I completely understand that part as you meet infinitely more people staying in hostels. I imagine backpacking would be quite lonely if you're in a hotel/Airbnb each night.

He's in Mexico it's fake SA experience

+1 to bold


+1 about hostels re: other replies


Just went to Cusco in June. Naturally I stayed in a hotel but hung around some of the hostel bars at night. A lot of fun no doubt. There's a lot of cool backpackers but there's also a lot of s**tty ones. Zero chance I'd ever leave my poker laptop at a hostel though. Asked a few poker players earlier this year how much their laptops are worth to them. Answers ranged from 5k to 20k. Not buying brand new, or book value, but the value of all the software, the sensitivity of your personal and financial (crypto!) information, in addition to the laptop itself.

Imagine you go on some pre-booked day trek from a hostel. Leave at 6-7am, you come back at 4pm. You stroll in half-awake through the common lounge, when you spot two Aussies, one holding the Guinness record for longest time without having showered, the other challenging his travelling companion's proud record. The bogan tribe are wearing nothing but discoloured shorts, they didn't even pack thongs or shoes for this trip. You quickly spot them using your brand new 3.5k poker laptop, with installed software valued from a few hundred to possibly a few thousand, as a table for flip cup. "Ay m8, recken it's alright we use ur laptop for a bit ah?" one half-asks, half-says in some drunken Aussie drawl. The other whispers something about Fosters.

Sat adjacent is some Eastern European with haggard English trying to light a cigarette using your Trezor. When it doesn't light he raps the device on the edge of the table a few times. Breaks it. FFS Ivan. Time slows to a 1/10th of what it normally is. You see faded Bitcoin and Litecoin logos spilling out of your Trezor. A mini Roger Ver appears on your shoulder telling you Bitcoin Cash is the real Bitcoin.

Hostels are fun.

please tell me these stories are true

Wolly said it all. Could see arguments for staying in hostels 10years ago. Now there is Tinder so absolutely no need. Backpacker sre the worst people on this earth, i avoid them like the devil does teh holy water. I wouldnt even stay in a hostel if somebody paid me big 3figure amounts/night. 4figs would consider though tbf

hahaha

Bena is obv going for the full latin america experience, after this much contact with our culture, he will end up with 2%+ vpip and 3% more WWSF and soon will start using vamo in every single post haha!

Btw, much respect for bena, quite sick to see someone going out from a rich life in a developed country and going in the streets in mexico, interacting really hard with people. Wanna see if he will visit the favelas in rio, the ones that don't have gang wars/police wars/shooting are open to the public.

Btw, when I said about being dangerous I was talking about big cities in general, places for tourists are usually very safe.

Gl,man, vaaaaamoooo

lol, you realize that in 2018 you can easily encrypt and backup all the data on your laptop, don't you? That being said I wouldn't leave my laptop in a hostel either, but only because of avoiding the pain of getting a new one

hostel is a personal choice with advantages and disadvantages (not all about the moniez 4so)

Imagine a random backpacker opening timmy's laptop and seeing his HH "c'mon timmy, folding K9s UTG? What kind of nittyness is this?" Haha!

Vaaaamooooo

AJo imo

Zing


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+1

Nit jokes never get old jejeje... still remember when i was in pokerhouse and highstaker needed to go on toilet and chose me to fold a couple of hands while he's pissing and i shout "do you open AJo from EP???" and entire grindhouse erupts in joy and laughter... coincidentally that was also the moment i decided to live by myself going forward...

Hahaha that’s excellent


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some amazing stories itt

Scumbag, reporting for multi-accounting.

so there is a ton of pokerplayers that made 10k $ a month over a long period of time, yet own absolutely ****ing zero. have zero savings. zero valuables, other than their PC and their watch, cause thats what the community thought of balling at the time. Then rough patch hits and they realize its nl25 grinding or McDonalds.

so I rather say don't ****ing ridicule someone that doesn't decide to only live in 5***** hotels.

I am a lifenit. always was always will be. i never got tableninja2, cause monthly 30$ is OMG so much money... I literally felt like upgrading my internet to 500Mb/s and paying now 40$ a month (TV and phone included) is such a huge splurge.

and I don't think many people considered me a nit at the tables

i should have been more of a life-nit and less of a table-nit

Hence i did not mention names You got 2 kids dude, thats teh equivalent of staying in teh burj al arab 365 days a year... so dont even try to make me a bad conscience. If you fly economy in ur 20s i wont judge you but if you fly economy in your 30s you must've made some bad decisions in your life...

I am in my 20's, but I begin to notice how people justify their idiocies because they are in their 30's, idiots...

El viaje parece genial, disfrútalo y suerte en las mesas

hahahahaha gotta love timstone

lmao boys behave

+1 million lol

Yeah, cuz hanging around hostels with other tourists counts as the full latin american experience.

This is a very silly conversation. There is no blueprint on how someone should spend their money, it’s subjective and it’s a choice - no one has made a mistake because they don’t fly business and no one has made a mistake because they like to do so, regardless of age.


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Also pretty sure you said you don’t need to stay in hostels coz there’s tinder. Pretty sure Ben has a gf.


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Lol, flying anything but economy is a bad life decision, the father of a friend of mine used to make $40k/month and yet he always traveled economy, even from brazil to arabia lol. After you understand a bit about how airlines companies make their money/value you get, you will see that it's really bad to fly first class, like economy suicide. The onky ones that should go first class are very rich people like dan bilzerien, not even higher ups in a big company should fly in first class, the value just isn't worth the money.

And bena is dancing salsa with mexican strangers, that's a full latin america experience lol.

Btw tim stone, was pondering between ATo and K9s, never thought nits folded AJo lol