1
 |
Joeingram1 United States. Aug 12 2011 14:23. Posts 943 | | |
One of the best days of my life occurred a few days ago....Pokerstars accepted my stuff and let me back online!!
It sure has been an interesting past couple of months of traveling, live poker grind, meeting women on the live poker grind, living in Vegas, moving out of San Diego, getting across the border to Canada and then getting set up.
Lets start with April 15th 2011. I'm not a big day drinker, probably haven't even drank during the day the past few years. In honor of the glorious day, I went down to the bars on the beach in San Diego with another online guy and we decided to drink the sadness away starting at noon. I was passed out in bed (not alone) by 7 that night. Probably should have been doing things like this a little more often while I lived there I thought. The next day I decided I probably needed a plan to survive and still have money. Played some live poker at Oceans 11 and Palomar and decided that meh this sucks but I'll give it a shot.
Me and Ballcup decided to go down to Miami for the WPT event and play some cash games. We stayed in South Beach for the time we were out there and was an interesting place. Didn't really hear much english being spoke while down there but did happen to run into 6 random older black girls while walking the main strip in south beach.
Lets give a mini trip report! That picture was from the start of the night, after that they asked us if we wanted to go to King of Diamonds which is an all black strip club in Miami, one of the biggest. For some reason we decided this would be a good idea and we walked to there car and all got in. I was in the 2nd back seat in between 2 of the girls, there asses were fucking huge and this was not a very comfy ride. After a detour to the hospital to visit there friend who left dinner with some sickness lol we were off to the strip club. During the drive the girls were passing weed around and all pretty drunk at this point. We get to the strip club and walk up to the door, the security guys start laughing and ask me why the fuck I am wearing orange swim trunks and a blank tank top, everyone else was dressed in dresses/dress shirts there. The girls explain that we are from out of town and they kidnapped us to go there with them. Security walks me and Brad over to talk to 3 guys outside talking by some cars, I get to know them a bit better and find out one is the owner of the place and he gives me the go ahead and tells me to enjoy myself. We get in and realize the only 2 white people there is us 2 and were in swimsuits lol. We decide to get a table there and a few bottles and proceed to drink alot and get lap dances from some of the thickest black girls I have ever seen. At one point I went up to the stage and made it rain while the DJ stopped the music and made some DJ like comments you would expect him to make seeing something like this. Then I had a dance off in the parking lot with about 10 black girls (there is video of this but not sure if should post lol). After this we drove home, everyone drunker this time and somehow they dropped us off at our hotel at about 7 AM and we were alive!
After this night we decided to nit it up a bit life wise and stick to grinding some live poker at the Hard Rock. Games were good and I was still learning the adjustment to the beautiful game that is live poker. I went back to San Diego for a few days and decided the action in Florida was way better and booked another trip out there with my friend Tom and this time I ended up staying at the Hard Rock there for about a month. During the time I went to a few Heat playoff games, played a ton of live poker and met a girl/woman while playing 2/5. We ended up hanging out/playing a bunch of poker together while I was there. I think I was in love for a solid 3 days with her actually, like an OMG my dream girl type of love. She turned out to be a loose cannon though for a few reasons and by the time I left I felt a little different. I got back from Florida in early June and then it was time to go out to Vegas for WSOP!
