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Getting My Baht Outta Macau and Back To Bangkok

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The Hero's Journey · Answer the Call · Macau Field Ledger The First Asymmetrical Bets Getting My Baht Outta Macau and Back to Bangkok I quit the straight job, carried a one-way ticket toward my home of record, and entered a foreign poker room where baccarat instincts invaded no-limit hold'em, the number 8 carried its own gravity, and the first rough equations of a later doctrine began writing themselves in chips. Open the Macau Archive Continue to The War Years One-way ticket Foreign land Lucky eights Macau to Bangkok Decision science before the name Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Before the books, memoirs, mental models, and doctrine, t...

The Urban Monk On The Hong Kong Express

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The Hero's Journey · Foreign Land · February 27, 2009 Vintage Chaos The Kowloon Report From Bangkok's user-friendly universe to Mong Kok's concrete forest: caffeine, density, Chinglish, monopoly money, location-neutral living, and the strange moment when the extraordinary becomes ordinary. Enter Kowloon Previous Field Ledger · Macau Mong Kok Concrete forest Hotel @nyware Chinglish From nation to notion Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Where was all that feng shui in sardine land's concrete forest? Greetings from the user-friendly universe of Bangkok to one of the most de...

Winning at The Wynn in Macau-The Wealth Report

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The Kowloon & Macau Helium Report Winning at the Wynn in Macau Vintage chaos, Money Heaven, deep-stack poker, card lust, and the long argument between good decisions and lucky outcomes. Hong Kong → Macau → Bangkok February 2009 Hotel @nyware Field Notes Getting My Baht Outta Macau and Back To Bangkok This began as two reports: one from Kowloon, where the extraordinary had become ordinary, and another from Macau, where the poker rooms were learning No-Limit Hold’em in real time. Combined, they became one story about money, motion, dopamine, decision-making, and the danger of confusing a winning result with a winning decision. Part One / The Kowloon Report Vintage Chaos in the Concrete Forest Hong Kong: where density becomes weather. Greetings from the user-friendly universe of Bangkok to one...

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