First night in Bangkok

Last night, I went out witch a bunch of guys from 2p2. Ryo and I didn’t get to cookie and crews house until 11:00 but when we walked in the door we were handed a cup and poured a glass of homemade ‘long island ice tea.’ Chilled for a bit, played some dragon ball z (actually a pretty fun game) and then went to Santina or something on Eakami. Ordered two bottles of Chivas and after checking out the club got down to the serious business of drinking heavily.

I played quarters with the birthday boy who at this point was already pretty drunk. He didn’t think an American would be any good and that he would own me. Eh, I was in a frat and played a lot of quarters. I think I lost once or something against him. I played cookie a bit too- he was a bit better and I think we made out about even. Then 1k flips with Ryo who is the biggest luckbox ever. First one, 1k and he wins. Second, 1k and he wins. Alright, gotta win the third one so we bump it up to 2k. Fucking luckbox three in a row!! That was the quickest 4k I’ve ever left (not really, of course).

Its really weird hanging out with poker players because as a rule of thumb, poker players have no concept of money whatsoever. Myself included. For most people losing 4k (baht, ~$125) is a sort of big deal. But eh, poker players win and lose a years rent before they eat breakfest. There is this mentality, I think, that money is pretty much infinite. Going from hanging out with backpackers, who collect 10 baht from everyone for a 40 baht taxi ride, to poker players, who will treat the party to two bottles and think nothing of it, is just nuts. I mean, who honestly flips a coin for 1k? Could you be any more degenerate (and less creative, next time we have to think of better prop bets than flipping a coin)? Whatever, its fun and I’m loving it.

I digress, we were the last ones to leave the place and cookie and birthday boy tried to hire one of the staff to become their personal chef/cleaner/etc. I’m not sure what became of that but it was pretty funny. Us three headed over to Spice while Ryo and company went, I later learned, to a hair salon to pee or something and never made it.

Spice was what I had sort of pictured a Thai bar to be- tons of middle age, not great looking German men and TONS of scantily clad Thai girls (and boys). We drank more, birthday boy passed out and cookie had to take him home and I was left to fend for myself. I’m honestly really scared of picking up a ladyboy and fended off all the girls. I just stood at the bar, girls would come up and grind on me, I’d sort of push them away. They would try to say something but I’m deaf and hate more than anything trying to talk in a loud club so I’d wave my hand and they would grind some more. I was drinking pretty good at this point so I loosened up a bit and started to dance a bit with some of the finer gals. I bought some drinks for them, more girls came over, bought some more drinks and by the end of it all had about 8 or 9 girls in my ‘section.’ I felt like a pimp.

I’ve rambled a bit and this has gone far to long so I’ll end it here by saying the fear of picking up a ladyboy out wheighed the temptation to bring one home. I had dinner with 3 of the girls, got some phone numbers and went home around 7 AM as the sun was just rising.

I wasn’t able to post this before and had another eventful night last night. Went to Fransau (French names are hard to spell) for some poker and vodka. Good times, for sure. The highlight was definitely the last hand though.

The game was pretty nuts at this point. We were playing 10-10 blinds but the game was playing more like 50-100. A lot of times the straddle would get up to 80 and once we did a full table straddle, with me doing the 320! Tons of stupid crazy pots. But the last hand, Ryo open pushed for like 4k. Super nit birthday boy (I’m still trying to do names) insta pushed his 5k in. Goes around to cookie who thinks about it for 10 secs or so and throws his 3k in! Then I look down and have QQ! Wtf! I think about it for awhile, I figure I have to be dominated by super nit who had just announced he didn’t want to lose his hard earned money but called anyway. Ryo had 22 (wtf!?), nit had AKs and cookie had JJ. SWEEETTTTT!!! HOLD!!! Flop comes J 2 A. no joke. Jkadsfl;ajsdflkajdsf;l I lose every single side pot. So stupid. Anyway, then me and Ryo went to spice and didn’t get to sleep till 7 AM, again.