The Fine Art of Maximizing your Losses!

[trishan]

And if you're good at something you need to share it with the world!

Unless of course you're good at murder...

[Origami]

The Fine Art of Maximizing your Losses! V1.1 - So what do you know?

Things that you know you know, things that you know you don’t know and things that you don’t know that you don’t know. Huh?

This is a complicated premise to work with so ill start with a few examples to set the mood. Starting with something that I know; I know how to cook two-minute noodles. It was one of the first tasks I learnt when I first moved out of home, mum was no longer in the picture and I didn’t have a girlfriend to replace her so I had to fend for myself. I purchased my first packet from Coles, read the instructions on the side and added another crucial skill to the resume of my life. This is something I know that I know.

Also staying with the leaving home theme, I know that I don’t know how to fly a plane. I have travelled by plane on many occasions to many destinations but for life of me, if you asked, I couldn’t tell you how they get up in the air and go. I find something very strange about 40 tonnes of flying metal that is close enough in my opinion to the shape of an anchor.

Now on to the really hard part, how the hell and I going to describe something that I don’t know that I don’t know?

Poker for me is best example in my books. Now thinking back to my first piece I wrote that it was my brother who dragged me to my first poker event but lets step back one step further and talk about before that.

Before that first poker tournament, I had never heard of anything other than five-card draw and thought it was an extinct game that only cowboys used to play. I also didn’t know anything about free poker; online poker or even the possibility of have a career is what is now a booming industry. My point is, that before I was introduced to poker, not only did I not know anything about the game; I didn’t even know I didn’t know. As I said, I thought there was only one type of poker!

The reason this is so interesting to me is because I see myself as two different people. The person I was before poker and the person I am now. The person I was before poker was quite aimless. I had ambition but no passion to channel that ambition. Don’t get wrong, I wasn’t a drop out or a bum. In fact I have completed a few different education courses at both University and TAFE level since graduating secondary school I just never found anything I truly loved.

As I never pursued a career in any of the fields I completed and education in I found myself trapped in a job and life that was unsatisfying. I was “going career” in retail. The term “going career” was a little in joke my teammates used to share with me while I an employee at the Kmart brand of Coles Myer. My first job was at Kmart and I was employed for nearly eight year! In this time I was awarded employee of the month on four occasions at three different stores and even employee of the year twice at two different stores. Please don’t think this is just a gloat session, I only say this because for a while I really did think I was going to be that “career Kmart guy” that all my friends joked about. This was such a disturbing thought to me and I guess I only kept it up for as long as I did was because I thought I didn’t really have much else going on and my parents where proud that I had a good job and I was going places.

Now this is where poker really came in to my life! One of the more amusing days in my life was the day I arrived home one weekend and told my parents I had resigned from Kmart and that my future lay waiting before me in the realm of poker tournament hosting! To put it lightly, my parents where very far from impressed and it wasn’t until they met my close friends and boss’s Garth and Brett Kay that some of the pain was alleviated, I’ll save the whole story for another time.

Anyways I have now rambled on for way to long and I really only had one message I wanted to push across and that’s; of all the things that have impacted on my life it was the thing that I didn’t know that I didn’t know, once I knew, everything changed… you know?

to be continued ........

Days of our Lives has nothing on this...


as the Sands of Time slowly sink through the the Hour Glass of Nathan opps Time

the Saga continues


same Bat Time same Bat Channel... woW!!! K Zam ##!!@@

[Brett Kay]

Brett - I think Poker is O-Kay - with tips on growing a sexy beard

This title is golden.

Do realise i am going to be at the grand final.
Can hang shit on me, but be prepared if i start slinging it back.

[trishan]

Brett - I think Poker is O-Kay - with tips on growing a sexy beard

This title is golden.

Do realise i am going to be at the grand final.
Can hang carp on me, but be prepared if i start slinging it back.

Nah I didn't mean it in a bad way - thought you did a pretty good job. I tried once to get a beard similar to yours Brett but with sideburns things and it was an epic fail. I need to get one of those purpose built shavers that are for beard grooming.

[trishan]

One of these things:

[trishan]

On the topic of facial hair...Anyone doing Mo-vember? Thought I might get the hairs growing early this year but don't really wanna look like a caveman when I meet Warney...

[Brett Kay]

On the topic of facial hair...Anyone doing Mo-vember? Thought I might get the hairs growing early this year but don't really wanna look like a caveman when I meet Warney...

What i have is from last movember, was the only one that stuck it out, because the other 3 all struggled, one couldn't grow any he was proud of the wispy tuft, another had to shave because his girlfriend didn't like it.

This year, could shave it off, but no fun. I like my look LOL.

[AceLosesKing]

I just know some bearded stranger is gonna walk up to me and go "Hey AK," and I am going to freak the hell out.

[trishan]

Fair effort Brett to keep it that long. I kept it for a while (just the mo) and brother said I looked like a 60s porn star so I shaved posthaste.

I'm a big supporter of Mo-vember. For some reason men's health issues go unoticed. I hope all the older forumers get their prostates checked regularly. It is an uncomfortable procedure but better uncomfortable than dead!

[Brett Kay]

Fair effort Brett to keep it that long. I kept it for a while (just the mo) and brother said I looked like a 60s porn star so I shaved posthaste.

I'm a big supporter of Mo-vember. For some reason men's health issues go unoticed. I hope all the older forumers get their prostates checked regularly. It is an uncomfortable procedure but better uncomfortable than dead!

Lets say i remember what i looked like before and what i look like now.

Lets say round faced vs more angular. Better reason. Plus the confidence LOL.

AK - Be worried, be very worried. LOL.