Bali, Indonesia Thread

Hey, guys! My name is Vitaly, I’m Russian, currently based in Bali.
Was surprised that here is no topic about Bali. I think, it’s very popular destination right now for poker-players, who’s living (or just traveling) in Asia.

So to make this discussion more interesting, let me give you quick intro about me.

I’m 30 years old, have been playing poker professional since university.

Started almost 11 years ago, I got my free $50 in pokerstrartegy and since then got hook up with poker)

Kinda quickly got to NL50 playing PartyPoker and after that never thinking serious about quitting poker.

Played a lot of 6max games, usually 5-6+ tables, was grinding heavy) Then switched to HU, was playing up to 5-10 on starts with everybody) Fun time, but too much stress.
After was playing a lot of HU matches at 2/4 and 3/6 while KOTH on stars and got back to 6max games, when HU was totally dead.
Experimenting not so long time ago with Chinese rooms and it was quiet good for me. A lot of crazy HU matches as well)
Now trying not that actively play PPpoker.

About traveling and Bali.

Originally I’m from Novosibirsk, Russia, but I used to live in different countries. At the age of 21 I left my city and went to Thailand and still have been traveling in South-East Asia and all around the world.

Thailand - spent 1 year in Pattay mostly, lots of parties)

I’m on the left, my ex-girlfriend and my good friend.

Philippines - spent 2 years in Angels, Manila and Boracay. Was playing some offline games, parties and poker (as usual at this time lol)

Macau - spent 3 months, offline as well. Was spending profits from online in casions (poker only!), bars, clubs and saunas)

Bali - lived there for 3 years. Surf and poker)

How I started

With friends, all guys are poker-players.

Costa-Rica - spent 1 year in Jaco. Was learning Spanish, surfing and playing poker.

With costa-rican friends. They are not poker-players)))

Costa-rican way of living - not need much)

Colombia - had been living for 2 years in Medellin. Had Colombian wife and girlfriend from Venezuela, got my cedula, but then had to divorce, which is not easy)

View from my apartment. Beautiful!

Some extreme forest-trips with friends.

And paragliding!

Bali - 1 year and still going

Surfing even in Moscow)

And some quality left-handers in Indo)

Bali. Beautiful and interesting place.
Everybody can find something he will like here. Nature, surf, parties, a lot of good restaurants, fresh food, interesting culture, some kind of spiritual things, lots of creative and sports people from all over the world and I can keep going forever)

Quick facts you need to know before going

Places to stay
Canggu (surf/parties/hub for digital/creative ppl) - Bukit(Heavy surf, chill, nice views, parties) - NusaDua(beaches w/o waves, chill)

Cost of rent
Guest houses around 30-50/night
Apartment monthly 200-1000+ (decent quality starts from 300-500+ usd/month)
Villas nightly 50++++
Villas monthly - mostly 1k+ for 1-2 bedroom.

Many options for villas could be rented out only for six or twelve months.

Cost of food
Wide range of healthy food, unbelievably tasty coffee, restaurants, markets, whatever - everything for good price and with wide range of options.

Cost of services
Motorbike - 100 usd/month
Visa-extensions every two month 50 usd + you have to leave the country after 2 months of staying or make social visa for 6 month with no crossing the border (otherwise you will get new stamp for 2 months)

Surfing
Would recommend to go to surf-school
~50 usd for each group-class or privet instructor for 100 usd/per 2 hours

Other activities in the island.
Will bring it to the table in the future posts)

Don’t want to be super-specific with this info in my first post, if here would be interest I give detailed info about these topics.

About this thread.
Feel free to ask anything about Bali and countries I mentioned above.
Would be nice to help poker-players to have great experience in the island.
Also we can organise here occasional meet ups for dinner/activities/surf/trips to other Indo islands etc.