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02-01-2011 , 03:37 PM
Sup , Short month so we gotta grindddddd gogogogogo and gla

I Use 50 post per page so here







02-01-2011 , 03:40 PM
Got this a few years back. It's to flashy but I still like it. Would really like to trade it in but you get screwed really hard on watch trades/sales so decided to just keep it.
02-01-2011 , 03:44 PM
Flasshyy you say!!!????
02-01-2011 , 03:48 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by TheNoodleMan
You realize this is just a huge bogus crutch right?

I know that living in a dirt poor part of the world means you can scrape by doing what you are doing but there is not a significant socioeconomic barrier to improving at poker.

The stuff you linked is about how people are constrained by where they are born, due to education and opportunity. You were educated in a modern country and choose to play poker, which is a meritocracy. The only thing holding you back is you.
I chose the life I live; I like it perhaps overmuch, so I have no real ambitions to change it. My standard of living is about what you would get on $60k a year in the USA. I built my own apartment from my poker winnings, send my kids to private school from my poker winnings, eat, drink and smoke what I like, paid for from my poker winnings.

My progress in poker is glacial, but there is progress, and in time, for my own satisfaction, I will establish myself at a level where I am more financially comfortable.

I don't draw the same lessons as you from the graph: what was most interesting was that the average income of the top 5% of Indians is lower than the average income of the bottom 5% of Americans. The effects of globalisation mean that poor countries are now legally and politically structuring themselves in similar fashions to rich countries. The internet has globalised knowledge.

I see in this graph the huge restructuring of income which is happening globally as the poor increase their incomes and the rich stagnate. The West has lost its monopoly on capitalist structures and education that gave it such an enormous advantage and produced widespread wealth for its citizens. Even if the US tried to end its participation in free trade, it could not stop the rise of the poor countries, and indeed its wealth would diminish absolutely not just relatively.

The poor countries now have the value added abilities that the West used to feel were their protection. Low skilled jobs could be safely offshored because the high skilled jobs would remain, and generate more than enough income to provide the social safety nets for globalisation's losers. But now the poor countries are developing the skills to outcompete the west in the very areas which construe their competitive advantage.

If the graph does not show the world changing, it shows the scale of the change that the world is facing now that the poor are no longer "constrained by where they are born, due to education and opportunity".

OTOH I have to admit that your criticism has reenergised my desire to do what I do better - if this translates into more study and better results I will owe you one!

And you are still v welcome to come and visit me in Peru. I think the way we post often misrepresents our true personalities: Lacky thinks we'ld get on well, and he knows both of us. GL with what you do
02-01-2011 , 04:05 PM
If anyone posts a watch that i like itt, im prob gonna buy it and claim i had it first

sry
02-01-2011 , 04:10 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by bones
If anyone posts a watch that i like itt, im prob gonna buy it and claim i had it first

sry


not likely you'll claim to have it first as its not really original, but I love mine and wouldn't have any other.
02-01-2011 , 04:11 PM
I reported taxable winnings since 2006 last month and just got a letter with payment instructions two weeks later, ez game

e: Then also ran hot the past two months to have enough money to pay the taxes
02-01-2011 , 05:24 PM
I don't have a Rolex, but do have one of these:

02-01-2011 , 05:37 PM
baller watch in post #52.
02-01-2011 , 05:57 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by mjcace
I Use 50 post per page so here
Samsies.

Thank you for following the rules, sir. Move along.
02-01-2011 , 06:00 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by KoreanBuffet
Samsies.

Thank you for following the rules, sir. Move along.
plus wan.
02-01-2011 , 06:01 PM
I would never wear any watch I don't think, I don't like much heavy things on my person it's good to feel light for crotch facilitation, but then again I'm a guy who has never decorated any of his 3 bedrooms ever
02-01-2011 , 06:23 PM
50 ppp is the way to be EMmm Jay Ceeeee


What's wrong with this picture?




Spoiler:
Iraq is labeled as Egypt
02-01-2011 , 06:32 PM
OMG

In insight into what's really going on at FOX no doubt.
02-01-2011 , 07:01 PM
My gf bought me this for my birthday 15 months ago:



I also like the one CQ posted at the top of this page.

Also, not asking for rungood - just please don't let February make me want to smash things like January did. Runaverage if you will.
02-01-2011 , 07:03 PM
Crackedquads, not a huge fan of the watch you posted. I feel the numbers are too big and they kind of dominate the face too much for my linking.

Lacky, what an awesome watch / blast from the past. Todd has an empirepoker backpack he takes EVERYWHERE and I posted your watch on his fb wall to let him know hes been one upped

My watch porn (Its my fav thing I own - was expensive but definitely money well spent - Still SO happy every time I received so many compliments on it. check what time it is and have hope to be blessed with a son I can pass it on to one day)





02-01-2011 , 07:36 PM
I was wondering wether some STTf people good experience with cheap back up internet?

Ideally I would be looking for a stick-thingie where I buy volume instead of a monthly fee, say I buy 1 gig of data and can keep using that 1 gig until I've used it up... does something like that excist?
If you don't know something like that, some good sites with cheap products for back up internet? I'm not a profesional player so not looking to spend a lot on it... just wondering wether there is something really cheap out there that makes me not lose 100 dollars when my internet decides to roll over and die.
02-01-2011 , 07:42 PM
The watch that I wear to work...
02-01-2011 , 07:59 PM
GL this month!!!!

Heibes for Pokerstars pro imo
02-01-2011 , 08:09 PM
In for the month, lets hope I actually play.
02-01-2011 , 08:10 PM
Scotty, that watch is sexy. Unfortunately something that nice is out of my price range, and I haven't seen a whole lot of 200-400 watches that I really care for. I'm a fish when it comes to watches to begin with, and the vast majority of the watches I see on guys my age are pretty good at making me want to punch them in the face.

Appreciate the feedback from all of you so far, good stuff.
02-01-2011 , 09:45 PM
I think this post should be allowed b/c it shows a period of high variance that is interesting
($27-$114 18mans)


entim 143 $35 $47 48% $4,973 - N/A PokerStars <1Day Rakeback41 SNG Only x


Last edited by entim; 02-01-2011 at 09:46 PM. Reason: yes today
02-01-2011 , 09:55 PM
Sexyyyy nice work dude, get 1st in every single 60/100?

cue the 3k downswing!
02-01-2011 , 10:17 PM
currently rocking:


and have my eye on this baby for when I'm a little less busto:

mecca's longines is beautiful though unfortunately too baller for me

      
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