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a team of a dozen players for a challenge match with our Bangkok
players. Each year they organize an exploratory trip oversea to meet
fellow darters and include a short holiday. Their group normally
consists of 12 to 15 players (30% females) and level or standard -
club darters.The main event will be Saturday 12 July - 8 PM at the Moonshine Pub, Sukhumvit Soi 22. Yap and his group will be arriving on Friday and wish to play some darts on Friday as well. Saturday is the main event but if your schedule allows - come out for some darts on Friday as well. Look forward to seeing all on Saturday and as many that can make it on Friday as well. To visit the Penang Sports Club's website CLICK HERE |
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 Electricity
Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) will hold a tournament on 26
& 27 July at EGAT. I am still waiting for more specific information
- Schedule & Entry Fee / Prize Information. When they send this
information I'll will post it on our forum. If the format is like
their last event there were team competitions (4 person) and singles
competition for both ladies and men. If you're unfamiliar with EGAT
dart tournaments the Schedule & Entry Fee / Prize Information from
their 2007 tournament may give you and idea
CLICK HEREElectricity Generating Authority of Thailand Bangkruai Nonthaburi 11130  Telephone No. 66 2436 0000Fax No. 66 2436 4723 Website: www.egat.co.th |
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The
last 10 years I have spent the Swedish winter - 3 months here - and now
since I have retired I will spend at least 9-10 month here. The Swedish
winter is not so much fun. I
retired from big time darts in 91-92 and opened a restaurant -
JoLo & C0
with 20 pool tables and 12 dartboards in Stockholm. I worked there
full time until last year when I sold and retired. I play
in the league in Pattaya for fun sometimes for ROXY BAR - it’s a
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| . LEAGUE OF LEGENDS by Howie Reed is a series that ran in Friday's PATTAYA MAIL. Howie has offered DT the series to be printed here with the permission of Pattaya Mail. A special DT thanks for your kind offer Howie and now that this long over due newsletter is finally online I will get to work adding your series . |
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16 of the LSDL sees the league in its 9th year separate into
2 individual Darts Leagues; The LSDL FUN LEAGUE & THE LSDL PREMIER
LEAGUE. This season The LSDL Premier League has been opened up to
included all of Bangkok. THE LSDL PREMIER LEAGUE Season 16 started off on June 17th 2008 with 2 new teams  and venues.
The league would like to welcome The Other Darts’ from The Old Other
Office in SIlom, and Vichai’s TDA. Vichai’s TDA are 2 points clear
at the top of the tables. Domino 1982 and The Moe Syzlak Experience
continue to battle it out for 2nd and 3rd place, both teams on 4
match points each with 1982 in the lead based on point’s difference.
The Titans hold the middle spot but with themselves, Flaming Moes,
Domino Seniors & Domino Stone all holding 2 match points each, the
standings could go either way after the upcoming round 4. The Other
Darts’ team has a postponed game yet to play against Domino 1982.THE LSDL FUN LEAGUE The LSDL Fun League kicked off on June 10th 2008 with 12 teams from the lower Sukhumvit area, one new team and venue; The Sports Drink Bar. Now approaching round 5, The Fur Ball Job hold top spot 2 points clear of The Aloha Bar. The Lazy Pelicans who moved over to the Fun League this season, hold 3rd place in the standings. The New Cowboy Bar’ and Pel-I-can battle it out for 4th and 5th place. There’s a similar story for 6th and 7th between The silver Dollar Bar and The Sport Corner Bar who have raised the ante this season coming up from bottom spot in season 15. Last season’s Downunder BarBars team have moved and renamed themselves this time around, Led by Gayle; Larry’s Rebels now play out of Larry’s Loft on Suk soi 22 and hold 8th position out of 12 just above old home venue buddies The DownUnder Wabbilies. Sports Drink Bar captained by K.On’ who moved from The Sports Corner Bar last season to make her own team are in 10th, with The Moon Platoon and White lightening at the bottom of the league tables in the early stage of the season. |
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The Latest from
the "Best 501 in Bangkok" Well the 501 Challenge is over! – Web page
has been updated. How sad a lot you are!? – Maybe that could be
Question # 7 on the forum! Anyway I have updated the web page
and the most excellent dart player in Thailand – well Bangkok is
(Drum roll please)  KHUN
KENNY THEDART(Who managed to 100% of his games) Runner up is, Tris -the Pom 3rd place goes to Croc Simon 4th Chris the American 5th Jay, ‘Just Jay’ 6th Soi Johnny 7th Khun Grant (aka Grandpop, shhhh!) 8th Goes to Keiren – Kaptian K  The
Winner of the most real games played is Grant, playing all but one
game. . . . Now I did manage to get huge sponsorships for this
Challenge. Tiger Beer, Beer Chang managed to give me a year’s supply
of free (unlimited) beer. However . . . as no one managed to finish
all their games, I was forced to sell said beer at a reduce rate to
the little man at the corner of our Soi. Really very sorry about
that, as I am sure some of you would have made good use of the
prize; there was also a trip – again which was sold as well. If I
have missed any games, let me know and I will amend. I did try to
fair, but life isn’t and you all didn’t play the game as it should
have been played so I am way over it. Signing off, for now. . . .
