the bus & train combo is a complete nightmare and always take hours involving at least one missed connector due to lag & they dont even run in the middle of the night when most of the better action in the games dries up.
it's very difficult to make it to any of the surrounding casinos / side games without a car, and i dont excatly have a ton of friends who grind poker that want to hit up a card club for numerous hours on end, or for a tournament that could potentially last all night. it was never a problem, i dont mind the driving. last few trips out to the wsop, other side events around socal, up north. it never really mattered that much to me either, i just went everywhere alone anyways. i never really outed myself, never really went out of my way to meet a large number of people in the community, and generally really enjoyed the anonymity that comes w/ poker, especially playing online. merge is ok i guess, but is still a far fall from the glory days of ftp and stars. last year i got a dui (technically my 2nd, joke 10 year law) 6 days before black friday. i live in southern california, at the moment in orange county.
I'll do my best to make this as short as possible, although i'm pretty bad at that lol. Got referred here from B&M and am copy pasting both posts
