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01-11-2019 , 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by mecantplay
Really nice game Meale you posted here, congrats.

Hi lads. Today is 11th and as per Gazzy post, I have to write something.
It will be not positive, because of course I run mega bad in poker and life.

I leave with my parents and they do not support me so it is very hard to grind. I move out 4 times and come back after 3/4 months, because I did not have enough gold. I work a lot of low class jobs and obviously I left them after some days or months because of bad pay, working over hours without pay and working with 50% bad,stupid and ugly people. Btw I studied nuclear energy in university. From around 10 years I have pain in the left knee after 2 surgeries and do not have the money to fix it. Also I have dead bone in the right wrist for around 1 year and it hearts a lot while moving the mouse so I have to play with bandage. Also I can not play with headphones because for some years I played with them on max sound and now it hearts, have to go to bad at 00 AM and my laptop and monitor are located in the kitchen so you can image how hard is to concentrate.

From early December have eye infection and after changing the eye drops I took, just recent days I am starting to feel good. Did not play poker a lot, have some semi-deep runs in micro/low Winter Series.
I am becoming old /in December I made 30y/ and as much as I want to be a MTT grinder, its becoming harder and harder to concentrate for a log time. Mainly I grind $1.5 45 bots turbos on PS and other kind of stts. I want to move to $5 90,3R, $7 and then MTTs. Trying to do that for years but did not managed it, feelsbadman. I need to earn as much money as possible in the near months so I can go to Sunny Beach in the Summer to party and play poker. GL me

Since I do not go outside a lot /all my friends are working and have gfs/ I watch a lot of US TV shows, so here is some of the best that I liked a lot - Impasor, Lie to me, Californication and Spartacus /there are a lot more but its hard to remember the not so popular ones/.
At least you don't live in a van.
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01-12-2019 , 04:35 PM
Woah mecantplay really tough stuff man hope you can grind out of it.

Boys just wanna say thanks to those that have contributed so far and stuck to their days. Special mention to Meale and Isunkurbttlship, absolutely class stuff. Please keep em coming!

Also this thread has 999,036 views just now. I love you all
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01-12-2019 , 04:43 PM
Hi,

I'm Smit, and I'm rotten.
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01-12-2019 , 05:17 PM
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Lol, the konami game code, wp

Vamo!
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01-12-2019 , 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by GazzyB123
Woah mecantplay really tough stuff man hope you can grind out of it.



Boys just wanna say thanks to those that have contributed so far and stuck to their days. Special mention to Meale and Isunkurbttlship, absolutely class stuff. Please keep em coming!



Also this thread has 999,036 views just now. I love you all Grinding Past the Fries
<3 gogogo 1M!
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01-13-2019 , 03:03 PM
1.Ladyboy
2.Ladyboy
3.Ladyboy
4.Ladyboy
5.tough, but going for Ladyboy
6. Ladyboy
7.Ladyboy
8.quite tough! good find I'd say girl but yeah, really unsure
9.Lady!!!!!!! <33333333 omggg
10.Ladyboy

11,12,13 - no comments
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01-13-2019 , 06:21 PM
Was going to do some sort of post about me going pro as I quit my job a couple of months back to grind full time but had a pretty horrible week so really not in the mood. What I will say though is I ****ing miss the GazzyB streams/live TR's, you can literally always count on there being a funny story in there somewhere. So whatever **** you've had going on recently Gaz, I hope it gets sorted soon so you can come back and threaten to get your dick out on stream again (ladyboy dependent).
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01-14-2019 , 01:44 AM
Hi everyone! My day to pick up the thread, as Diane said above looking forrward to having Gaz back but until then enjoying hearing from other people as well. Played on the same table as Gaz a long while ago in an event at the Hippo but he had/had no idea who I am. I have had the pleasure of meeting a few people from these forums and would always love to meet more if anyone is in London. The London thread has been a little quiet recently but I'm hoping we're just all in hibernation for winter.

I've been playing poker since a sports accident put me in bed for 6 months in 2008. I'm definitely a recreational player and I don't ever see myself ever being anything other than that, I just love playing and trying to get better. I play mainly live in London, stakes varying depending on how much I've had to drink. Not the best idea for results but as I said, I'm a rec and just enjoy the game.

I'm at a bit of a crossroads in my life at the moment. I worked in the City until September last year when I left my job. Since then I've got married, travelled a bit, renovated a couple of houses and just enjoyed being with my new wife. Now it's the new year I need to figure out what my next step is. I could potentially go full time into property, I am considering going back to full time employment (had an interview in Dubai last week and am meeting people in London this week) or maybe an MBA. I definitely feel obligated to follow a certain path but I'd love to get involved with something I can truly be passionate about. Finally, this is likely going to be my last year without kids so we also want to make the most of this 12 months to enjoy ourselves before settling down more.

Feel free to AMA, also have a thread in PGC. Never too sure what I'm doing day to day but have my phone on me and will update should anything interesting happen.
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01-15-2019 , 03:23 AM
Sup guys, it's my day so guess I'll start it out with a brief first post since it's still early.

My name is Tom, I'm 22 live in London and play poker professionally. In the summer I'll be moving the states for at least two years to continue to play for a living. If you have any questions I'm more than happy to do an AMA in here. Later on today I'll likely write out some longer kind of post in regards to some stuff that's been on my mind.
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01-15-2019 , 04:45 AM
Thanks for the well wishes.

Today UK Parliament is voting about the PM's deal and am wondering since you are in London Gazzy, how are the general feeling of population and what do you think all about Brexit? Thanks for answering
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01-15-2019 , 05:08 AM
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Originally Posted by mecantplay
Thanks for the well wishes.

