hello, i looked at your youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AdvantagePlayer/videos and i could only find poker videos on there, i would be more interested in your blackjack content, do you have a different channel that you post BJ on?

second question - do you still own the Bay Area real estate that you bought last summer (post #186)? do you ever worry that the Bay Area market is currently going into the shitter or do you think that it will make a recovery?

Hello

Regarding the blackjack stuff, originally I had posted it all on the same youtube (AdvantagePlayer = AP = "advantaged gambling"). The short story is, Graton Casino, In Rohnert Park, in the bay area, banned me, through finding my youtube blackjack content. At least that's what they claimed. I had two thoughts regarding this. Either it's true and my blackjack stuff actually costed me like 5 figures in EV [OR] someone who hates me, reported me to the casino with evidence of what I was doing. Which given the circumstances of my keyboard nature is highly possible. All in all, I no longer post that stuff out in public anymore.

As for bay area market, I'm not sweating it too much. IIRC based on recent convo, the interest rate has gotten even higher, so my fixed rate doesnt seem so bad (for now). If it goes through the roof, I guess my partner and I will just have to relocate. Ultimately we chose the bay area for convenience/work/friends, not truly as an investment strategy. With that said, my own personal opinion, outside of work (or you didnt grow up here) I wouldn't want to live in SF/Oakland.

We are actually looking at a second property as a long term rental. And it's certainly not here in the bay.

I found out recently my friend's gf got shot as a BYSTANDER visiting. She was driving through the city and a BULLET went into her. Luckily she survived. It's rough out here in the bay.

Does your girl work in tech and/or required to be in an office in San Fran?

I wonder how many software engineers who studied for years and worked blood, sweat, tears for big tech WHILE living in San Fran end up coming out of the Bay Area with almost no savings/assets (besides the very good job experience) ...

I enjoyed your youtube content ... would follow closely any content / blog you do related to poker, crypto mining, niche investment avenues.

Yep she does. That's why I play poker when we carpool together. Gets my lazy-bones-ass out there. And if you follow the IG we're currently on a 13 winning streak session, averaging if I had to guess $80/hr, probably more. Heaterbox. Record is 25 sessions in a row so definitely excited there's a chance we can surpass that number again (3+ years ago)

As for tech, just depends. I know a friend/acquaintance who bought a 3.5 mil home on his own (no partner) just engineer for google. Then on the other hand, I know two people who works for paypal (product managers), and they both cannot buy a home on their own and are currently renting.

The youtube train has long departed so I won't be returning to that. Unless I'm a fool to think so. Considering other platforms atm.

Any updates?

Hello 2024!

It's almost been a year since my last post, hope all is well with you guys, life's chill for me

Found some recent motivation to restart poker content. Mainly doing nothing hasn't been too kind to my mind, boredom and all.

So hoping this will kinda fill that energy-void.

Planning on editing, voicing, graphics similar to this going forward. Will reposition chips further ahead, camera more back. Not sure if S8 (in the vid) or in s7 (facing diagonally people) or s5 (middle for direct flop) is better. Want to make this video quality great.