From Philippines back to Belgium: Rediscovering…

Joenaes · 2011-01-02T21:47:54Z

Kumusta!! As you all might know we (JQ, GRY, Waraiotoko, Ivan and me) are going to Philippines this year. We leave on the 16th of January (except for Ivan&Marek) to enjoy live in Cebu. Why are we going there? - Nice weather - Nice beaches - Low cost of living - Good base to start other Asian trips (Macau, HK, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, China, Thailand are all 'pretty' close) What are we going to do? - Play lots of poker - Analyse together - Travel/gamble to neighbouring countries - Keeping ourselves healthy with sports and good food (cook) - Party Our goal? Simple. We want to have an accumulated profit of 1 mirrion after 1 year. It will take a lot of heart and commitment, a lot of work and analysis but we will get there! This blog will be about our life in PI. You can follow our poker/travel/sport/life/visitors progress in this one. In the next posts everyone will briefly give an introduction of his poker career so far and his overall goals for the future. Unity makes strength Crew members!!! WaraiOtoko Hey everyone! Guess it's time to introduce myself after joining PI crew. :) I'm Marek, 24yo Slovak player, currently living/studying in Brno, Czech Rep. I'm half way through reaching Master's degree in computer science, specialized in security. Even though I "only" need to finish last 2-3 exams, I still have to write a thesis, so about 1 year of hard work left. This is where I stand right now and I feel that after 5 years of studying I'm kinda losing drive/motivation for it. Defo dont want to give up on it, just feel that spending hopefully awesome year with PI crew is the right way to clear my head and regain motivation. I started playing poker in mid 2009 with starting capital from PS, obv busting it in my first week :f_biggrin:. However own $50 depo did the trick and after few months of donking on a few dollar sng's I decided to give cash games a try in Jan 2010. It went quite well and since march I've been playing semi-pro on nl100 SH, later nl200. After having a bit of a downer in november, loosing 30bi in 3 days, I decided to mix it up a bit and try FR rush. I've never played FR before, so spent last month or so trying to adjust my philosophy from "no-one ever has anything" to "everyone has quads" &diams;. So far doing good, and I'm really looking forward to analyse with other great players in the house. 2011 Goals: -beat NL midstakes and shoot for highstakes by the end of the year -learn PLO, preferably HU and beat small-to-mid stakes -play more live cash (Macau?) and learn not to bust several bi's to fish &diams; Non-poker goals: -travel a lot; since I really like asian culture and plane tickets are so cheap from PI, so Macau, HK, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and mby some others be prepared :P -continue to learn Japanese after 2y break, and maybe take on another language (Spanish?) -workout and either swim or run regularly -party and enjoy life -experiment with different sleeping patterns to have time for all these things above &diams;, probably gonna try biphasic sleep of 5-6h with 0.5-1h afternoon nap ZhiCheng Hi, my name is Tomas, i play poker seriously since August09, consider myself pro from July10. The main reason why I am moving to PI is that I really want to work a lot on my game .. and probably there is no better way to do it than cooperating with other players. I am looking forward for long hours of analyzing, sidebetting on volume and other poker related activities. Philippines Plan pokerwise -beat nl200rush by March -mby change site later on and shoot higher? -learn plo n pwn plo hu up to 200... in 2011 -1mil hands -100k profit Dream world: -1,5mil+ hands -150k profit Philippines Plan RLwise: -Work out twice/week -Learn some Mixed Martial Arts(urban ninja style would be my preferance) -Do all kind of sport n own Jonases ass as well as the asses of other members (just had to write that sentence) -Party hard -Enjoy life to fullest -Think abt life and plan my next steps Ivan Will be updated after PS reaction Joenaes Hello I'm Joenaes :). I graduated in Business Economics: Finance in 2010. So after 20 years of school I wanted to change horizons and now I'm here in Cebu. Poker Career: At the end of 2009 I started playing NL200 regularly and in 2010 I managed to get a good income as my first year as a poker professional. I crush NL200 now and beat NL400 at a good rate over a big sample. I'm not fully satisfied though because I didn't make that many improvements this year. From NL200 to NL400 is a big step but I'm sure if I had worked harder, I would have been a lot higher as well. So 2011 will be the year of the big step! My goals for 2011: Poker: - Become a feared PLO specialist - Reach high stakes (PLO1k(+)) - Get SNE - Make $200k How will I do this? - Play 5 hours a day on average - Analyse with my roommates for 1 hour a day - Watch 1 vid a day or use this time to analyse some ...

