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Originally Posted by somnaamnah
Beast mode on
Think I was one of your very first backers here in the MP back in the days - good to see you're doing well. Very enjoyable read too, can't wait for the next write-up!
Hey, glad you like reading my stuff. I indeed remember you. Pretty sure, you bought some of the first Package i ever offered to "strangers" ever. Hope you profited back then
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April Summary
Goals:
- 750 Games
missed this for good. i saw my quality of play decrease due to high table count and therefore try to limit myself with this
- studying 7 Hours poker/week
close one. while i didnt miss a single group coaching and studied on the side i didnt really count the hours
- bumping the evbb back to 10+ . March was 7.4 at 37$ ABI.
No. Actually it went down to 5. With a different approach i should be able to get it closer to 10 again. Not sure how bad this is in reality with ABI >40 though.
Non-Poker:
- Speak as much Spanish as possible in the House. One of the Guys wants to learn english, so hes forcing english Conversations me. I´ll try to re-exploit the s**t out of him and molest him persisently with my Spanish.
Not really happy with this. My teacher is consistently praising me for my Progress. But i still have serious problems understanding casual conversations.
- Not smoking a single Cigarette ffs. While I havent smoked at all in Bangkok, one of my Roomies here, has a pack laying around here sometimes and I couldnt hesitate of grabbing a Cig from there once in a while. Feels like a huge loss, because it is one of the worst and maybe the most useless Habit i can imagine.
Failed. Smoked like a Pack this Month.
- Doing 1 hour of light work-out each Day. I dont like Gyms , neither am i looking to build a picturesque Physique. Simply wanna feel fitter and some swimming/stretching/push-ups will do the Job for me.
Nothing besides some stretching in Poker Breaks. Loosely planning to do some hiking pre-scoop
- Eat healthier. Might be the toughest one. Latin-American Diet consists of Meat and Carbs mainly. There is a big diversity of Fruits and Fish available. Gotta claim more of that for sure.
Filled to refridgerator with lots of fruits and veggies, so i consider this a Success. The fact that Latinos not give the tiniest **** about eating healthy makes me feel responsible for this more in the future.
- Still find Time for Fun-stuff/Recreation. At least 2 full beach-days I want to do in April.
Went to some amazing Beach once. Also we´ve been eating out at night at least once a week. So not a complete miss.
Life:
Theres always a bit of Idealization involved when I get to know a new place and people that I start to like. I appreciate every new Situation for a while. If you put me in a Prison for a Week, I will write you a Report how amazing,refreshing and enlightening it was afterwards.
So, I am already indicating that reality has sort of catched up with me: First of all, living with People who might have slightly different Ideas and Schedules and also dealing with a slightly different cultural consensus regarding social intercourse is a challenge i happily take.
I simply accept the things that are either fun or necessary and dont bother about giving too much of a f**k about stuff that i feel i don´t need.
One of the things i noticed is, that the youngest of us keeps calling us "Señor" and serves us Stuff occasionally. While i initially thought he´d be sarcastic , i found out that its kind of a social rule, even when dealing with only slightly older People. I try to apply this as well, as much as i can, but unfortunately i won´t be able to be completely serious about this ever
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There is a different thing that is really starting to annoy me right now:
Lack of Independence - I still don´t "own" a local Bank-Account here that enables me to do local transactions. I have this local debit card that i could funnel with local money in exchange for skrill/neteller/btc/whatever - i have no online statement though or something where i could keep track of that, so the situation is basically that one of the roomies pays for all of our expenses and we send him some skrill/neteller/whatever once in a while.
This is cool - for a week or two!
I am here for 6 Weeks right now and in the end my decision whether to stay here for longer or not will completely depend on if I will be able to deal with all of that stuff on my own soon or not.
Still, I'm very aware, that the complicated money situation is one of the main reasons, why this country is so ridiculously cheap for us. But in the long run giving up my monetarily independence is not a price that I am willing to pay .
Couple days ago went to "Casa de la Langosta" with Roomies. Appearently the place to go, if looking to eat lobsters/langostas here. Before we ordered, the Chef proudly presented us this enormous creature:
All of us look bit tired after a long day of Grinding.
Have no pictures of the food, but the "Langosta al Termidor" was very tasty. It came with some type of white wine/parmigiano sauce. This is very likely one of the priciest Restaurants here right now , and the total bill including drinks, sides and dessert was ~30USD for the three of us. Thats what i call good Value.
We have been to some very beautiful, white-sanded Beach called "Playa Parguitos" like 2 Weeks ago. Had a great time there, drinking strawberry daiquiries in the sun.
Poker:
I am not too happy about this Month poker-wise. I was lucky enough to get into the blacks by having my biggest bink ever so far a couple days ago . Apart from that i would rate my overall quality of play for this month at 4.5/10. My evbb decreased to 5. I approached the game in a very amendable way: Table count way too high with increasing ABI. Around the 20th i decided to restrict myself not playing more than 10 Tables. Of course, it is tough on Sundays, where it can happen that i have up to 15 tables open at peak-time. But i know that the only way to stay on my path to success will be focusing on Quality rather than Volume.
Also, one of the consequences is, that i dont wanna add many Games during SCOOPS.
Sure, there still might be one or two extra mtts that i might try to bum out of my backers pocket. But at this point, i feel its way more important to get familiar with the tendencies of the population i deal with now, than just looking for every opportunity to bink big. I am very grateful that variance kind of saved me from being down heaps this month and I dont take it for granted. And it certainly feels better to have some heat after the downer than vice-versa
. April-Graph:
I am heavily considering using the week before SCOOP for a healthy mix of relaxation/activity/studying. Might do a hike on my own to get some distance of the office/grindhouse vibe and coming back strong and motivated next weekend for SCOOPs.
In the Meantime GL and
for everyone who cares or not.
Last edited by rotisseur; 04-30-2018 at 11:45 AM.