The Well: wpr101

[Rampage_Jackson]

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Have you ever gotten lost in Tallinn, if you have would you write about what happened to you?

The first couple months I would go for a walk at night, and intentionally try and get lost in Old Town. It's quite fun to do, and easy to recognize when you get outside Old Town. One of the strangest was when I walked down to the port area and found that abandoned pyramid like structure. I believe someone told me it is an abandoned music hall. It was 4am, but this was also during the height of summer so the sun was about to rise. I had no idea WTF this thing was, whether it was private property or not. I climbed all the way to the top. Surprisingly there were some other people up there. Met some girl up there who I smoked a cigarette with and talked for awhile. I gave her my contact info, but never heard again from her, damn :P

Funniest thing happened to you in Estonia?

I got 2 stories, you can decide which is the funnier.

First one, the very first night I am in Tallinn, some girl approaches me in Old Town and says she met me the last time I was her. I seriously did not remember her at all. But she says: "You no remember me? I take your virgin!!" Just totally hilarious, and terrible English.

Second one. I am waiting for the bus to go to Riga for the first time, and in that big area where the busses come. I am sitting with maybe 10 people near by. This guy comes up to me looking stumbling drunk, and he's starts talking in to me in Estonian. And like what at first? He keeps talking so I say "Ei raggi Eesti", and he keeps talking in Estonian. So I am like yo dude I don't speak Estonian. He keeps going so I repeated "Ei raggi" a couple more times. Finally he knows a tiny bit of English and I realize he wanted a cigarette. Now the funny part is only now, I realize he was speaking Russian!! And there was like 10 people around who heard this whole interaction, nobody helped me out to tell me :D. I cannot imagine what they were thinking... like this is seriously the most retarded thing ever. Drunk russian talking and the other guy just keeps saying Ei Raggi.

How does your typical day look like while trying to achieve SNE? Is it the same in Estonia?

I usually start the day by going to the gym or getting breakfast first. Then play a usually a 2 hour session. Sometimes it is 1 hour or sometimes 3 hours depending on if I am feeling it, or if I still have chips in an MTT. Take a break, come back to it later try and put in a couple more sessions in the day. I play on average 3 sessions in a day ranging from 1-2 hours usually. But consider I am usually playing 20 tables, so it is a lot of hands, and playing 20 tables for 5 hours a day is taxing mentally. Roughly the same in Estonia as I was doing in the US.

Did your friends in the States think that you were out your mind when they heard that you will be living in Estonia (probably thought that you will be moving to Russia)?

The night before I left I went to a bar with one of my best friends and we asked everyone who knew of Estonia. Out of an estimated 30 people only 2 people had ever heard of it, and both from the movie Ensino Man where a 30,000 year old caveman pretends to be an Estonian exchange student. If you want to add me on Facebook (William Ross, wpr101) check out this album I posted called New Apartment and the discussion. There are comments like, cool new apartment, is it in Maryland? Some of the comments are total failboat.jpg.

I've told this story a couple times too. Even when I mentioned I'd just traveled to Estonia, this one guy was like "Bro, that's in the Eastern Bloc, are you fucking crazy?" Apparently was somehow under the impression the Berlin Wall is still up and life behind it is truely hell. I was telling him about it, but he wasn't really listening. He was so convinced, he kept trying to tell me how shitty it was there, and I was like no dude, I've been there, it's not shitty.

Did you even know where Estonia is before you visited us the first time?

Not really. I actually googled to see whether Estonia had the internet, and things like what the kidnapping rate was :D

[mikk2468]

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Not really. I actually googled to see whether Estonia had the internet, and things what the kidnapping rate was :D

ROFL!:D

[kjmrc]

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Not really. I actually googled to see whether Estonia had the internet, and things like what the kidnapping rate was :D

LOL :D

[hotcocacola]

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what do u think, where are you better, live or online?
which you prefer to play?

[KristjanLaas]

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First of all great answers and good job on 3rd consecutive SNEs. Am enjoying the thread already.

Have you went to or finished college? If yes, then which one?
Have you already gotten in some kind of trouble in Estonia? (with the law, arguments in bars or w-e)
If you plan on answering Rage´s question, then pics?

[tdx]

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1) As a profession, do you find poker intellectually stimulating enough compared to e.g your job at Lockheed?
2) Does the complicated nature of gambling (ethical\social aspects) affect you? Or you just go, YO FUCK IT, I'M MAKING THE MONEYS HERE!!!

