Staking, Vegas, and APPT Fall

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PanoRaMa United States. May 14 2009 20:45. Posts 1655

Well, I'm almost even on the month so that's good. But this blog post isn't about that. Recently I've thought about "investing" (both in the metaphorical and literal meaning of the word) some money in one of three ways:

1. Actual investments (start dabbling in stocks, ETFs, etc.)
2. Getting a Personal Assistant/Chef
3. Staking/Backing people

Well I'm a degen at heart so I chose #3. I'm told now is not a good time for #1 since the economy is still going down or something, and #2 would just be a luxury, not necessarily a financial investment. So I've staked my friend for 100nl, which is $4k and I get like $5.5 at the end of everything if he ends up robustoing, which I'm certain he could. It's a high return, but also because I do some coaching/sweating with him too.

Additionally, I've staked bttech86/ben86/Ben Tollerene $9k for 7.5% of his entire Summer WSOP schedule. Kind of a big stake, but he's a good player who does consistently well in tournaments. I also did this because I'm STILL not 21 (I turn 21 in August) so I can't play in the WSOP, but I want to robusto this summer SOMEHOW so I might as well do it vicariously through someone who's bound to destroy an event or two.

I'm still gonna go to Vegas though, just to hang out around June or so. More on that later, maybe there will be a LP meetup?

Next, and what's most exciting for me, is APPT Fall. I've already decided to take Fall Quarter off from school to do traveling and donkamenting (and convinced an RL friend to do the same w/ me). The tentative plan is as follows:

Mid August fly to Macau for APT,
Chill in Shanghai (my parents have a nice pad there) for a week,
Head back to Macau assuming APPT starts around this time (usually it's a week after APT)
Go to Tokyo as my main base of operations, and from there go to different APPT locations, etc. :D

Overall I plan on staying in Asia for like 4 months or so, it's going to be fucking ridiculous.

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LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. May 14 2009 21:39. Posts 15163

1st! Good to hear you got unstuck.

I envy your career

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gawdawaful Canada. May 14 2009 22:03. Posts 9012

I remember playing with ben at 5/10 on stars. He was solid iirc

Im only good at poker when I run good