Giveaway Liftapint's 10k posts, TRK giveaway (2 Viewers)

[warma]

In, please!

1) What is the best advice you've ever been given?

You can’t teach humility on the road.

2) Where is your favorite place that you've ever traveled, and why?

Switzerland. In such a tiny country, you have an incredible range of activities, with amazing transportation, beautiful towns/lakes/mountains/forests/fields, and fantastic people.

 

[judgeanjury]

IN!

Maybe not the best advice but the most recent and maybe close to the best. It is from the poker documentary "To Be Determined" which just came out on Solve for Why TV. Psychology Poker Player Maria Konnikova said the following,

"I think its important to love your life. I don’t think that necessarily means loving everything you do, but understanding why you do every single thing you do. I think too many of us go through life not questioning our choices. Feeling stuck in certain situations, feeling stuck in certain decisions, and being driven more by inertia more than anything else. So I think every single person needs to do this every few years sit down and question yourself and question your choices. And actually think is this making me happy. Am I doing these things because I want to or this is what I have always done?"

Made me honestly start thinking about why I buy chips and what is the goal? Should I be pumping money in just to get chips? Should I buy it just because it is a good deal?



I'll also answer the second question. The best place I ever visited was a super tiny apartment complex park. I was dating my yet-to-be wife at the time and we were at a coffee shop. It was a beautiful day out and I said let's go to a park so we googled the closest park and it came up. Funny enough it really wasn't the kind of park we were expecting. Ended up that we couldn't really go for a walk in a park but instead just sat on one of the benches and talked. We kissed for the first time there and that is where I ended up proposing to her. We are celebrating our 9th wedding anniversary this summer.

 

[FDLmold]

In

“Get samples.”

Went to Stonehenge back when you could walk amongst the stones and touch them, circa 1984. Pretty cool. Climbed the Leaning Tower too, which was similarly great.

 

[Grimace]

In and poker related advise is but samples always first. Favourite place I’ve been and how want to go back is Cuba. Loved it there. Thanks Mel for this awesome giveaway.

 

[Deuce9]

In.

Best advise: Pay yourself first! For every dollar you make put 10% or more into savings.

My grandfather was a wise man.

Travel: Cruise up and down Alaskan coast from Vancouver.

 

[Sprouty]

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There's only one person in your lifetime that you need to make happy and that's yourself!

We got married in the gorge, so I have a thing for the PNW.

 

[ReallyGoodUsername]

In!

2) Azores !

 

[Irish]

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My favorite travel spots are out west to the big national parks. Having spent most of my life in the suburbs of Jersey, I just love getting out into nature and the wilderness. Coolest spot is probably a tie between Yosemite and Zion.

 

[buffalojim]

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My favorite travel spots are out west to the big national parks. Having spent most of my life in the suburbs of Jersey, I just love getting out into nature and the wilderness. Coolest spot is probably a tie between Yosemite and Zion.

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You're lucky, Zion was on fire and closed when I went out west. Bryce is right at the top too

 

[liftapint]

All the photos are spectacular. Keep 'em coming!

 

[Irish]

You're lucky, Zion was on fire and closed when I went out west. Bryce is right at the top too

Bryce and Arches are very high on my to-do list. My wife and I did Zion almost 10 years. It's dry like 350 days of the year there, we of course picked the day after a big rainstorm, so you couldn't see where you were walking in the narrows. Even with that, the slot canyon hike up the narrows is still the best hike I've ever done.

 

[buffalojim]

Bryce and Arches are very high on my to-do list. My wife and I did Zion almost 10 years. It's dry like 350 days of the year there, we of course picked the day after a big rainstorm, so you couldn't see where you were walking in the narrows. Even with that, the slot canyon hike up the narrows is still the best hike I've ever done.

Hopefully someday I'll get there. Go to Bryce, it's beautiful, very colorful.

 

[dkellerd]

In! Thanks!

Don’t sweat things outta your control...and always choose how you let things affect you.

Negril, Jamaica !

 

[ParrotheadMZ]

In!

the Caribbean!
Pick almost any island. All unique in their own way!
I’ve been to many and it would be a tough pick.

 

[Dodger]

In. Thanks for the giveaway, Mel! Very cool!

Best advice (as a kid): You’re only young once. Don’t worry about being/acting like an adult. You’ll have plenty of time to experience the real thing. Enjoy being a kid.

Best place visited (non U.S.): Australia and New Zealand. (Yeah, I’m combining them.) Awesome people, city life if you want it, small town life you want that. Hiking, exploring, weird animals - and scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef is unreal!

Best place visited (U.S.): Maui - cause it’s Maui!!!

 

[CraigT78]

In!

