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OK guys, this gives me the chance now to give you a quick life update:
Poker:
Met a great dude and now my BFF at the Aria poker table about ten years back. The encounter has been one of the best things that happened to me in the last ten years. With increasing age it is incredibly hard to make new good friends. Now I am the godfather of his youngest son. That being said, pokerwise he had been a terrible influence, we both are apparently total degens when together at the poker tables which impacted my game big time. He moved to Florida back in 2017, since then I spent my US trips mainly in Florida to see my godson.
So this is my first proper poker only trip in Vegas for years. He may join this weekend, if so, it will be a total spewfest. If he doesn’t come I may have the chance to play solid LAG. We shall see.
I spent the last two years doing a lot of work with solvers (100 hours+) and this helped me to fix some major leaks. Some stuff the solver does is still very counterintuitive for me though. And how this will translate to live poker at the peasant levels I play is to be seen.
Business:
Same, same. Some very volatile times during Corona, but I survived and didnt have to lay off anyone luckily. Others in my family and friends circle were not as lucky.
Private life:
Mrs LAG is now soon to be Ex-Mrs LAG. Divorce process takes ages. We faced a really tough time when we wanted to become pregnant. Had a couple of miscarriages, the last one being very late in the pregnancy, which was traumatizing for both of us. It was clear after that that we can’t become pregnant anymore, which in turn questioned her life goals and mine as well. She started having a destructive lifestyle to numb her pain, while I burried myself in work. Not a good life to live in hindsight. I clearly should have communicated more during this time, but at some point it was too late and things turned toxic, especially during Corona. We are on good terms, apart from the financial aspect of the divorce proceedings.
Pointers for the young guns:
1. Communicate, communicate, communicate
2. Freeze your sperm
3. Freeze your eggs
4. Miscarriages happen more often than one would think, but it seems to be a big taboo to talk about it. Different couples handle this obviously differently, but it is more traumatizing as one would think as a by-stander. If stuff like this happen in your family/circle of friends try to be supportive.
5. Embrace love, have kids, but never ever get marrried if possible, even with a prenup. When things end you don’t want to fight in court for ages. It prevents you to freely embrace new endeavours, be it business-wise or romantically.
6. I am a stranger on the internet, so take everything with a grain of salt what I say.
Be it as it may, I am happy with my life and with my decision to end the marriage.
And I am so stoked to be soon back at my happy-place aka the Aria.
Haven’t logged into this forum in ages and for whatever reason, I’m struck with an itch this morning, only to discover the revival of this amazing thread. Obviously I sensed a disturbance in the force.
Chiming in to say hello old friend and also:
1. You’ve got some of the details wrong. Yes we met about 10 years ago at Aria, but no, I don’t live in Florida and we don’t have a son. Oh wait… I see… I just thought we were closer than that man….
2. Takes some serious self reflection and humility to share the wisdom of your life experiences here. Thank you. I’m sorry for the struggles that you’ve been through over the past few years and am
impressed by the grace that you handle it with.
3. May you run like the sun and built chip towers to rival the pyramids. Godspeed.
