question for dn about travel opportunities/habits

[chunky04 0]

Something I've been curious about for a while now.I've been reading a few of the reports on Cardplayer about some of the players that have come down to visit Australia for the Aussie Millions.I'd have thought that with the freedom the poker lifestyle allows, it would be relatively common to see pros go on "working holidays" attending a tournament in a foreign country, and dragging their partner along and having a bit of a getaway afterwards.I've never actually heard of this being done however, and find it somewhat curious. Every account I've read (admittedly 95% of them from Daniels blog or Cardplayer), the players tend to fly in, play the tourney, then fly out. This seems to me to be a bit of a waste of the opportunities provided by this lifestyle. I realise a lot of the pros are very busy these days with their indirect business dealings, let alone the playing poker, but it still surprises me.

[Real Deal 0]

A quick answer I would think is due to scheduling. The other is that a lot of other pro players are American and don't hold travel outside of the US as high a priority. I have been to 20 countries in 5 continents and while I certainly ran into Americans while traveling, I ran into far more Ozzies, Kiwi's, South Africans and Brits. It just seems to ME like if MOST Americans want hot they got to Vegas, Florida, Cali & Hawaii ect. Want snow go to Tahoe, Washington, Colorado ect. Not quite as often you here an American say I'm off to Kuala Lumpur, Marrakech or Lima. I just don't think they are either A) as interested or B) feel more uncomfortable when outside their own country? That would be my guess.

[chunky04 0]

I think thats definitely true, but I know some of them do.The main articles that made me curious were Hellmuth and Andy Glazer talking about heading down to Australia for the Aussie Million event. In both of those it seemed they pretty much came, played poker and left, which would seem a pretty inefficient use of time to me.You could easily stay in the States and play an event there - why spend the money to go somewhere else unless you're really going to take advantage of it?