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d4d
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
Switzerland1066 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-10-24 21:29:16
October 24 2007 20:58 GMT
#1
Okay, here I was in Seattle, searching on Craigslist for a ride to L.A.
I did not found one, and many people were actually looking for one... So when I saw this add for a ride to Vegas, I said to myself, why not...

And boy, how good that decision was.

First of all, my ride append to be a Cree/Sioux native called Rod.

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That guy was a well of knowledge and we really hitted off during the trip. Mixing chat about native traditions, chants, progaming and other philosophical topics. The 26 hour trip was really quick that way.

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When I got to Vegas, we parted. Being so short a notice, I couldn't find a couch to surf. So I wandered downtown to find a really cheap motel. I found one for 33$, bed full of fleas and fighting couple next door. The works.

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I spent some time downtown and on the strip. Vegas seemed to me like a Disney World for adults. Everything there is HUGE. I kind of liked it. Just look at the pictures to get a feel of it.

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Then I phoned my buddies in Switzerland. One of them, Carlo, had proposed back in Switzerland to give me money to go play poker in Vegas. I told him I was over with poker, and that I did not plan on going to Vegas, so I refused the money.

See, a year and a half ago, I started playing poker with my friends in Lausanne. I played a lot of it, trying to get better and increase my understanding of the game. Finally after a year of playing it intensively (offline) I came to think I was not cut for it. I knew what I had to do to become better, but I was not ready to commit to it. poker is fun when it's fun, when you try to make it real, it become a job like others, except you are forced to spend time with assholes around a table. And I didn't want that in my life.

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So I stopped saying yes when people were calling me to play and I spent more time with people I like, like my girlfriend ...

So here I was, in the poker capital of the world, with this friend of mine on the phone. He told me he was sending me 100$ over my debit card to play poker. So I said, ok I am going to play some.

First table I played, I lost some money... not much, but enough to eat most of the 100$ I was stacked.

So I invested some of my money.

And boy, oh glad I am I did.

In 4 days of playing 1$-2$ tables there, I made almost 1'500$ in benefit.
I became a target for the local pros, who I bluffed on many occasions and they never got the best of me.

I had much fun and that stay was very, very profitable to my shoelace budget.

I caught a bus to L.A., but I could have as well fly, with the money I made. One of the harder thing to do when you are winning money, is to keep your head on your shoulders and not believe you are a kind of hot shot that can spend as much money as you want.

Then I arrived in L.A. and headed for Venice Beach, where I was about to heal my body with a healthy regime of sports and good food.



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luck is not a factor
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fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
October 24 2007 21:05 GMT
#2
Sounds like a great time with great pictures once again n_n When I get a bit older I really wish I could go on a trip like this and make such awesome posts [: Until then...
Peace~
BalloonFight
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
United States2007 Posts
October 24 2007 21:45 GMT
#3
Sounds like you're having a blast. Where to next after Cali?
semioldguy
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States7488 Posts
October 24 2007 21:55 GMT
#4
Sounds like you're having a great time! I'm jealous.

It looks like a good thing you didn't come down here to San Diego today. Several of our main highways are closed now and it's just generally not the best area to be at the moment for a vacation.
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JudgeMathis
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
Cuba1286 Posts
October 24 2007 22:03 GMT
#5
Maaan, I'm jealous.
Benching 225 is light weight. Soy Cubano y Boricua!
d4d
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
Switzerland1066 Posts
October 24 2007 22:07 GMT
#6
Well semi, we'll play SC board game in germany then

After Cali I am heading back to Vegas... I want more money...
luck is not a factor
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paper
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
13196 Posts
October 24 2007 22:30 GMT
#7
omg awesome story XDDD

don't lose all your money in vegas tho :d !!
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FuDDx *
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States5008 Posts
October 24 2007 22:46 GMT
#8
I love your blogs sir d4d and hope that your travels bring you this way.^_^/") have many happy times and keep smiling sir ^_^.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Balloon-Man-FuDD/237447769616965?ref=hl
JensOfSweden
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Cameroon1767 Posts
October 24 2007 23:27 GMT
#9
On October 25 2007 06:05 fanatacist wrote:
Sounds like a great time with great pictures once again n_n When I get a bit older I really wish I could go on a trip like this and make such awesome posts [: Until then...


You can also go on trips, but the awesome posts are out of your reach son
<3 Nada [On and off TL.net since 2002
yosh
Profile Joined November 2004
United States285 Posts
October 25 2007 00:40 GMT
#10
thanks for the read
forever mech
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