I'm leaving Las Vegas and scrounging for the paperwork to get a visa for a stay in Seoul. It's the capital of South Korea and, with the exception of Tokyo, the most populous metropolitan area in the world.
The city just opened a poker room in a foreigners-only casino. You can also find underground live games throughout the city every night of the week with the citizens.
My focus won't be on poker while I'm in Korea. I'll be working in the afternoons, for one thing. I also am going to finish my writing project or complete the first draft as an expatriate. Now having said that, I will build a poker bankroll to play whatever level I want, since I won't be paying rent.
The key that's changed is poker won't be necessary to support myself. My poker goals won't be as much about making money as about moving up in levels. Kind of like a video game concept where you fight your way through a bunch of opponents and then beat the boss of that level and move to the next level.
Don't expect updates for a while as I sell my stuff on Craigslist, maneuver through bureaucracies, and settle into a totally foreign environment, what a well-traveled Australian recently told me was "the least Western country" he'd ever encountered. But check this site again in a few months. I'll report on my online poker exploits, the casino games at Walker Hill, and the underground live games.