I ended up getting a house out there with some stars full ring guys. Me, Ballcup, rivrmeadream, tomrh3 and an ftp guy DukeMuscle. The house was pretty shitty but it did have a pool at least. Was located about 2 miles west of the stratosphere off Sahara, didn't hear great things about the neighborhood but it wasn't bad while we were there and I never noticed anything or felt unsafe being there. While on the drive out there I noticed the Air Condition in my M3 wasn't working and then soon after something flew off a car and I ran over it damaging my driver side front end a bit, a good start to Vegas. I got there the night before my birthday and we ended up going to Cut (my fave place to eat in Vegas) and then for some reason we went out to Lavo after. Wasn't terrible but probably would never go there again if I had the choice. This is me at Cut for my bday dinner, wasn't in that good of a mood and was sportin the facial hair/long hair live poker combo
Really Vegas wasn't that fun or exciting this year as compared to last. Most of the time I spent thinking about getting out of the USA to play online poker again and complaining to friends about how terrible it was to grind live poker everyday. There really wasn't much else for me to do while I was out there so I pretty much ended up playing a ton of live everyday at either Aria, Venetian or Rio. I was going pretty busto while I was out there too so my mood wasn't that good and didn't really want to ever go out. I did hang out with a girl/woman I met playing 2/5 a bunch and it was fun, actually ended up hanging out with her alot back home in San Diego before I moved too, sadly I have never met any women 24 tabling online so I guess that is one advantage live poker has. I would give some sort of rant about the pros and cons of live poker but I am pretty sure everyone has had a take/opinion on this since black friday and everything has pretty much been said about the subject. Some like it, some love it, most online guys hate it.
I got back to San Diego in the middle of July and decided to get really serious about finding a place in Vancouver. Most of the places downtown here that were 2 bedrooms didnt have a ton of space so we decided we would have to up our price range a bit to get someplace that was super nice, furnished, good location, and had enough room for 2 grind areas. I found a nice place on craigslist and instead of doing the email process I had tried for a few places before, I would actually make a phone call and use the gift of speaking which I possess to see if I could have better results. By the end of the phone call the places was ours  We sent in our first months rent for the place and then I proceeded to sell most of my stuff and pack up my car to embark on the journey up to Canada. I stopped in San Fran to meet BallCup and we were underway. We kept reading all these things on 2p2 about issues crossing the border and what to say and all that stuff but in reality it was alot of worrying for nothing. We crossed at about 3am and were the only 2 people in the border office. They asked questions about poker, how long we were there, and pretty standard questions. Made us sweat for about 30 mins and then we were in and driving up to our place. We stopped over at my friend Hodge05's place here while we waited for morning and to meet our landlord. While we were waiting outside of our new place for the landlord to show up I actually met a girl/woman (i say girl/woman because there a little older and not really a girl). I was awake for over 24 hrs at this point and delirious, I said something about is she the babysitter or the mother of the 2 kids she was walking and a week later we have hung out everyday pretty much.
We live in a sick location downtown as far as getting something to eat/going out goes. There is every type of food place 5-10 min walk away and if your like me and love the fast food, there is a mcds, burger king, and subway open 24 hours within a 7 min walk. The women here are pretty good looking too after being here for a few days, at first I wasn't too into them but it turns out downtown here is pretty much like a downtown in any big city as far as the feel/people go. We went to a 2p2 dinner meetup last weekend that was pretty cool. I knew 2 of the guys, Ricky and The Main previously and met up with some other guys that are living out here now/have lived here. I got some very nice expediated service from Pokerstars and was back up in about 1 business day after I sent in all my documents. Opening a bank account here was super easy as well and took about 10-15 mins.
Here are the pics of our place we are living in, its on the 32nd floor. Brad got the master bedroom which has the attached nicer bathroom and more closet space while I got the 2nd bedroom with the views/office attatched but separate bathroom. I would say both rooms have the good things about them
Living room
Grind Area
My bedroom view
Brads grind area
Thanks for reading the blog, I am back on the SNE pursuit here!
