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Working in Thailand as a foreigner typically means taking in an English teaching position. While there are highly paid English teaching jobs in universities like Thammasat or Chulalongkorn, the vast majority of such positions offer little pay.

In point of fact, don’t anticipate a decent salary for any highly skilled job, teaching or not. It does sound all bad, but actually if you aspire to live in Thailand for some time, such poorly paid jobs aren’t any trouble since Thailand is a low- priced place to live, the infrastructure is the best in South East Asia, it’s a safe country, and there’s still every chance to further your career and get some decent work experience.

However there’s an obscured dilemma that slowly presents itself after some time: you’ve been staying in Thailand for a few years, and you’ve gained good work experience, your pay isn’t great, but then again things are cheap in Thailand so that’s OK. BUT, here’s the rub : You haven’t had the opportunity to save much money while you’ve been staying in Thailand. Airfares look very over-priced compared to your pay in Thailand. The price of things back home gets to scare you when thinking about your money earned in Thailand. This problem hits a lot of non-Thai nationals in Thailand a year or so after starting work there. Long- term plans are often put on hold because you don’t have the nest egg of money to realise any ambition like buying a home, tieing the knot, or even purchasing a car.

So, key point : when thinking about living in the Land of Smiles, also remember that it is very challenging to save meaningful amounts of cash when considering the prices of “back home”.

Even so, not everything revolves around money, does it? You can have a great time in Thailand, perhaps learn the language, make friends, travel around the country when you have time off work, and get yourself some precious overseas work experience.

So what kind of jobs can you find in Thailand? Browsing jobs-quality.com - a website listing job positions in and around the Chonburi and Bangkok areas of Thailand - they have listed HR work placements, Administration work placements, sales executive job positions, Quality Assurance and Control jobs in Thailand etc. Essentially the sort of work placements you’d discover in your home country. Even though the majority of these job posts may be seeking a Thai national who speaks Thai, you will still find English-speaking prerequisites for posts within many international organizations located in Thailand.

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I don’t know what it is, but every new internet poker player I talk to seems to think it’s a casino setup. “Every poker hand someone has Aces or Kings,” one player told me. “How is this possible that there are all these big hands in a one table sit and go?” “Is the site setting up the game? Does it care who wins?”

The clear answers are no. The websites shouldn’t care less who wins or loses. With exception to some questionable practices (Absolute/Ultimate Bet scandals) the major sites operate with a very clear mind. They make their money on rake, not on wins and losses. No matter who wins, they make the same amount of money. In high stakes cash games, they only take a 50 cent max rake per hand. So, creating lots of action, does not affect their bottom dollar.

What is rumored is that the low stakes games are pumped with big hands so that the new players get excited about the game, whether they win or lose. If they had to sit around for hours and not get any quality hands, would they come back after a loss? Some people I’ve talked to actually claim to have read articles “by MIT” that illustrate this point of low stakes action-pumping online.

I think it’s all garbage.

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When playing in a pokern tournament, most poker players want to cash more than anything else. Chances are, when you are near the bubble, your stack will not be excessively large. Whether it is or it isn’t, aggressive play on the bubble will yield strong results, as most other players will be trying to preserve their chips, and make it into the money. By exploiting this given that occurs in every tournament, and aggressively going after the blinds, three-betting opponents, and moving all in with strong hands, you can build your stack and make a run at the final table, instead of just settling for the smallest payout.

Throughout the poker tournament, blind levels increase, and many bad players bust out early. Through the initial stages, there may be many players who are way above the average. However, as you get deeper in and closer to the money, variance tightens up, players enter fewer pots, and many players regress back to the average. Ratios of big blinds to stack sizes shrink, and because of this, players slow down and play fewer pots in order to survive. You should be using this fact to ensure your own survival, by taking their blinds, and coming over the top of their raises. Of course, be reasonable and make good reads, but if the situation warrants a steal and you are in position, go for it. Play fearlessly on the bubble and you will have a greatly increased chance at making the final table, where the payout is substantially more.

Adjust your mindset, and play for the win instead of for the cash. Over the long run, your profit from winning and final tabling will greatly exceed those few times you didn’t cash because of a consequential beat from an aggressive play on the bubble. Do what you have to do to win, not to cash, and you will see much greater results in the long run.

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Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson is regarded as one of the most effective math-based players in all of texas holdem. He employs a method of play primarily based on odds and calculations, while also appending his ability to make great reads of his opponent. Chris Ferguson is commonly known by the nickname ‘Jesus’ for his Jesus-like appearance, with long brown hair and plain face. But behind that face is a mechanical poker animal.

One of the most stunning things about Chris Fergusons’s play is the way he totally deflects all possibilities of giving off ‘tells.’ Ferguson looks the same every time he makes a move, whether he is bluffing or has the nuts. He always takes the exact same amount of time to bet and remains seated rigid and quiet with one direct arm motion for moving his chips, making him essentially like a computer even at the live poker table. And because he very rarely puts his money in behind, you’re either going to have to get lucky, or pull a really strange sort of move, to catch this monster.

As the crown to his long list of impressive tournament finishes, Chris Ferguson is a World Series of Poker main event champion. He has also been the National Heads Up Champion from NBC’s poker broadcast series.

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Playing online poker is great. You can sit in the comfort of your own home while wheeling and dealing with other players with names such as JazzyJacks78 or StraightKingHigh13. However one big difference between online poker, and poker at a table with real people, is that bluffing takes on a whole different scheme. When facing friends and strangers across the green felt table of a face to face poker game you can read their reactions and you can learn their habits. Yet when facing someone across the world wide web at best you might be working with a fuzzy picture from their last birthday party. So what is someone who relies on the bluff do in a situation where bluffing seems unreal at best?

The truth of the matter is that bluffing in online poker games is just as valid as it is in face to face games. There are some changes that need to be made, but with a true understanding of the game, these changes should be easy to master. In fact chances are that you have been bluffed more than once yourself if you have any online poker experience at all. Just because you can’t see a person does not mean the rules of psychology stopped. In fact it is quite possible that someone playing online poker may be more vulnerable to a bluff than in a face to face game. To really understand bluffing in an online game two factors need to be understood. First the people playing the game, second the game itself. With knowledge of these two factors, almost anyone can on occasion pull off a successful bluff. The trick is knowing when and how to do it in the online environment.

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