[Provoker]

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Have you ever used firearm? Whats the coolest gun you have used?

[suitsutihane]

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thoughts on future of online poker in europe?

bermuda triangle as home - what do u do if u need to sleep in the nighttime?

do u use a pee bottle? what bottle? large ice tea?

have you broken anything bcus of tilt?

[alaska]

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Tnx for doing this.

Whats with the geography in america? Can they locate Sweden in maps? France?

Tell some more things that are considered as SIN in america but here nobody cares.

[Rampage_Jackson]

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i can teach you chess, if you teach me poker. deal?

Hah maybe if I get into chess we could work something out. Right now, my interest level isn't high enough to commit to it.

[jrgn hell]

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Is this true, that in US people usually finish their jokes with just kidding?

If so, did you find Estonian general sarcastic humor hard to understand when you started to interact more here, in Estonia.

There was a story a couple of years ago, where Carmen Kass was in New York or somewhere and dating a black dude, who introduced her to another black dude, who put his hand forward to greet and Carmen Kass told him that her mother teached her not to touch shit.
She also didn´t add the i´m just kidding part, as this is not the general custom in Estonia, and the black dude had looked very horrified.


what kind of software were you engineering mostly in Lockheed?

[Rampage_Jackson]

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How is it in US then and why do you like them? I have even got hustled in Estonia when I couldn't be bothered to read how much they charge but it's my fault (do hustler taxis write prices clearly in English?), but in Latvija they write in local language only and I was super pissed when they charged me like 15 LAT-s for 1km ride. I hate these hustler taxis.

In the US the rate is just very standard for every cab. I don't know what the rate is, but a 45 minute taxi ride to the airport costs like $60 no matter which cab company. Yea, well I found out pretty quickly about the prices... once when I went to Ranka's place and the cost was like 6 euros, and the 2nd time I went and it was 25 euros :)

I figured out which cab stand to go to now and always look. Actually one guy got me good coming from the airport a week ago. There was no cabs for awhile, so I took the very next guy, I didn't look, and the base fare was like 5 euro, and the rate about 2 euros per km. He kept asking me questions thinking I was a tourist, and I was told him I live in Tallinn. I think he felt bad about the rates he was charging once he knew I lived there. He didn't have exact change at the end, and gave me a 2 euro discount.

I had a similar experience in Latvia. Get in the cab, and tell him where I am going, and he's like 10 lats! I say no I want the cab rate posted on your window, and he says no it's 10 lats. Took the next guy in line, he wanted 8 lats... they refused to use their actual advertised rates.

How do you guys in US change clothes in gym's locker room or take a shower then if you never see each other naked?

If a friend is in the same room that needs to change, it might be typical to say like hey dude, turn around for a minute, I gotta change. You just wouldn't drop your pants in front of another guy without saying something at least lol.

[jrgn hell]

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i´m not racist

Also, as i imagine that you have shared a taxi with ranka a lot, was it weird to you, that people in here sit in the front seat, while in the US this is out of the quetsion?

[Rampage_Jackson]

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fair deal, niki is estonian champion in "rapid chess" (not kidding).

1. how you see yourself at 5y perspective - still grinding, at estonia? (if there`s no black friday 2)
2. have you visited any extreme places in estonia? seen moose or bear in wildlife?

1. Probably still grinding. I like poker, but I like the freedom poker gives me more. I will likely be in Estonia for the next couple years at least. I got a residency permit which lasts for 2 years. Since I just went through a massive effort to move here, and I am not interested in moving anywhere for awhile.

2. Most extreme place I've been was Hiiumaa. Seemed like the random people I met there were the most ethnically Estonian I have seen. I've yet to see any wild animals... the closest I've gotten to a bear is eating karu at the Russian resturant Troika.

[Rampage_Jackson]

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have you looked into learning estonian language? how long would you need to plan to stay in a foreign country, to start considering that maybe its worth learning their language also? it obviously depends whether its a "world-language" (spanish, portugese, french) or some language almost noone outside the country itself speaks (estonian).

Yes, of course! I take Estonian classes with a tutor at multilingua. You must know Estonian to succeed in the 21st century... it is the language of the future.

I've learned a simple but effective 4 stage seduction process for any Estonian lady:

1) Saame tuttavaks
2) Pead rohkem jooma
3) Tissid paljaks
4) Kaksteist kuud

Also, some lol moments along the way, like asking someone what does the Estonian word pohhui mean?