H8 makes me so warm inside

Why do you have all your money in stars and none in your bank?

Guy doesn't have balls to call me with Kx and probably isn't smart enough to range cbet or to construct a balanced x range in there with enough Ax. Most of his x back range will be Kx and pps, some small amount of Ax, possibly none too.

If he is checking back a reasonable amount of Ax and isn't defending some Kx otr I'm printing already. If he isn't, then I will win the pot with any garbage lol. Also ott my betting range will always be overbetting.

Poker sometimes can be like that egypt god anubis(not sure if it's the correct one): gotta weight your heart against a feather after you die, if it's heavier, you will go to hell. There are some benefits of using his x back range strat otf, but it will work only vs unaware opponents that won't x/r enough, will stab small more than they should and won't use big sizings to put pressure on that range.

I learned that x range strat with gazzyb, which works very well vs fish, but I learned how to exploit it too. Lots of regs still play like that vs regs today which is insane.

Yeah,was so surprised lol. Guy is insane, that's the kind of spot where you get paid off more often with a bigger sizing than a small one haha!

Because I don't need much money IRL, I don't spend much and my parents give me enough to go out. Also moving up is more important for me atm, gotta go back to the 200z streets so I can have a higher hourly.

Your parents give you weekly spending money at 28? I've never come across a 28 year old who still gets regular money given to them by their parents. Maybe things work differently in Brazil though.

His parents are empathetic and understanding. If they don't give Rapidy an allowance, how will he sustain his Magic - The Gathering 300$/card hobby?

I can never tell if you're trolling OP, the rest of us or both. Sick balance.

The Finnish never were very good at humor...

I've just recently graduated and the only job I had in my life was my internship which was only 3 months long. It's ugly to be in the state I am today, but my classmates aren't building wealth neither, at least half of them probably save 0 from their sallary each month while working like crazy and even on weekends. So even though it looks ugly I'm not losing much by doing that, in fact, when I pass in the government job everything will be good and I will be set up for life with a very well paid job.

As I said, it's stupid to be an engineer in brazil -.-

But it's not uncommon for people to live with their parents here for a long time, rent is very expensive and this country has very few good opportunities for work even for an engineer like me who graduated in one of the best universities here.

Working as an engineer is just not worth it, I would earn $1k/month for like 3-5 years while spending $800-$1k/month to live until I got promoted and started making $1.5k- $2k/month. Imo even playing 50z while living with my parents is better than that.

Also I lived out of my parents house for 8 years, got into some very bad habits, gained 40 kg and became depressive. With 1.5 years living with them I recovered from my depression, lost 15 kg, I'm hitting the gym a lot, eating healthy and have more perspective of getting a well paid job. It's way better than it looks.

Obv gotta listen to lots of bull**** from them, but it's probably better than listening from your boss and having to pay rent. Even if I passed in the job I would consider living with them for 1 year to save to buy an apartment (with a $70k/year sallary).

Yeah, like your government that pays you to buy drugs while you're in the rehab lol

Yes, the same government who forced me to stay in a mental hospital for 16 months straight, without any symptom of whatever illness/trouble.

Why did they keep me there for so long? Because my psychiatrist insisted that I got a job at the McDonalds/dollar store/etc. for 10$/hour - when I was doing over 30$ USD/hr with micro stakes poker.

But hey, I need to "socialize" and a "job" will turn me from gamer to "respectable man in a suit".

But yeah paper cards for MTG is a better venue to spend your money on. You have 3,200$ to your name and travel/buy 300$ cards. i have 60,000$, and I buy weed (3$/joint) and speed (2.50$/pill), and nothing else.

LOL leaving out lots of important details there, but you sound like you might have spent 16 months in rehab because you were strung out on methamphetamines

vamoooooooooo

Given that you're currently making $500~/year I find it tough to agree.

Enablers ITT

Exactly. It must be because he's living rent free with his parents at age 28 and they're giving him weekly handouts. Because he's making virtually nothing at poker, judging by the graphs he's posted.

Of course he doesn't factor in opportunity cost and career progression.

Last year I probably made around $400/month while playing part time, if I make $800/month by playing full time and live with $100/month it would be way better already. I just compared with the worst case scenario, man.

Lol, you should be super embarrassed about yourself Rapi. Taking handouts/spending money given to you from your parents at your age specifically. That's absurd. Last time I took a single $ from my parents I was 18. After Black Friday when I was completely busto and trying to figure out wtf to do (just had turned 20 1 month before), I was super glad they let me move back in while trying to figure out my life. They let me stay for free but I would never have dreamed about asking them for any money/food/etc.

I'm younger than you are and anytime my parents come to visit me, I pay for everything. That feels like the absolute least I could do to give them something back for spending so much time/money/etc on me when I was younger.

Are your parents wealthy? I ask that because here in Mexico it's a pretty similar situation as to your country. Almost any local around my age here that I knowhas a family that could not afford to give their adult children a spare extra $ because they themselves are struggling to get by.

