Old Poker Pro is back because of COVID with 6$ BR

hi, the title was interesting, so I opened nice. Why did you left poker when you were doing so good? DId not see future because of too many regs, inflation in latvia, so the money from poker cannot buy that much anymore?

I am from lithuania, and I really noticed how salaries started rising and too keep up with poker became very hard comparing to other jobs. We were making calculations that from poker in lithuania could live playing NL10 but now I am not even considering this. And I never beat NL25. At those times beating NL25 maybe I wuld have turned to pro ♦ but then one day I guess I would stop beating and still would need to transition to programing.

Hello my neighbor:f_biggrin:
There was many reasons why i quit.
First was that Pokerstars.fr banned Latvians, and it hit me hard.
Second i always wanted to get in the business world and in 2015 i invested all my bankroll and open e-commerce (e-shop).
The fild began to become much more difficult (more regs). And i will be honest, I was tired of that lifestyle. Grind-> party hard and back to grind and that goes like 4-5years ♠_biggrin:
Well if you play for living it always depends were you live and what economic situation is in that country were you live. I knowed guy who beated nl50-nl100 very solid and lived in London, but eventualy he quit because he just could not afford pay rent for his apartment ♠_cry:
Well ye in my times there was many guys from Baltic state who lived out grinding micro ♠_biggrin:
I tryed my luck in poker business and had own stable with 4-5 horses, but I realized that it didn’t pay off for sure.I was putting to much effort for guys who just did not want to study poker seriously:s_rolleyes:

Grind-> party hard and back to grind and that goes like 4-5years

why do you needed party hard ? ♦

Well if you play for living it always depends were you live and what economic situation is in that country were you live. I knowed guy who beated nl50-nl100 very solid and lived in London, but eventualy he quit because he just could not afford pay rent for his apartment ♠_cry:

Paying rent really sucks. Luckily I am not paying rent for home for like 5 years, it saves so much money which can be directed you my own flat. I do not understand how other people calculate and say paying rent is more +EV than having own flat, assuming you dont change living places often.

Only sucks now that in belarus they have built nuclear power plant near our capital, like 50 km away or smth and I dont trust them, I dont want there another chernobyl. So having flat so close to nuclear bomb managed potentially not carefully does not feel too well.

I am even thinking about buying next flat in Kaunas, so that it would be more far away from that bomb and even if it explodes, maybe it will retain some value. Like Kiev is about 100km from chernobyl and is livable, so Kaunas I think would be bit more than 100 km.

Also Lithuiania closed its nuclear power plant to increase safety. So now our close looks useless and even worse. If we had not closed - maybe it would not have been worth for belarus to build their power plant. But we could not even choose, EU was telling us to close. But EU cannot do anything to force belarus to close, at least I dont see.

good luck!

no worries, you will get back in no time

the core NEVER changes, just the details do

And people are doing stupid shit these days haha

anyway, hopefully I will NOT see you around at the tables lol.

Did you consider giving spins a shot?

Btw, can you speak Russian as well? (I am really curious how many youngsters can speak this language now)

I am from Eastern Europe myself haha.

Btw, there are many similar words in Baltic and Slavic languages. Anyway, not gonna ruin your blog here, haha.

GLGL

I was young Next week i am turning 29 But i remember grind like yesterday
Times move fast damm
About living space, ye i agree with you.I think it is always -EV something to rent in long run:f_thumbsup:You are just burning money.
I living at the momement in own flat, but soon i hope i will be able move to own house
If i will be honest , i don't worry a lot about chernobyl scenario now days, because a lot has changed from that times. But i definitely wouldn't want to live that close either to nuclear power plant :f_biggrin::f_biggrin:
Haha i have been many times in Kaunas, very nice city i have old acquaintance there living.:f_drink:
Belarus is different world, look how they dealing with COVID men Obviously EU cannot do anything there.

Trust me or not but ye all my memories about poker mindset is coming back ♠_biggrin:
I think my biggest plus now is that, i dont need think about money at all, i am not playing to pay bills or smth. else.
Well at the micro they always do stupid shits ♠_biggrin:
I am playing spins only from tickets what i get from reward system(and i win some of them:s_cool:)
Pokerstars have changed a lot (in my opinion terrible way) .
Я свободно говорю на трех языках, один из которых да русский♠_drink:
Yes there are many words similar, i often use Slavic language when i need swer :f_biggrin::f_biggrin:
Haha
GLGL:s_thumbsup:

yeah, cause Jews run that haha...

woooooo, cool

I can read what u said, but my RU vocab is super limited... anyway, Russian is on my bucket list

never been in Latvia, but wanna go... your language is super interesting

Latvian and Lithuanian are the most ancient languages in Europe - massive goose bumps as I am writing this

anyway, good luck man

I am in a v similar situation - 26, but living w parents and trying to move my ass up haha...

wanna build a house, grow the food, fuck the wife (I mean make love w my wife obv, but dont have any yet haha), make kids, and live a normal life

three languages u say? that is cool

can you see any similarities in grammar between Latvian and Russian?

All I know is that Baltic and Slavic languages have some lexical similarities... about 1k of them

not sure whether Latvian or Lithuanian is closer to Slavic branch

Yeah, I am balls deep in dis, wanna go study linguistics

anyway, not gonna ruin your thread

peace n GL

Hello soldiers in New Year

The idea is to start writing a blog, and I remembered when I had posted something here.
If something comes to life here, I will continue.:f_thumbsup: