As mentioned before we (Gordon and us 4 students of his) decided to meet in person since we are working together one way or another for over a year now. Originally we wanted to meet in Croatia, but someone is afraid of flying
After much discussion we ended up in Prague since we are from Slovenia, Croatia, Poland and Germany and it was kinda convenient. Gordon is from everywhere so he doesn't count :P
Purpose of meeting was ofcourse getting to know each other, having some life sessions, doing fun activities and talking about improving BPC. Basically having some fun with productivity along as poker player is used to doing things.
Finally hotel
Corinthia was booked and we were stationed in VIP rooms with all the benefits, which is something I experienced for the first time. Most of the stuff, like swimming pool, sauna, gym I even didn't use, but it was nice knowing I could.
Prior the trip I looked for fun activites that we could do there and we decided to try Paintballing and Go-karting. It's funny how things are cheaper if you do the research and look for things by yourself rather than giving organization to someone else.
Anyway, having all that set, Hans and me choose to drive there. I met him one day earlier cos he had to arrive from Croatia to crash at my place in Slovenia before we headed to Prague the next day. We woke up at 7am, drank some coffee, I said goodbye to my family and off we went.
It took us ~7h to get there with minor set backs on the road, but we switched seats so it was not such a hassle as I thought, cos I don't like driving at all. I don't really know any other poker player in person so you can imagine that we had always something to talk about and time just flew by.
We arrived at hotel at ~3pm and again by not being lazy we found a parking place ~100m away from hotel, which was 4 times cheaper than parking in hotels garage, on top of that it was infront of police headquarters, so I felt pretty safe leaving it there.
Later we met with others and after accommodation and introduction we went out to grab a bite where we also met with a friend of Gordon who joined us in rest of activities afterwards. After setting up schedule for future days we went to beds since we were all pretty much beat up. Except for Hans who was already lurking for a game in hotels casino, but couldn't manage to find one running.
Both next days started same: with a breakfast at 9am, meeting later on with a live session or business discussion about improving BPC and I must say listening to Gordon talking was like being in a movie Wolf of Wall Street, (without all the banging hookers ofc :P ) - man knows how and what to speak.
Afterwards we went to:
First day: Paint-balling
Location: somewhere underground looks like big ninja turtle sewers/basement.
We booked 2h of action in 2 different terrain scenarios (one of them was used for filming movie Wanted with Angelina Jolie - allegedly) having unlimited bullets. Too bad they weren't filled with actual paint but made from rubber so you have to be fair, and shout out when u were shoot. Well if u didn't then u had to suffer by being shoot multiple times... But i guess it makes sense otherwise room would look like walking on a rainbow with all that shooting. Gotta admit that ilidek was best at it, I guess all that tilt has to come out somewhere
Second day: Go-karting
Location: **** if i know, somewhere in Prague
Even tho I don't like driving this was awesome! I mean the overtaking, trying to be faster than others - super fun for me. We booked 3x 10 min and after second ride others (read pussies) needed a break cos their hands hurts too much. Last round was a disaster... me and Hans both broke our karts and Ilidek was crashed and later run over by others resulting minor leg injure. Oh and God don't make me forget to mention someones blister on the palm of the hand
Afterwards we returned to hotel put our heads together and do some business related stuff again prior to going out for a dinner. Last day we watched Germany vs Ghana in a pub, where you could see Daniel in total different state than normal, cheering and screaming even when nothing major happened.
We finished the day with bowling and it was already 2am when we came back to hotel for a short sleep cos we headed back home at 7am.
All in all super experience, would do it again in a heart beat and I'm glad that i met those awesome people in person. Prague itself I didn't like so much. Concrete everywhere you look, all houses look the same to me. Funny we were walking down the street with 3 cops infront of us, but that didn't stop locals approaching us offering striptease coupons and asking if we need weed. I guess i prefer more small villages with lots of nature around than big cities.
Pokerwise: bruhhhh
What looked like that it could be best month turned to be the worst. I just can't book a winning session for last couple of days. Again feeling of getting owned for longer time which lead to some chicken play mistakes. With RB is a little bit more than 2k€ but i'm not happy at all.
I'm off to family vacation for next 10 days and I'll be returning recharged and ready to study, work and crush it.
GL all!