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Subversive
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2229 Posts
October 11 2010 07:00 GMT
#21
On October 11 2010 13:24 Risen wrote:
What's a leak?

Side-question: The GVR people took my ID and asked for my SSN since I didn't have a player's card. Why?

A leak refers to a bad habit or something in your game that leaks away your profit. I believe he was joking, referring to your generosity as a 'leak' in your play/game.
#1 Great fan ~ // Khan // FlaSh // JangBi // EffOrt //
skronch
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States2717 Posts
October 11 2010 07:20 GMT
#22
damn that's AWESOME haha. the job offer is just icing on the cake
50bani
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Romania480 Posts
October 11 2010 08:35 GMT
#23
Congrats!

Don't get cocky if you ever go online though, the skill there is huge. Online tournaments with 1/100 the buy in can and will be harder.
I'm posting on twoplustwo because I have always been amazed at the level of talent that populates this site --- it's almost unparalleled on the Internet.
SCC-Faust
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States3736 Posts
October 11 2010 08:56 GMT
#24
On October 11 2010 14:21 a176 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 11 2010 13:24 Risen wrote:
What's a leak?

Side-question: The GVR people took my ID and asked for my SSN since I didn't have a player's card. Why?


i think it has something to do with taxes


Ahahahaha. Great post man. Laughs were had.
I want to fuck Soulkey with a Zelderan.
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
October 11 2010 13:27 GMT
#25
Meanwhile short stack dude with the KK is convinced his 3 Ks won and he's yellin at the top of his lungs GO BOSTON


lol, i live to witness moments like these
why so 진지해?
Hypnosis
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States2061 Posts
October 11 2010 16:58 GMT
#26
On October 11 2010 14:05 Khol wrote:
I normally become uninterested in blogs towards the 4th paragraph, though you hooked me and I kept going.
I'm glad you won man, I love poker. I played 100 sit and gos the other day on party poker on the last day to get my 50$ bonus. I'm a total badass btw

wow lol thats alot
Science without religion is lame, Religion without science is blind
Cedstick
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Canada3336 Posts
October 11 2010 17:12 GMT
#27
I've never really been interested in Poker -- don't even know how to play -- but this blog for some reason lit something up inside of me. I must learn.

How did Frank just know he could hand you any random software job and you'd be able to do it? hahaha. Or was it more like, "I like you, kid, so come work for me, whatever position you're good at"?
"What does Rivington do when he's not commentating?" "Drool." ~ Categorist
Risen
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States7927 Posts
October 11 2010 17:20 GMT
#28
On October 12 2010 02:12 Cedstick wrote:
I've never really been interested in Poker -- don't even know how to play -- but this blog for some reason lit something up inside of me. I must learn.

How did Frank just know he could hand you any random software job and you'd be able to do it? hahaha. Or was it more like, "I like you, kid, so come work for me, whatever position you're good at"?


I had been talking to him at the table telling him what I was interested in and the likes. Going to law school next year so he said I could continue working for him as long as I kept my nose clean and showed up on time. So I work 3 days a week for 25k a year, seemed like a pretty sweet gig so I jumped on it. Breaks over back to learning a new program :D
Pufftrees Everyday>its like a rifter that just used X-Factor/Liquid'Nony: I hope no one lip read XD/Holyflare>it's like policy lynching but better/Resident Los Angeles bachelor
JinNJuice
Profile Joined June 2010
United States255 Posts
October 11 2010 17:29 GMT
#29
gg on the win , use that money to fly up here. and what computer language will you be using for your multi-millionaire friend.
Ilikestarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Korea (South)17743 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-11 18:36:52
October 11 2010 18:24 GMT
#30
Wow reminds me of my first poker tournament. I got to final 5 but only top 3 got paid . Was like 100 people or so all together. Just some friendly free tourney at school. Was really fun to play.

Such a nice read.
ils
"Nana is a goddess. Or at very least, Nana is my goddess." - KazeHydra
krndandaman
Profile Joined August 2009
Mozambique16569 Posts
October 11 2010 18:32 GMT
#31
--- Nuked ---
MacroNcheesE
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States508 Posts
October 11 2010 19:37 GMT
#32
yeah I was joking about the leak :D but seriously you need to plug it.
Doubt is the venom that has paralyzed humanity.
FiBsTeR
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States415 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-11 19:47:07
October 11 2010 19:42 GMT
#33
On October 11 2010 12:34 Risen wrote: Meanwhile short stack dude with the KK is convinced his 3 Ks won and he's yellin at the top of his lungs GO BOSTON (He was decked in celtics gear). Dealer just looks at him and shrugs while pushing all the chips to me.