Lol, you know that your hospital is probably an A+ place for you to stay(and for society too), right? Obv poker is better for you than mc donalds, but contact with people would help you a lot.

And I don't have a $300 magic card, probably the most expensive I have is $100- $150. And I rarely buy them anymore, gotta wait for the next heater to buy more lol. You pop those pills and they're gone, they only make you more addicted/destroy your body, the cards stay forever and often rise in price.

Ok and........? You play high stake tournaments and have >1 million $ profit. Rapidesh studies law for many hours a day, has ambitions regarding poker and is a very nice guy in general.

Not everyone can afford to buy the fat-ass mexican women's (eww) girlfriendship.

Rapidesh and me talk every day, and I have never met someone as positive and mood-lifting as him.

You're all angry losers in the thread, the guy always has a smile on his face, even if he had bad results at poker lifetime. He wins, you all lose. Life's about being happy, not doing the party in Mexico with girl(s) who would **** off elsewhere if you didn't have 10,000$ to spend on her every month.

You spend $150 on some bits of paper with a picture on? Why?

I just did a quick search and people are bulk selling magic the gathering cards for a few dollars on ebay. Are these the cards you're referring to?

You are way more talented than I am at poker and I spent 8 years studying something that is worthless when it comes to building wealth (university lol). Actually I learned how bad it was to work in the private sector during uni, it would have been much better to study law for 4 years and I would have already passed the government job I wanted by now. I had that choice of going to a private uni to study law (private unis here <<<< public uni here, but you gotta destroy in the tests to get in), obv took the wrong choice and went to the second best uni of brazil in my area thinking I would be an CEO/director/sicko of finance lol.

My parents aren't rich, but they are like high-middle class, my mother is retired and makes $2k/month from that, my father makes probably around $8-$10k/month

Culture here is way different than in usa, people see it as very bad to see people living with their parents, here it's necessary imo, even on usa it's +EV to live with them.

I think it's a culture that is created to enslave people and force them to work more: if you have to pay rent every month you will have lots of pressure to work and will often undervalue your workforce just because you need the money. By having more people on average in the same place you dilute the fixed costs and enable people to save more/work less. Obv the government companies won't like that. Just as an example: one of my best friends during uni works for $1.5k/month, his work is worth $10k/month (he works in a consulting company that sells his work for that price)

I'm not saying it's alright to do that at 28, it's a shame that I have to live like this, but I've already thought about my other options and they're terrible in the long run. So I'm fine with sacrificing my dignity/pride atm so I can have a better future.

Lol Finland, that escalated quickly. I brought up when I was young and busto I still didn't and wouldn't take handouts from my parents. Them letting me stay with them for a few months for free was embarrassing to me. I worked at a chewing gum factory for a few shifts to save up some scraps to start playing poker again as I had ~$0 after Black Friday happened and was 20 years old. I started the merge SNG grind from the US in Summer-Fall of 2011 at the $2 level and grinded my way back up.

I brought up absolutely nothing about my current situation other than the fact that I pay for everything when my parents visit me in Mexico as I feel like I should

Edit: And Rapi that's a fine answer and I certainly don't think there's anything wrong with living at home as it makes sense in a TON of scenarios and is definitely very +ev for many people in many situations in this current world we live in (in US, Mexico, Brazil, wherever). I was more taken aback by the taking handouts/free money from your parents

Most of my $100+ cards I bought for less than $10, those cards you saw are probably garbage with low playability and aren't collectible. It's my hobby, man, it's fun and on average they go up in price, specially since I try to buy them when they are undervalued and I bargain a lot lol.

How the fk is it embarrassing to accept money from parents during financial hardship?

People who recently graduate from uni tend to move back into parents house because they probably won't be able to afford their own place, it's not a big deal....


This just seems like a massive self ego boost...

I guess I wasn't clear enough. My only real issue is the taking handouts/money from his parents. I agree that living at home can make a lot of financial sense and is a lot of time the most +ev decision.

Also Rapi could have potentially chosen a smarter career path, could have put more effort into study to pass the test, etc etc...there are probably 'more' things he could have done and if I was living at home at his age, I'd be doing everything in my power to be working on getting my way out of there.

Is rapi buying Magic cards with his parents money? Does he buy alcohol etc with his parents money? I don't know, but if he is, that's super loltastic imo.

And also okay yea, so you're basically from a rich family. Here in Mexico the average wage is about $100 USD/week. Obv don't know exactly what it is in Brazil. But your father makes more than my father does up ther in ole Murica

I feel bad for that, but the money they give me is pocket change for them, they are very simple people and spend way less than they earn, even with how much they make they go to very busto travels from time to time, like very very poor places/middle of the jungle lol. They could afford travels to europe but prefer doing that.

Also they hate poker, so if I start cashing out to pay for my expenses they will get mad and probably will make it harder for me to put my sessions at poker. So it's better to just keep the money in my roll.