Thank you for this info! I'm in the same situation, just further behind :P will definitely check out live lingua

Where do you find language partners?

That would be great! Hope it materializes.

I used italki and Speaky, but I've heard Tandem works also. You can filter by country.

Italki also has teachers if you want to hire someone for $5-30 to work with one on one over Skype.

Thanks to both dub and fossil for the very helpful suggestions re: learning Spanish. I'm becoming more and more enthralled with the prospect of taking a trip to Latin America later this year so hopefully that will provide the impetus to get started on learning Spanish very soon.

It's funny, I remember being taught in high school that it's extremely difficult to learn a new language past the age of 18, and that had stuck firmly in my head, but I know so many adults who have done it successfully and based on a quick google search there is also a lot of contrary scientific evidence out there in addition to the anecdotal evidence. It seems like science is generally revealing the human brain to be much more plastic in later age in many aspects than previously thought.

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Pretty disheartening to see my profits drop from 4k at their peak this week to now a lowly -800$ A very minuscule bump in the scheme of things, but this run bad of mine has been perduring WAY beyond its expiry date That, and the fact that 2019 saw me net 100k in just 3 months, while the other 9 saw me lose 23k, AKA not a graph one wants imposed upon his daily grind yo But then you remind yourself of your healthy BR, your constant life upswing, and that aiming for 80-125k in 2020 as a basement is not so bad after all, right And then you put on episode 4 of Olivier Busquet's podcast (well worth the listen) which reconfirms that a lot of those highstakes/noosebleeds grinders have a slimmer BR then you do

I was focussing strictly upon a rakerace this week, but the upcoming 4 days prior to my meditation retreat will see me explore more of what BA has to offer yo


Yeah, I have been enjoying the Spanish discussion lately Another important item, me thinks, is to change your settings on your phone as to include Espanol as a language ; auto-correct is not always an annoying tool, you know. Google translate has been my friend as well as far as keeping the page open/as a favourite on my computer - Google can be usefull sometimes, I guess

The only time I heard this, was coming from Anglo-Saxon folks that did not speak other languages. Meanwhile, the majority (60%) of the planet is multi-lingual and manifolds are the adults (most notably immigrants) who go through the process of learning a new dialect. I remember that English did not come easy for me at a very young age (started learning at 6 in school), similarly difficult to how Spanish has been over the past couple of years, me remembers. Sorry, I don't mean my comment to come across as (too) exasperated, but multiple are the (old generation) peeps who state pseudo-facts like those, who also happen to be the same who expect the World to speak English (American) to them

I came across a young girl on a dating site (20) who I assumed to be a scammer/fake profile (sexy pic, had Canada as location but was probably stemming from Ghana (black lady)), as the latter also stated that she spoke 6 languages Curiosity got the best of me (as it often does), so we contacted each other and Skyped : and lo and behold, not only is her profile authentic, but she is from fracking Montreal She is a second generation Haitian lady, hence grew up speaking Creole and French in her household. English came by quickly enough (the new generations of Quebecois are much keen on learning English then my generation did and especially my dad's), she then picked up Spanish in school (yet speaks it better then I do ), Greek from her work (she is a nurse) and German from God knows where. I mean, WT God damn Efff Yet, she takes it for granted, as if it is the most natural thing in the world to do. I mentioned a few times "that it is not an easy thing to speak as many languages", but she would simply brush it away, also stating that she wants her kids to learn at least 5 languages. She mentioned that making her (future) kids listen to a cartoon in French, for instance, to then follow it up with the same exact English episode, would be a useful trick. I guess so, and a good idea, really, but darn and a thousand times darn

Thx bro, yup, definitely some sweet street art thus far and breathe-taking houses/buildings The only thing about big cities for me though, is that after a while the beauty of those same streets will stop covering me with goosebumps, and what will remain is the intrusive sound of the traffic in the background as well as the generalized urban stress...




