Internet-poker-playing world traveller

[mscags]

Not to mention the sun would be so bright I think it would be damn near impossible to play.

[AAAA]

a buddy is planning on taking his girlfriend on a sabbatical to Thailand, and i am considering a job in Costa Rica. Internet access is obviously the key to eaning a living, and I can't quite imagine dial up.

This may be one of those situations like cable tv, where the rest of the world has better acces and infrastructure than the US. I sure hope so.

[Cactus Cactus]

Well... I have done this for 2 months and loved it. Only problem was it was a paid in the a$$ playing poker in those internet cafes. Now my roomate does this full time and is establishing a bank roll. We are always talking about just picking up and moving out, at least for a year and a half because i would want to take advantage of the 80K tax break.

But here is the question. What is the best and cheapest satellite internet provider?(don't know how to spell this)

[Eldon]

Read about George who travels around in his motorhome with Internet access.

http://vagabonders-supreme.net/blog/blog.html (sorry, I don't know how to link)

May not be Asia but he does have access to Costco.

[Apathy]

I am going to try to do this sort of thing along the EPT route this year if it is conveinant.

[scott8]

So, what exactly do you do?

I'm still unclear.

[MicroBob]

he's referring to the european poker tour with qualifiers on stars that last year hit london, dublin, barcelona, paris, deuville, copenhagen, vienna and monte carlo if I recall correctly.

I checked a couple weeks ago and they still didn't have this year's schedule up on the web-site. I'm hoping they actually have the EPT again.

seems that it was reasonably popular and poker is getting bigger and bigger in europe so I would think it would be a 'go'...although pokerstars involvement might be debateable.

i'm hoping that after the WCOOP events are concluded they have all those satellites for the EPT events again.
A trip or two to Barcelona or Vienna, etc would ROCK!!

[mscags]

Yeah that would be sweet. I also think Pacific has qualifiers for the UK Open II if anyone is interested. I think it is a 10K buy in with 2.5K for travel if you qualify

[TheMetetron]

I am doing the American version of this next year when my lease is up. 12 months in 12 cities to see where I want to finally settle down. New York is already looking like a strong contender.

Here are the 12 cities I am going to spend one month in each.

Seattle, Las Vegas, Honolulu, New York, West Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, Boston, Houston, Miami, Washington D.C., and Atlanta.

I will be either renting a furnished apartment for a month or finding an extended stay hotel to stay for a month.

After that, I intend to do an international version of the same trip with the following cities:

London, Sydney, Mexico City, Paris, Madrid, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Rio De Janeiro, Berlin, Amsterdam, Venice / Milan / Rome, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Vancouver, Toronto, San Jose (Costa Rica), Rosarito / Cabo San Lucas, Athens, and some city to-be-determined in Africa.

My take on the international one is to more travel the world then eventually try to live in any of these locations, but you never know how it could end up. Internet access will be trickier worldwide, but I won't have to worry about this oen for about 2 years.

Meanwhile, I am traveling almost every other week this year to acquaint myself with some of the areas I am going to be "living" in.

It will definitely be very interesting when I start in 10 months.

[Femto]

You should definitely put up a blog for that trip. I'd be interested...