|
|
| | Last edit: 12/08/2011 14:27 |
|
|
1
| |
how long did it take for you to go accepted by stars after you sent in your information and talked to them on the phone? i've been waiting 2 weeks already and even after following up, no word 
sick looking place you got there, great views. |
|
|
1
| |
sorry but their is a little white thingy next to your mouth |
|
|
1
 |
NewbSaibot United States. Aug 12 2011 14:54. Posts 4946 | | |
Haha fuckin sick life all around man. I've read the horror stores on 2p2 about getting banned from Canada as well, whats the deal? If they think you're bullshitting or something they get pissed and do it? If you just come outright and say you're here to play poker they'll shrug it off and be like whatever? It seems like from what I've read that they dont really consider poker a profession, therefore you cant get a visa, therefore they kick you out if you have no legit reason to be living there. |
| |
|
|
1
| |
you have read stuff about people stupid enough to think they can stay in canada without a visa or something newbsaibot? ;o) |
|
|
1
|
Joeingram1 United States. Aug 12 2011 15:02. Posts 943 | | |
| | On August 12 2011 13:47 HeRoS)eNGagE wrote:
sorry but their is a little white thingy next to your mouth |
lol sick spot, camera ftw |
|
|
1
|
Joeingram1 United States. Aug 12 2011 15:03. Posts 943 | | |
| | On August 12 2011 13:35 rS.Wisdom[9] wrote:
how long did it take for you to go accepted by stars after you sent in your information and talked to them on the phone? i've been waiting 2 weeks already and even after following up, no word
sick looking place you got there, great views. |
Sent in my documents on a friday night, was back up running early tuesday morning |
|
|
1
 |
Raidern Brasil. Aug 12 2011 15:15. Posts 4243 | | | |
| |
|
|
1
| |
awesome view. how much you guys paying a month (each)? |
|
|
1
| |
brad's grinding station the nuts |
|
|
4
 |
JonnyCosMo United States. Aug 12 2011 15:53. Posts 7292 | | | |
|
| Everyone needs to see that you are king of the castle - PoorUser | |
|
|
1
| |
Always nice to read your blog. And I also wonder how much you pay for such an awesome apartment. |
|
|
1
 |
DooMeR United States. Aug 12 2011 16:23. Posts 8553 | | |
hey ill be in vancouver starting on the 15th at night (when my plane arrives). would be nice to meet up for dinner or something. I'll be living with YoMeR and mezmerizeplz. but mez wont be there until the 18th |
|
| I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance, by running away from the scene of an accident. | |
|
|
1
 |
egood United States. Aug 12 2011 17:02. Posts 1883 | | |
Are you that cunt I played with at the Aria, 2/5 one night? You were with some black guy and a hot asian chick? You berated me for not check raising you with a set on the flop in a 3b pot? |
|
|
1
|
dnagardi Hungary. Aug 12 2011 17:06. Posts 1776 | | |
lol enjoyed your blog so much. also the view is godlike. keep it up |
|
|
1
| |
| | On August 12 2011 16:02 egood wrote:
Are you that cunt I played with at the Aria, 2/5 one night? You were with some black guy and a hot asian chick? You berated me for not check raising you with a set on the flop in a 3b pot? |
 |
|
|
3
 |
PuertoRican United States. Aug 12 2011 18:23. Posts 13103 | | |
Nice blog.
Your grind area > Brad's grind area. |
| |
|
|
1
|
AndrewSong  United States. Aug 12 2011 19:47. Posts 2355 | | | |
|
|
1
|
AndrewSong United States. Aug 12 2011 20:00. Posts 2355 | | |
Not sure if u have curtains but might be good idea to attach one. My grind area also has extensive sunlight due to floor to ceiling window and it really bothers your eye when you go from night to day. |
|
|
1
|
Joeingram1 United States. Aug 12 2011 20:11. Posts 943 | | |
| | On August 12 2011 19:00 AndrewSong wrote:
Not sure if u have curtains but might be good idea to attach one. My grind area also has extensive sunlight due to floor to ceiling window and it really bothers your eye when you go from night to day. |
Yo song, it has some blinds/curtains that come down from the top that block out light, certainly not black out like I would like to have but it works well enough to stop the sun when it rises.
| | On August 12 2011 16:02 egood wrote:
Are you that cunt I played with at the Aria, 2/5 one night? You were with some black guy and a hot asian chick? You berated me for not check raising you with a set on the flop in a 3b pot? |
hot asian chick= 3rd girl in blog actually and I would be that cunt then, I haven't ever berated anyone at a live poker game lol but I probably lol'd that you didn't c/r me with set. Where you the guy on my right? |
|
| | Last edit: 12/08/2011 20:13 |
|
|
|
Contact Users: 460 Active, 0 Logged in - Time: 10:33