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Wall of Text Spewage Yo

Nothing like a 1.2k morning hit - Ehhhhh - and a blissful sunny Saturday afternoon to slip into da escape shoes and roam down the Buenos Aires seeking a delightful cafe to spew away, right First of all, and to organize somewhat the wall of text spewage that is about to spurt out, let's do a Buenos Aires vs Lima section for semantic (and diversion) purposes, shall we not

Buenos Aires vs Lima : Pretty difficult to extrapolate any exhaustive conclusions after a few days in BA as opposed to months in Lima, but here are nonetheless a few points of comparisons, if only to please the urges of Dubnjoy000

- Lima/Peru kills it - like f**king KILLS IT - in the culinary and people friendliness categories When factoring in that those 2 areas of life are so fracking important to yours truly, any future timeline that sees me revert back to Peru, will not come as a surprise, right

- BA is prettier. Classier. The architecture. The cultural scene (theatres, heritage). The rich display (you can tell that this country was once the cultural centre of South America/was economically affluent).

- This said, with the latter comes a certain arrogance, obviously, as finding yourself on a certain end of the spectrum, necessarily brings along other variables

- More poker games in Peru (will check out the casino here tonight), Ayahuasca ceremonies and relatively equal Vipassana scene in both places.

- No honking here as opposed to God-damn-soul-sucking fracking Lima (main deterrent from staying in Lima).

- Argentina as a whole seems to offer more to discover as 3-4 day getaways as opposed to Peru...


Now I did have a Peruvian FWB lady friend reach out to me about potentially moving together to Cusco. She is a lawyer, a good friend, the sex was good and she is a kindred soul, but I always wanted to be alone when morning came rolling along. The new lady friend (from Paraguay originally), that we will name L - for narrative purposes, of course, as well as respect of identity -, seems like a more feasible LTR candidate. She is extremely kind, has an interesting past, is pretty, fit, classy, a good kisser/lover, and we get along very well/laugh a ton. She also is considerate in speaking slowly to me (her English is non-existent). Now I will not be getting ahead of myself, but this feels good after a cringe-worthy-head-case-and-emotional-draining-situation that was X, so I will be coming back to BA for at least a month post my meditation retreat yo

Speaking of the latter, there is a DEEP-rooted little fracking demon of defilement that has been surfacing for the past year ; we will call him ANGER. That is what he is. Emotionally and on the surface, at least. But deep down inside, he is this fracking God damn little bugger that crawls up with his bodily feverish fierce claws. You see, when you are sitting there in a Buddha posture with seemingly all the inner-peace in the world - at least as seen by the outside world -, he surfaces with these symptoms of losing consciousness And you believe that you will, even if they are but an illusion : if you unlock your legs and stretch out your body, all those sickening symptoms will instantly vanish, but if you remain in a Buddha-like posture defying the World and f**king gravity, you will release this (seemingly) intrinsic anger Such is how I beat my tilt issues years back and which saw my WR skyrocket by 3x as soon as I came out of the meditation retreat, no exaggeration But, alas and fracking alas, HE has got the best of me over the past 2 years, even appearing 2 days after my last Ayahuasca Journey (and during it in forms of Demon Hallucinations). Anyhow, such foe will most likely await while volunteering as a chef during the next couple of weeks... Hummmm, not always easy to purify oneself, like not fracking EASY at all

Alright, some live poker tonight, a theatre play tomorrow with L, it should be sweet




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Wall of Text Buenos Aires Style Capitulo Dos (because life is too f**king short yet we have so much to say…)

Went to the casino yesterday and was not, alas, impressed with the poker room tucked into a dirty room in the basement of the casino with the sole source of entertainment (outside of watching paint dry in a lowstakes 9 handed cash game ), was the futbol on the tv screens (which I really don’t care for, unfortunately ). Nor was I with the cash games that were limited to 4 tables of 1-2 (300$ BI). What I was pretty happy to see though, was the flight 1D of a 2 day tournament (I think...) with 10-15k up top There is a Deepstack series that runs every month with BIs stemming from 300-1k, so those, I will indeed enjoy jumping in, as not only does it look profitable af with such a soft field (and seemingly no other foreign pros...), but it would be nice to add an Argentina flag to my HM, right

Am enjoying BA, but I am finding myself a little antsy with the Argentinan food and thus already looking to sway away towards my standard fallbacks of Asian or Peruvian restaurants And while the majority of my encounters have been mainly positive, I was nonetheless surprised by how much of an impatient biitch - all stress-induced - was the woman pitboss yesterday when I was inquiring about cash games (granted, there was other people in line, but still...). If only life was perfect and we could transpose Peruvian culinary skills and the citizens of that country here, in beautiful BA

