The thai government operates through brutal oppression.

The elites want to use corona to buy up everything cheap from the bankrupt masses and they couldn't care less about somchai the serf...

In the west this has socialist characteristics (hey we gave you a fair shot to find alternative income within a couple of months) but the handouts have already stopped in the US, will stop in the UK soon and in other parts of Europe they won't last forever either.

This will lead to mass bankruptcies and sells offs of real assets like houses and apartments when people can't pay their mortgages anymore and possibly even hyperinflation if the money printing continues to pump cash into big corp.

What comes then might be lockdown for life Matrix style (get into your pods lads).

has everyone renewed their visas?

Poker is Dead in Thailand ?

BANGKOK, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Thailand is taking tough measures to fight online gambling by warning internet service providers and cellphone operators of legal action if they fail to block access to gambling websites.

Government spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri confirmed on Sunday Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has instructed the authorities including the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission and the police to strictly take such measures to keep children and youths away from online gambling.

For that reason, those authorities have warned the ISPs and cellphone operators in Thailand to immediately deny access to a total of 1,202 gambling websites under court orders, which have been earlier issued, according to the government spokesman.

Those gambling portals are to be practically denied within 15 days or else the ISPs and cellphone operators might be faced with legal action under the Computer Crimes Act and the Gambling Act.

Many people, particularly adolescents and teenagers, are feared to be addicted to online gambling and spend a lot of money on betting games, given easy access to those gambling websites so far. Enditem

wow hope the list does not include poker sites

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/america...view-thailand/

Is this overblown or as bs as it sounds?

Thais are extremely hostile to foreigners in recent years which includes nasty and lazy low level staff at restaurants and hotels. Instagram induced narcissism / mind rot where low level workers feel too good for their job and above foreigners is at an all time high. It's generally known as a corrupt gangster country where westerners have no rights and where locals can murder you with impunity and it gets chalked up as suicide.

If you mess with higher up people's sources of income they will come at you with anything they can which includes using arbitrarily enforced laws to suit their needs.

I would avoid going to Thailand at all cost and with the economic starvation of the population in Bangkok it's a powderkeg waiting to explode.

People always whine about China but first tier cities are law and order and I can count the racist interactions with Chinese people on one hand over several years while insults, trash talk, death stares etc. are a daily occurrence in Thailand.

None of this is true, stop lying.

The manager of the hotel is from the Czech Republic.

Anyways this is more pressing boys. Bodog88 just pulled out of Asian market it might well be GG for poker in Thailand?!

Why is that dude reading Xinhua news is what I wanna know.
I did a quick google news search for the past week and 24 hours on the topic. Only found one story, which gave Xinhua as the source.

So this is a Chinese media outlet? What's the low-down on them? Wonder why they are writing about Thailand?

Yeah you'd think it would be all over Bangkok post etc

Xinhua is the official government news agency, which means they're not super trusted outside of China. I checked the Thailand reddit sub too. Nada.

OK that's positive!

are people still playing poker professsionally?

Paperwork nit noi (see pic below), 500k in the bank, private charter plane and now Thai PM wants all tourists to wear GPS wristbands . AMAZING THAILAND. Khun Prayut Chan-o-cha, the genius we (the world) need, but don't deserve.

Looks like an easy and straightforward process!

Well, lot's of countries are totally shut down, so it's a take it or leave it I guess. You'd have to be pretty desperate in getting to Thailand to go through all that effort/expense.

whoever made this chart needs ro be fired.

charts supposed to make information easier to be consumed than plain text not make it into an incomprehensible maze.

If it's actually from a govt agency I'm pretty impressed

Reminds me of the a chart I saw for starting a foreign company in China.

this looks more legit
https://www.thailand-business-news.c...-websites.html

pretty sure their main concern is Asian online casinos, I haven't had any problems with any poker or sportsbook sites, even if they block em there's always VPN so really a non issue

VPNing can (will) be a problem with many mainstream sites. But yea, pretty sure the ban will mostly afect Asian casinos such as Macau888 or Ufa191. 1.2k sites seems like a lot tho and some mainstream ones can be affected.

They said they're going to stop human trafficking also.

Wouldn't worry too much, they're always spewing this kind of ****.

yep. poker is the least of their concerns. gambling is a huge problem, especially in more rural areas.