welp. not any richer or booty-cheek clappier than last time, but figured I'd come in and update.
Argentina was aight. I'm either learning more about people or becoming bitter in old age, but the argentinian charm has worn off on me a bit and I finally agree with the rest of the world that argentinians are a bit weird in general. I did a writeup in another thread as to why the rest of the world realizes this, and I guess I finally do too, a bit.
Went to LAPT uruguay with a friend, then came up to rio with me for a week to check things out. We had business to do and wasted all the sunny days running around, then once we were free the rain came. We hiked to jesus in the rain and then got some coconuts
Moved into a great little apartment here, really stoked on that, sick location. nothing baller, everything adequate. Just started hooking up with that same girl I was here with last year, so no fun stories there. She speaks all languages and cooks surprisingly awesome and cleans my house on sunday. I'm too busy to search for something else, although she's had some random baby references that worry me.
I grinded quite a bit the last 2 months to no avail. Down like 25k+ on LAPT/BSOP sats, which has never happened before. I was also putting a student of mine in em who was playing sooo raw for the first couple weeks until we had a ton of study sessions, and I'm actually impressed with his game now and proud of him. We both lost a dumb about of HU matches, which is basically just a 5k package each time. Oh well. LAPT/BSOP sucked as usual. I won't berate certain stars pros who are just consistent douches at these events. Really thought I was gonna make a run, but yea, liveaments, who cares.
Back in rio now and will stay here another month or so. High season starts like right now and poker is fading into the background a tiny bit anyways for me, as I'm really trying to get involved in coaching more. Been doing so much work on the tables, each time I sit down to play I'm really looking forward to it, I just don't get the chance as often these days. I think I just booked a volume prop bet with a student for the weekend, shouldn't be tough, and a drunken picnic/smorgasbord is on the line
Really happy with how staking is coming overall. Not as happy about personal poker results in MTTs, but other stuff keeps me alive. Really reconsidering my late reg strat as well. Basically started dabbling with late regging last year after a buddy was here (and shipped LAPT HR, beast) and he made a ton of good arguments for it. Now I late reg a bit smaller ABI, and was regging with ~15bb for the most part this year. I've recently bumped it up to 30-50bb to late reg, and really wish there was a formula of sorts or even just data to build one and look at results. I do think my BB/100 has decreased as a result of this, but that seems normal as well that winrates won't be as high on 25bb effective, but the chips I am winning are essentially 'worth' more. Have had plenty of discussions with various people on it and no easy decision either way. So far it hasn't worked for me, but MTT variance is pretty lol, especially when I drop my buyins and focus on giant fields.
Doing weekly reviews and hired a coach who has some very different thoughts than our collective staking group, but there's respect all around so it turns into very interesting discussions. The coach is one of WCGs players for years and is basically uber balanced, where us MTT kids like a bit more button clicking and exploiting and a bit less making sure our check/check/bet lines have proper value to bluff ratios. Really eye-opening though just being surrounded by so many good players, hiring more, and constantly improving. Super proud of a lot of the guys we're starting to form into good players as well, seeing their games change so much week over week. I've never been sooo involved with coaching/staking before and always had much more hands off approach, but its cool getting in there everyday. I just skip entire days of playing and justify it with "I'll do a review later and pop in the strat chat, that's work!"
Brazil is nice. I also see why everyone who lives here kinda hates it though. Why does nothing stay shiny and sparkly forever, dammit?! There's just no real value to be had in Brazil, or south america in general. That's not all encompassing but it is the truth. It's pretty normal to pay $20 for a decent meal here, and $10 is super duper standard. I grew up on dollar menu's and no inflation or something, but in my mind california was like twice as cheap as anywhere in latin america. I'm going back to asia soon. It's 4am, I feel like my writing has a weird tone to it. I'll blame it on that.
yea I don't have much interesting to say, here's where I live!
lil jeezy's left hand is pointing to my place, but I'm like right where the beach stops and curves around. super top right peeking out is copacabana, like 3km away from me and free bike rentals out my front door. Asked previously mentioned old lady if she wanted to go to the beach one day on bikes. sure. MANNN I need to start qualifying girls for physical activities. She's like really fit and I've gone on very steep hikes with her, but she looks like a ****** riding a bike and I even caught multiple groups of randoms laughing at her, which was hilarious to me. I was a bit upset at first as I like to go fast everywhere, but whatever. went to the beach, found a black dude, bought some weed and forgot about it.
oh, I saw a riot the other day actually on the way to go skate. was really gnarly:
^^ photo not mine. I kept trying to get closer, but still didn't know what was going on and kept hearing bombs go off and everybody running, so just got out of there. Couldn't even go skate as they sprayed tear gas all around at the spot, I'm really hoping the ramps and stuff are still there as people were just kinda lighting everything on fire in the streets basically. I guess something about elections, and they stopped paying police and fire dept. a salary, but a lot of em still work as police because you can get away with crazy ****, and people backlashing against police who aren't police anymore and are just exploiting people with anything they can since there is no real repercussion as they don't get paid anyways but keep a badge? because brazil.
I came around the corner and saw this:
I got in to where the trees are and bombs started going off (small ones probably). Then a new wave of riot cops showed up, people started throwing bottles, and i got super freaked out as I saw sniper cops on roofs just shooting people (found out later they were rubber bullets). So yea, maybe I wouldn't make the best investigative journalist. Anyways I went skating, met a dope crew, and did a mannequin challenge instead. its not as gay as I thought.
life not super exciting. next couple months should be. rio for a month and NYE here, then beach down south for a month, then back here for carnavale is the plan. update bang bang
Last edited by boliver; 12-16-2016 at 02:36 AM.
Reason: she's 32. I mean not old in relative values, but in absolute terms I could cut her age in half and be happy, almost