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. These are the latest stats (week 14) that we've received. Our usual write-up is done by the DT's Hua Hin Bureau Chief - our good friend Osmo. Osmo and family are away on a well deserved holiday back to Finland. We here at DT would like to wish Osmo and family all the best for an enjoyable vacation and look forward to your safe return. In the meantime if anyone in the HHDL would like to fill in for Osmo while he's away with a short report - please have at it.  And
speaking of Hua Hin darts celebrities - -
Sukhumvit Eye is a
hardcopy magazine that first hit the stands last January. They are
nice enough to use some of our articles and photos for their darts
reports. The current June / July issue has our May interview with
Osmo along with his photo among other things. Click on their logo
for their website where you can find locations where their magazine
is on sale. No need to buy one for Osmo - we have one saved for him. |
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 After a couple of
weeks 'sick leave' Billy came back to Queen Mary with a vengeance.
Shared the high score with Alister of Celtic, closed his single from
120 with T20, 20, Tops and closed the beer with 16, 16, Tops. June 24 results: Queen Mary* 7 - Celtic 2; Offshore* 5 - Sick
Buffalo 4;Shakers* 3 - Market Bar 6; Simply Red 3 - Dogs Bollocks*
6;Beach House* 4 - Hilltop 5; Piccadilly bye;(*winner of beer leg)Standings:1. Queen Mary (32 pts.); 2. Offshore* (28); 3. Market Bar* (26);4.= Dogs Bollocks*, Piccadilly*, Beach House (24);7.= Sick Buffalo*, Shakers (22);  9.= Celtic, Hilltop (17);11. Simply Red
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(* have had a bye week)July 8 match-ups: Queen Mary vs Sick Buffalo; Piccadilly vs Dogs Bollocks; Offshore vs Shakers; Celtic vs Market Bar; Beach House vs Simply Red; Hilltop bye; (home team first) Best Regards - - Steen EDITOR'S NOTE |
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  Recently
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The Half Moon Pub
in Chiang Mai. Seems I missed linking the pub's website which is now
linked on the bar index page or
CLICK HERE
Would also like to welcome Steve as our DT Chiang Mai Correspondent.
Although he won't be able to get a report or photos in for this
issue we look forward his report next month. Steve did send the URL
for the
Chiang Mai Darts League
website
CLICK HERE The
photos here are from DT Senior Correspondent Chris who did an
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 Calling all darters interested in a return match between the Lower Sukhumvit Dart League and the Saigon International Dart League from Vietnam. It was way back on the first two days of September that the Saigon team captained by Rick Horton with twelve players representing SIDL visited us here in Bangkok for the first leg of this challenge match. We NOW HAVE SIX PLAYERS special thanks to our friends Lance & Ann, Bangkok players now living in Saigon but have kindly agreed to play for our Bangkok team. It's time to set a date for this event. All interested dart players - check your schedules and let me know what dates are good for you and I will stay in touch with Rick until we can nail down a set date.  Ben
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 The date was April 19th and excitement was in the air, as another
501 knockout was about to kick off at Flaming Moe's. It was one of
those nights where anything could happen...new faces arrived and
some old winners didn't show. And the surprises were plentiful...Highlights from the first round saw Chris getting through Danish newcomer Joergen by chucking in an 86 close to negate the great Dane's four tons, Finnish Ray dropping a 180 on Sar en route to a 2-0 victory, Dono puttinf away a stunned Grant, Simon taking a dive to the night's second great Dane, Matthias and Harry eaking out a victory over David. |
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 In round two Chris continued his winning ways, sending Jay to the loser's bracket despite his 3 tons and 80 close. Sea-farin' Ray laid the smackdown on Dono, 2-1, to send him to the kiddy table as well. The Danish contingent started leaving their mark as Matthias bumped Harry from into the consolation bracket, and Tom (metaphorically) put the wood to little Lek, sending her to fight it out with the other unfortunates. Speakin' of the loser's bracket...first round action saw Joergen put a quick end to Scott's night and Grant do the same to Sar. Simon slipped past Harry and the lovely Goy caught a 'bye, which led to a rematch with Lek. This time, Koy got the better of her diminutive sister-in-arms and advanced another round. Meanwhile, in a battle of right jolly blokes, Simon put  an end to Harry's night. Then, for the
second time of the evening, Dono and Grant squared off. Whoever said
you can't beat a Kiwi twice in the same night was dead wrong as,
miraculously, Dono won a tight 2-1 contest, single-handedly ending
Grant's evening. Meanwhile, Jay struck a blow for Thailand, sending
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 Meanwhile, back on the undefeated side of things...Seafarin' Ray
upended teammate Chris on the way to a 2-1 victory and Matthias
continued his winning ways by thumping Tom. This set up a classic
