Guess you are one of the "regs" that play in Cambodia.
If you were any good you wouldn't be playing poker there. There are much more and higher underground games in Bangkok, you have Manila, you have India and you have Maccau at the top. Oh and forgot about some live games in Korea and Singapore.

Don't get me wrong I plan to go and visit Cambodia and stay there for a while. But would never stay there to play live poker for a living. You really need to be really bad at poker to be forced to do it. Like you have much higher undergournd games in Bangkok, you have Manila you have live games in Singapore and Korea. And you have Macau obviously.

You really suck at poker if you have to play live poker in Cambodia for a living. If you just cant stand the truth thats just part of the issue I guess.

is this a Riverking advertisement thread?

K2D needs to return to Cambodia, thread was much more entertaining then.

Just need more WarMage and PT update
Btw good job on IG update PT 👍👍

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Forget Macao and Manila. It`s flooded with regs. Who needs higher games when the winrate drops dramatically? Besides that you have higher costs of living.
In PP are nearly no regs, at least no locals. Most foreign regs stay just for one or two months. And chinese tourists raise the limits from time to time to even 10/20. It`s not bad at all.

Can't people just be happy where they live and play and just leave it at that. I don't understand this incessant need to constantly put down someone else's garden. Now that I've said it, I'll just wait for others to call me a f*g or say how much I suck at poker because I live in Cambodia.

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We've been fortunate and thus very busy at Bao Mai. So much so that most of the staff have become ill with all the long hours, including yours truly. I'm actually up in Phnom Penh currently to take a few days off but haven't even been able to stay with the family out of fear that I would get my eight month pregnant wife and daughter sick. None of this matters anyway as it turns out that I had to meet with a contingency of Chinese representing a larger group and we just struck a deal to put them into Riverking to run two big games, one hold'em and the other Omaha. This is actually a part of a larger plan to get them down to Sihanoukville eventually but they'll start here first. So now it's 7:00 AM and I've just drafted my last contract and I'll finally be able to sleep. I'm holding up in the hotel above Riverking trying to stay here long enough so I can get well to actually see the family. If that doesn't happen today I'll probably just head back.

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Assumptions are like asshoze they all stink, I am not a regular in Cambodia, more like a regular in Las Vegas at the Venetian, Wynn or Red Rock but you were close.
So you are being forced? you are so good you only want to play the toughest games in the world.
So you watch you tube and now Macau is the place since they say Durr plays there.
Play in underground games in Bangkok what do you really want to go to a Thai Jail? All the ladyboy sex you can handle. They threw a bunch of senior citizens in jail for playing bridge with no money involved.
BTW, no one said live there for ever, but if you are going to stay for a few months it could be fun to be able to hear and see other peoples perspectives. No just the know it all table talkers like yourself. Believe it or not quite a few of the bloggers online that you watch religiously were bad players just a few years ago but where willing to talk listen and learn.
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I wouldn’t say Cambodia is the place to be if you are busto, I find it quite expensive for the quality you get compared to other place

Quality of what? Please elaborate

So the cheap bars on the beach are all gone now????

Won't answer Gambit cause his posts are dumb but I need to admit my posts were inappropriate too.

I have to admit given I play 99% online and played live very few times my knowledge about live poker scenes is kinda "I heard it from X" rather than first hand knowledge.

So what limpinbarney said makes quite a lot of sense to me.
I just unnecessary made asumptions that probably aren't true. Like The crime level is high for the most part there are very few higher stakes games? (even 2/5 seems not to run too often). Internet is terrible so hard to play also online poker and also it is quite expensive in terms of cost of living.
Also the rake seems very high (again for someone coming from online games) .


I mean again forgive me my ignorance guys but:
1) Cambodia seems to be quite dangerous
2) Live poker doesn't run high and there are few games and the rake is high. Also heard that the good games and higher stakes are Chinese only or you need an "in" to play which requires you to sell action
3) rake in many places is crazy high
4) Costs of living for the same quality of live are higher than say Thailand and comparable with Philipines or even higher assuming you want to live live on a reasonably high level.


But again guys I apologize for "lol you play poker in Cambodia you must really suck at poker" as it wasn't appropriate and brings nothing to the discusssion.
The truth is with my very limited knowledge about live poker I just made huge assumptions.
Was more like "Why would anyone play low stakes games with high rake and high cost of living in a dangerous country that is one of the poorest in Asia?"

Shouldn't do so because I have no first hand knowledge and info to back it up. So was stating my biased assumptions as facts.
Sorry if offended anyone.

Even that's still incorrect for he most part. Cambodia still ranks top for cost of living, so it can't be that bad

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I mean, it depends how you live and what you spend your money on. You could make an argument for places like Vietnam or Malaysia being even cheaper but on a global scale the cost of living is very low. Thailand is def more expensive, at least in the better, touristy parts

Also dangerous, that is not true at all either. I can only speak for the capital since I've never been anywhere else, but I assume the differences are not huge, it's probably even better, the capital is usually a center of crime in almost all countries. I'm only an occasional visitor but I've been there, overall at least 5 to 6 weeks and I've never gotten into a situation that was even remotely dangerous. And I enjoyed all the pleasures of the day- and nightlife from the mainstream to some very seedy places. And since I'm European, I like to walk from place A to place B, if it's not too far, even if I'm alone and you can do that in PP with no problem at all.
You could never do that in a dangerous 3W country like, say, Jamaica or even in many areas in the US. I mean, common sense applies, if you wander around in the wee hours in a nightlife district blackout drunk/drugged off your T*ts, chances that you get robbed are quite increased, but that's not specific to Cambodia.

