What an opportune time to answer this question as I just brought home a 19 year old from the bar where I just left Big Bananas. High grade for sure; young, big breasts but skinny, pretty face and fair skin. She asked for $100 and having drunk enough whiskeys I was in no mood to argue. I probably could have argued her down but didn't want to kill the mood. High end KTV girls will get anywhere from $300-$500, more if they're actually Chinese. KTV girls a grade below about $200. I'll try to post vids/pics of the girl if I can.

The backpacker crowd has pretty much moved over to Koh Rong proper, while Koh Rong Samloem seems to have become the more expensive resort spot. I'm not much the backpacker, hippy and/or beatnick type so I have no desire to go to the other island. But Samloem was the nuts and we're already counting the days until the next trip.

Crazy night yesterday as I dropped $1,100+ online, although $175 in rakeback mitigates that a bit. Then I went to go meet Big Bananas at a bar on street 130 where I happened upon a young 19 year old that I've never seen before. She was pretty buck wild in the bar as I don't think she got up from my lap for more than 2 minutes. At about 2:30 AM we would have moved on but I wanted to take the girl home and call it a night. Let this be a lesson for everyone; you never ask the girl if she wants to go or is willing to go. A lot of these girls won't go with first timers and if you give them an out they'll take it. Just ask the mamasan for the bill and when you do tell her to add a bar fine. 9 times out of 10 the girl will just get ready to go without issue. Of course it helps that you spent some money in the bar demonstrating your value. If one goes and buys 2 lady drinks and sips on a draft beer for 2 hours and then asks the girl to go like a cuck, she probably won't budge from the bar. Gorgeous girl BTW, even better after she came out of the shower and washed the bar off of her. She kept saying that her breasts were small but they looked big enough for me. She didn't want to go home so she just ended up staying the night but the fuc*ing power went out so it was a bit uncomfortable trying to sleep without the air con. She left about an hour ago, I went up to the pool for a quick swim and now I'm about to get some lunch. It's rakeback day so my assistant is coming over in an hour to help me process every player in the agency. Then I'll grind and then I have dinner at some new sushi place with a friend and a couple of the girls from one of our regular spots on street 104.

We discovered a great new restaurant yesterday. Japanese fusion seems to be all the rage lately and so we visited the latest place called Mikasa. It was the best dinner we've had in a while. Total bill was $284 for the 4 of us but a promotion cut it down to $142.

I did a live Twitch coming out of the restaurant. Not going to upload this one to YouTube considering the company I was with.

https://www.twitch.tv/poker_triad/v/...9?sr=a&t=1150s

One of my regular girls just left the condo and she asked me an interesting question on her way out. We've known each other for a few years now so she's aware of the whole poker thing and so she asked what I enjoyed more, playing poker or working as an agent. I told her that while I enjoy playing more, the fact is I make more money being an agent. It works out fairly well for me as the paradigm of my agency is that it's run by someone who still plays. I do admit that it is a bit of a struggle as I find it difficult on many days to find time to put in significant volume. Also the agency work leaves me little time to study so any progress I make in the games I play has to largely come from trial and error.

Another aspect of the agency is that I play up the whole "poker life" aspect of living in Southeast Asia as a player. I often fire up the camera on our nights out and compile the clips for a series I do on YouTube. They are by far the most popular videos on my channel, although sometimes it does garner some hate. I received two notifications today on comments that were made on the video I have linked below. As I don't appear in most of my videos I can only assume they were talking about Big Bananas, who is my running partner on most nights and is in most clips. There are those who watch these videos that have lived in these parts and know exactly what life here is like. But some are going to hate as they cannot wrap their heads around a lifestyle that they have never experienced. My life in America was quite different and I don't think I would have condoned back then half of the things that I do now. But I have largely concluded that whatever moral stance I held previously was merely a lack of opportunity. You don't truly know yourself until you're put into a situation where you can pretty much do whatever you want.