On the Spanish front : darn those moments when you communicate with ease are heartening af Those initial struggles appear to be lonnnggg ways behind, those headaches but an dissipated mirage, and suddenly you have opened up a breach into a new culture, a new magical realm... And. It. Is. So. Damn. Cool. Yo

Furthermore, another important item on learning a new language for those of us that might be more introverted and timid (which I suspect is a bunch of us, right, 2 + 2ers online poker peeps ), is that you get use to those fracking awkward moments where you said the wrong word, misinterpreted a phrase, a situation... And yet the very next day (or later on in the same day), you again put yourself out there, make a little a fool of yourself only to ultimately realize THAT IT DOES NOT GOD DAMN MATTER Not in the scheme of things and neither in most interpersonal relationships, as it is just part of the grand trial and tribulations of behavioral growth yo Also, you will simply get more recognition for speaking a non-English language by your (new) peers as you would in English ; in fact, sure I did have some folks in Australia that were a little surprised that French is my first language and do have some peeps believe that I am a native English speaker in certain areas of the world, but never do I have someone simply state "Your English is very good." No. It is expected of me. As a traveller. A Canadian. Where Latinos will recognize the effort that you had to put in (as they might have struggle themselves with whatever level of English they acquired) and darn, it is sweet to hear so often how much my Espanol is good (even if I know that it still remains quite mediocre ).

Alright, because this is a Wall o Text post, let's move on to the poker front




A little over 200k online in the past 2 years


Notice the nature of the above graph that represents my online grind for the past 2 years (thus, alas, excludes the nasty swings of live MTTs )... Notice how the upswing occupies only a few tangents (especially initially ) with the overall flatline tendency... Now one might be tempted as a grinder to be completed disheartened at the unforgiving nature of variance, yet a graph (for a big winning reg) always looks pretty darn in hindsight when looking at the big picture So here is the thing : if one were to only crave winnings, he would find himself tilted the majority of the fracking time. But if one were to be more wise and accept with serenity all those B/E stretches as being the norm and then simply rejoice when the upswing kicks in, imagine how much happier player B is to player A... Hummmm, something to think about and put into action


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Darkness Invades

Interesting evening yesterday to say the least… I did the standard jump in the shower, brush away the dirty run bad of the day’s grind, put on a decent and presentable shirt, sprayed on my luscious aftershave, but, this time around, I decided to slip into my WTF-I-don’t-know-what-to-expect shoes as, you know, you can never be too cautious, right So it was with a non-challant outlook on life that I roamed down the Palermo streets as the active nightlife was spewing out various styles of music from the speakers fluctuating in between Reggaeton, death rock, pop tunes and other musical variants that this Sunday night in Buenos Aires decided to bring forth And then I met up with L, exchanged a few kisses and made it to the Ciego teatro, AKA a dinner-theatre play done in complete obscurity

Now of course, in order to ironically increase the challenge of not knowing f**king nada, the host spoke Espanol as fast as can be, instructing us on how our plates would be organized, how to proceed with the eating process in the dark, drinking and whatnot Needless to say, but to go through the process of an already quite uncanny experience in a language that you have yet to master, is destabilizing af

Hummmm, the moments I miss the most Peru is well you go in a cafe, like now for example, and the fellow impatiently serves you without a smile nor gives you the time of the f**kind day Darn I am happy I learnt most of my Spanish in Peru Also, I should perhaps stop with the Peru-BA comparisons, as I will be here for the feasible future

As always, I am approaching this meditation retreat backwards ; inner shyt is starting to surface as this whole purifying process warrants it to do Of course, I will be coming back a better person and more light




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Hey dub and fossilkid, what do you guys think of this site? https://baselang.com/
They claim they can take you from knowing 0 spanish to being able to have a 30+ minute conversation in spanish in 30 days. Sounds a bit too good to be true, no? They have good reviews though... And they have a school in medellín and I fly into medellín tomorrow. It feels a bit serendipitous. I'm really thinking of joining.

Dang, I'm jealous of your Argentina excursions. It's one of my top places to visit, but the distance has put me off, it's so damn far away.

I freakin' live for city/country comparisons, so am delighted to read anything on Lima v BA and Perú v. Argentina you wish to type.

Could you comment a bit on the cost of living and impact that Argentina's currency crashing have had on BA? I've heard some people say it's still super cheap for a foreigner to live there and others say that restaurants where you could once buy a steak for $6 are now more like $40.