As for the rake, some places have high rake, yes, but welcome to live poker. Most of the alternatives you mentioned are even worse in that department. Macau has a pretty unbeatable rake, if you take the lineup into account, up to at least 50/100 (100/200 debatable), Singapore has among the highest rake in the world. BKK has underground games with even more limited selection than PP. Rake in Philippines is also around same level / games not better. Korea bans locals from playing, also very hige rake. etc. Also that you need a invite for higher stakes, AFAIK in PP this is simply not true. I mean there could always be private games, that you do not know about.
Don't get me wrong I'm not saying the games in PP are awesome, sometimes they are good, sometimes not so much, and yes, the selection is limited, but there are simply not that many players around in these parts. You will find similar restrictions in very many countries

I don't see where people get that Cambodia is so dangerous. I was there for 3 months and never felt any danger. According to this world safety index https://safearound.com/danger-rankings/ America is the 55th safest country and Cambodia is the 56th safest country. That is really sad considering America is a first world country and Cambodia 3rd world. In essence, Cambodia is just as safe as America. I always tell people that you are more likely to get your bag/wallet stolen in Cambodia and more likely to get stabbed/shot in America.

So you come into this thread and insult everyone in it then admit you were being a ass. then call my post dumb, kind of a back handed insult again BTW. Then admit you know nothing about live poker but claim you play the nosebleed limits online.
So Then you claim to know Cambodia is dangerous, which someone else proved you know less about that. I guess it isn't as safe as your mothers basement. So again you know nothing.
I heard it from X that a lot of people claim to play big online but play pennies stakes. Not first hand knowledge but it might be true.
If you are stressing about a 5% rake capped at $5, well then live is not for you. poker_triad posted how much the rake was but either you didn't see that or you felt it was high.
The cost of living in Cambodia is much cheaper then here in Las Vegas. I do know guys making a living here in Vegas playing 2/5 or 5/10 and the cost of living in much cheaper so it may not be as cheap as some other countries but you pay for what you get, live in the Country up in norther Thailand is much cheaper then living in Bangkok or Pattaya so if you want to live in a rural area in Cambodia it is cheap too.
Well have a good day with your online nosebleed limits as I have to go run to the weed store and get me a quarter. BTW in Cambodia you can also get a happy pizza or shake.

This.

I don't want to **** on this fine thread that is beautifully updated on the regular by poker_triad but I'd have to agree with KptBomba that Cambodia is expensive for a bottom tier 3rd world country and quite shifty (the people from the mass murders are still alive and kickin')

Vegas is really really cheap for the US and you can find a studio for $500 a month easily. In theory you can also find employment if you ever should need to do so (not sure how intense the competition for unskilled jobs is down there for people with nothing else going for themselves) and you're in a nice first world city where nobody would potentially rob or kill you if you have a thousand bucks cash on you.

Cambodia is more something for people from Europe that can't live in the US long term or for people with other reasons such as being into cambo girls or w/e.

A friend who I met in PP was shot in an attempted robbery leaving a casino in Vegas a couple days ago...

I've been robbed way more times living in England than I have in the 5 years living in Cambodia...

Ah my bad, the shooting happened in Texas

Really, the $500 apartments have been gone for over a decade. Even then they were hooker and drug dealer filled. You can't even get into Budget or a Siegel Suites for near that. Those are the places the strippers and hookers stay at when they come in town.
Plus you can find a shty job any where, 7/11 is always looking but you can not survive on $8 a hour.
The food is no longer cheap either, when I first moved here in 2001 you could get a 16 oz rib eye for $3.99 with all the fixings now you might find a shoe leather flank steak for $12

IMHO Cambodia is for people on fixed income, say a retirement of $3000 a month, they could stay here and look for all the early bird special and happy hours and just get by going out 1 or 2 nights a week and living in a base apartment or share a apartment. They could live a good life in Cambodia, not eat out with Eastern food every day but could go out 5 nights or days a week with some female companionship a few times a week.

As for Vegas being safe, once was but now not so much. Still not a Miami or Detroit but you are not in Kansas any more.

As for going out you better not think it is cheap, I was at the Orleans to watch Avengers Sunday and went to the food court for a quick bite and a Stromboli was &7.95 and a Large soda was $2.99, not cheap or worth it. Plus that is a off strip casino, the strip would have been 20% more.

If you are on a fixed income of $3000 you better forget the strip clubs and girls, you need that much on a good night. Buy Lube, you'll need it.

Glad I make enough money to knot have to worry about that.

You think most Europeans living here would rather be living in the States?! LOL come on man.

hahaha you actually think this is happening in Cambodia?? DUUUUDE

You really can't understand why people would rather live here than in Vegas? Really?

This is the only part of your post I agree with. Especially Sihanoukville nowadays. But good live poker easily makes up for it.

Cant find the place...driving around with tuktuk for a while but no sign of riverking. Help

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This is all pretty much false.

Maybe 10 years ago but not Vegas today, lived here 11 years and its a completely different city than when i first moved here...

its in Bao Mai Casino.

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I mean the riverking in phnom penh

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