6b, stop cannibalizing your bankroll.

I googled that just then and it looks like the biggest waste of money... it costs $185 per person, you have a strict 2.5 hour dining session, they seat you on a tall and uncomfortable chair next to the counter and they give you these really strange looking foods in tiny proportions, none of which look even remotely mouth-watering.

I'd take a $10 plate of wholesome food from a cheap Thai restaurant over those weird yucky snacks any day.

Its odd how she managed to gain a student visa for australia considering you need to provide proof you have enough money to sustain yourself in the country for 12 months (60k).

Get 10 family friends to transfer you 6k each. Get a bank document showing there's 60k in your account. Get your visa granted. Return the 60k to your family friends.

It's a very easy system to get around. Many international students do this.

So OP made 11k (more than half the loan) in three weeks, and spent 7k in three weeks?

OP your family is more right about you than your subconscious is willing to admit right now. Empathize with them and try to keep an open mind.

Poker isn't some sort of evolved twenty-first century lifestyle. It is an old, out of vogue game with familiar stories, but absolutely fun.

GL and have fun in Sydney.

Your gf is lucky she had so many trusting family friends just willing and having 6k available to transfer into her bank account in the blind hope they don't get ripped off. I wonder how many people in this thread could find just 1 friend happy to shovel 6k into their bank account, she found 10!

So how much do you currently owe and also how much do you have to your name? Any plans to make any repayments soon? (The answer should be yes btw).

Sydney sounds like a dumb idea but gl I definitely can see the appeal.

Try keeping track of the money you spend and it'll hopefully reinforce how much you're overspending. A fellow 2p2er who has posted ITT created a useful Excel spreadsheet you might benefit from (I have)so if you'd like I can send it your way.

Planning to get the outstanding loan to 13k before I fly away.

Jesus you're a weird, and slightly creepy dude.

Whats weird, is how naive muppets like you swallow the crap he feeds you. Literally brain dead.

I just gave that as a random example... I don't want to go too far into the specifics of the girlfriend situation.

lul

Lines have been bad recently because they don’t roster enough dealers.

They’ll have a lot more dealers booked for the next month but the bigger issue is that during the series almost all the tables go to the tournaments so there’s literally only 3 or 4 2/3 tables and 1 2/5/10 until the tournament tables start breaking

With that heater I thought OP actually had some sort of bankroll for himself at this point. At least good enough for 1/3 if he just keeps up with expenses from now on and pays back the loan.

But I guess that $7k burned quite a hole in his pocket and it just had to go.

Yeah your parents would have probably been giving you simplistic advice for the last few years, things like:

- Don't drop out of uni and piss away your degree
- Work at getting a better job than pizza boy
- Well now that's your only reliable income, don't give it up to gamble full time
- Don't get hammered and gamble and lend money to your degenerate drunk friends
- Don't waste all your money on KFC and going out and iphones for your GF
- Don't take out a loan at 50% APR

Silly stuff like that. Normies are so dumb.

6 bet, isn't this what happened last time you went broke? You were consistently winning at poker but just spending way more than you were winning until your non-poker spending put so much stress on your roll you just titled it off.

Looks to be a similar pattern emerging here. I thought you drew up a super nitty food and rent budget and that was going to be it? Also weren't you committed to a dry November? How did that suddenly become $2k on booze?

A hint is here:

The above was in response to a question about food. Notice that he says "restaurant" instead of "grocery". That sentence really tickles me, 6b.

Ops fantasy is circling the drain.

So you and your gf are paying a total of $300 per week to share an apartment with a bunch of people? lul.

Can any Aussies put what they spend on food please so we can get some proper context and appreciate just how ridiculous an amount that is?

2k for a month of food and drink, Jesus Christ that is impressive.

He got the loan sometime between the 27th and 30th of last month if I'm not mistaken. 3 weeks for $2k. Let's make it $3k in a month!

Recently it seems OP has been playing a pretty tight range of hands. Perhaps that's skewed by what he's decided to post ITT but my guess is that the experience will not seem all that exciting until the point OP actually plays a hand and then be prepared to watch him blast off with two 9s and on a broadway board.

I'm sure Granny became very concerned that you were donating money after she listened to a few of your hand histories.

Poker pros tend to be among the biggest losers in any poker room. They are only surpassed by the complete degenerates who spend all of their money on gambling. You are pretty much the worst of both worlds, a poker pro with nothing to show for it.

If I'm in a dead end career with a 50% loan over my head and I had the most successful month I could possibly imagine and I'm still broke. My response: "Oh well."

I hate to break this to you but you aren't spending money on luxurious things. You're eating at KFC every night while sharing a flat with a bunch of other broke losers. BTW, that CEO is an idiot.

Seem expensive especially in this rising interest rate environment.

Live a little!

But you'd choose a meal at KFC over a cheap Thai restaurant.

OP just needs to know, how are the lines for the roulette tables?

You make it sound so bad.

Yeah totally agree with you. That story just doesn't add up.

I feel like on many issues in this thread, there's something he's not telling us. Such as how he keeps losing to "variance" (i.e. bad play) in some of the softest games out there (yes he's on an upswing right now but it won't last). Or how he's blowing through 7k a month, including 2k on food and alcohol (what is he eating and drinking for those prices? caviar and fine champagne?).


edit: just saw this post

So you were planning to have ~$1200 a month in expenses, and you've somehow blown 7k already and it's not even a month into you getting your stake.