Danish/Finnish Deathmatch to determine who would play for the
Championship. Look, I know next to nothing about European history,
but I do know this, on the night Denmark emerged victorious. One
contender for the big prize was determined, and his name was
Matthias.Who would square off against the advancing Danish hordes? Let's find out, shall we? Continuing his run of startling upsets, Dono upended Jay 2-0, sending the youngster scurrying off to Patpong to drown his sorrows. If you thought that was an upset, though, wait for the next one. Simon, who hadn't been on top of his game all night, was about to get a big surprise in a little package. And that package was named Goy. The young lovely took down the jolly Aussie by tossing in a seemingly endless string of 80s and 85s. It just seemed like one of those nights from the beginning... |
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 This set up a Tom vs. Goy showdown and, alas, Goy's Cinderella story
had come to an end as Tom beat her handily. Chris put an end to
Dono's much less attractive Cinderella bid, as well. Chris and Tom
then squared off in an American Civil War, of sorts, and, yet again,
the North emerged victorious. Erm...the more I think about it,
they're both from the North so, enough with the metaphors, suffice
to say, Chris won. This set up the match that would determine who
played Matthias for all the marbles... In this corner, playing for the Moe Syzlak Experience, boisterous, happy-go-lucky American Chris. In this corner, also representing Syzlak, gruff-yet-lovable Finnish Ray. And, in a night of rematches, this one went the same way, as the big Fin once again bested Chris 2-0 on the strength of 4 tons and an 88 close. This set up our final rematch of the night. As Ray squared off with the man who sent him to the loser's bracket, Matthias, in the Championship Match. Both men had been steadily improving all night. But, when the smoke settled, Denmark once again emerged victorious as Matthias notched a big 3-0 win and played the best darts of the night. So, congrats to newcomer Matthias who, not only got the well-deserved win, but also was a right friendly sort in the process. |
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follows:Champ Matthias, Runner-Up Ray, 3rd Place Chris and 4th should have gone to Tom who ducked out early so Dono raked a prize he didn't quite deserve. There ya go kids. Another one in the books. Special thanks go out to Simon, Grant and Jay who did more than their fair share of scoring as well as to Jay and Ray whose half-assed organizational skills were still at least a quarter-ass better than my own. So, until next time kids, I remain...erm...confused, sleepy and in bad need of a haircut. |
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Winners Bracket - Well, back at the Moonshine Pub on
Sukhumvit Soi 22 on Tuesday 20th May 2008 the infamous 501 monthly
darts knockout tourney took place. 24 keen chuckers showed up at
roughly the right time and we held the draw. First
in, Mike put up his best efforts but in vain as Matt won the game
and went through to face Colin from Thursday’s Thailand darts
league. Matt throwing top darts won the game sending himself through
the next round where he met The Moonshines own Pla. Pla must have
tied back her hair and painted love-hate on her knuckles for this
competition beating The Wabbilies player Grant who is at the top end
of the individual stats in the Tuesdays LSDL Darts League. Grant had
won his first game of the night victorious over Brian but melted
when Pla rose to the challenge.In the first round The Aloha Bar captain; Scott lost his game to Tom from the Tuesdays White Lightening darts team. Tom Went through beating Chris and then K.On’ from this season 16’s newest team, The Sports Drink Bar. K.On’ had done well wining her first game against the Moonshine Pubs’ Colin. Colin had shown Brook what he was made of winning his first game.  Then
me, yep KaptainX from The Moon Platoon, Had to face Kenny who is
coincidently top of the individual standings in the LSDL FUN LEAGUE
on Tuesdays. I put a good fight, I think I even got a leg, but not
enough as Kenny pulled his sleeves up and kicked me straight out
into the Losers brackets. Kenny then won his second game against
Harry but then lost in a close game to Aloha bars David. David had
won his first 2 games against Soi22Johhny from Silver Dollar and
then Gayle from Larry’s Rebels.In the last set of the winner’s bracket, The Cat’s Meow bars Kai and Steve who now play for Kenny the Darts teams on Tuesdays faced each other off, Steve won and went through but then was sent packing by the Moon Platoons own Tris. Tris playing well went through and beat Kerry from The Fur Ball Job. Kerry had tried his best, beating K.Bai’ and then Andrew in the first round.  The
Losers Brackets - Now, over to the loser’s brackets where we losers’
get our second chance at the top prize, first up I played against
Colin from the Thursdays Darts League. I won the game somehow but
Johnny showed me how to play darts in the next game where he won and
went through only to be beaten by Kerry from The Fur Ball Job. Team
mates Kerry and Kenny then went up against each other; Kenny stole
the lead and signed Kerry’s fate for the evening. The unlucky Kerry
had done well beating Soi22Johhny in his first losers bracket game.
