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Stingrays in Grand Cayman and Skydiving in Cali

November 14, 2011 General Ramblings

Some more non-poker related videos. Here’s a video shot in Grand Cayman of a stingray feeding dive we did. The funny part is that for all of the danger people think is involved with diving with sharks I actually received my worst animal related bite from a stingray. While trying to feed one of the [...]

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Shark Diving

November 10, 2011 General Ramblings

Last night I did an interview for the Poker Affiliate Listings radio/podcast show and Jeremy mentioned my list of travels. Well, coincidentally I’ve been going through a bunch of old videos and such and ran across some stuff that I thought I would share for those of you who enjoy some of the non-poker content [...]

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Calvin Ayre in Bangkok

September 7, 2011 General Ramblings

Classic Calvin – Bangkok Delicacies Video Video by Gaming & Poker news – CalvinAyre.com I thought this was entertaining. Calvin and his friend hit up Patpong and eat bugs. When people ask me why I like Thailand so much, this is it. You can go out and have a once in a lifetime experience like [...]

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Phi Phi Island

June 29, 2011 Travel

Just to break things up a bit from the Full Tilt suspension news, here’s what I was doing a few hours before the news broke.

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The Hangover II and Reality

June 2, 2011 General Ramblings

Okay, I’ve already started receiving emails from friends wanting to know how accurate The Hangover II is to real life in Bangkok. First off, let me say that it’s about as accurate as The Hangover was to Las Vegas. By that I mean that there are as many people stealing police cars, waking up with [...]

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Thinking About VPN’ing Poker? Think Again

April 23, 2011 Is Online Poker Legal?

My friend Michael who lives in Japan asked me to write this post because he keeps getting asked about this topic and he’s getting tired of answering the same question over and over. Michael is an American who relocated overseas pre-UIGEA for school and work and much like myself he knows all too well how [...]

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Happy Songkran

April 17, 2011 General Ramblings

If people had been wondering where I was all last week, I was up in Phetchabun for the Songkran festival. Songkran is a religious holiday but over the years it has sort of developed into a three-day nationwide water fight. I prefer the Phetchabun type of Songkran because it’s civilized. In Bangkok, Pattaya, or any [...]

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Fanelli ‘Found to be Sane’

April 5, 2011 General Ramblings

Just a quick update on Ron “The Mad Yank” Fanelli. After five months of psychiatric review in Surat Thani Fanelli is back in Phuket prison deemed to be sane. Fanelli requested the psychiatric examination after saying he was unsure of why he did what he did. You can read more about that here: Phuket Wan [...]

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