The Well: TheMetetron

[Keyser.]

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You live in Argentina, correct? Do you have to still pay US taxes? Do you pay taxes there too? Basically just explain your tax situation as I would [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] to live abroad.

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I pay USA taxes. I don't pay taxes in Argentina. I get approximately ~$18k knocked off my USA tax bill for living abroad plus no state income tax.

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favorite movie?

favorite book?

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I suck at picking favorite anythings. For books, I'm currently trying to read some Spanish novels and short stories and I find them very interesting.

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do you know roughly what percent is knocked off for living overseas? Ballpark it if it's not a simple answer, I'm just really curious.

Also make sure to check out Gabriel Garcia Marquez (though you probably already have since he's a pretty huge Spanish writer), his big epic novels are good but I really like Chronicle of a Death Foretold and it's a lot shorter.

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It's no USA income tax on the first ~$80k of earned income. You still owe self-employment taxes, however.

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what do you charge?

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Currently $300/hr.

My hourly over the last 6 months from playing poker is about $600/hr.

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How does one master stack-a-donk at SSNL? A short lesson?

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I have no idea what this means.

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Favorite all time Tekken character?

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looking at the party lobby, there are never many tables running at 10/20 and 25/50, do good games run often?

also, at these stakes what would you consider a good table.
so what sort of stats would a fish have. at 25/50 are there some really bad players or is it just sharks feeding on smaller sharks

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Favorite all time Tekken character?

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To play with: Lei

For sheer badassness: Devil

For laughs: Gun Jack / The Bear

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When did you go to Cal Poly? Major?

Seems like there are a lot of us in the poker world!

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Poker story?

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I started out playing $25NL and $6 SNGs on Party Poker at the end of 2004. At the time I was holding down a $10/hr crap job so the money was big. I busted my initial $100 deposit, but re-deposited like a good fish. I went on a whole bunch of luckboxing until I started to lose again.

At this point decided that I didn't like this losing stuff and couldn't afford it, so I went to pick up some poker books and for some reason got the 2+2 stuff by chance. Like everyone else I read it, found the web site, and started posted.

Began playing $.50/$1.00 limit (since the book taught limit) and moved up to $15/30 within months (ill-advised, under-rolled, players way better than me move). I was running good at $15/30 and was like "wow, I can make so much more playing this poker stuff than working... I'm going to stop working."

That was January 2005. Predictably, I got my ass handed to me and had to move down to $3/6 and $5/10, but eventually I made it back to where I started. Moved to Vegas in January 2006 and hit a snag where I propped for a while to make my money, but eventually moved up to $20/40-$50/100 limit. Moved to Sweden in August 2006 and then Buenos Aires in January 2007. Went on a retarded downswing at limit and swore it off. In February 2007, I spent the entire month learning No-Limit at $1/2 realizing I would probably break even on the month which was fine. Won around $5,000 and moved up to $2/4 in March and by the end of March was playing $2/4 and $3/6. Won $30,000 in March haven't had a worse month since. Since I've moved up to $5/10 and $10/20 which I currently play and want to start getting more $25/50 into my game as time goes on. My goal for next year is going to be half a million dollars and I think it is achievable.

I move to Bondi Beach, Australia (just outside of Syndey) in January 2008.

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When did you go to Cal Poly? Major?

Seems like there are a lot of us in the poker world!

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2002-2004. Economics.