We spent the day just sitting around the intersection of Bui Vien and Duong De Tham taking pictures and enjoying the sunny afternoon. Here are some of my favorite shots from the day.
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Pretty balla, right? Not for a guy in my situation. But more on that later. Monday I left the hot, sticky, and polluted Bangkok to visit the hot, sticky, and polluted Ho Chi Mihn City (aka Saigon). I was on a visa run. Every so often you have to leave Thailand and go visit another [...]
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We had a little party through Thailand Friends for one of our members. The plan of attack was a few drinks at one of the cheapest watering holes in Bangkok, Cheap Charlies, then to the restaurant he manages Charlie Brown’s (some of the best Mexican food in Bangkok, IMHO), and then over to nightclub Climaxx. [...]
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I was scanning the news the other day and ran across something that made my heart start beating faster. The creator of such comical wonders as Old School and The Hangover, Todd Phillips, recently let it slip that The Hangover 2 is in the works and it will be filmed in freakin’ Thailand!!!! I’ve shown [...]
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One of the weird things about living in Thailand is getting into the groove of how it can be so advanced and yet so backwards at the same time. Bangkok is a city of close to 12 million people from all over the world. A truly international city. Yet, up until a year or two [...]
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I’ve never been much on fortune tellers and such but Paul the psychic octopus has had an amazing record picking winners in the 2010 World Cup. He picked Germany as a favorite over Australia, Ghana, England, Argentina and Uruguay and Germany won all of those matches. He picked Serbia and Spain to beat the Germans [...]
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Gentlemen, I introduce to you, the Teletransporter.
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I don’t know why but I’ve been getting a lot of spam both via email and in the comments that are odd in that they seem to have no purpose. Here’s one I received today. Oil hovers below $78 after US crude supplies jump Predicting an end to Roe v. Wade On the contrary, the [...]
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I just installed a WordPress plugin called WPtouch will should make viewing Bill’s Poker Blog on your iPhone a much better experience. If that previous sentence made no sense to you . . . allow me to explain. Bill’s Poker Blog uses WordPress to manage the website. This new plugin, WPtouch reformats Bill’s Poker Blog [...]
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Ever since I had to move because of the protests I’ve been somewhat internet challenged. I could hijack a wireless signal but the speed was close to nothing. Maybe some low-level web surfing and email but that’s about it. I tried to upload some photos one day and left the uploader going about 18 hours. [...]
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Well, to my surprise, the US did not lose to England this weekend. I guess I should have been smoking vulture brains. It looks like the WSOP is starting to get into full swing. Some bloggers/journalists are already running out of things to write about. :-) It should be interesting how the WSOP and the [...]
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Speaking of the 2010 South Africa World Cup, Metro is reporting that gamblers in Africa are smoking dried vulture brains because they believe it will give them the power to predict the event winners. I don’t to smoke any vulture brains to know the US team is going to lose to the UK Saturday night. [...]
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I swear I’ve never played this game because gambling is illegal in Thailand. :-) Bpauk Daeng is a Thai gambling game that is very popular here in Thailand. It’s somewhat like Baccarat but with a Thai flavor. I was unable to find much in the way of information on the game so I thought I [...]
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With all of the distractions going on here in Bangkok I haven’t been able to get as much done as I would like but I’m starting to get back into the rhythm again. Now I’m just waiting on my DSL to get installed so I don’t have to hijack someone’s wifi connection. I tried uploading [...]
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I always seem to get the most insane feedback from people. For instance, on my post Proof That Online Poker is Rigged, which is a parody/comedy post I wrote several years ago, I have 240 comments. Most people get the joke but some people, despite others commenting on the humor, still don’t get that it’s [...]
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