Today was a bit hectic as it was Valentine's day and I had promised my wife dinner at a Chinese restaurant. I took her to Fu Lu Zu which is in the grounds of a five star hotel here called Sofitel. I had been there several times but as she had not she wasn't prepared for how items were priced. I told her to order whatever she wanted and so she did with a $78 abalone dish. I guess the waitress picked up on something because she mentioned the price to my wife, who then quickly changed her order. I told her it was fine but she insisted on getting something else as she is really good about things like that. She wasn't always this way, but as we've had children and the years have gone on she has become much more of a wife and mother instead of just a former bar girl. Some girls never grow out of this phase as I know several who are nearing their 30's and have kids but still live like they are 21. I try not to judge considering how I live my life, but I'm still glad it is a phase that my wife has outgrown. I came back to the condo later in the evening to get some work done on my Twitch channel and had my regular come over. I should really call them earlier as she basically passed out for an hour in my bed as soon as she entered my bedroom.

wow that guy in the video is such an *******.

This has been the most poker player-ish type week that I've had in a while. In fact my life has become somewhat routine in a way that is very familiar to me from my playing days. What I do everyday can pretty much be boiled down to the following:

• wake up
• eat lunch at favorite Japanese spot
• return to the condo to do agency work
• go for a swim
• have dinner with the family
• return to the condo to grind
• out for drinks with friends
• bring a girl back (not daily)
• go to sleep

I got introduced to a new Israeli club with great omaha games and for the limited time I've been able to play I've been crushing all week. These are literally the worst players I've encountered in a while. I've included a photo of my week and before everyone goes nuts I should say the club is in Israeli shekel. So basically divide everything by 4 as 1 chip is $0.25 USD. Here's how it breaks down in dollars:

• Hands 1,557
• Win/Loss $1,611.75
• Rakeback $289.16
• Win rate 51.76bb/109

Unlikely that I'll sustain that win rate but I'll ride it out as long as I can and you never do know.

New Poker Life episode is uploaded:

So we had a community outbreak of covid here recently in which two Chinese escaped quarantine by bribing a guard. Turned out they have covid, went to a bunch of places and infected a large number of people. So they've done contact tracing, tested a bunch of people associated with the places these two have been to and one of them turned out to be the condo that is my second residence. So about four nights ago I came home from drinking with friends, went to sleep and when I tried to go out to lunch the next day the police had barricaded the entire premises. They have quarantined the entire 23 floor building and began testing everyone a couple of days ago. My first test has come up negative so they won't be testing me anymore and now I just have to wait out the next 10 days as I am currently in day 4 of the lockdown. Of course the night I returned to the condo was one of the few nights I came home alone so I'm stuck here by myself as we obviously cannot have any visitors. The worst part is that I cannot see my family during this time and my daughters are having trouble understanding why I am not home. We video call as much as possible but it's not the same of course and I am struggling with that the most. We can have food delivered in so I'm fine there and I can go with jerking off for a couple of weeks as that was basically my life back in the States anyway. At least I can get some work and volume in online. I don't imagine I'll post much during this period as I don't want to put up pics of delivery food I'm eating daily.

It's amazing/depressing to me that a 3rd world country can have a drastically more responsible pandemic response than the US... I'm glad you're safe. Hopefully the time alone will do you some good.

I was wondering - what does "online poker agency" mean? What do you actually do?

It basically means that I am a recruiter for various clubs that operate within these apps. So at the top level you have the app itself, like PokerBros. But in reality the app has very little do with what actually transacts in the games as on the surface they are nothing more than play money apps in the Play Store. Within these apps you have unions and within each union are clubs. Consider the clubs like skins of the same network. If Union A has 10 clubs within it, all the players in the 10 clubs are playing on the same tables against the same players. Underneath each club are agents and they are actually the ones that get the players to fill up the tables. So the union offers each club a certain percentage of the total rake generated by their tables. A portion of that is offered by the club to agents, who then recruit players offering them a portion of the percentage they get in the form of rakeback. In a nutshell that is what I do. I have 26 clubs in total; 10 in PokerBros, 3 in Pokerrrr 2, 7 in PPPOKER, 6 in UPoker and then a mixed game one and finally GG. That's what the website, social media page, YouTube channel and Twitch stream are all about, namely to market my agency. Hope that made sense.

