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jewlian Canada. Jul 29 2008 23:21. Posts 153

If any of you bothered to read two posts ago, you'd know that I've been forced to stay out of school for a year. My greatest fear was my parents reaction but wow, what a crazy turn of events. I finally got the balls to tell them straight up and they seemed pretty calm about, even supportive. Not to say that my parents are Nazi's but they usually give a huge angry lecture after every stupid move I make. +1 for a life heater right there.

Poker? Wow, my shot at 25NL was pretty fail and what is worse is that I lost to bad players. Most of them were station donks and I suppose I tried to get fancy too often. Microstakes is microstakes and I simply don't have the hand reading ability to play LAG at these levels. I don't mind dropping back to 10NL, a little humbling is good for everyone once in awhile.

So, I have one year to do whatever I want...work? Travel? Volunteer? I want to do something good, maybe lend a hand in third world countries. No, I'm not being self righteous or anything, I've already been to Africa before to do this sort of stuff but short term. Another alternative is to work on my poker game but I'm not going to delude myself by thinking I can make it as a professional player. Some people have different strengths and weaknesses, I'm satisfied as being purely amateur for the rest of my life. I'm sure if I dedicated a buttload of time to it, I could become successful but I have other things in mind at the moment.

Anyways, I'm out and as always, thanks LP.

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Timonga United States. Jul 30 2008 00:12. Posts 1074

I think you've got the right attitude. Work or volunteering would be great, maybe do both even? Whatever you do, try not to get lazy. Best of luck and study hard the next time you're back in school.

Last edit: 30/07/2008 00:13

lachlan Australia. Jul 30 2008 02:52. Posts 6991

have you seen "the last king of scotland"? i reckon you should do what the scottish guy does except without being a doctor, that'd be cool

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