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failsafe United States. Aug 24 2008 10:04. Posts 1040

Some of your probably know me as Failsafe from starcraft. I'm semi-new to lp.net and to poker. I’ve stalked around the forums a bit out of curiosity but I haven’t felt that I was a strong enough poker player to really contribute useful advice. Now that I’m damned to be back in the USA for at least 9 months without any real prospect of leaving, I’ve got nothing to entertain me. So, I’ve decided to adopt poker as serious hobby.

All that said, this seems like a great poker community, and of course it’s very interesting to watch ex-starcraft players continue with their lives. I’m throwing up the blog here to attract some attention and hopefully to entertain a bit. I know that without pictures this will go totally unnoticed, so here's a picture of me imitating the asian smile, as well as some pictures of China where I've been studying a bit of Mandarin.

Me, imitating the asian smile and drinking a remarkably sexy (albeit it girly) beverage.

Kunming, China, the city where I studied, and capital of Yunnan Province. As some of you know there was a bus bombing here a month ago. The actual bombing took place on my route to school, and even at the exact time that I would have been travelling. By a huge stroke of running good I happened to have rescheduled my class for an hour later so all I saw was the fallout. 2 were killed and 19 others were injured, however

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So I'm back from China, and America is horrible. Auburn, America is boring; the people are boring; the nightlife is boring; my school is boring; food is boring. Where's my fucking MSG? If China taught me anything, it was that real food numbs your mouth at the first bite.

Anyway, so far so good as poker goes. I started playing about a week ago, and aside from a massive tilt episode where I spewed off all my winnings, I feel that I've become a significantly better microstakes grinder. Back in China, I was contemplating poker as an analogy for life while I was high on ecstamethasy and reading high stakes forum threads when I had some (surprisingly) empirically fruitful insights.

My poker level is somewhere around better than NL25 but without sufficient nit-resistance or nit-bashing to really beat NL50 with a satisfying winrate.

Also, hello to crownroyal, vegable, k2o4 and other starcraft friends who might be reading this <3

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Last edit: 24/08/2008 10:24

failsafe United States. Aug 24 2008 10:05. Posts 1040

I guess that needs to be resized somehow

Last edit: 24/08/2008 10:25

tloapc Pitcairn. Aug 24 2008 10:30. Posts 2591

what happens in 9 months? u get to go back to China?
sic run of luck w/ that rescheduling - makes ya think

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[GiTM]-Ace United States. Aug 24 2008 10:41. Posts 1585

SC > all

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United Kingdom. Aug 24 2008 11:23. Posts 5070

not even a shoutout for me. fuck you jeff ! !! !

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failsafe United States. Aug 24 2008 12:57. Posts 1040

oh hi jamie! didn't know steamrollers could talk otherwise i definitely would have mentioned you

and yeah, in 9 months I finish my undergrad degree and am free to re-eval and ship somewhere else if i'd like to.

edit: sick slight toward the mutes of the world. didn't know steamrollers could *read

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k2o4 United States. Aug 24 2008 14:09. Posts 4803

woot <3 jeff

great pics =) That's crazy about the bombing, I didn't realize you were so close to it. Glad you're still in one piece!

So you're back in America now? I thought you were gonna be in china for like a yr, wtf!

Glad you're becoming a more serious poker player. I'll bookmark your blog and try to keep up to date with what you're doing. Like always you can ask me for poker advice anytime, and use the sMee poker board as much as you need too =)

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CrownRoyal United States. Aug 24 2008 14:31. Posts 11385

i'd hit it

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collegesucks United States. Aug 24 2008 18:47. Posts 5780

i demand cleavage

vegable United States. Aug 24 2008 21:54. Posts 2453

mmm looks just like home

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