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Hi everyone
I arrived at the Bahamas yesterday and I decided to write my very first entry for the Team PokerStrategy.com blog. Feel free to give me some feedback about it because there are more of them coming in the future.
I spent the last month being back in Belgium which I enjoyed after a few months of intense traveling. It gave me some time to meet up with a lot of people I didn't see when I was doing the reporting thing.
This is how I found out saying: "I'm a reporter for major poker tournaments around the world" usually brings up a lot of questions. Unfortunately, this is also how I found a lot of people have a serious desire for sharing random bad beat stories from their home games.
Some people do have problems with the work I'm doing.
These are the people who grew up believing the best way of life is to study, get a job and try to stay out of trouble. The kind of people that will try to make you understand that if you don't do what society tells you to do, you will inevitably end up regretting it. But off course, I'm not really listening. They do make me realise I should care a bit more about money, something I tend to forget when traveling around with succesful poker players. But really, I think they should enjoy life a bit more by not worrying so much about unimportant stuff, something I also learned by traveling around with the players.
Most people are actually pretty jealous about what I do, offering me to switch jobs and so on. I'm usually a big fan of bragging about myself because I think it hides my ego issues. To be honest though, when it comes to the reporting thing, I don't really get exited about people telling me how lucky I am.
It's because I think they don't really know what I'm actually doing. By that I mean that I didn't just travel to the Bahamas to
lay on the Beach all day long being fed strawberries by two sexy half naked girls. I actually spend most of my time traveling, working quite a stressful job and getting some sleep, if there's time. But if you think I'm complaining then I'm probably confusing you.
Because I enjoy every single second of this!
As for now I'm looking forward to bring you 9 days of coverage about the PCA events.
See you at 18:00 for coverage of day 1A of the Main Event.
Elias
Bringing the good stuff since September 2009
Which reminds me: Happy New Year!