Rofl how embarrassing for him. My first IRL tourney was at a small place in New Hampshire and just like your experience everyone there was basically local, but I drove up from Boston with some friends. I got out in 3rd but the guy I knocked out in the bubble was CONVINCED that not hitting a flush with 4 to a flush on the flop was bad luck, and it happened to him like 3 times during the tourney. I don't know whether to be frustrated or just laugh at these ppl when they insist on telling me how lucky I am.

On October 11 2010 12:34 Risen wrote:

Oh, and Frank was there too when I won, came up and congratulated me... AND OFFERED ME A JOB. Is that not the coolest thing ever? I start tomorrow tech support for one of his businesses doing some coding/helping customers with coding a 3D CAD/vector works program. I feel pretty cool right now


Wtf? Haha, if you don't mind me asking what did you used to do before this new job?

EDIT:


On October 11 2010 12:34 Risen wrote:(I gave my friend 200 of it since it was a birthday celebration for him after all).


Good stuff. 5/5
Risen
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States7927 Posts
October 11 2010 20:19 GMT
#34
On October 12 2010 02:29 JinNJuice wrote:
gg on the win , use that money to fly up here. and what computer language will you be using for your multi-millionaire friend.


Apparently I'm going to be using Python. Thank god because if it was something hard I would have been pissed (I'm assuming python is easy from what I've heard). Most of my work will involve learning to use vectorworks and the company's own custom 3d CAD program.

Also, I'm coming on Oct. 27th and staying until the 1st or 2nd :D


On October 12 2010 04:42 FiBsTeR wrote:
Wtf? Haha, if you don't mind me asking what did you used to do before this new job?


I got kicked out of college for failing to adhere to university standards (I skipped/slept through the majority of my classes). If I had the chance I'd probably go to those classes, but its whatevs I don't really care. It doesn't help your case when you go before a review board and say, "Well as you can see from my tests I know the material" like I thought it would. Apparently a few of my former teachers testified that I got lucky on tests and that my lack of effort didn't put me on the same level with other students (in spite of the fact that I usually helped most other students with their homework). I'd like to point out that many of my former teachers came and testified in my favor (shoutout to Shearer, Coppinger, Livesay, and Mueller), but in the end the department head of the ME department decided against allowing me re-admittance on the grounds that I was "what's wrong with young people today thinking that merit alone should allow them a free pass" (have to agree with his sentiment that I was a lazy bum)

Ah well, I'm actually much happier being back in Vegas with my old friends and being able to go to parties that aren't total sausage fests. As you can see, though, I'm very bitter about the whole thing. Maybe I'll write it up in another blog.
Pufftrees Everyday>its like a rifter that just used X-Factor/Liquid'Nony: I hope no one lip read XD/Holyflare>it's like policy lynching but better/Resident Los Angeles bachelor
Risen
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States7927 Posts
October 13 2010 09:12 GMT
#35
Didn't feel like this deserved a whole new blog to itself since it covers poker as well, so I'll update here.

I went out to Boulder Station and sat down with one hundred and left with three hundred ninety three. Gave my friend a hundred so he could play with me tonight so that leaves me with total earnings of... 193!!! Btw between the time I sat down and left the clock only ticked by an hour and a half. So it was a pretty good night :D not for my friend, though, who lost the hundred I gave to him, and not even to me :<

I doubled up once on slow played AK (flop was A Q K) and from there I beat pocket aces with two-pair 5 3 (I was big blind and all the aces did was call blind, his fault for not pushing me out pre-flop) and bluffed another guy into losing a hundred faking a higher flush (he threw his cards face up showing 5 high spade because there were 4 spades on the board, I had a pair of 10s...). Having a blast going out and playing poker, never thought it would be this fun, then again I keep winning so it probably isn't as fun when you're losing :O

Maybe the joker was right, my friend IS a leak. Hahaha
Pufftrees Everyday>its like a rifter that just used X-Factor/Liquid'Nony: I hope no one lip read XD/Holyflare>it's like policy lynching but better/Resident Los Angeles bachelor
Gdarkness
Profile Joined November 2009
United States40 Posts
October 14 2010 08:03 GMT
#36
I love this story even more cause I live in Vegas too (only 20 though ), but hearing about the success with the locations I'm familiar with made it more enjoyable .

Awesome stuff.
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