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    It’s been a while! I’d like to say that I forgot to update, but the reality is I’ve just been lazy.

    It was only when a random person sent me a msg going “update your blog!” that I was a) surprised anyone even know I had a blog and b) humbled that someone found it, read it, and wanted to read more and thus c) motivated enough to make this post.

    Sooo what’s been happening:

    Pokerwise I achieved Supernova Elite. It was a hellofa grind towards the end of it and I managed to get the final few VPPs with only a couple of hours to spare. I’ll make a future post about the entire grind I made but the reality is that it wasn’t an incredibly difficult task for me (at least not when you compare it to some others going for it). Aside from high stakes SNGs, I would say that playing mid-high stakes PLO ring games is the easiest way to achieve SNE.

    Lifewise the last couple of months have been insane. Plenty of travel, many house guests and a lot of great time spent with friends & family. I took plenty of photos while away and fully intend to upload the best of them, albeit scattered throughout my next several entries.

    My girlfriend and I traveled to Thailand with some friends for 2-3 weeks in early December. We visiting a Tiger Temple and spent the day hanging out with, patting, feeding and playing with tigers of all ages. This was easily one of the coolest things I’ve ever done and one of the best days of my life.

    Offering Monks Breakfast
    We started the day off by offering breakfast to the monks at the Tiger Temple outside of Bangkok, Thailand
    We then went to visit the tigers — they get breakfast too! This is a baby tiger (i think 3-4 months) drinking milk from a bottle
    Tiger Roaring
    Mama tiger was a little more scary..
    Tiger's Playing
    These lil guys couldn’t stop wrestling with each other the entire time
    After breakfast the tigers needed to be walked
    Tiger's playing in water
    We got to play with the tigers in a closed-off area which had water. They gave us these large sticks with garbage bags at the end to swing around that the tigers LOVED and would literally pounce on you and/or anyone else to get to if they were in the way
    Tiger bath
    After all was said and done the tiger’s needed to be bathed.. holy crap they smelled bad
    Me with elephant
    After the tiger temple we jumped back in our tour bus, picked up some beers and went to meet/ride some elephants
    Water shot from elephant
    This is a shot taken while we were on top of the elephant. We were in the middle of the lake

    That’s all for photos of that day. If anyone is ever in or around Bangkok I highly, highly recommend taking a day to spend like this – let me know and I can get you in touch with the company we went with.

    My plan for the next few months is to grind my face off. I want to get SNE again this year and also show a healthy profit from the tables and the only way to do that is play play play. I’m trying to play fewer tables (no more than 6 if I’m playing deep, more if I’m playing cap) which will result in needing to put in more hours to get SNE. GL me.

    • Andrew

      WOW, I absolutely loved those pictures. I really really want to travel to BKK and surrounding countries too, and this just capped it for me. What company did you use? This would leave petting/hanging around kangaroos in Australia in the dust.

    • http://godlikeroy.com GodlikeRoy

      Hi Andrew,

      The company we went with was “Tour with Tong” (http://www.tourwithtong.com/)

      Our particular guide was Kung and she was very, very good.

      Make sure that you book in advance. You’ll have the option of just getting a driver or getting a tour guide in addition to the driver – I HIGHLY recommend getting the tour guide. It will only cost another 1,000 THB (approx $30) but it is definitely worth it. Your guide will take photos of the whole day for you and be able to explain anything you don’t understand.

      You will also have the option of booking a morning tour or an afternoon tour — Get the morning tour. The difference is that in the morning there are far fewer people (there were no more than 20 when we went, rather than the 100+ we heard about coming in the afternoon). The tigers themselves are also far more active and playful in the mornings whereas in the afternoon they mostly sleep. In addition to that you get to experience breakfast with the monks which again you can’t do in the afternoon.

      It’s an early wake-up (4-5am) but definitely worth it!

      Hope this helps,

      Roy

    • Andrew

      Thanks man, this is azntracker btw, I’m gonna save this info right now. Nice work on the steak haha!

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