are you gals mother mother or something?
you're clearly emotionally invested in this. i don't know why you would misrepresent our pm exchange in the first place and say i was busting your balls, but even more confusing is why you'd call me out about shipping costs estimates. lol?
i know prices by weight to most major cities because i have a reference sheet. shipping IS often cheaper by weight than by flat rate box within canada, and in some cases the price difference is closer to $8-9. i politely pointed out that regular parcels might be less, saying not to inconvenience yourself if you already have the flat rate box. and if i knew you lived in edmonton before hand i wouldn't have said anything because the price difference from edmonton is negligible.
it's like you're trying to be adversarial about things that aren't remotely controversial because you're pissed off about my earlier post where i said gal sucks. so let me just say - your son a lovely boy, and i'm sure he has many talents but poker is not one of them.
that's very often not true. garret, like a lot of high stakes players who started playing online, started grinding small stakes online when young and gradually and conservatively moved up in stakes. there are also people who made one big tournament score but there was a time where durrrr and jungleman and many others were grinding cheeseburgers stakes for long hours, and you'd be surprised at how long a lot of them spent in small games to get there - it's just that you only see the tail end of their progress.
some people in my life think i'm a crazy gambler when i play in 5/10nl games. and of course i care about the money but this is the result of millions of hands starting at cheeseburger stakes, slowly and conservatively moving up so losing several buyins won't have any impact on my life. some would say i'm a pretty big nit, but it's not really that far off from how nitty a lot of these big gamblers you see on tv are treating it.
example: tom marchese in the early 2000's played stars .50/1nl. we knew each other from full contact poker, there was a community of people who all posted their monthly results and talked strategy in chats. and that guy reliably played over 100k hands a month. that's an insane volume to keep up. iirc it took about 6-8 months for him to move up to 1/2nl which seems pretty quick, but when you consider that was well over a half million hands and nearly 500ish buyins won, that's a really slow progression by many peoples standards - but because of how much he was playing and the fact that the stakes don't grow linearly, he's been comfortably playing nosebleeds for a long time now. people like garret are not playing 50/100nl with only 1m in the bank - he's likely in the ballpark of 10m. and i think there's a clear division between gamblers, who have huge chunks of their net worths on the line in these games, and the legit pros who have a few hundred buyins (if not more) in net worth, and at least 25-50 buyins liquid.
i, however, have not reached a level of ballertude where i'm willing to pay $3.5+$1tip for their bottles of water. i bring one from home. guess that means i must be broke.
#notatreefiddywaterballer
