I mention it also in post #13413.

Ah, my bad. Must have missed it.

So what is poker_triad up now that his room has closed, I really hope he lands on his feet. He is a great promoter of his room and really seems to care. It is sad that he made his move to Sihanoukville and the room closed, now he has a baby to take care of.
Wish him the best, he was the reason I got interested in going to Cambodia. I guess my next trip will be the Philippines.

This thread is dead without PT. #bringbackPT

For those genuinely curious about him he's fine, had a few drinks with him last night I believe he's got stuff going on online now. (poker wise)

This thread was actually best in the Dante days. Bring back K2D!

Anybody staying at the Bridge that could use a monitor? I'm leaving PP on Wednesday and I'm too lazy to sell it. It's a 22' screen and you could have it for free.

can i have it? ill come pick it up tonight or tmr?

PM me ur line or skype or soemthing

my skype is - live:lolregs69

I just needed time to decompress as the past six months has been easily the toughest of my life, both physically and emotionally. I spent the first couple of weeks after the room closed traveling a bit. I've basically been home with my family since, grinding online. I help Renton with the PPPoker club that he runs, but that's really a minor thing as I rely mostly on the income as a player on said club. I'm completely burnt out on live poker for a while, and holdem for that matter as I've been playing nothing but PLO the last few weeks. I'll probably head out to Naga soon enough as the American manager there has been killing it and is doing a great job. And I'm sure I'll be at the Red Fox when certain people return to the country. The girlie bar thing I'm trying to cut down a bit. It seems to make my wife happier when I don't go out as much at night. To be honest, staying home with the family, especially my new daughter, hasn't been the worst thing for me neither. Renton, pops and I are just beginning to setup for a new video podcast. As we're now living in three different cities playing poker in Cambodia, I thought that would make for an interesting listen/viewing. But we shall see. I predict that everything I'm planning will come to fruition, except the cutting down on the girlie bar thing.

Thanks for the kind words Sam.

Welcome back PT! Good to hear things are going okay. I've followed this thread for years, and it's one of the main reasons I'm moving to Cambodia for a while. So thanks, buddy.

Can you talk a little more about Renton's PPPoker club?

- Cheers.

I can't say much without breaking the guidelines of this forum, but what I will say is that it's the club that I was the agent for when I was still working at Riverking. We had a lot of different clubs on different platforms approach us at that time and we took months in deciding who to go with. We ultimately went with this one after a thorough vetting and we haven't had a single issue in about a year. As mentioned I play on the club myself, if that means anything. If you want specific details go ahead and send me a PM. And glad to hear you're coming out here. I'm a bit behind on the thread so don't know when that is, although I'm sure you mentioned it. Hit me up when you arrive and we'll go out for a drink.

Not much to report this week other than I've been grinding all week. It's proving near impossible to play at home with two babies around, especially with the oldest one able to run around. She actually clicked on my screen and made a call on a huge pot I intended to fold. So now I just go over my friend's place every day and play there as he happens to play on the same club I do. I've been a good boy for the past couple of weeks as I've barely gone out or come back home early each night. My wife seems very appreciative of this because she probably knows that's not easy in a place like this. This is especially the case since most of the girls I've been with over the years are all on my Facebook page and I get daily reminders on my feed of girls if like to bang again. I've got some friends coming in from out of town this week and they all want to hit up Cyrcee so this should be an interesting week. After that I think I'll take a holiday somewhere as the Cambodian holiday of Pchum Ben is coming up. The wife's family is sure to be around and I'd rather avoid all that.

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Don’t you think it’s important to spend time with wife family?

Of course and I have been. I did the whole Pchum Ben thing last year, renting a minivan and driving the whole family down to their home province where there was no electricity or running water. And when I say whole family, I mean the entire clan. In light of this and the fact that I'm around much more these days my wife's given me a pass for this year. I'm grateful and I'll take it. And by holiday I mean I'll probably just go down to Kampot for a few days and spend some time with friends. I wasn't planning on going to Thailand and have a two-fer every night or anything like that.

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Cheers, buddy. I appreciate it. Once I get settled in I'll PM you.

About two weeks ago I took one of my regulars from street 104 to a short time hotel. I'm fairly certain that my wife found out about it as she was quite upset that night when I got home. I'm assuming that one of her friends who may work on the same street probably saw me and reported back to her. I did feel terrible about it, but I suppose one could easily argue that was only because I got caught. But my perspective has changed a bit since my daughter was born so I've been a good boy since.