Thanks for posting the fancy looking graph. It's funny, when we look back at a huge stretch of poker we realize just how insignificant the "small" swings we had really are. At least for me, I sometimes agonize over periods with heavy variance, but I need to remind myself that in 2 years they will be meaningless. All that will matter is that I was able to keep a level head and play my A/B game as much as possible.

GL with L!

Complete BS and these types of claims really bother me. I think they give people the false impression that learning a language is easy and when they find out it's hard work, they give up too easily.

Unless you're a language savant, then I wouldn't expect to be holding 30 minute convos (what I'd consider intermediate level) after just a month. If you really grind the language and immerse yourself, then I'd say 3-6 months is more realistic.

Some language schools have a scale that goes like this:

A1 - complete beginner
A2 - beginner w/some experience
B1 - low intermediate
B2 - high intermediate, decent mastery, fluid, but lots of mistakes
C1 - fluent, but still errors in grammar/listening
C2 - mastery of the language, native

A1 to A2 is the easiest jump, but then after that I think you can expect about a 3-6 month timeframe for advancing each additional level.

As an example, I arrived in France somewhere between B1/B2 level. I took an intensive language school at Lyon 2 University, 32 hours of classes per week for 10 weeks, lots of homework, going out w/girls and speaking French, and I jumped up to B2/C1 level. Then I cut down the studies and did 15 classroom hours of Alliance Française for about 4 months and maybe jumped up half a level. I'd say I was C1 when I left France. I had a couple friends who spoke a bit of language, but for the most part, my life was in French.

Now, I haven't spoken French in about 3 years and I feel like I've dropped back to like B1, but could probably recover my old level with a month or 2 of hard study. Language is really difficult, especially if you don't practice it nearly every day, and additionally Spanish seems to be taking over in my brain and eliminating the French I had.

Anyway, hope that gives you a better idea what to expect. Hope dub doesn't mind the derail and can chime in if he feels his language experience varies vastly from mine.

Thank you! (Sorry for the derail dub ��)

LOL @ the idea that anyone other than perhaps some kind of savant could become fluent in a language in 30 days. Total b.s. imo, and while I do see that they have good reviews, that marketing claim alone makes me wary of them. Regardless, hope you report back on your experience if you end up enrolling at that school or elsewhere.

I have a very basic rudimentary understanding of "traveler's Spanish" and am headed to Medellin as well in a few weeks...my plan is to take 4 weeks of classes...if by the end of my trip if I'm even quasi-fluent in what I'd describe as "gringo traveler's Spanish" I'll be happy.

On an entirely different note, I can't believe I'm just now becoming aware of this thread Dubnjoy. I guess this thread is is supposed to be more poker-centric while your blog in the travel forum more focused on your travels, but there does seem to be some overlap. Hope you enjoy B.A. but make the opportunity to explore more of Argentina as well, when I was there I did not & I really regret that. Definitely take at least a day trip to Tigre, I thought it was really interesting and think you would enjoy it, probably a great place for a weekend stay if things with the lady friend work out...

Finally, +1 to Fossilkids request on info. re: travel costs in B.A.!

One Step Back, 2 Hours Counter-Clockwise

Will not bore you folks with yesterday's -4k utter run bad or how I finally GII as a 95-5% favourite on the turn vs the SPOT at the table only to see him bink his 2 outer in a HUMONGOUS pot, nor with 75-25%, nor with the... Nope, nope. But what I will insist open is how I fail asleep with a smile on my face, and how everything felt right, a sentiment that had alas been absent during the OH so dreadful X stint

Am certainly enjoying this derail friend, especially when it pertains to such fulfilling endeavours

Really solid post Fossilkid, thx for sharing bro And yeah, languages are like riding a bike when you cease to use to them, in the sense that you hop back on the little bugger, feel a little uncoordinated, notice numerous intimidating potholes loitering the road ahead , combined with the prevalent incoming traffic, an Old Lady nonchalantly crossing the street, winds of 100km+/h, rain suddenly pouring like a mama-fracker

