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| User: | terrencechan (5146233) 
Terrence "Not Johnny" Chan
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| Name: | terrencechan |
| Location: | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Bio: | First off, **this is not a poker blog**. People complaining about the lack of poker content on this blog are free to direct themselves to the hundreds of poker blogs out there talking about the protagonist played a hand with ace-jack in early position or some crap like that. This is not one of those blogs. However, most of the people who read this blog happen to play poker, so occasionally you will find a bunch of poker jargon. I apologize to those who don't speak poker.
What this is, is a blog written by a guy who plays poker and likes to travel the world. I travel, I live, I experience, and sometimes I write. I make no promises that I do any of those things well.
My background: I was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2002, I went to San José, Costa Rica to work for PokerStars.com as that company's head of customer support. I left that job at the end of 2004 (when this blog begins).
This is what I may look like when I'm playing poker:
Yes, the apple is because I'm Terrence Chan, not Johnny Chan.
My primary hobby is training in martial arts, specifically Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Muay Thai boxing.
Friend me at will, if you find what I write interesting. There is no need to ask permission to add me. De-friend me at will as well. Neither has any significant bearing on my LJ experience, so please don't concern yourself with how I might feel about your decision.
Note to readers: As a result of this blog and the fact that I successfully play high-stakes poker, I tend to get a lot of readers asking me for advice with respect to their poker careers. While I appreciate that a career in poker is often a frustrating and confusing experience, I am not terribly comfortable with advising strangers on what to do with their lives. ***I do not currently offer poker lessons.*** (This comes up quite regularly.) There are many, many forums across the internet where you can talk to professional poker players; some of the sites even have a sponsored celebrity player who is there to answer such questions. I wish you the best of luck and hope that you don't take my position on this matter personally. I'm really not an asshole, I promise.
Note to webmasters: I have received a number of requests regarding advertising and link exchanges for this blog. At this time I have decided not to host any ads or links here. Thanks for your interest. |
| Memories: | 2 entries |
| Pictures: | over 200 public |
| Interests: | 47: $, atheism, atlas shrugged, avoiding drunk people, ayn rand, being nomadic, brazilian jiu-jitsu, canucks, capitalism, chinese poker, costa rica, dagny taggart, economics, equilibria, español, exercise, expatriating, firefly, flopping sets, freedom, game theory, heads-up hold'em, hockey, independence, individualism, kazushi sakuraba, kickboxing, law and order svu, massages, math, maura tierney, muay thai, objectivism, photorefractive keratectomy, poker, pokerstars, pride fighting championships, sex, sit-and-goes, smoothies, star trek, sweatpants, the fountainhead, the simpsons, the ultimate fighter, waking up at noon, world series of poker |
| Schools: | Cascade Heights Elementary School - Burnaby, BC, Canada (1985 - 1993)
Moscrop Secondary School - Burnaby, BC, Canada (1993 - 1996)
Burnaby Central Secondary School - Burnaby, BC, Canada (1996 - 1998)
Simon Fraser University - Burnaby, BC, Canada (1998 - 2002)
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| Friends: |  | 118: | 787style, _neverwhere, adb_davoice, adb_foldem, adb_jaeger, adbjester, adbploink, andrewhime, andrewlau, andybloch, angrygrappler, ashdwb, asya999, babybabble, barts185, benthj, billandmatt, blakwngbrd, braymer, brec, caged_ape, chloepear, chrisdanek, chrishartman, commonlogic, cynthizzle, darse, davidjacob, digital_sunrise, dmorr, doooook, easy_wind, elleclark, emadera52, evwhore, extempore, fich, fieldydwb, frayedges, ftoc, funkiii, gaamblor, groanblog, gunga_galunga, hgfalling, hoss_tbf, hotcookie42, howardtreesong, iliketheletterx, jacksnfive, jacksup, jacqueline1776, jellymillion, jnala, joepro, jonathankaplan, jpmassar, kali_kali, knower, kylebee, laren, livingvariance, lorencius, loser_variable, marknau, mathew5000, mattandcarrie, mgrape, micah_brooks, michlan, mickdog, morello04, naoe_prodigy, natarem, njchick, northshoremike, orlandobr, patrissimo, perspectivism, pfrimshot, pinafive, pinchersofpower, placesyouknow, prock, pygmyhipo, rcfox, rcousine, resultsoriented, rockrockmysocks, romeroe, roswell_42, sabyl, sarahbellumm, savemyskin, scottro, siyokoy, songmonk, stardoll, sunshine__girl, sweet_charade, talkingblue, tctctc2, tctctctc, terrencechan, the_greenhit, thomaskoo, tiltcity, tortuga_loca, tracingwind, tuco99, undersupervised, walterzuey, whipartist, willmagic, without_shame, wreny, xkilla_kx, zorakrezo |  | 7: | aprende_espanol, costa_rica, lasvegas, massage, objectivism, vancouver, vancouver_eats |  | 6: | andyblochfeed, daviddfriedman, garfieldminus, jacquelinefeed, slavetovariance, wilwheaton |
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| Mutual Friends: | 112: 787style, _neverwhere, adb_davoice, adb_foldem, adb_jaeger, adbjester, adbploink, andrewhime, andrewlau, angrygrappler, ashdwb, asya999, babybabble, barts185, benthj, blakwngbrd, braymer, brec, caged_ape, chloepear, chrisdanek, chrishartman, commonlogic, cynthizzle, darse, davidjacob, digital_sunrise, dmorr, doooook, easy_wind, emadera52, evwhore, fich, fieldydwb, frayedges, ftoc, funkiii, gaamblor, gunga_galunga, hgfalling, hoss_tbf, hotcookie42, howardtreesong, iliketheletterx, jacksnfive, jacksup, jacqueline1776, jellymillion, jnala, joepro, jonathankaplan, jpmassar, kali_kali, knower, kylebee, laren, livingvariance, lorencius, loser_variable, marknau, mathew5000, mattandcarrie, mgrape, micah_brooks, michlan, mickdog, morello04, naoe_prodigy, natarem, njchick, northshoremike, orlandobr, patrissimo, perspectivism, pfrimshot, pinafive, pinchersofpower, placesyouknow, prock, pygmyhipo, rcfox, rcousine, resultsoriented, rockrockmysocks, romeroe, roswell_42, sabyl, sarahbellumm, savemyskin, scottro, siyokoy, songmonk, stardoll, sunshine__girl, sweet_charade, talkingblue, tctctctc, terrencechan, the_greenhit, thomaskoo, tiltcity, tortuga_loca, tracingwind, tuco99, undersupervised, walterzuey, whipartist, willmagic, without_shame, wreny, xkilla_kx, zorakrezo |
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| Member of: | 12: 10percentclub, aprende_espanol, costa_rica, lasvegas, massage, objectivism, paidmembers, sydneysiders, vancouver, vancouver_eats, we_the_rational, wellingtonnz |
| Account type: | Paid Account |
