It was about time, at last the new video is out ! A compilation in images and music of the adventure between Lima and Quito between May and June 2014.
And this time, the music was made for the world poker trip ! The whole video is an original production...
Enjoy !
News from Bucaramanga in the East of Colombia. I played quiet a lot of games here, in all sort of places, from the legal ones :
casino NL200 in the center where I had really bad luck (kk vs aa, monster draw vs nfd -100 bb)
to the illegal ones :
crazy place, outside in a gas station ! at midnight, I see 2 cops arriving on a bike "ahh..shiiit" But the cops just come next to us, watch and talk with us ! Funny situation.
I also lost 100 bb ( NL50) because of a JJ vs QQ on a 9 high board where i value cut myself river
and last but funniest, yesterday :
went to casino but there were not enough player, so one of them told me he knew about some other place in the center. We went together on my bike, arriving in a creepy neighborhood where there was this billard place... In a small hidden room at the back, there was the game... NL50.
Lost again, yeah. 150 bb. I was so unluncky. Or was it luck really? went all in 3 times preflop : AK vs JJ, AK vs 44 and JJ vs 66 and lost everytime. And everytime the board was like even if I had just called pre, i would have gone all in flop ( nfd+2 ov, or overpaire on safe board etc...). Well, I have no idea how they did it, but they did it good. I guess that s the risk of playing shitty illegal games. At least, i have good stories to tell, but bankroll is going down.
But as u know, i' m got a sponsor ( Everest poker) so this will help me a bit no to get broke...
Plan for next weeks : 1000 km to the North, riding along the rio Magdalena until Cartagena, big port of the Atlantic Coast. From there I will sell my bike (if any of you know about some traveller wanting to buy a cheap 200cc in Colombia?) and keep travelling to the Caribbeans in a boat !
See u !
Bonus : An underground game i played in Argentina one year ago :
http://www.worldpokertrip.net/poker-clandestin-argentine-salta/
pics from yesterday's awesome journey from Bucaramanga to Mompox, Colombia...
www.facebook.com/worldpokertrip to get updated
dventure is getting more and more famous... I m gonna prepare my first texts + videos in english soon to conquer USA hehehe
The new video got out, it's the first one of my collaboration with my new sponsor Everest Poker. It's mainly french, but nice landscapes to see anyway
I'm writing u from Cartagena, big harbor of the Atlantic coast in Colombia. Beautiful colonial city, beautiful women, big poker table here ( NL200 and NL1200 !) didn't shoot the big one yet, but I'd love to as I saw the players on it, it's like a gift...
I'm now collaborating with an argentinan magazine called Poker Face, 2nd biggest one in South America. After some interviews, they published my first article in spanish !
If u speak spanish, u have to read it, it's simply the best I wrote, the one which made my blog become famous in France. It's about love, adventure, drug traffic and an incredible fake underground poker table...
http://www.worldpokertrip.net/estafa-poker-clandestino-bolivia/
enjoy !
I have subscribed and look forward to reading about your adventures.
Keep your head down in the underground rooms as you never know where or when the next crazy bitch is going to show up brandishing a gun as payment for taking his money.
ho man, if u could read french, u would know that it already happened to me in Peru !
Got to an underground place in a snooker club in Piura, North of Peru. We were playing, and in the middle of a hand, we saw on the security cams a guy trying to rob a moto outside. They all went out at the same time to get the guy, and one of the player just took is gun out and started to shoot him 
(and fortunately, missed him)
crazy shit, seriously.
I took my money some minutes later and went away, happy that nothing more happened...
(at least have a look at the pictures : http://www.worldpokertrip.net/partie-poker-perou/ )
Originally posted by natanoj
ho man, if u could read french, u would know that it already happened to me in Peru !Got to an underground place in a snooker club in Piura, North of Peru. We were playing, and in the middle of a hand, we saw on the security cams a guy trying to rob a moto outside. They all went out at the same time to get the guy, and one of the player just took is gun out and started to shoot him
crazy shit, seriously.
I took my money some minutes later and went away, happy that nothing more happened...
(at least have a look at the pictures : http://www.worldpokertrip.net/partie-poker-perou/ )
WOW scary stuff.
Unfortunately French is not my strong suit and I can only pick up some of the words.
I have had a gun pulled on me 3 different times in my life and just missed a robbery of a game I play in by minutes as I was late getting there, so I know how you feel.
Keep your head down as I really enjoy your blog and wouldn't want you to stop posting.
yeah, don't worry since this adventure ( and a previous one in bolivia where they refused to pay me) i ve been much more selective about the places i go to play, and it shouldn't happen more ...
almost 2 years on the road yet !
Next week, I'm putting my bike on a boat to Panama and at last leaving South America ! To celebrate this, I edited a video/clip/music of these last 21 months which changed my life...
Enjoy !
http://www.worldpokertrip.net/video-deux-ans-amerique/
( don't forget to activate the subtitles by clicking on "cc" on the reader )
Beetween South America and Central America, there s no road. To change continent, moreover with the bike, just one solution : the boat. This video shows the 10 days necessary to cross the most adventurous border of America, and the encounter of the Kuna people, indigenous living in heaven islands in the south of Panama.
Enjoy !
Last night, in Managua, Nicaragua, I ve been invited thanks to a reader of my blog in one the the most incredible underground game in America. At the table, all millionaires including a high ranked army member, historical political figure of the country, the director of a casino, the owner of gold mineS, the owner of an enormous fishing company, a big land owner, some blackjack pros and to end this crazy casting, a (hot !) waitress called Jennifer Lopez ( for real lol )
I was in a movie !
Hey everybody, time to give some news !
- I'm writing you from Hermosillo, in the extreme north of Mexico. I just entered the last geographic area of my trip, Sonora desert, biggest desert in North America in which I'll be riding until Nevada.
Tomorrow morning I'll be crossing the boarder and arrive in Arizona ! Thats it, after 2,5 years of travelling, I'm finally entering the US in Tucson !
- I almost ended my book. I don't know if I mentioned it earlier, but Ive been contacted by a French editing house in France, and my book is being published on September. I ve been invited to some book festivals in France, and it's likely to be a success... how great is that?
- In one week more or less, I'll arrive in Vegas ! If anyone wants to meet there, I'd be glad to have some talks with you...
I'm arriving there with no plan except the dream to play the Main Event, even if it's totally out of my bankroll and I'm far from having the 10000$ to play it. I still don't know of how I'm gonna do it. I was thinking of staking but with the 50% french taxes, thats not a good idea. Of all the solutions I've been thinking, I think I'll just probably ask for the generosity of my followers to end this epic travel the best way. In some days I'll probably open a crow funding thing and try my luck...
Here we are ! See you !
pd : and as the end is coming, it's time for a big map of what was done...
I busted 
Well, that s poker I guess. That was so incredible to play the Main Event that I don't have many regrets except some hands that I played... But whatever
This is the end of the World Poker Trip, and it was so much more than what I expected. I'm so grateful for that.
here is the last interview I got, in english, for poker news. http://www.pokernews.com/video/poker-journey-from-rio-to-the-rio-with-jonathan-salamon-9789.htm
enjoy guys, and thanks for following me.
In some days/weeks, I'll be back in France !
This is really amazing, we are going to feature it as a news story on the site.
I would love to interview you, maybe when you get back to France? I've added you as a friend if you want to private message me?