Actually, on a more serious note and a personally intake, since I rarely speak/read/write/communicate/dream/think in French outside of my stints in Montreal, my native tongue always feels somewhat unnatural upon return to the Homeland Of course, a certain smile does paint itself on my face upon arrival, as I do miss hearing a language that speaks directly to me - sorta speak, you know - but such instances are when you realize that dialects are definitely not intrinsic to human nature, but indeed a form of nurture and thus require a constant effort to maintain. Now that I am spending 2 months+ a year in French speaking areas, the absence of my Mother Tongue is not as noticeable, but when I was limited to a 2 week stint a year, darn, I was losing the familiarity of it

Yeah, so upon reading Oladipo's (exhaustive) post, I decided to bring along 3.2kUSD$ (in hindsight, I wish I had doubled that amount ) and darn, upon exchanging on the black market for the local (ARS$) currency, you get a minimum of 25% in added value, no joke Of course, this speaks VOLUME of the inflation troubles over here, so while one might feel pretty content in the added value of visiting/living here as a foreigner, lest not forget the struggles that this once economically rich country is going through As a recap : if you use your credit card in Argentina, you instantly lose a minimum of 25% as opposed to paying cash with USD$ from black markets. So I pretty much use cash for everything that does not need prior reservations (like AirBnB or a theatre play, for example). I was going to top up my pocket change with live poker, but given the absence of decent stakes and an uncapped rake of 5% and that, alas as I just found out , they rake an extra 31% from foreigners who happen to cash in the tournaments here The latter is a bummer as I was looking forward to playing the decent midstakes tournaments in these soft af fields

Indeed. One lonnnnnnggg session yo And thx, idem with your sweet bro


Yup, I will definitely travel at least once monthly, if not to get away from the Hustle and Bustle of BA Our first getaway will be in 3 weeks where we will go 6h down the coast in train (significantly past Mar del Plata). Are the trains comfortable in BA (any 1st class in them? )

Yup, some peeps that follow this thread, were/are unaware of my travel blog. If the latter was my initial blog, my first Dancing with the Old Lady PG & C, was a monetary challenge up in Dawson to bink 25k in 15 weeks (back when I was grinding exclusively lowstakes). It then become bigger challenges (40k and 50k and 100k) for subsequent versions of the Old Lady (got 3, I believe) and then it just spun into a poker/travel diary where I spew a ton of shyt

TBH, in hindsight my Wall of constant Texts on 2 + 2 have been a great way to give back to the community, to share in general, to forever improve my writing skills (especially in my second language, as prior to this, I had strictly written in French/studied French Lit in Uni), ground myself in the midst of my perpetual nomadic ways, communicate with peers (by meeting up or simply killing boredom/loneliness on 2 + 2), but alas, it also has kept me from working on outside projects (like my novel) where the absence of feedback makes me feel disconnected to the reader as a writer

Anyhow, am signing out for 12 days.



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Great thread as always, either here or in the travel forum. I can add to the currency situation as I've been traveling in Argentina lately and I will say my biggest regret is not doing any research ahead of time and not bringing down dollars!

I always try and pay with card here, but traveling youre always gonna need cash for certain hostels, campgrounds, buses, mom and pop stores, tips, etc. The ATM situation is abysmal, the worst I've seen was in El Bolson, paid a $10 fee to take out a maximum of $32. Other places down south in Patagonia I was paying $8 to take out $50 or $60 max. Often with long waits to boot. So bring cash!!

I'm in Uruguay now playing some poker, all in USD thank God, so I'll be super pumped to have some fresh Benjamins upon returning to BA wheee! And yeah the games in BA seem super lame, I also played one night of .75/1.50$ and that was enough for me. Maybe catch you in BA soon Dubs🤞

Sure, let's meet up, I'll be here for the feasible future Also, did you not contemplate getting someone to send you monies through Western Union? That is my plan B in a few months if my USD$ run out...

Let's say you plan a trip and bring enough USD to be able to pay cash the entire trip. How would you say the cost of living compares to Lima?

I would estimate about 25% cheaper...

