Moved to Thailand to move out of the micros!
09-23-2014
, 12:39 AM
Hey there!
This is the second time I've started a micro grind thread. The first one was called the micro brick road to $10,000 which ended up in me getting a job, started to play live, crushed for a few months then went busto... Again!
This time I'm back, fresh and most importantly left that god awful NL game behind to embrace the messiah of poker: P L O
Oh man how I love this game. People say it's tilting, has huge swings, variance can crush your soul etc... But playing NL holdem day in day out for me is the most soul destroying thing ever... That game is ****ing dead to me and it now makes me puke to even think about sitting down for a NL sesh... It hurts my head to even think about it.
So let me give you an insight on my thought process = I'm about 3 months into my PLO grind and grinded (ground?) up a roll of about $1200 playing PLO 2, 5 and 10. Now at this point I was like hey I'm back in love with poker, I can see myself doing this for the next 2 to 3 years at least, the games seem relatively soft and my graph over 100k hands is looking pretty nice... PLO (Unlike that boring piece of **** NL) is unsolved and I want to bring my game to the best it can be...
(I say NL is solved but anyone that plays live knows that the fish are still very much at sea)
Anyway my dilemma is I'm thinking I need a grind pad if I want to take this seriously... I can't keep crashing at peoples houses, moving back to my dads place when my bankroll starts dropping etc... Where can I rent somewhere for the smallest amount of my bankroll possible (without moving to africa and getting malaria) Answer = Thailand baby!
So you're all gonna think I'm a lucky bitch when I tell you this but because of a certain connection I have I basically can fly anywhere I want throughout the world and only have to pay the tax on the flight... meaning a flight that costs most people $1000 costs me about $37.50. This runs out when I turn 24 so I've been meaning to take advantage of it forever! Maybe could have been possible if I wasn't a busto degen half the time...
So basically I have an escape route with the (almost) free flying which helps when you decide to put all your belongings in a rucksack and move to Thailand and most importantly I have the determination to grind my ass off until I'm comfortably rolled for PLO100+
Maybe I'm just a kid with a dream but it's time to grind baby, I'm also a serious ****ing degen and my best friend is coming to meet me in Bangok in 2 days time so if you want some funny stories I'm sure we can help you out
Now about graphs, I still haven't bought Poker tracker 4 (omaha version) can't believe after buying the holdem version I have to ship another $100 for omaha...
but I will buy it when I hit $2100 so no graphs for the time being unfortunately...
I'm playing on my 13" macbook pro so can only 9 table for now because I play tiled and even that is a ****ing squeeze on this tiny ass screen :O Will definitely be upgrading my setup when I move into a long term apartment in 'Chiang Mai'. Right now I'm in a cheap hotel in Bangkok (so cheap that a cockroach crawled out of my bathroom yesterday...) waiting for my friend to get here, then we're going up to Chiang Mai together.
So unfortunately no graphs or hand histories for a while, but will be updating bankroll regularly. I arrived here 2 days ago and up +50$ so far... Would be more but I decided in advance that every sunday (and only sunday) I'll play a bunch of the high guarantee MTT's (as long as I'm free rolling for the day) even though I hate tournaments with a passion....
So in cash plo I'm up about $100 so far playing PLO10 Let the games begin!
*btw a quick question for anyone else living in thailand, is it just me or does Bangkok stink??? Holy **** I gag every time I go outside :O Does Chiang Mai smell better??
This is the second time I've started a micro grind thread. The first one was called the micro brick road to $10,000 which ended up in me getting a job, started to play live, crushed for a few months then went busto... Again!
This time I'm back, fresh and most importantly left that god awful NL game behind to embrace the messiah of poker: P L O
Oh man how I love this game. People say it's tilting, has huge swings, variance can crush your soul etc... But playing NL holdem day in day out for me is the most soul destroying thing ever... That game is ****ing dead to me and it now makes me puke to even think about sitting down for a NL sesh... It hurts my head to even think about it.
So let me give you an insight on my thought process = I'm about 3 months into my PLO grind and grinded (ground?) up a roll of about $1200 playing PLO 2, 5 and 10. Now at this point I was like hey I'm back in love with poker, I can see myself doing this for the next 2 to 3 years at least, the games seem relatively soft and my graph over 100k hands is looking pretty nice... PLO (Unlike that boring piece of **** NL) is unsolved and I want to bring my game to the best it can be...
(I say NL is solved but anyone that plays live knows that the fish are still very much at sea
)Anyway my dilemma is I'm thinking I need a grind pad if I want to take this seriously... I can't keep crashing at peoples houses, moving back to my dads place when my bankroll starts dropping etc... Where can I rent somewhere for the smallest amount of my bankroll possible (without moving to africa and getting malaria) Answer = Thailand baby!
So you're all gonna think I'm a lucky bitch when I tell you this but because of a certain connection I have I basically can fly anywhere I want throughout the world and only have to pay the tax on the flight... meaning a flight that costs most people $1000 costs me about $37.50. This runs out when I turn 24 so I've been meaning to take advantage of it forever! Maybe could have been possible if I wasn't a busto degen half the time...
