The
original thread started by Adam Monroe provides more photos and details of our rental details for the Poker House in Bangkok, except he has now moved back to the USA and I'm now in charge of the entire Baller House in Bangkok. There are also many updates:
Space is available
June 1 and
July1.
House
Here are some newer photo's of the Poker House setup now that we are moved in.
Here is the poker room with four desks and chairs setup for everyone.
Bedroom Photo 1
Bedroom Photo 2
I bought furniture for the outside pool area. More bean bags are on the way as we sold them out.
The image quality is bad, but this is the 40'' HDTV and wet bar upstairs.
Maid
Our maid p'Fey comes Monday, Wednesday, Friday now and is here for about 4-5 hours. She also goes to the store and buys groceries then cooks Thai food for everyone to share.
So far I've let her cook whatever and/or ordered very standard Thai dishes. Here is chicken curry with rice and tom yum kung (spicy prawn soup).
More prawns now with some green beans (kung thot).
She brought some pretty wild and sweet exotic fruit, but you can have whatever you like and she will make it next time she comes.
Internet
For poker players, Internet quality is a concern in Bangkok and occasionally cuts out. Most often for a few seconds or minutes. Last night for example
True ADSL Internet (I think the most common, and arguably most stable) was out for hours. I called their support line and got a recorded message about they were sorry about service cut due to maintenance. Even if it only cuts out for a few seconds, on many sites that's enough to DC you out of a pot.
To help almost completely prevent any Internet cuts we now have a a dual Internet setup of which is currently a 2Mb
True Internet ADSL line and a 2Mb
TOT ADSL line that are both connected to a Linksys Dual WAN load balanced router.
This means that when both lines are connected we would currently get 4Mb connection. If one cuts, within 6 seconds the router stops balancing the bandwidth load and sends all traffic to the one connected WAN.
Obviously the key issue is not getting DC'd in pots and timing out in huge pots on non-DC tables. Seeing as this is a Poker House, and everyone has been a poker player, over the year this is likely to be worth thousands of dollars in EV for the house.
Also, TOT is upgrading our speed to 3Mb next week and True has said the line will most likely be upgradable in our area to 8Mb in a month or two.
Lastly, although it has not been an issue yet, this gives us 2 distinct IP addresses in case anyone happens to be on the same site/stakes and wants to sit at the same table. I think it goes w/o saying but a zero cheating policy will be strictly enforced (reported to site, posted and reported on 2p2, deposit taken, asked to leave immediately). I just want to make it clear this is
not the point of the setup.
Poker
As a quick side note, I've enjoyed the company of every renter thus far. There has been more and more random strategy discussions, sharing of thoughts, concepts, videos, etc. with a lack of BBV stories/running bad complaints.
Speaking of which time to nap before johnbeans's 24th birthday tonight....
edit: this post got delayed, some photos from that night:
I'm in the black shirt.
Also, if you are interested,
my facebook profile. If you need to friend me to see it just put
Baller House in Bangkok or
Poker House in Bangkok in the message.
Last edited by Gonzirra; 09-08-2009 at 03:59 AM.
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