So you went on a sick break even stretch or you just didn't play much?

how can you not beat 2nl after 3 years and 4k posts on a poker strategy forum?

Uhm, so ive got a question. Ive been to India and there would be lots of drug stores all over the place selling all sorts of stuff that you can only get on prescription or from some sort of drugdealer in norway. Not talking about like "real" drugs, just like for example stronger pain killers than advil and various assortments of other "normal" medicine type of drugs. Is it somewhat the same in thailand , and are these places usually reasonably legit/safe with the stuff they sell?

Yeah, you can buy codeine painkillers, antibiotics, valium/xanax etc at Thai drugstores without a prescription. I think a lot of it is fake stuff of varying quality though.

You can't get Ephidrene though afaik, which can you get in places like Indonesia.

Don't forget tramadol.

tramadol is ***** evil

I have never been to asia at all before. I am thinking of taking a trip to thailand. I would like to mostly just hang out on the beach, grind with an ocean view, go on hikes. I am not really into clubs and picking up girls.

Is there a place any of you would recommend? I would appreciate any advice.

thanks!

if you want a reliable internet connection/beaches phuket is really your only choice, samui would be the next best thing but internet seems way worse there

Okay I think I will go to Chiang mai, what you think is it the best place in the world?

oh buddha plus everything. such a gross drug.

I'm coming to Thailand! Plan is leave Nov 29th from JFK, maybe spend 1-2 days in Bankok on arrival, then go to Phuket for some time, then go to Pattaya for some time, and leave the country on Dec 20 or 21.

Where should I stay and what should I do/see?

i haven't ever had access to codeine. what/where are you getting it?

Why so much hatred towards tramadol?

I've been taking them a lot and curious - obviously need to stop for a while but I love them so much.

I have got ephidrene in samui.

70k would be a bad month and I am probably on the bottom of the players stake wise here playing 100 and 200nl.

playing 2hrs a day on avg and with the freedom it beats any job I could get even after finishing university back home (which I plan to do if something happens to poker in the next few years)

because they are widely addictive, only pill that ive had that experience

i usually can connect very easily into FTP via an internet cafe. Im doint it since a month or so.

But today i can NOT connect with the ftp server.

*Sorry, Unable To Connect To Server*

Any idea as to why ??

I connect via a cafe in Issan, *HandyCafe* is the name. They have a coupla shops around here. Ive been unsuccessul in two of them cafes.

Not so sure now, CAT CDMA is apparently pretty good on Samui. I've never personally tried it, but when I get back it's the first thing i will do.

Internet on Samui is fine if you are with the right company, it's just that obviously since Samui is a smaller place with less places to stay you'd have to look a bit harder.

Igetjokes is still on Samui grinding afaik, be interested to hear his experiences with internet access.

anyone know where I can buy sc2 in chiang mai? I can't DL it from the new ISP, was able to get like 30% through the download and moved, can't dl it at all from here.

ya but for someone that just wants a beach and reliable internet with little effort phuket is the obv choice

But from what I understood you guys are now all on CDMA as well because your old internet wasn't up to scratch?

If that's the case then it's no more difficult to do the same thing in Samui.

i live in bkk so i dont favor one place, just imo phuket would be a more solid choice for what that dude was asking for

i can't connect to FTP either. it's not just you.

well in phuket internet options go like this (imo)

trying to get 3bb premier package as main internet is still my advice though having cdma and needing to use it has been more frequent lately. 3bb apparently changed owners again (according to thaivisa) and is named triple net now and have been worse in the last 6 months than last year when it was very reliable.

I use 3bb for downloading stuff. I get about 380kb/s with my 3.5mbps connection and use it for grinding mainly but lately they have had a lot of outages and then i will connect with cdma which has better latency to poker sites I use but much worse download speeds (from my place i get max 75kb/s though you can get 200+ if you have optimal location).

also worth noting is that at least with windows 7 if I get disconnected with either of my connections connecting with cdma takes only couple of secs so if your site is fast enough to recognize the new connection you will get back to the hand you were playing unless there were only few secs left. I tried switching around the internets on ftp and it was fast, party is worse.

other options i havent tried are the cat adsl but it is not available everywhere afaik and then TOT standard service which should be available everywhere though no one has ever said anything good about them.

rutang was talking about TOTs new fiber service that they got to the mansion before they moved out but as for reliability I cant say yet. it is also much more expensive than the services i have now

3bb premier package 3.5/1mpbs 1167baht/month
cdma "3.1mbps" 845baht/month

Does anybody in BKK have any experience with TOT 8 MB lines?