World Poker Trip - A second year living on the road ?
Here we are, what is done is done and there is no turning back now.
I’ve just bought a one way ticket from Paris to Rio de Janeiro, without any cancelation insurance.On March 31st, at 6:30 AM, I’m leaving France only carrying my backpack and some savings.
When I read these words I wrote on my blog exactly 1 year and 7 days ago, I feel like I don't know this kid anymore...
Who was this young guy who was at the same time worried and incredibly excited at the idea he would finally give a try to his wildest dream?
I have no idea, but the key is : I did it. I was a bored architect, and I'm now living from live cash game while doing a world trip with the money I earn on my way...
Obviously, not the way I thought at the beginning. I was planning to make my world tour in one year, and I'm still in South America... I guess Parkinson, my shaking motorbike is one of the reasons... Who could tell the same me who had never touched a motorbike before would buy one and travel around with since Paraguay?
Or maybe it were the girls... I guess I fell in love a bit too much... In Paraguay. And in Argentina. And in Bolivia. And in Peru. Twice actually in Peru. hahaha...
(Ahhh Lauri... Why did I leave Asuncion??)
Or maybe it was just the poker? I played quite a lot, in so many different places. Going from one city to another, from poker room to poker room. Clubs in Brazil, casinos in Paraguay and Peru, illegal tables in Argentina and Bolivia...I played in the high society clubs and with the mafia. So many stories u don't imagine...
Well.
I celebrated my first anniversary one week ago... I was supposed to come back to France after a year, but I feel it's impossible now. I just can't imagine myself in front of a computer 8 hours a day. I would kill myself before... My life changed. So many encounters, incredible moments, and so many doors opened...
I became in one year one of the most famous poker blog in France. Got some radios interviews, paper articles, I ve even been contacted by a publisher who wants me to write a book. Dream coming true... How could I stop now??
I'm not coming back to France anymore. The road is calling me. Within some days, I'll start season 2 of the World Poker Trip, to the North ! Ecuador, Colombia and Central America... Maybe at the end of it I will reach Las Vegas, who knows...
A new big challenge... Hold one more year. Or maybe 2, or 3, or 5... Until I get broke one day...
And if you wanna know more, here it is :
my website :
www.worldpokertrip.net
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www.facebook.com/worldpokertrip
and the first traductions are coming :
http://www.worldpokertrip.net/english/
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Better late than never ^^
Sorry I totally forgot this thread and for whatever reason I remembered it this morning.
Well, some news 7 years later :
After the Main Event in Vegas, I came back to France. I wrote a book about my adventure (if anyone is interested it's here, but it's in French https://www.amazon.fr/World-Poker-Trip-j... ). After this, I was quiet tired from travelling so I tried to come back to my previous architect life, but working 9 to 5 in an office was, as u can imagine, quiet hard after all these years of freedom. So I tried to find an equilibrium, starting poker again but as an online player this time. This lasted for 5 years. When corovanirus started, I had already been thinking for a while of quitting again, trying to find a new path, so I took the spot to start an online business which I'm still running today. On the side, I happen to be invited to give conferences now about poker, taking risks, and taking decisions in uncertainty contexts.
Thanks for following me back in the days, that were good memories 😀
