Good thread, the longer this goes the more I have to hope it's a clever scam.

OP,

Huge zelda fan here, starting with the first one on NES when I was like 10 years old or something. Agree that the second opus, still on NES, is the most underrated of the serie?
Video games aren't that challenging anymore these days

it's pretty common for young people from australia/new zealand to go live in london, whether for a few months or a couple of years. i assume it's the same for south africans.

london is expensive, and we're talking about students & young people without much earning power. if a lot of them are showing up in these clinical trials, it's most likely 'cause they ran out of money for rent/tickets home and saw being a lab rat as an "easy" way to make good money while having their living expenses covered.

Yep, back on the bike. The night nurse that thought I was doing something dodgy later apologised to me and everything was cool.

I have a good repoir (is that the word?) with the staff. We treat them as they treat us. They understand how precarious these situations can become - a roomful of guys, drugged and isolated from the outside world, having to endure constant annoyance, poking, prodding, already restless, frustrated... It does not pay to instill in them a sense of rebellion.

I don't really go out of my way to tell my family about the stupid things I do. I don't leech off them or ask for handouts, so when I lost it all it was my problem and my responsibility to sort it out.

To answer your last question, that is something I'm discovering now. I've never played with ANY bankroll management, despite numerous attempts. It's hard to say why. But since starting this thread and having people I've never met ship me money, my whole outlook on it changed. When I was losing I stopped caring about the money because caring was too traumatic (denial obv). But I can't feel that way towards money that was generously given to me - that would be major f*ckin douchey of me. I don't plan on ever depositing again, period. I have a roll that was a gift from the people that have read this thread, and it might be small but I take it seriously.

Keep posting everyone!

No problem man, I'm mainly playing on Stars: NeverWasBeen

I'm in your hands now BBV

Joining in on this thread. My ex once did a 6 month bid in federal prison. Your posts are already 1000x more entertaining then hers over her entire run.

Edit: I also second the stop posting pictures sentiments.

Do you get told you look like Andrew WK? Or maybe it is Andrew WK after his career stalled and he lost it all playing poker.

Good luck!

Type Andy carrol into google.

Its you!

That, or Jesus. That could use some fresh air

Please don't take this post to be melodramatic, but what is your actual goal in learning to play decent poker? You say you feel like a cripple and isolated from your former work friends, how will learning to beat an internet card game for pennies help with that?

When you get out of the facility, you'll have freedom and money. Many people have neither of these things. I think you have a very unique opportunity to grab life by the reins..

1. Take manies and buy Deuces Cracked membership now.
2. Spend the rest of Hospital time watchin vids and reading/posting strat here and there.
3. Get manies from being experiment.
4. Don't go intabusto cus u learned valuable lessons.
5. Moar vids/strat/talk pokers w/better players.
6. Grind on the mind.
7. Robusto.

Are you sure you are feeling OK?

Nice effin pic, big effin eyes, but a nice effin pic.

Jesus ITT

hardcore man lol gl with your bankroll

5 Stars!

[] Op looks like jesus

[x] Jesus looks like Op

Very cool thread man, just finished reading it... If I were you, I'd use the 8K to travel once it's done. A cool 3 month trip to South America would cost you less than half of that... The cost of life is very low in Asia too. Seriously, you should consider doing a backpack trip somewhere... one of your "inmates" is a traveler I think... ask him about his trips !!!

I wasn't able to complete Bunker 2, Cavern and Aztek at 00 Agent can you !?

bad boys ftw, OP do the drugs make you feel any different? without going into details of the name or that for obvious reasons but is there effects of them?

God I love BBV!

I second this.

Regardless of what OP says I think it's still very clear by results that he's still playing like a degen.
Maybe it's not as bad now as it was because you've set limits.

I'm just saying, i think it's much smarter to use the money 2p2 shipped to increase your knowledge and understanding of the game as opposed to just using the money shipped as a way to pass the time while you're in there.

If you buy a DC membership, you will learn, you will pass the time, and you CAN still play with the money 2p2 shipped, but maybe just use it at the end of every day. Spend the first 60% of your time watching relevant DC videos, then spend the last 30% of your free time playing poker, and excercising the concepts you learned. Then do the opposite the next day, spend your first 30% of the day watching videos, then the next 60% playing poker and exercising what you learned!

Otherwise I feel, and you will obviously try to assure us otherwise, that once this is all over, you will say to yourself:
"Hm, sure I'm down overall on what 2p2 shipped, but now that I have 8k, I can take those limits off and in a month I will be up the same percentage of my 8k bankroll as the percentage of my $350 bankroll that I am down!"

or maybe you'll end up playing $1,000 sngs again.

I am so confident in what I am saying that I will say the following:

If OP continues doing what he has been doing and does not watch DC videos and just continues playing how he has been, or fixing what HE sees to be HIS mistakes, and continues being oblivious to other, far more important mistakes he is making, I will be willing to bet that his 8k BR goes BUSTO less than three months after he leaves this study.

If OP watches DC videos and actually studies, and memorizes key concepts and strategies, I want nothing to do with this bet.



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did they give you any infos on the drug youre taking? what agent or at least what its supposed to do etc?
orally or intrevenously? also, are you being paid by a pharmaceutical company or by the hospital directly?

anyways, nice read so far, keep it up.

Lol, did a study in the very same place, was good money if you didn't mind having your eyes prodded.

Just spent the last hour reading this from start to present. Great thread and i'll try keep up to date with it. gl

Never played the NES titles, but loved "A Link to the Past", and finished "Link's Awakening". Never finished "Majora's Mask" though, tough game! They don't make em like that anymore more. I don't own any consoles post - N64, but after seeing Bed 4 playing GTA IV, especially being a huge fan of Vice City, I can definately appreciate the advances that have been made, but my heart will always be deep in the 16-bit bowels of the Sega Mega Drive.

This is true, backpackers and travellers love these studies, for them there is no easier wasy to make money while minimizing, even eradicating expenses.

Awesome man glad you're enjoying it

Haha, wp. I get Jesus a lot obv, but the others are original!

To be honest, I want poker to be an enjoyable, profitable hobby. A hobby that I study and enjoy. I want poker to help alleviate the burden of monetary pressure. I guess that means I'm aiming to be a solid recreational player?

Excellent advice, step by step guidance is exactly what I need. I just signed up for a month. Thanks a lot, hope you're enjoying the thread.

And a huge thanks for ab160 for helping me out, you're a legend! Same goes, keep enjoying the thread