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I'm having a hard time not laughing all the way through this video, so I am going to do my best here but man this is a funny one. Going ahead and quoting directly from the Pattaya Mail, pattayamail.com, the article is titled: The naivety of Pattaya's card gamblers from India is gobsmacking, and I couldn't agree more with the title of that article. 

Quoting directly and I really do urge, if you're watching this go read the whole article, tons of stuff going on, it is pretty funny. Like the whole thing is just like "Huh?" Quoting directly: "The open-season police raid on a conference-turned-casino room at the Asia Pattaya Hotel netted around 80 gamblers from India and an assortment of Thai and Myanmar card dealers, tour organizers and money counters. It is difficult to envisage a more bungled and chaotic gambling holiday which was bound to result in tears and worse. Hotel Management was suspiciously told none of their staff could enter the large room because it was a private meeting." Quoting further: "Astonishingly, the arrested gamblers included several Indian businessmen with high profiles." Quoting further: "Criminal lawyers in Pattaya say that the most likely penalty for the Indian gamblers will be a stiff fine, deportation and blacklisting." Well yeah, and that is after they have been detained in Immigration lockup. Have fun there. I have seen Immigration lockup. It is not a place you want to get detained for very long if you can at all avoid it. So apparently what happened here, somebody got it in their head to come to Thailand, rent out a hotel conference room and basically set up their own "floating casino". I keep saying "floating" because I keep thinking of the movie and the play ‘Guys and Dolls’ which is one of my all-time favorites because Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando are in it which is pretty cool. The oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York was run by Nathan Detroit and it would move around and what not. Yeah okay, a floating crap game like feasibility wise, I can kind of see it but you are flying in around 100 odd people and it is like Brother Loves Travelling Salvation Show that you are putting on here, I mean in a country which explicitly illegalizes gambling. And it goes on in the article, again I really urge people to read this article but it goes on in the article to say that some of the people arrested said "well gambling is legal in Thailand. You've got lottery and horse racing!" It's like, yeah I have done videos on that before; they are explicitly legal, gambling ain't. There's a law on it and it is pretty darn clear what the rules are associated with that. These folks weren't following them because they didn't have any sort of licensure to be dealing in this kind of activity. 

Now yet again, this is kind of one of those situations and I am going to get into this in much more detail in another video but this is kind of kind of one of those situations where I don't know, just the presumption of many foreigners, this isn't like targeted at any one group but I don't know why it is everybody thinks they can just come to Thailand, "oh yeah, just go to Thailand, set up a casino in some conference room in a hotel where they had a boat show last week and all will be right with the world. We will make a bunch of money and just go on our merry way.' Yeah, it doesn't work like that here. There is this thing called law enforcement in Thailand and they don't like gambling yeah. I shouldn't say they don't like gambling, I should say that they will enforce the law on gambling because it has a societal impact and there is a law that has been promulgated here that deals with that matter. So long story short, anybody watching this video, If you are looking to come to Thailand and rent out a conference room to set up a floating Casino, maybe look for another jurisdiction.