Today UK Parliament is voting about the PM's deal and am wondering since you are in London Gazzy, how are the general feeling of population and what do you think all about Brexit? Thanks for answering
Not Gazzy but also based in London. I get the feeling that there is a lot of frustration with how this is playing out. We're in a bad situation where the vote is almost certainly going to be rejecting the deal and TM is being expected to go to Europe, negotiate a better deal and be back within 3 days which just isn't realistic.

A no deal Brexit was always going to be a strong possibility following the referendum. Europe is strongly disincentivized against offering us a good deal otherwise other states will look to leave if they feel they're having a bad time of it.

From a professional point of view in banking - a lot of bank are getting their duck in a line with regards to their European operations. The US banks with large presences here are asking a lot of people to relocate to Europe (Paris, Frankfurt, Luxembourg etc) but are not extending travel support past 6 months, some even less. That means people are having to either move their entire family to their new job location or eat the travel costs themselves.

There is further annoyance from those in politics claiming that they could have done better in the negotiations. Whoever was leading these talks was going to be suffering the same problems with the EU the current team have dealt with while having absolutely no support at home. The EU were probably laughing when we couldn't even decide on what we want or present a united front so they had us over a barrel.

tl;dr - Both the leave and remain sides lied/withheld information during the campaigns. No-one is getting what they thought they voted for. Lots of frustration.
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01-15-2019 , 06:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Labax
Sup guys, it's my day so guess I'll start it out with a brief first post since it's still early.

My name is Tom, I'm 22 live in London and play poker professionally. In the summer I'll be moving the states for at least two years to continue to play for a living. If you have any questions I'm more than happy to do an AMA in here. Later on today I'll likely write out some longer kind of post in regards to some stuff that's been on my mind.
How are you going about getting a visa or whatever for that? GL
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01-15-2019 , 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by deathorglory0
How are you going about getting a visa or whatever for that? GL


Yeah got a green card through parents is the tldr, and thanks.
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01-15-2019 , 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Labax
Yeah got a green card through parents is the tldr, and thanks.
Mbfn running good at life there!

Also, I had no idea you were so young, damn
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01-15-2019 , 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by z0mgtiltz
Mbfn running good at life there!



Also, I had no idea you were so young, damn


Yeah I’m most definitely blessed

And yeah I guess I’m pretty young relative to most. Someone at the table asked me how old I was a couple days ago, I answered and she replied “that’s almost unfairly young” in reference to what I’m doing at my age.

I personally don’t really hold people in a higher light if they’re successful or at a certain point at a younger age. We all have a story and life has its twists and turns. I’m only here because the chips (of life) fell a certain way, who knows where I’d be in another universe.
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01-15-2019 , 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Parsons Grinder
Not Gazzy but also based in London. I get the feeling that there is a lot of frustration with how this is playing out. We're in a bad situation where the vote is almost certainly going to be rejecting the deal and TM is being expected to go to Europe, negotiate a better deal and be back within 3 days which just isn't realistic.

A no deal Brexit was always going to be a strong possibility following the referendum. Europe is strongly disincentivized against offering us a good deal otherwise other states will look to leave if they feel they're having a bad time of it.

From a professional point of view in banking - a lot of bank are getting their duck in a line with regards to their European operations. The US banks with large presences here are asking a lot of people to relocate to Europe (Paris, Frankfurt, Luxembourg etc) but are not extending travel support past 6 months, some even less. That means people are having to either move their entire family to their new job location or eat the travel costs themselves.

There is further annoyance from those in politics claiming that they could have done better in the negotiations. Whoever was leading these talks was going to be suffering the same problems with the EU the current team have dealt with while having absolutely no support at home. The EU were probably laughing when we couldn't even decide on what we want or present a united front so they had us over a barrel.

tl;dr - Both the leave and remain sides lied/withheld information during the campaigns. No-one is getting what they thought they voted for. Lots of frustration.
I'm in London too.

Let me start by stating that I am 100% anti Brexit.

I think rejection of May's deal is a good thing. By what is transpiring in the House of Commons right now it seems that no deal Brexit will never be allowed. Thus if May's deal is rejected(and it looks pretty certain that it will be) there is a very good possibility of a 2nd referendum.

I think that's the best outcome because this time people would have a much better idea what they are voting for.
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01-15-2019 , 11:08 AM
Also anti Brexit... But second referendum... Keep dreaming lol

/Politics
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01-15-2019 , 11:19 AM
Agree /Politics

2nd referendum is the furthest from zero chance it has ever been

you may say I'm a dreamer
but I'm not the only one
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01-15-2019 , 12:26 PM
Yeah anti brexit too, wonder what the odds would be on leave/remain the second time around.
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01-15-2019 , 12:28 PM
2nd referendum please

Spoiler:
On Scottish independence
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01-15-2019 , 04:22 PM
What a landslide
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01-15-2019 , 05:15 PM
I watched it live. Lol at the Speaker, just the way he talks and screams with "oooooooorder"

Last edited by mecantplay; 01-15-2019 at 05:17 PM. Reason: He is a cool politic, even makes some jokes
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01-16-2019 , 03:55 AM
Today is going to be fun as well with the no confidence motion being debated. Will have that on in the background.
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01-16-2019 , 06:48 AM
2nd referendum has a fair chance of happening I think, but also terrible for democracy in general if it does
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01-16-2019 , 12:04 PM
Well in second referendum the question can be "Do you want to enter EU" or "What kind of deal do you want to be between UK and EU". If it is not the same question, I think all is democratic. And also I read that the referendum result is not mandatory and the parliament cant void it.

Gazzy how are you? See there are Turbo Series soon, will be nice to play most of the tournies while grinding, its fast structure so it should be not too disturbing to you.
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