Back 2 Da Real World

I shall not be the kitchen manager... I shall not be the kitchen manager" were the words that were self-engraved in my brain heading to the meditation centre, a conviction that came from the determined repetition of an inner-Mantra yo Of course, when the Teacher reached out with the alluring proposal of allegedly teaming up with a fellow Argentinan as co-managers, the terms seemed right Lessoned learned though, as I slowly but God Damn surely relegated my responsibilities to others and by Day3, I was but a part of the engine conducted by the vehicle that was the team yo

There was the sweet and lively Brazilian girl who had just taught herself Spanish in the past month... There was the steady artist, selfless and a steady leader... There was the Argentinan fellow who did over 100 journeys of Ayahuasca who, alas, could not sleep well during the 10 days... There was the cool young school teacher/saxophone jazz player... There was the older fellow who was haunted by nightmares all week long who's only escape was to scream unbeknownst to him but not to the rest of us... There was the amazingly beautiful female manager with whom I initially had a tensed (sexual...!?!) conflictual relationship, but then we started warming up/casually flirting with each other ... There was the hyper-feminine Japanese fellow (drag/Trans tendencies) who was quite erratic, eclectic and eccentric yet a kindred spirit... And then there was personal demons, of course, that would rise and be set free through meditation, albeit this remained a relatively mild course in comparison to previous experiences...

So am back in BA until Saturday where I will be grinding a rakerace starting tomorrow before embarking on a 4 day WE trip with L The plan is to rent a car and drive down the coast towards Pinamar for 500kms or so.

On the poker front, we find ourselves in the red for 9k in 2020 and looking to climb our way up into 6 digit territory. Considering that I will be increasing the volume this year, we are aiming for 125k+ (but a 80-125k year is certainly fine). I will be studying a couple hours of PLO this week before engaging seriously in the NLHE lab for 3-4h weekly for 2-3 months yo

Meanwhile in Spanish land, while I am certainly more comfortable en Espanol then I was last year in Barcelona, I still struggle in group conversations/have a tendency to drift off as opposed to listen in order to preserve mental energy Still a lot of work to be done, a whole lot...




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City of (Colourful) Lights

It has happened to all of us before... You carefully select the dates of your imminent trip, fail to notice that a cookie or a system hiccup suddenly changes the latter, and then, just when you are about to submit the info, you thankfully notice the pit that you were about to throw yourself down under into it and avoid it yo Or you don't, but soon realize afterwards and still manage to get a full discount Or, just like I did yesterday, you fall flat on both of these, L points out to you that you booked a week further down the line, only to suddenly realize that your whole destination just went down the drain (I could not rent a vehicle, as all have been rented in advance for the long WE, there are no flights and the only other option is Uber at 300-400$ for the round 800kms trip), so you rush to reach out to everyone in order to cancel everything, manage to get a full refund even if both TOC stated that you could not (minus 100$ in fees) and subsequently reorient your WE getaway towards Colonia, uruguay

Scrap that : I believe it is more in the tune of 50%+ cheaper I mean, you get 4-5kms Uber rides for 2$ (let's not even speak of the bus, metro, train that are literally pennies for 100kms+ ), I never pay more than 35$ nightly for GOAT apartments (800$ monthly, where it would be 1200$+ in Lima for equivalent value) and I rarely go beyond 30$ a day in expenses (would oftentimes surpass the 50$ threshold in Lima). All these figures are CAD$, so minus an extra 30% or so for yous American lads

So outside of this 3 day trip in Uruguay, I have booked an AirBnB in BA for the month of March. Given that no small trips will be made until henceforth, I will be focussing on studying 3-4h of NLHE weekly, getting a one month gym subscription (need to be below 195lbs by September/want to focus a little more on being (somewhat) fit, having more energy and dodging my dad's diabetes ). I no longer need to add Spanish studies to my schedule, as I get enough with my daily interactions (especially with L), movies and tv shows yo Speaking of which, while I did not notice any improvements in my Castillo during the meditation retreat, I certainly do now : I understood 90%+ of the fellow Uber driver's rant who spoke fast af with a fairly thick accent ; I still struggle mightily in groups though, as it demands too much concentration/acuteness to hop from one accent to another.

That's it for now. I have a friend couple crashing in my pad, but am still managing some decent volume yo




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Ambitions to Conquer the World, No Less

Nice to FINALLY witness an uptick after starting the week down 3k in my first hour and especially after being exposed to this 5 months long downswing I also find myself first in the RR, a position that I will not, alas, maintain as my volume for Saturday and Sunday will decrease to almost nil whilst in Uruguay Alright, no more poker content until next Wednesday when we will be engaging a new month, a new studying and gym schedule yo

Assuming that I will maintain this itinerary of Canada-Latin America for the feasible future (will need to include some trips to Punta del Este, Rio and Santiago to round up with the Montreal/Western Canada live tournaments yo), I should see my usage of English decrease significantly. I barely use it nowadays. Even with my Belgium friends that spent a couple of nights at my place, we spoke exclusively in French. I do however use English for all my info consumed online (podcasts, articles, reading and writing) which I would like to reduce somewhat. Any French speakers out there have any podcasts recommendations? Or Spanish ones?

