lmao have you flown first class tho

Hahaha


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book economy and get to first class

i win

No and probably never will, just saw it in the movies/sudied cases about how airline companies make their profits, which come mostly from getting easy money from the higher classes while economic classes are more to fill the gaps.

Basically the ones flying first class are the ones supporting the cheap prices of economic class, if there weren't first class the economic class prices should be way higher, since they can't cover the costs of the flight.

You're paying mostly for social status when flying first class, as well as in many things in life are like that, when you think logically it's way more efficient to spend your money on stuff that will have a lot of real impact in your life. Just having a more comfortable place for 10h isn't worth the price.

I traveled more than 100 times in a bus for 11h each tome when I used to go to uni, so my opinion may be biased, since I can tolerate very ****ty uncomfortable situations, making it for me a no-brainer to go economic, in the end if you wanna go economic or first class it's highly correlated to how much you value comfort, which in practical terms shouldn't be much, but in subjective terms it could be worth more.

Maybe this is a game that can be beaten, but can you beat the 10/20 hi/lo in the chesterfield at the 79th street?

Haha, vaaaamooooo

bruv who cares how the airline makes their profits im just there for the champagne and bed

You flew economy to Korea while Linus was getting sucked by the Russian chicks in business, peasant

lmfao. thread back on track.

lmfaooo ok u got me

this... 5 stars again after too long

Omg LoL!!

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Reinvigorate the timby high roller dream imo


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Ok bois, looks like teh tim stone brought this back on track, looks like my work is done here.

Don't play when there are any/many people around. People in hostels are very respectful of your space in my experience.

ikr

<3 it really is!

I'll attempt to make my way over at some point soon!

ahaha i truly hope that this story is true

hahaha A+

wp and ty

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I could reply to each of the posts like usual but i don't really feel like it. I'd rather just make an observation and you can do with that what you will.

Yesterday I moved to a new hostel and was chatting to 4 or 5 people. One of them - a 20 something British guy from London just had this air about him - a fake coyness and subtle arrogance. He was spieling about how his job gives him all this freedom to travel the world etc, but not saying what he did, however, CLEARLY waiting for someone to ask him. He was, of course, a professional poker player/sports bettor.

Before I left the UK, I made the decision not tell anyone i'm a poker player due to potential risks, but also so as not to have to hold that identity in every interaction. This gave me the opportunity to ask some questions and see things from the other side. What was fascinating was his overt superiority (masked by what can only be described as some kind of a poker face) over everyone else in the conversation. He completely dominated the chat by flaunting his job, financial worth and sick places he's staying for the rest of his travels.

It's interesting to read back the numerous posts in this thread and note the parallels. Several of the comments truly epitomise the "expert" frame of mind that professional poker players seem to hold, and reflect this guys mentality perfectly.

Questions such as "why would you stay in a hostel or you won't have an authentic CA experience in a hostel", are actually laughable. Why wouldn't I stay in a hostel? I would MUCH rather stay in places with people who are open minded and have the flexibility to grow and change, than in an expensive pad, literally and metaphorically looking down on everyone else, with a community that, for the most part, are painfully rigid in their outlook.

DISCLAIMER: I am also guilty of all of the above to some extent too

Anyway, I could write a hell of a lot more on this, but it feels like i've probably opened a can of worms as it is haha

^ My reaction to anyone telling me they are a poker player is basically 'of course you are mate'.

Higher chance that guy won the big 11 and invested it in litecoin last year or something than he's actually a professional poker player, especially if he thinks he's a sports bettor too.

How’s he not gone up to you and be like “are you benthebadbeat?”

Bena going for the vamo! Forgot to talk about the economic/first class discussion

Really cool to see some reasonable people in the poker world, like bena, you're really open-minded and think.about society.

But I think that the poker professionals in the future will look way more like bena, humble and understanding than those boys that want to look like ballers. The harder the game becomes, less room will have for arrogant people.

Superb post Ben

Love that last post Bena. Enjoy your travels!

openmindedness, ability to grow and change are overrated

Openmindedness is a fake concept, people are judgemental cause that's how our mind works. Saying that "I'm openminded is just stating out that I'm a nice guy I won't judge you" - what if you come and poop in my sofa am I going to be openminded anymore ?

What comes to ability to grow it is aswell making a judgement by itself on by starting to measure growth.

Don't think people change so much. One can get wiser as getting elder or improve at something and start to see things a bit differently but I think most who seek hard for growth and change are trapping themselves to goal oriented thinking and don't really get far.

Before there is a space between body and mind there will be suffering and to create that space need to meditate and understand spirituality (life (happiness) natural well-being without a reasoning behind it, and aswell accept mortality and before that happens people will be on the level of talking about self growth and self development without really finding a proper consistency of what they truely are

This probably has very little to do with Benas blog but it's just my thoughts related to Dr.s post

I don't think you necessarily need the hostel for the ultimate experience lol. However, I do think you need the nice pad if you ought to respect your poker. At the end of the day, it seems that you're trying to do both; to play poker in a foreign country while visiting and hanging out w locals/travelers and discovering the culture.

What I'm saying is that if the goal was to completely immerse yourself in the Mexican culture, stay in hostels, visit stuff and actively meet up w new people, learn Spanish and w/e activities backpackers do abroad, I would suggest just not bringing any electronics and disconnect completely from poker. In that way, you are completely free from anything. You have nothing of value on you and you don't feel bad for not "working" since you've already decided from the get go that these next few weeks will be poker free. I think that really is the best way to experience travelling sometimes; it's like a completely different world.

Otoh, going abroad w the mindset that you'll be playing and studying poker regularly, I do think having your own place is WAY better than staying in hostels. You can still meet up w plenty of people from the hostels (the open-minded people) by doing the City Tours or hanging out at night in the cheap bars or go one day to the underground cenotes where all the backpackers eventually go. But at least, you do have a place to grind/work/study everyday w decent internet (every time I was in hostels, internet was mediocre at best, mby runbad). I mean, your work is to be treated w the respect it deserves. When you are grinding 4x500z, you always have 2k+ in play lol. This is serious money in like 90% of the world. This goes w/o mentioning that you sleep better in your own room w a decent bed making you more rested.

Yeah, I guess it comes down to what type of trip you decide it will be before even leaving and then, taking a decision about poker/laptop.

Glgl

focking hippies are the least openminded ppl i know

Good post Ben. Really liked the not telling anyone your job idea, interesting experiment. I personally find it uncomfortable telling some (not all) people what I do as inevitably people a high % of the time somehow think there’s a green light to ask what you earn and I don’t like people knowing that before they know me. Even my best mates don’t know how much $ I have made during my career, I don’t want that to be a reason for people to want to hang out with me.

So did people ask what you did and if so what did you say?


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Some people might recoil in horror at the thought of staying in hostels or hanging about with backpackers, and that's fine if they have different ideas on what they'd spend their money on. I just find it a bit weird when they try and impose their own biases/tastes on you. It's your money and your life. You should obviously spend your holidays doing whatever you enjoy. It seems you're having a good time out there.
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