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Originally Posted by luz4ggro
There is a private game where most of the foreigners and expats play. Stacks are about 300$-900$. Lot of action. Here is the official website http://marvinspokerroom.com/
lol, this is hilarious. haven't browsed travel threads in quite awhile, great to see marvin in the mix - he's such a character, back in 2015 or so he was coming to homegames we organized at the pokerhouse I was living, handing out business cards to everyone "the amazin marvin - professional poker player' or something like that.
super harmless guy, I'm sure he runs a great game - he just loves poker and embellishing on pretty much every story he tells. Glad he's making some profit finally at poker one way or another!
I saw some chatter about language learning in medellin, and couldn't recommend against that enough, haha. Their cadence and vocab really isn't found anywhere else. Its honestly the only city specific accent I could instantly pick out anywhere in the world if I hear a local talking, like just as strong as boston or NYC but even more specific, with phrases that nobody else uses. In tokyo a couple years ago I heard a bartender say like 4 words, and instantly asked, or more stated "you are from antioquia, right?" omeeee parce, que chimba ps el parche. the slang is nonstop and much more common in everyday life than any other country I can think of. It's almost like learning ebonics instead of english for a comparison
Bogota on the other hand is very neutral and easy to learn/understand. I love it, just not the best place to learn a universal form of spanish. Did you struggle at all with spanish there greg? Colombians always tell me I sound mexican, and mexicans tell me I sound colombian. I'm stuck right in the middle which is fine by me. Mexi slang runs super deep as well, but is more manageable with a standard baseline
Last edited by boliver; 05-01-2020 at 07:18 AM.