omfg k2d stepping up his game with occasional use of commas.

You make me laugh pretty hard Mr. Pooter

i hope your typing finger doesn't fall off

Is it the fingering finger? I bet it is.

Conclusion: Dante puts his weener inside $7 hooker without protection and pissing starts to hurt. He does the same with a finger and the fingernail cracks and the finger turns blue.
Question: What is he going to use next and what happens to it?

I dare you to use your tongue.

how has the new rake at naga impacted the 5/5/10 game?

Whats the new rake, goggle didnt have info available.

im sorry to worry you all like this, the listerine died my fingertip blue



quick boring poker update for the 2 people that care (meaning me and that 1 other guy) 6 weeks ago i won a tourney on stars for $1200ish, since then pretty much dont cash in anything there even with cutting back volume and focusing only on the tourneys i (theoretically) do well in my account is now at like $7 so F stars taking a break from there, i am +$1700 in 6 months which is fukkin weak considering i put in more volume


anyways because i have the added monitor space and party is doing this free gift giveaway all march (earn 5 party points get a card that has either a bonus or points or freeroll entry) i am gonna put in mad sng volume to get as much out of it as i can, also am 1800 points away from the $450 bonus and right now my plan is to try and play 32 sngs a day which would allow me to get the $450 bonus 4 times a year, that alone covers 15% of all living expenses (all meaning including hookers) plus if i average $1 per sng i could live off just that


and while doing this only play 4 mtts a day those being the 4 i have had success in in the past and should continue to do so


so for right now thats the plan, probably will run bad at some point and give up (what usually happens with these plans) but in theory it makes a lot of sense

I happened to be in town the week it changed. If the game is in a more nitty state the rake is maybe ~50-100% more. If the game has a big fish and is running a little crazier, the rake is 3x+ as much.

None of the regs seemed to care too much about the rake hike when I was there except a couple of guys who were really complaining. Doubt the casino will listen tho since they haven't got a single reason to.

I think you can realistically expect your hourly rate to go down ~25 dollars an hour in that game due to the change. Maybe even more because of the next point: When the game gets short handed they will no longer reduce the rake, meaning the game just breaks when it might have been at its most profitable point. Finally, the dealers take a lot longer to calculate the pot each time so it runs slower... and I caught them on some pretty big mistakes when I was there (always in the house's favor).

Basically if you are a marginal reg in that game (and honestly most of the people I saw there fit into this category) the game is really going to be tough for you to really profit from much anymore.

The new rake is

$1 at 30, 2$ at 60, 3$ at 100, $5 at 150, $10 at 250 and $20 at 400.

BTW this was 1.5 months ago that it changed, not sure if it changed since then.

If I had a heart attack and dropped dead in China people would step right over me. It just isn't SEA. Meanwhile, my friend recently got ran over by a motorbike in Mumbai and help was on the way real quick. If that happened to her in China, she'd probably be dead.

I actually did a class on a similar instance. Big news at the time was a 2-year old baby girl being hit by a car, watching multiple pedestrians walk or drive around the baby before the baby gets run over by a second car. She is dragged off the street still alive by an old lady cleaning the street.

I asked my students if they would help. One-third to one-fourth of my students said that they would just go around and keep walking. The reason given was that many Chinese parents willingly put their children in harm so they can use it as an excuse to sue and get money. This happened in Shenzen, which attracts a lot of foreign investment and is one of the richest cities in China. A simple Google search shows that this isn't an isolated incident either. Other reasons given were that they didn't have the experience to help and that they were afraid that by doing something that they would make things worse.

What was the rake before?

That just made me sick to my stomach...

yeah I remember that, this one I assume http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/17/wo...er-hit-and-run. shocking stuff

10% 5 dollars

If you open raise 50 dollars there will almost always be 150+ in the middle on the flop, so it is at least the same (well most of the time). Limped pots, if you limp like a lot of live pros, then maybe you save some money in those cases.

here in VN we have to pay 3% uncapped. Guess I feel lucky. Thing is, I bet the table at Naga will always run, just like how online is taking everything they can get. If the tables dont run is when the casino will lower the rake.

