Poker and Degeneracy in the Third World (Poker Triad)
My name is Mike but most around my parts know me as Poker Triad. I used to post in the Las Vegas Lifestyle section many years back when I lived in Sin City, but for the last six years I have resided in Cambodia and have been the most prolific poster on that thread in the Travel section. I wanted to create my own thread as I wanted to discuss issues and matters of my life that do not just involve me living in Southeast Asia. I have led a fairly compelling life according to most and still have an interesting tale to tell of my current life. Most poker players in this region already know me, if not personally then at least through my social media channels. And while I haven't left Cambodia too much, I have traversed this land literally from one end to the other playing poker games in some of the most obscure places that most have never heard of. These days I reside in Phnom Penh where I lead a very paradoxical life in which I work hard and support my family of my wife and two children (about to be three) by day, and go out with my friends and party hard by night in the epic nightlife of Phnom Penh. I don't play as much as I used to as I now work as on online poke agent, but still put in a decent amount of volume playing PLO6 online.
Cambodia seems to be least affected by the Corona pandemic and life for us here has remained normal. While other businesses have suffered with the lack of tourists, poker players have thrived as online games have been as soft as ever during a time in which most have to stay home and poker rooms remain closed. This makes us very attractive clientele when we go out at night, for both businesses and the opposite sex. Our lives here are straight out of movie and is the culmination of everything I wanted it to be before I arrived. I live my life fairly openly and even have Twitch and YouTube channels in which I stream while I play, do a weekly vlog and produce video content of Phnom Penh's nightlife. This will not be a traditional blog with discussions of strategy, hand reviews and win/loss graphs but rather just a chronicle of our degeneracy with a little poker sprinkled on top. Just to give you a sample of our lives here, below is a link to my Twitch channel and also a video from my YouTube channel that I recently shot during a night out.
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