Wisdom

Well, I've made the move and I've been settling into Poznan quite nicely for the past 3 weeks. I plan to make a post about more personal stuff soon, but for now I have a question.

Now that I'm living in Europe, I should have access to the euro poker sites and partypoker, so which ones are considered the best? I never cared at all in the past since I couldn't play them, but now I need suggestions . Also I need to find out more about funding my account. I assume I'll need some other bank account, or maybe I can use Moneybookers as I'm not in the USA anymore?

Suggestions appreciated, thanks guys.

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So I have like 1.2 million FTP points after never having spent one in my life because of MGR hit. Now with the cash bonuses available, should I go for the 5k bonus (even though you don't get a full 5k because of the rakeback hit), or is there something better?

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Hey guys,

I haven't blogged much on here, but thought I'd share my rough life plans for the immediate future, and a bit of how I got there. I've lived in the Chicago suburbs my entire life, went to school in Illinois, and figured I'd get a job in Chicago, have a family, and live that traditional life. I found poker my last year and high school and played in college, coming at the perfect time where I could make some money part time while in school. I applied for internships and started working after I graduated, but after ~3 months after I started, the company I was with couldn't keep me on. I'd have to rely on poker for money while I continue looking for a job.

Poker went pretty well, and I really loved the freedom of doing what I wanted everyday. Wake up as late as you want, go on a trip somewhere anytime in the week and not worry about when you'll get back (I hated having to use my 2 days off on a weekend for a trip, it almost felt like I wasted my weekend where I like to have some time to sit on my ass). About 4 months later, I got a call from 2 companies, one of which I had worked for before, and its competitor, both essentially offering me a job to get into their program where they'd train me on the job for ~1-1.5 years and then be on board full time. I thought it over for every moment for about 2 weeks, talked with some friends and family each giving their own suggestion. Eventually I turned them both down, and decided to stick with poker. It wasn't as much about wanting an 'easy' life or something people might imagine with poker, but the freedom and flexibility was very attractive, and I found I REALLY liked figuring out a way to live my life different from all my peers. This is the same point I realized I don't have to do what was expected of me by others, I can play poker rather than get a job, go shopping for different styles of clothing than the polo shirts / khakis / etc. that my friends and I often wore in the past. Anything I could do that was different became really attractive to me.

Fast forward a bit later, 2 friends of mine from my starcraft playing days are going to get married (one of which most of you know eriador / liquid`drone), and I'm invited to go to their wedding in Poland. I don't know much about Poland or know anybody who's been there really, so I figure sure why not? I go there for almost a full week of wedding celebration and PoorUser of LP fame was there as well, making us the only Americans there. It really was a blast, one of the best times I've ever had, and at the wedding I met a Polish girl.

I come home and I keep talking to this girl on msn, and we get to talking about how I really wanted to do a euro trip kind of thing, to travel across lots of different countries, but didn't really want to do it on my own. She has interest in this too, so only about 1.5 months after I got home, I fly back to Poland to meet her and begin traveling across Europe. We do that for 2 weeks, cramming as much sight seeing in as possible into a short window, and then I stayed with her for 1.5 months in Poland. I was worried I'd get sick of the area (or of her ) after a while, but when it was time to come home, I didn't really want to leave.

I came home, and I felt stagnant, like I wasn't progressing anywhere in my life. I really was missing being around this girl, but I never was going to get into a relationship with her since we live so far apart. I missed a lot of things about being in a foreign country, being around a different language, so many differences between cultures, etc. and I thought, why can't I move to Europe? Why do I have to keep living where I've always lived? Poker provides me this luxury.

So I'm moving. I just picked out an apartment in Poznan, Poland. Looking forward to learning a new language and living a different lifestyle. All my friends and family members in the US have a certain view of the world which isn't accurate, and for Poland they all think of it as suuuuper cold like Siberia, and pretty much think it's the same kind of country as Soviet Russia. Kinda sad.

I'm looking forward to going there, and I'm not sure if I just wanted a change in my life, or if it'll lead me to want to live in lots of different cities and countries throughout my life. Anyway, that's my story for today.

If anyone lives in or near Poznan, feel free to contact me, maybe there are some LP'ers over there

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Hey guys,

I'm leaving for san francisco tomorrow morning for a couple days then will be in vegas from june 6 - july 16 ish. Let me know which of your guys will be around and we can arrange a meetup / swap numbers.

Updates to follow throughout the trip!

-Bryan

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I'm considering spending a lot of time out in vegas this year and know that a lot of people split houses for the summer, so it's making me think about doing the same. Maybe some other alternative too, but getting a hotel for longer than a couple weeks seems like a huge waste of money. The summer is rapidly approaching though and I'm not sure where to start. Any suggestions folks?

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Hey guys,

I just bought a ps3 about a month ago and finally have internet working on it, so now I've been playing a bunch of modern warfare 2 online. If any of you guys are on there, feel free to add me as a friend: WisdomNine and just let me know who you are and i'll add you back. I'm kinda newbie at fps games so I'm happy to drag any of you guys' teams down

on a side note, PCA in a week!

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any suggestion on how to fix / where to fix my desktop when it won't even turn on. nothing happens when i hit the power over and over again. i've tried 2 different power cords and tried them in different sockets in my house to no avail. it all worked fine 2 days ago which was the last time i had it on (i usually leave it on 24 hours / day).

thoughts?

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hey guys,

just starting out a blog here as i've never done one before. i had tons of stuff i was planning on including at some point such as how ive been doing online and stuff like that, but i'm going to vegas tomorrow and will be there from oct. 8-18. if any of your will be out there and want to meet up / come party send me a pm or post on here.

on a side note: i really fucked up my arm playing racquetball by falling on it. i don't even clearly remember what position i landed in but now my shoulder hurts like fuck and this was 2 days ago. i can move it pretty well except for a few directions when it gives me pain and is kinda weak, but it seems manageable assuming i can yell out HOLY FUCK every 5 mins. i think its been getting better, as right after i fell i couldnt move my arm at all and that was scary as hell. i think i'll probably be fine, but haven't seen a doctor due to having no health insurance (recently graduated, fml).

anyways! oct. 8-18 will be awesome. i'm staying at the hard rock for the first half and then the trump for the rest.

check back soon,
Bryan

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