p2 is dead. :-( R.I.P.

well this sucks to see on the top of my Skype. Saddest Skype message I've gotten.

RIP