I have been tempted to f**k around a little bit with several temptations of luscious women looming around, until I met up with L yesterday, we went to the cinema and it just felt fracking right yo So I will be a good boy, keep my shirt tucked in, my pants zipped up and my no f**king around shoes laced up henceforth to thus engage this as a LTR relationship yo Not that we have made it official by any means, but such is the way that I have decided to approach this. I have yet to meet her son neither, but will do so soon by purchasing tickets for the local Futbol team

Alright, that's it for now. Be well all and mainly good to others




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Crossing Ponds on Leaping Frogs

Even if there are armed Policia at every God damn street corner, that we find ourselves at a mere few blocks away from the historical Centre and that the black market is not being frowned upon by the powers that be, one still feels unsettled af when exchanging 1k in a dim alleyway with two gangsta looking fellows covered in prison tats climbing all the way up to their f**king necks...

The WE getaway ended up being sweet af even though we failed to rent a car or a moto (given the shortage of stock) and thus were confined to Colonia and could not thus visit the Uruguan coast Nonetheless, there is something to be said about the passivity of lying down on a (dirty and uninspiring) beach and feeling content af and not craving fracking NADA And indulging in a substantial amount of coffee, of sweets, sex and whatnot

So when you find yourselves playing different stakes in a foreign country where the currency has been the victim of inflation and you find yourself with the blinds being 1000-2000 or something titanic, for example, you seize to constantly convert the monies in your own currency and just focus on 3xing, or 4xing the blinds or whatever, right, anyways similarly when you find yourself in a country where an Uber ride will cost a mere 2-3$ for a 5kms journey but still 10-20x the price of the subway, perhaps you might spend an unhealthy amount of time on debating the merits of taking the latter over the former

Anyhow, we are back in Buenos Aires where we will be focusing on the grind (30h weeks with 3-4h of studying), losing weight (nothing ambitious, but 3h a week of exercising should do the trick) before potentially going to Paraguay for a small 3 day trip in April with L




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Ground Level

A few things have become crystal clear after spending the WE with L : that primo, we are seemingly headed towards a LTR (with me planning to be in BA for the feasible future) and segundo, darn does it feel great to get complimented in areas where X was just recently criticizing me on (think choice of (expensive, nonetheless) perfumes, clothes etc.) Having been through a tough breakup with the criminally toxic person that is X also highlights how much of a f**king great person L is Simply good. Grateful. Having also gone through a ton in her life, most notably a challenging marriage.

Ehhh, I am still having a hard time to climb myself out of this poker hole that variance has dug for me going back to 5 months In fact, at one point during the lowest point of my downswong dating back to Australia, I found myself on a -40k stretch AKA my steepest poker rut ever in terms of absolute numbers We are still at -4 or 5k for the year, but the light is finally shining upon us at ground level where we will soon elevate ourselves to yo The thing is, we sure as hell do not know what the future has in store for us in the poker world with the virtual landscape bound to change in 2021 (my site will have some new diminished RB next year ), so this is it folks, this is the year to not only get that elusive live BIG score, but also the one to maintain that 6 digits online

I have not spoken of Bball in a while, but with the Raps and Celtics slowly securing the #2 and 3 spots in the East, it is looking like Toronto will FINALLY get that desired match up vs fracking Boston in the second round Darn though, if the Raps would of fracking spanked the living shyt out of the Celts in the previous years (even if the public AKA American media perception would of stated otherwise ), it is looking like the Raps would approach this series as dogs But. Who. F**king. Cares. Yo The Raps will still make that arse of a Boston homer commentator swallow his fracking words until he, yup, f**king chokes on them, as well as make Bill Simons cry in outrage

I have added a (very soft) 50$R MTT to my afternoon schedule which forces me to extend my afternoon session - not sure if that is a good thing or not... - and keeps my tournament instincts in tune for the upcomingbinkage at the end of the year yo




+300$ in 3h


Run good all