What all you regulars have to do is just disappear. Its the regulars who wait and start the game so when a vacationer comes, they can just sit and play. If the regulars dont go, the game will never start. Thats the way it is here.

So all you regulars should collude and make it happen. If all of you are able to stay away even for a week, the casino will understand. I hope if this [rake raising] happens in VN, all the regs will get together and just boycott as long as it takes for the casino to have no choice in the matter. Of course it takes a uniform front...

where is VN btw? ty

I believe VN stands for Vietnam.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp...e-reaction.cnn

Keep on keeping on Dante. Its all good now.

good to see that


btw guys what does the rake at naga have to do with me??? take it to the cambodia thread plz

quick boring poker update (with b1tching so im sure you will enjoy it more)


day 1 = -58
day 2 = -78
day 3 = -57
day 4 = -115


gee who could ever have seen this coming, always nice when a good plan and hard work turns out well, but hey at least ive got like $14 in bonus's and 200 or so party points out of the deal


every time i think i got it all figured out..........

A friend told me nothing higher than 1/2 has run in 3 weeks. Maybe a day or two it did, but def not a regular thing anymore. It doesn't seem to make the casino go back on their decision, though.

TBH you can't expect much from a combination of 1: ******ed Cambodian people (sorry but it is true they actually exterminated all the smart ones) and 2: A monopoly granted via a corrupt government.

Cambodia is a truly terrible place in a lot of ways.

"2% to as high as 33% of vasectomy patients experiencing some form of long-term post-vasectomy pain"

So if Dante gets unlucky and this becomes an issue. He'll have chronic headaches, ball aches and dick might fall off one day.

So why are you considering getting a vasectomy for? Just a precaution for babies or you want to go rubberless more with less worry?

You prob have it figured out. You just running bad. Im sure any tournament you enter you do well over all. Dont let the 4 day downturn make you agitated. Long term results. You prob dont do well on PS because the % of regs vs donks are higher than PP so you have a much harder time to get to the pay day.

You staying in Pattaya the whole time in Thailand Dante?

i already get the headaches so that will be no different (but weirdly i seem to be getting far less when traveling, just as i got almost none when i first got over here)


no baby and more rubberless = FTW (when get back to PP want to get STD test with that chick im in love with and go with her often, hope she dont meet a real bf in the next couple months)

cant believe you didnt blow up at me for poker post lol, the sng;s are just frustrating as hell because im trying hard to put in more volume and then watch myself lose 80% of all ins 30 times a day no matter what the cards say the odds should be........... ya short term variance and all that just seems like every time i "figure it all out" and have some new plan that should be great in theory i run like ish from the start and then have to debate whether its right to keep trying or not, i know im a long term SNG winner


ya patts the whole time, started out rough but think the last 2+ weeks are shaping up nicely, i guess it would be a decent spot to live even on the cheap, but still with the awful visa situation in thailand, price of western food (i like pad thai but cant eat it every day), fact i dont like thai girls as much as cambo/PI girls, and slightly higher cost of living its really just not for me

@all ppl who live in a guesthouse and grind for seriious money:

Aren`t you guys ****ing scared that grinding through the wlan of a guesthouse could be incredible dangereous?
PPL who have solid knowledge on this, told me right now that here all your log-in-datas (from pokersites, moneybookers, onlinebanlking, etc....) can get stolen....

So isn`t it an incredible dumb idea to grind thoughout using a wlan?

Nope. Most sites and clients that deal with money or important information secure their login + other data with encrypted connection (SSL etc.). The situation was worse years ago. If you still feel scared, you can always rent a VPN and tunnel your connection through it.

i did my best to always use my metfone when logging onto moneybookers and not use the wifi