New episode of Poker Life:

The above episode was comprised of archival footage as I am still in quarantine from the community outbreak we had here on February 20th. I was supposed to be let out this past Wednesday but two residents came up positive on the last round of testing so they kept us locked down. We had our third test yesterday and my hope is that if everyone comes up negative they'll let us out of here on Wednesday. But even if that is the case I fear they will do a full 2 week cycle and keep us an extra week for a 4th round of testing. That would make basically a solid month (28 days) that I am to spend inside my condo by myself, which I admit has been a bit maddening. I've kept myself busy with agency work and playing, although I haven't put in as much volume as I thought I would. The police went around the other night and basically shut all the bars down and the girls are really starting to feel it as I am getting multiple calls and texts daily begging for money. My ex is a complete psycho as she called me 18 times last night, at which point I finally just blocked her. Not before I got the photo below from her lol. I got access to a new soft club so I've been playing there mostly and have done well. Considering my results I wish I had played a bit more thus far but my soul dies a bit each day as the quarantine continues. I might just take the rest of the day off although such a notion kind of loses all meaning when you're stuck inside.

Everything going ok, been a while with no updates?

Just been playing catchup in life as I managed to get out of quarantine after 20 grueling days. I was worried for a while there that I was going to be stuck for a full month, but after the 3rd round of testing everyone came up negative and they let us out. Now I just go to sleep each night deathly afraid that I'll wake up the next morning only to find us locked in again. It's crazy quiet here right now as this "community event" has led to the national numbers for covid to multiply 5x in just 2 months. Regular businesses are still open for the most part but anything fun to do at night is closed with a few exceptions. Been calling girls in to the condo and grinding for the most part. Going to meet Big Bananas in about an hour for dinner and we might go hunting for what's open. I'll have a proper update with pictures later on.

8pm-5am curfew? Brutal...

It's not so bad really. I get to finish some work that's been piling up for my agency, grind more and I can always call girls in. I have the #2 over the condo now as we just finished dinner. Now she'll clean the entire place and then take care of me. It could be worse.

Ok so let's play some catch up. As I mentioned in a previous post some Chinese escaped quarantine by bribing a guard then went on to infect a bunch of people. So I was locked down in quarantine for 3 weeks alone in my condo, managed to be let out only to have this curfew slapped on us for another 2 weeks. 5South is right as the hours are from 8 00 PM to 5 00 AM every day during which no one is allowed outside. In between these two events I didn't do much really as the bars were mostly closed anyway. Some were open and we managed to go out to a few of them but they were mere shells of their forget selves. One good thing about the quarantine was that I finally got rid of the forget #2. Total freak in bed and absolutely gorgeous but a total nut job. I ended up blocking a bunch of other girls as a host of them texted and called daily begging for money. All a bunch of scammers really. I've gained a ton of weight during the whole ordeal as the restaurants are still open and not much else to do. Of course the wife is still pregnant and in just 2 more months my first son will be born. I decided to name him Aiden which means little fire in Irish. And please, no one ask me about the live scene here because with Naga closed it's a joke. I won't lie, it's really bleak here at the moment. The only thing I can do it to just get my sh*t done, keep getting paid and do whatever to keep myself entertained.

I’ll see your shower and raise you one of those radiation scrubs you see in sci-fi movies, when he wrote “women have much more earning power” while referencing having a son vs having a daughter.