1) What is the best advice you've ever been given (can be poker related, but even better if it's not)?

Do good and care not to whom.

2) Where is your favorite place that you've ever traveled, and why? (can be in the US, or not)?

Golfito, Costa Rica - the most peaceful place on Earth.

 

[Josh Kifer]

That's the best advise I've ever gotten. My Grandfather wrote it on a post it note. He had a great life, and it was because he believed that after 2-3 years of being a POW (while not even being in the military).

Favorite place? Woods and cold, that's all I need.

Oh, and In. Time for me to see real TRKs again.

 

[gopherblue]

In.

Best place I’ve ever traveled? Three-way tie: Morocco, Japan and New Zealand.

 

[Senzrock]

In, thanks for the opportunity!

Best advice you've ever been given: Poker is just one long session. If things aren't going well, manage tilt, quite the game, come back when you're in a better mindset.

 

[Jonstro]

In, congrats on 10k that is quite the milestone!

- The way someone treats you is often a reflection of how they feel about themselves.

 

[Suited Connector]

In!

I went on a trip to Italy and Spain. I really liked the sites, the history, and the food in Rome.

*Edit, Congratulations on reaching Royal Flush status!

 

[Sprouty]

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That's the best advise I've ever gotten. My Grandfather wrote it on a post it note. He had a great life, and it was because he believed that after 2-3 years of being a POW (while not even being in the military).

Favorite place? Woods and cold, that's all I need.

Oh, and In. Time for me to see real TRKs again.

Josh's grandpa wins.

 

[Saoliver]

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That's the best advise I've ever gotten. My Grandfather wrote it on a post it note. He had a great life, and it was because he believed that after 2-3 years of being a POW (while not even being in the military).

Favorite place? Woods and cold, that's all I need.

Oh, and In. Time for me to see real TRKs again.

In!

Josh’s advice reminds me of this:

Favorite place is Kauai... Or North Idaho around Sandpoint.

 

[ovo]

wow Mel, very cool, thanks, IN

best place I've traveled to , I've been to Germany three times, beautiful country. It's cool being in another part of this great world

 

[BEANO52]

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Hawaii, 70 degrees basically every day !

 

[Sprouty]

In!

There's only one person in your lifetime that you need to make happy and that's yourself!

We got married in the gorge, so I have a thing for the PNW.

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All the photos are spectacular. Keep 'em coming!

One more then

 

[k9dr]

In and congrats on 10K

1) Never call a raise on the turn with less than 2 pair

2) Iceland

 

[DZPoker]

IN!

Best advice: find a way to do it in half the time, tell them you can do it in a quarter of the time, and pocket the difference!!

 

[pltrgyst]

In, thanks Mel, and congrats!

1) What is the best advice you've ever been given (can be poker related, but even better if it's not)?

Advice not given directly to me, but I've adapted it to numerous life situations. You take it where you can find it, right?

From Dick Gregory to Sammy Davis Jr, when Sammy was debating converting to Judaism: "Don't go. What you want to be segregated twice for?"

2) Where is your favorite place that you've ever traveled, and why? (can be in the US, or not)?

Tough one, after 55+ years of frequent/constant travel.

Most impressive to others: McMurdo Station, Antarctica, via Panama and Buenos Aires, as a young Army guy, to escort a dead general's body back to DC.

Most meaningful to me: taking my wife to Wales for the first time, to meet family and wander the entire country. Cardiff , Swansea, St. David's, the Brecons, Aberystwyth, Porthmadog and Portmeirion (home of The Prisoner), the magical town of Aberdaron and Bardsey Island (the island of 20,000 saints), Anglesey and Llanfair P.G., Llandudno, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant (where The Englishman Who Went Up the Hill and Came Down the Mountain was filmed, and the Pistyll Rhaeadr waterfall), and wrapping up with the book village of Hay-on-Wye and the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Runner-up: Picking up a new BMW in Munich and within ten minutes cruising at triple digits (miles) on the autobahn headed to visit friends in Vienna, then the Christmas market in Nuremberg, followed by Christmas in the medieval walled town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, where we, along with a Japanese couple, were the only visitors in town -- Christmas Eve midnight service in the (Lutheran) cathedral, concluding with Silent Night in German, and then walking out into the swirling snow. Pretty magical, and I'm an atheist.

First choice whenever we travel: Paris, of course. In the US, San Francisco. In the Caribbean, St. Martin and Aruba.

 

[blackhole]

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2)France, Cirque de Gavarnie, near the Spain frontier. Beautiful sight, but strangely (as it regularly happens in life) I remember with more feelings a small thing: the nap we took by a tree (with a view on the Cirque), waking up by the light sound of a cow's bell near us. Perfect moment.

Thanks for this great giveaway!