So is online poker legal for foreigners but illegal for locals, or is it just like thailand where it is illegal all around but not enforced?

i assume it's illegal all around since networks go out of their way to block it.


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I was able to play on multiple pokersites hu just fine. Korea's net ftw. VPN does slow it down some.

Thanks, I'm sure I would like it and have heard it's a good school.

I am going in February 2011

@koreanbrad.

great post. say someone is coming for a week or two visit. how do u find out what level a night club, karaoke or room salon is on? i mean in the post there seem to be different levels of activities. can u just walk into the different room salons and ask what is offered and check it out before going in? same question with the karaoke places. or is the only way to somehow find a korean guy to take u into these places, and tell u exactly what can be done and what level or classification the place is on...

yes go with a korean or korean speaker and ask any waiter there or doorman or madam depending on where ur at, they will tell u everything very candidly

hey i was just browsing around and ended up at your post.

Guess what, I just recently graduated from NYU's hotel & tourism management.
so im your hoo-bae! NYU 2010.

Im also korean american but I decided on law school, so im here studying LSAT at the moment (they teach every standardized test the best here).

SUNBAE-NIM, if you ever got the time we should chill and maybe even
hopefully i could learn some nightlife from you? :P ahahahah
I've been to "club spot" two years ago, but i think the name is boss now?

Anyways, I currently live in seulleung, so its like 5 minutes away from you.
It'd be cool if we could get acquainted! grab a light drink or lunch or somethin

hey KB

so i'm in macau and i've started to catch the live poker bug. problem about korea is the rake, anything I can do about that? Like to get a prop deal or whatnot? I love me my heads up pokers

Also when I was @ the 7luck casino, not the one in gangnam but on the north side of the river, since there was a waiting line I asked the host if I could play someone heads up while waiting. He got all huffy and offended like I was wasting his time, what's the big deal w/this ego? Do poker room managers really pride themselves on running a poker room? Fwiw that wasn't even a room, there were like 6 tables max and only 3 going...what a prick

next time tip him a manwon first

was his name danny? or jimmy? if it was i'll laugh.

i think you can get prop deals in korea, but the problem is they'll force you to sit out when the game gets full which is bad (not 100% sure on this but it's what i've seen)

dunno about the heads up thing, if two players are willing to play and pay rake it would be going against his job description to deny you guys

i dunno

he was on the chubbier side, not fat but chubby, i think he had short spiky hair. perfect american accent.

That's unfortunate about the prop deal. If you can give me a good deal, I'll start tables whenever I play

playing HU with their ridiculous rake structure seems bad, no?

yeah probably that danny guy, i caught him smelling my boxers the other night

sounds like Ben. and koreanbrad, what's ur real name?

i hope u bubble tomorrow, assmuncher

hi danny

hey do the korean casinos spread craps? If so, what's the min. bet? And how much do i need to be rolling/for how long to qualify for some worthy comps?

oh also in the tournament here in macau, i met someone named mike. He said he started up poker rooms in the hotels in korea? Said he was planning on bringing the wpt to Seoul, any idea on who I'm talking about?

LOL...you already know how that turned out

who's danny? and who are you??

no craps in Korea

what's ur name? ur in macau right now? and yes, I know Mike very well.

lol, ok. i hope ur the first to bust at the final table. and stop trying to spoon me while i'm sleeping, u assmuncher

i don't know what you're worse at: poker or running a poker room

Are you worried about North Korea carpet bombing seoul? Any plans to leave because of tensions?

lol no

damn, those are fighting words!

Well w/no craps, I've got barely any incentive to play @ the casinos then.

Would it be possible to set up a 5k+ heads up game w/a severely reduced rake? How big do the poker games get? And please don't give me that haughty laugh that the other douchebag gave me. Playing online for me is > than playing live unless the live games are big enough, and with the casinos taking a $15 rake, i mean...that just argues less incentive to play

oh fwiw, i'm never going back to that 7luck casino again. As long as that guy is there, I'd rather pay the cab extra to take my friends and I to walker hill. No way in hell he or his casino gets a cent from me if he's going to get butthurt about someone wanting to play his precious fanclub heads up while waiting for a table