So basically I have an escape route with the (almost) free flying which helps when you decide to put all your belongings in a rucksack and move to Thailand
and most importantly I have the determination to grind my ass off until I'm comfortably rolled for PLO100+Maybe I'm just a kid with a dream but it's time to grind baby, I'm also a serious ****ing degen and my best friend is coming to meet me in Bangok in 2 days time so if you want some funny stories I'm sure we can help you out
Now about graphs, I still haven't bought Poker tracker 4 (omaha version) can't believe after buying the holdem version I have to ship another $100 for omaha...
but I will buy it when I hit $2100 so no graphs for the time being unfortunately...I'm playing on my 13" macbook pro so can only 9 table for now because I play tiled and even that is a ****ing squeeze on this tiny ass screen :O Will definitely be upgrading my setup when I move into a long term apartment in 'Chiang Mai'. Right now I'm in a cheap hotel in Bangkok (so cheap that a cockroach crawled out of my bathroom yesterday...) waiting for my friend to get here, then we're going up to Chiang Mai together.
So unfortunately no graphs or hand histories for a while, but will be updating bankroll regularly. I arrived here 2 days ago and up +50$ so far... Would be more but I decided in advance that every sunday (and only sunday) I'll play a bunch of the high guarantee MTT's (as long as I'm free rolling for the day) even though I hate tournaments with a passion....
So in cash plo I'm up about $100 so far playing PLO10 Let the games begin!
*btw a quick question for anyone else living in thailand, is it just me or does Bangkok stink??? Holy **** I gag every time I go outside :O Does Chiang Mai smell better??
09-23-2014
, 10:17 PM
Update
Had the craziest day/night ever yesterday just after I finished starting the thread. Left my hotel room with the intention of going to see the Grand palace cause that's one of the things everybody does in Bangkok. I get into the lobby and my german friend i met on my first night is there checking out.
I asked him what he's doing for the rest of the day and he says visiting the Grand Palace so I'm like sweet me too lets go get some breakfast then go there together. So we're heading to get some food and this Thai guy comes out of the supermarket and is astonished at how big my friend is. So we're standing there chatting for like 10 mins and find out he's a history teacher from Chiang Mai and he's here getting uniforms for his students.
So he asks us where we're going for the rest of the day and we said visiting temples and getting some food and he offers to show us around one of the temples and the 'real' Bangkok. So we're like sure and head off down the road with this guy. He takes us to this ****ing extraordinary temple and tells us how he used to be a monk for 2 years but stopped because he loves food, booze and women haha
Anyway it turns out it's 'buddha day' which only happens once a year and he's telling us how lucky we all are and that we must be lucky people. (For thais it seems that everything is lucky haha but this time we genuinely were lucky) So after watching the monks chant for a bit which really is an amazing experience we decide to get some food.
He takes us to the 'real' Bangkok and shows us all these tiny streets with people selling food and we sit down at this little local place.
We all start drinking some beers but the german guy confesses he doesnt like beer :O I mean what kind of a german doesnt like beer? But anyway we're asking him what he drinks and he says vodka, so he orders a bottle of vodka and we start doing shots with our thai friend and man thai vodka tastes amazing you can drink it like water! So we're just chilling there and the woman who works there starts calling me very handsome in thai and we're all laughing and offer her a vodka shot, suddenly all the locals in the place are cheering for her to take this shot so she downs it and the place went ****ing wild haha!
Then she's like come for a ride on my scooter and I'm like sure and she goes flying down this tiny street doing about 60mph we were definitely dead if we crashed and I kissed the earth when she finally took me back.
Ended up taking the thai guy out clubbing for a little bit before I blacked out and don't remember **** after that
Best day/night so far in Bangkok, plenty more to come I hope!
Had the craziest day/night ever yesterday just after I finished starting the thread. Left my hotel room with the intention of going to see the Grand palace cause that's one of the things everybody does in Bangkok. I get into the lobby and my german friend i met on my first night is there checking out.
I asked him what he's doing for the rest of the day and he says visiting the Grand Palace so I'm like sweet me too lets go get some breakfast then go there together. So we're heading to get some food and this Thai guy comes out of the supermarket and is astonished at how big my friend is. So we're standing there chatting for like 10 mins and find out he's a history teacher from Chiang Mai and he's here getting uniforms for his students.
So he asks us where we're going for the rest of the day and we said visiting temples and getting some food and he offers to show us around one of the temples and the 'real' Bangkok. So we're like sure and head off down the road with this guy. He takes us to this ****ing extraordinary temple and tells us how he used to be a monk for 2 years but stopped because he loves food, booze and women haha
Anyway it turns out it's 'buddha day' which only happens once a year and he's telling us how lucky we all are and that we must be lucky people. (For thais it seems that everything is lucky haha but this time we genuinely were lucky) So after watching the monks chant for a bit which really is an amazing experience we decide to get some food.
He takes us to the 'real' Bangkok and shows us all these tiny streets with people selling food and we sit down at this little local place.
We all start drinking some beers but the german guy confesses he doesnt like beer :O I mean what kind of a german doesnt like beer? But anyway we're asking him what he drinks and he says vodka, so he orders a bottle of vodka and we start doing shots with our thai friend and man thai vodka tastes amazing you can drink it like water! So we're just chilling there and the woman who works there starts calling me very handsome in thai and we're all laughing and offer her a vodka shot, suddenly all the locals in the place are cheering for her to take this shot so she downs it and the place went ****ing wild haha!
Then she's like come for a ride on my scooter and I'm like sure and she goes flying down this tiny street doing about 60mph we were definitely dead if we crashed and I kissed the earth when she finally took me back.
Ended up taking the thai guy out clubbing for a little bit before I blacked out and don't remember **** after that
Best day/night so far in Bangkok, plenty more to come I hope!