The action seems to be far better live than tournaments. Your ROI on tournaments is worse. Your fluctuations are higher. Your competition is also tougher. It's just not a good proposition unless it's the only proposition, or you can promote the **** out of yourself.

I'm just talking about my local $200 tourney - not going on the WPT or anything.

I think that's pull rejected because it's not a fast forward, and that tips him off that something's up

Think of it as an EV calculation. What are the odds that you won't be able to pay your bills on time every month and rack up expenses greater than the 1.5% cash back? With automatic payments this should be 0 if you can afford what you spend.

What $1 million buys you in LA

painting was the worst job I ever had. super repetitive but mindless but you had to pay a lot of attention.

I kind of enjoyed painting. Although I only did it in my house and on the side a little. It was satisfying on some level. I took a lot of pride in making perfect lines with no screwups.

I could never do it now though - standing still/bending over/reaching in front of me causes my back to hurt almost instantly.

part of the problem with painting was that if I was an absolute animal I would get 10$ an hour while the contractor sitting on his ass was bringing in around 20$.

I mean, here double coat this 2 bedroom and 2 bath apartment for 150 while he was getting like 500 a unit.

any sort of construction or manual labor is just a complete scam in my experience. totally exploitative. roofing and siding were slightly better. but the boss is always doing a ton less work and bringing in a at least 3-5x as much money. and lolololol at him ever sharing that pie.

Yeah but the boss gets totally ****ed by a client every now and then - while you still get paid. My general contractor uncle got screwed by a major corporation on a year-long job and had to take a 9-5 for a while because he was flat broke. Well in debt up to his eyeballs is probably more like it.

Victor, that’s basically true everywhere. Might just be more obvious in construction.

The Finns must be thrilled with the new character limit.

AWS ****ed us, and probably some other folks, pretty good last week, I think on Thursday. They rolled out a new "feature" where you can request a url on a private IP address, local to your container, to get a copy of your AWS credentials. Their theory is, "you" are requesting them from inside the box, so it's "you" who is doing it, therefore it's safe.

Well, I work on a website that, among other features, scrapes other websites to analyze them (looking for malware, or extracting details about exploits from them). As part of that feature, we show you the contents of the page we scraped.

So... someone can ask to analyze this internal website and get a copy of our credentials. We don't allow you to specify IP addresses for the urls, but this actually turns out to be pretty easy to bypass. You can set up your own domain name, and set it to resolve to the private address. Or you can use an alternate method to specify the IP address, like octal, which many IP parsers (ours included) do not recognize.

So anyway, I'm patching that right now.

This forum needs a drunk posting thread. I could fill it up by myself.

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Marina del Rey is a cheaper part of the LA oceanside. It's also a very small area, so the neighboring ghettos often identify themselves as Marina del Rey.

Glendale is a suburb of LA and doesn't really count imo, but if you want to count it, that city is about the size of Austin, and saying it is cheap is meaningless.

Also, LA is the only city I've lived in that advertises 200 SQFT as 1500 SQFT, a bathroom with where there isn't enough room for a sink as "spacious," and tiny slits as "bay windows," and "available soon" means not available at all. Not sure why all that isn't illegal, but I believe absolutely nothing I read about LA real estate.

Marina Del Rey also has a billion condos so I assume that helps keep prices somewhat under control.

Plus Marina del Rey is hard to go to and from. Just Ocean blvd and dead end winding streets.

I used to live in Alhambra while working in South LA. I paid a decently low rent for a slummy place, but I probably paid 3 or 4 hundred in gas each month between work and other things. Moving to downtown actually saved me money despite the higher rent. Commute time and commute expense is a very real consideration here.

It really depends. People pay a lot of money to live in Pacific Palisades and Malibu despite the horrible commute. People in Santa Monica act like going to Sepulveda is the Hajj.

I tend to think it's similar all the way up (or down) the ladder and the cash games are easier on the bankroll, and contain more recreational players who aren't that serious and only have a few hours after work to sit. Tournaments it's players somewhat more educated about the game, sunglasses, and as a semi-pro or pro not as deep in poker theory. There's only so much you can do when you have 10BB, and so much of your skill is stripped away. This is even more true at the lower limit tournament level where the blind structures are terrible. My two cents anyway.

In cash, people are there to have a good time, and it's more about gambling than winning. In tournaments, the tone is noticeably more serious, and it's more about winning than gambling.

In LA my experience has been the exact opposite. Too many wanna be grinders at cash with their hoodies and sunglasses. Tourney people are all across the spectrum.

Admittedly this is based on a sample size of about 10 each.

My experience has been limit poker, which is perhaps more social, but not LA.

limit poker is a million times better than nl, esp in a live setting. you get to make a ton more decisions per unit time and ofc the amount of decisions you make determines how much money you make.

also, last time I was in LA, I sat at a 9-18 limit game where I am sure you could have made a living. it was 6-10 way pf for 2-4 bets. Just amazing. the 20-40 was only slightly tougher and even the 40-80 was a fish fest. I wonder if the games are nearly as good nowadays.

Economy has been good, and I'd have to think California's economy is good as it has been booming with tech even without the hard stats. So, if I were a betting man I'd say they're relatively better than other limit games, and better overall. Of course, there is the learning curve of players over time to worry about, but I think that's capped somewhat.

Everything up to 9/18 at Commerce is going to be working class types out for the gambol. I know some people made their living at that game years back, but not sure now days. I recall the rake increased substantially.

It isn't really about quantity of decisions so much as quantity of fish to feed the table. Two fish at NL can be bad enough to cover the rake. Limit requires many more bad players.

Best live game experiences for me always revolve around there being 1. drunk people at the table 2. people playing super aggro 3. girls at the table

i've heard they've gotten worst, and the rake's been hiked.

i obv love limit, but last time i was in LA i played a 300NL game because my friend only plays NL, and it was quite juicy and fun. the new hollywood park renovation is worth checking out.