I usually do not feel the need to respond to these types of posts, but I will make an exception here. I do not feel the need to defend myself, but rather am curious as to what type of responses my reply will garner. I am sure that for those who have lived in this region some will understand, while others still will not. I was joking around with a friend the other day and remarked that if I left my wife today that nothing in my life would change. I would still have a second residence, I would still give her money to support her and the kids and I would still have relations with other women. While said jokingly, the comment was entirely true. But of course I would never leave my wife as that would mean she has had four children by three different men and that they all left her. It would be very difficult for her to function in this society with that sort of shame hanging over her life. The relationship between my wife and I is not one born of love but rather circumstances that came up in our lives. I decided to man up and take responsibility, which is more than I can say for most in these parts. I know plenty of men, who knock up local girls only to leave them without any support while they profess on Facebook about how much they love their children. I love my daughter more than anything in this world and even raise another girl that is not my own. As long as I am alive they and their mother, and her immediate family, will always be taken care of. I kill myself on a daily basis to make sure this is the case and anyone here who knows me will attest to my work ethic. Once again I would never leave my wife but she knows she can leave at any time should she meet someone else, at which point I would still gladly support our children financially. My wife is aware of the nature of our relationship and is fine with the arrangement as she is also aware of the alternative, even though I would never enact such a scenario by leaving her. And for those who would suggest that I just stay faithful in a loveless marriage while living in Southeast Asia can just come back to reality. None of this is fair nor ideal for either of us, but it represents the best practical compromise for the circumstances of our lives. So save your hate for others because there are plenty of those that deserve it around here.

Live and let live. Everyone should be able to live their lives as they see fit. My comment wasn’t directed towards your life.

You like the ladies and you like to pay for the ladies. Your comment about women having greater earning power came off as a reference to prostitution and the fact you referenced it in relation to your own daughter, just came across as weird.

Sorry if I misunderstood your comment. I thought you were saying you needed to put some more time and effort into your son because he wouldn’t have the earning power of your daughter. (Prostitution) My experience is that some (perhaps maybe even most) parents don’t think of prostitution as a viable occupation for the future of their own children. My comment wasn’t directed to anything other than this. And if it wasn’t what you meant......my apologies

Just read the whole thread, super enjoyable. Thanks for posting and MOAR!

No worries and I appreciate the clarification. If I may clarify things myself, I was not referring to my children in the context that you spoke of. If anything, my entire purpose in life is to make sure that my daughter never sees the inside of a girlie bar. This is precisely why I work so hard as to not only provide for the family now, but to leave them a little something when I am not around. I won't get into the whole dynamics of my marriage more than I already have. I will just simply say that I live my life by two principles:

1) Play hard, play harder
2) Live a lifestyle you cannot afford then work your a*s off to afford it

These two principles have served me well the past couple of years and ones my wife understand all too well. At the end of the day she is a practical woman and she has her own ends as much as I do in making sure her family is taken care of. In return she pretty much lets me enjoy my life as I see fit.

All this talk about my marriage actually reminded me of a funny story. I used to hang out with the girl in the photo below. Quite the fun one, young with a great body. Anyway into about our third "date" or so she tells me that she has a boyfriend to which I said that was fine as I had already told her I was married. We saw each other a few more times when on one particular night she showed me a most excellent time so I tipped her a bit extra. So of course she runs home and tells her boyfriend about it as she was not happy with the amount of money he was giving her. This guy then tracks me down on Facebook and starts sending threatening messages and saying that I ruined his life. I just blocked him and kept on living when he somehow tracked my wife down on Facebook and then started to call her and leave her messages about how I was sleeping with his girlfriend. As I have already stated I live my life how I want and my wife is understanding of this but she does have one rule; she does not want to see it or hear about it in any form. I totally get that and we had to hash that out privately and we got past it. I obviously stopped seeing that girl but then a few weeks later I was hanging out with Big Bananas on the riverside when I saw the boyfriend drive by on his moto. He stopped the bike, got off and started to approach me. I was sure we were going to have it out and was preparing myself for a fight. But then he stuck out his hand to shake mine and apologized for getting my wife involved when we should have just talked it over ourselves. I will write now what I told him that night. Either you give her enough money so that she does not have to work in a bar, or if she does work in one you basically have to accept that she is going to fu*k customers. Never believe them when they say they will only work for drinks. If she insists on working at a bar it is because she thinks you are not giving her enough and she will take every opportunity to make as much as she can. I concluded things by telling him maybe he should just let her go altogether. White foreigners here, especially the older ones, have a hard time letting go of the past and how much things used to cost here. The days of sponsoring girls for $500 per month are long gone and if you cannot give her enough to prevent her from banging other dudes, it basically means you cannot afford a girlfriend here. Or just go meet a "nice" girl that does not work in a bar. When you see a bar girl on a regular basis or take one on as a girlfriend, there are just some realities you have to accept.