Joenaes

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27.01.2011, 20:29 0

First clubbing action was nice, I like it her :f_biggrin:

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elfigus

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27.01.2011, 20:40 0

how many $ per month for the sicko house?^^

In the future I want to reach you on Cebu so plz give us more detail !!

and photos !!

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ZhiCheng

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27.01.2011, 21:25 0

I just refused nice time w a model.. hope tmr talks will be worth it ♠_cool:

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ZhiCheng

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27.01.2011, 21:25 0

oh wait.. its in 5hours.. prolly thats y i refused

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Cornie4ever

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27.01.2011, 23:23 0

hey friends, I started my own blog today. Will keep posting around my life in gibraltar, my poker career and spread the news on czech/slovak community plans as well Gibraltar mission aka CZECH/SLOVAK Community rulezzz

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27.01.2011, 23:36 0

Originally posted by Cornie4ever
hey friends, I started my own blog today. Will keep posting around my life in gibraltar, my poker career and spread the news on czech/slovak community plans as well Gibraltar mission aka CZECH/SLOVAK Community rulezzz

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De Ja vu

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ZhiCheng

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28.01.2011, 20:23 0

World is full of awesome poeple!

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28.01.2011, 21:26 0

Originally posted by ZhiCheng
World is full of awesome poeple!

u r clearly running good.

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29.01.2011, 03:10 0

jonas if u get a moment would u mind taking another look at this thread:
200 (live poker): overpair in 3bet pot

Also I saw the your new haircut on fb, u look more like a fashion marketer then a pro poker player ♦ but other than that its a sick haircut.

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Joenaes

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29.01.2011, 05:18 0

We are at Wendy's place right now and yea it's awesome. She and her husband are extremely friendly people and also the place is really nice. The weather is sunny as well :f_biggrin: (not like rainy Cebu). Depending on the stability of the internet here we stay home or we go visit wendy's friend in taguatay or something like that.

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Joenaes

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29.01.2011, 10:12 0

JQ is pwning the tables!

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29.01.2011, 10:28 0

So.... he hijacked Wendy's laptop when he saw it's pink by saying his won't connect to the router? Classic excuse! :f_biggrin:

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29.01.2011, 12:25 0

LOL :f_biggrin:

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29.01.2011, 12:29 0

Jehouu, whats up everybody?

I kinda fell in love with this laptop.. Can I keep it? ♦

For those of you who dont read the second best blog in ps.com ( hint - its a very purple blog ), im having a problem with connection on my laptop :/ Damn i wish i had bigger BR i would snap buy new one.. I plan to buy new one in next months but now im having quite a lot of expenses etc.. Anyway Wendy did lend me hers and im not sure i wanna give it back.. its so.. purple.. ♦

Just kidding obviously.. Thanks again Wendy

Good luck everybody

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29.01.2011, 12:48 0

Originally posted by EmanuelC16
So.... he hijacked Wendy's laptop when he saw it's pink by saying his won't connect to the router? Classic excuse!

soulread ♦

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29.01.2011, 12:50 0

Originally posted by Odessa91
LOL

hey, not funny ♦

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Vildcz

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29.01.2011, 12:55 0

Wow, nice laptop...I like it...especially the colour ♦

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29.01.2011, 12:56 0

Actually....it´s a little funny... ♦ why don´t you use the "pink" mouse too?? ♦

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1wayman

Joined: 08.09.2008

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29.01.2011, 13:11 0

wow JQ had more replies in this blog in one day than in whole his old blog.

Also i want to hear how much profit u made so far, or at elast give that number at end of each month so we can see how close u r to your progress of 1 mio

It will be legendary!!!

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ZhiCheng

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29.01.2011, 14:28 0

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From Philippines back to Belgium: Rediscovering poker after 2 years of inactivity.