But last night my wife and I had a blowout that almost ended the relationship. I had mentioned in a previous post that a big Cambodian holiday is coming up. In light of this she asked me for $1,000 to buy a necklace. When I asked her why in the world she needed a necklace that expensive for a holiday she told me it was because her family was disrespecting her for not having any expensive jewelry although she had a "rich" Korean husband. I should mention here just how much her family are just total pieces of shi*s, but that's for another post. I told her that I wasn't going to give it to her and then she said I wasn't giving her enough money although I have never refused a request until this moment. And I felt more than a little betrayed by her statement especially after I had just ended a really rough stint in Sihanoukville, one in which I sent most of the money I made to her in preparation for our new baby.

Rather than lose my sh*t and say something I would regret, I decided to leave and get a hotel to get some sleep and cool off. Apparently this was the worst decision I could have made as it only made her more upset and she called me this morning telling me that she was going to the province with the baby. I quickly went over to our apartment to work this out. I do admit that the thought of ending the whole thing did cross my mind. But the more I thought about it the more I realized that there is no exit strategy here in which our daughter doesn't suffer. I should mention here that Renton is better than anyone I know at keeping his wife's family at an arms distance and limiting his financial exposure to them. So I decided that I had to do the same now or it would just get worse.

It's amazing to me that her family would disrespect her in this way given how much I help them. So I told her that there would be no more money for her family from this point forward. I would control what I give her more and make sure she has enough for her and the baby, but that there would be no more excess that she can send off to them. I reminded her that I haven't even spoken to my own family in three years and so I wasn't going to continue and waste my efforts on them any longer. She accepted this but then this opened the floodgates for her to bring up my going out to drink and keeping the company of bar girls. They always tell you that it's ok but it never is. You'll often hear Khmer girls say just don't let them hear about it, but that seems rather impossible in this town. I reminded her that I've been really good about this as of late, but I admit I can still understand why she would be upset about it. I explained to her that the notion of never going out again was probably not going to happen. If for no other reason Phnom Penh is just that town where friends always seem to be visiting. The occasion to drink is going to come up and cannot be avoided. But I told her that I would be on my best behaviour in such instances. I'll be honest though, I'm still not sure if I was lying to her or not.

In any case, I just got back from playing pool with her and some friends so things appear to be back to normal. I paid for the hotel for two nights and I have a meeting tomorrow in this part of town anyway so I decided to use it again one more night. I got a room in one of those "no sex tourism" hotels just to ensure that the better angels of my nature would win out.

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oh my...

You've got no job, no money and you bang hookers behind her back.

He wonders why the wife and her family are pissed.

Fixed your post

The PPPOKER servers are in maintenance for two hours so I've got some time to kill. I admit now that I was way too optimistic about being able to play from home. I'm way too distracted by my daughter who I either want to pick up and play with all the time or I lose my mind every single time even the slightest off noise comes out of her. So I usually head out to my friend's who has a really nice place by the Riverside. He plays too so it's very easy to stay focused there.

I've also hit the food circuit very hard as Phnom Penh has some great restaurants and I missed them all. I just came back from a lunch meeting and these are just more excuses to go to a great restaurant. Playing online is obviously a very sedentary endeavor so I've gained some weight, something my wife has pointed out. So she got the Nautilus machine out of storage, although it hasn't been used in the three days it's been back in the apartment. I used to be in shape, once upon a time. Perhaps I should join a gym again.

Restaurants pictured below:

Ninja
St 278, Phnom Penh
088 861 7623

https://goo.gl/maps/Af1Mo2fYHKG2

Lone Pine Cafe
14 Rue Pasteur No. 51, Phnom Penh
078 949 398

https://goo.gl/maps/e6YiSgN6GGt

Jaru
St.282 #15, Phnompenh
012 450 902

https://goo.gl/maps/HFKBotpPCqD2

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As long as the allowance is flowing she can look the other way but if you cut it off what do you expect?
It's a 2 way street.
I'd say get some payments to the family when possible, just going to make life easier. Otherwise she needs to get a job, can't be nothing going back home. That's just the way it is but you know that already.

You're right and I'm aware that something has to get sent. At the end of the day this is just me looking to curtail things. She'll ask me for money for something and I'll know damn well it's for her family and I'll just look the other way. She's a good girl and she's not in the wrong for wanting to help her family. But the $1K necklace was not a good sign of where things could possibly head so I just had to nip that in the bud right away.

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she might be worried that you will skip town if things go bad.

the $1k gold necklace is just a form of insurance for her if things get bad.

Like The Lonely Box I fixed your post.

everyone that works 9-5 in the west has no money. we spend every last cent.