mr_woosh

thanks for you replies people! I am reading a couple of books now to try and actually play instead of just throwing money in when I feel like it :D and I do fold a lot trying to be extra careful as my budget is very limited at this point (and I already figured out that free games are no good as people do whatever as they are not risking anything). play mostly at pokerstars. started at .02/.04 :D now trying myself at .5/1.. made an expensive mistake of trying a 3/6 about 10 days ago.. definitely not ready yet :D but yeah I was always amazed at people always talking about probabilities up to a .1% precision and was always wondering if there are any shortcuts for calculation or do you just have to memorize stuff. so I really appreciate the two rules in the previous post! if there are any more tricks like this they'd be greatly appreciated :D see you guys at the turney tomorrow! oh, btw how long does it take for an average guy to get decent at poker? and how do people make their living playing this game as in all these three weeks I barely saw anyone at pokerstars making any significant money (relative to the stakes of course). looks like people fluctuate around the original buy in a lot with rare exceptions

ok, so tell me guys r u seriously managing to calculate all those probabilities with .1% precision in those few seconds before you have to act? if so is there a trick to calculate it fast? or do you just remember them or do you just reflect on it after the game trying to figure out what the exact probabilities were? pardon my ignorance but I've been playing poker for just over 3 weeks and I barely have time to guess what i should do, not to mention trying to figure out exact numbers

mind if I ask you where do you get those prepaid visa cards? never had the need for one and never saw one I think

sounds good to me, now who do I discuss free beer with? that's the weirdest (and I guess the saddest) thing that I've heard... well, I am glad there's always Mesquite! ...damn now I cannot get the idea of going for a boogie out of my mind... I have a feeling these three weekdays will drag forever now...

Thanks for the tip guys, free beer and $16 jumps sounds about right (although provided it's gonna be my first jump there it most probably will be me who's going to provide the beer ). my only concern would probably be my limited experience and and being new to the DZ and getting into a huge boogie crowd right away.. but then again you have to start somewhere and pardon my ignorance but I am not sure I know who Mark Z is or why would I want to meet him (still new to the sport so bear with me here). and as for other DZs not allowing fun jumps, does it mean that they only do tandems and teach aff but once you are off student status you have to go somewhere else? or am I completely off here?

Hi there! we are going to Las Vegas this weekend and I was wondering which drop zones are open around LV. dropzone locator shows three, but skydive las vegas's site gave me an impression they just do tandems. One of them I think claimed that they are the only place to jump in 300 miles and I also found some old threads discussing how you can jump only at jean (although they were a couple of years old :). so the question is whether boulder city, jean and mesquite are the only drop zones around, whether they are all open and will be happy to see a couple of A license holders with 30 something jumps under their belt and if so which one do you think is the best (understanding that they are all great) if you just have time to check out one of them. Thank you! Blue skies!

not an experienced jumper here, but a noob with his own rig, so I figured I'd share my experience. I am a zero budget jumper and I knew I'd want my own rig as soon as possible as I'd suffer over the rental fees every time I jump. knowing that with

If you haven't jumped a 190 in the past, do yourself a favor and do your first jump or two back on whatever canopy it was that you did your last jump on. Yes, even if that means you'll have to rent a rig. There are many people out there who can explain from personal experience why the above is a good idea. +1, I got my rig on new year's eve but I got it with main 170, so that it's 1:1 wingload for me, so had to wait 7 weeks before I actually downsized to it and was confident about my landings on all the previous ones). 230->210 and 210->190 transitions seemed much more drastic to me though than 190->170, go figure.. stay safe and have fun! jumping your own pack job is a lot of fun and it helps to build confidence and understanding of the rig tremendously! was packing ever since AFF graduation. blue skies!

well, the best part of it is that I've met them for the first time just a few minutes before the jump and now I feel like they are best friends that I've known forever... ...damn, now I am hungry for a jump again I should read the forums only on Friday night, provided I have the money to jump on Saturday morning... oh well, I guess I can try to drown my sorrow in BASE videos, or watch Cutaway for a 100th time...

there are pics, there's video, there were girls I was the only one naked though. People here in California have a lot of misconceptions about what cold weather is, everyone was putting on several layers when I was undressing I am still contemplating though whether all the documentation should be made available to the public ...and the funny thing is I feel more embarrassed to show my flying skills (or rather the absence of it) than to show my bare ass no arch, legs too wide, unable to fall fast enough to keep up with the girls (and I mean, this was as tight as a jumpsuit can get ) and I guess I was the major contribution to the fact that a planned skydive became a tumbling orgy ... oh boy, I don't know how did they let me graduate... Edited to add: but I still have to admit I loved every second of it and I somehow have a strong feeling that I had much more fun with this one than I'd have if everything went as planned I mean, that WAS my first jump after getting my A AND disregarding the coach jumps it was my first RW jump AND the only unstable tumbling I had before was my AFF6, which was tons of fun and was one of my favorite jumps (and still is). So all in all I could have had a more professionally looking video I guess, but I have a feeling it'd come at the expense of fun part of it

thank you all for replying. we had tons of fun saturday night especially after 5 people from Air Trash showed up... man they are funny. such a wonderful celebration of our first license. Now I cannot even imagine that some people don't observe beer rules.. they are totally missing out :D Blue skies!

I am extremely grateful to all of you guys replying here and especially to those special people at Perris: Luke, Brook and Naomi (sorry if misspelled), who made it such a blast. Thank you so much! This was the most wonderful birthday in my life. And I guess that was the best jump to appreciate all the freedom an A license gives you.

well, from what I've read having bad beer karma leads to very dire consequences, so I don't see how discussing such an important part of BSR can belong to a bonfire but point well taken, I think I might have made a mistake by posting here

are you suggesting taking everything off before boarding the plane? after some reading I was under impression that you take it off in the plane... I don't really care as much I guess but I certainly don't want to insult anyone, being new to the sport it's hard to judge what's people's attitude towards these things.. and a standing landing within student circle is on top of the priorities list also, not to hijack my own thread, but just curious, FastPhil, what's a BASCR? is it one of SCR awards, I don't think I've seen that abbreviation there though..

ok, Birthday's coming up this Sunday and I am seriously considering going nekkid, unless there's a sudden change of plans. Read a few threads on the topic, sounds totally like fun to me. so the question is whether it's ok with people at Perris (from previous threads I got an impression that it is, correct me if I am wrong) what to wear, when do you take it all off and how do you walk around the dz after the jump (I think I've read somewhere that the only option is wrap yourself in canopy, but I am not sure if I like that one :) anyone would be willing to do a video? would be totally fun to go with someone on this one, but I guess that'd depend on whether I get my A on Saturday. anyone interested, let me know :) although I am a total noob with very little RW experience. any other pointers on the subject matter are appreciated I will be there on Saturday and will talk about it with Perris people but any ideas/advises are much appreciated! Thanks!