Meanwhile Kenny had put an end to the moonshine pub’s Colin on his
championship run. Colin had beaten K.Bai’ in the first round of the
loser’s brackets and then Chris who had just put a close on Kai’s
evening of play. Kenny continued to win and closed down Tom’s final
attempt of the tournament. In
set 2 of the loser’s bracket, Mike beat Harry even though Harry
pulled a 180 out his top hat. Brian beat Gayle and then Mike beat
Brian. Mike went through, beating K.On’ and then Brooke who had
tried his hardest. Brooke won his game against Andrew and then beat
Scott who had just put an end to Steve’s darting evening in his
first losers bracket match. Next up
 K.Pla’
V.s Brooke, Brookes knees didn’t give way just yet, Brooke beat Pla
and then Mike pulled out the stops and it was all over. Mike went on
to beat Tris sending himself through to play against Kenny who was
just waiting for his second chance at winning the night. Kenny won
the game and then continued on and to beat Matt who had just been
booted from the winner’s bracket by David from Aloha Bar on
Sukhumvit soi 22.The Final - So with the finals set to go and the hours growing smaller, David from the winners bracket faced off Kenny. Kenny played well but David was on top of things as he had been all night long, David won the match giving himself the title for May 2008 with a clean no loss’ evening. So David got First place, Kenny came in second, Matt came in 3rd and Mike came in 4th. Prizes were handed out to the top 4 and a lucky draw was held handing 4 more  prizes. With
Thanks - We would all like to thank Mitch and Wassana and all the
lovely staff from the Moonshine pub for a great evening and as
normal top prizes and top food. Thanks to Matt from the D'Pelican
for helping me out while I was managing to make a right mess of the
night’s paper work. Finally thanks to everyone who came down to the
event to play or support it. Myself, Mitch and Wassana look forward
to seeing you all again in the July Knockout competition at the
Moonshine Pub. See-ya all’ next time…KaptainX.EDITORS NOTE - Apologies to all in attendance for so few photos. Had a battery on it's last leg and had to save shots for the winners circle at the end of the night. |
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after 8 weeks being away, you can relax folk because the legend that
is Jayke's Take is back. The petition of 2 people that begged for
it's re-instatement on Darts Thailand after The Big Witkowski deemed
it too informative and clever for his website have their wish. The
175 who complained have had some people sent round to their houses
with pool balls in socks until they see things my way.Well what has happened? Firstly the thrill of Stoke returning to the Premiership- roll on August, The downer of Dustin the Turkey failing to win the Eurovision song contest for a record 8th time for Ireland with his song 'Irlande douze points' took the shine of it but the Euro 2008 footie is on minus any British team !!!! With no England fans in Austria and Switzerland, who will break all the cafe and bar windows and throw plastic chairs at the police? Maybe the Olympic committee will make it an Olympic event in London 2012, the Brits have to win gold at something. Anyway have been enjoying Grant's regular quiz items (found on the DT forum) and so this month we're going to test your trivia knowledge with slightly less dart orientated questions-no Googling chaps and chapettes, A selection of your own choice from Mr Donut for the winner. Here we go- are you smarter than Gayle or a second grader (same thing ) |
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Pro Am. Due to time limitations as well as the time needed to get a
visa - just can't do it this year. We would especially like to
thank Kevin A Berlyn - Chairman and Founder of "Dartplayers
Australia" for his kind invitation and for thinking about us darters
here in Thailand. Kevin is our kind of people - darts people. On
behalf of Darts Thailand and all of our players I would like to
invite you, Kevin to visit us for some darts and a few pints as well
whenever your schedule allows. - - - JohnnyFor more information on the William Cross Pro Am CLICK HERE or the PDC logo. To visit the Dartplayers Australia website CLICK HERE or the DPA logo. |
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 I hate shopping, except of course for darts, beer and cigars. I was recently back in the Sacramento area of California to visit my folks and they happen to live only a twenty-minute drive from A-Z Darts. Thought it might be interesting to meet the people behind A-Z Darts.  A-Z
Darts is a huge operation owned by John Baxter. John (second from
left) is no stranger to
Thailand having served in the US Air Force at Undon Air Base from 1970 to 1971. He's
been in the darts business since 1989 starting off in Rome NY his
last Air Force assignment - retiring five years later and moving
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about the game - John says that the decline of steel tip is because
of area needed and lighting and overall costs - boards, scoreboards
etc. Some places now charge for lighting (usage) of steel tip darts
area by the hour. The reason for the increase of soft tip darts - self contained lighting, scoring etc
and coin operated game - more profit for venue - ALSO prize money in
events offered by soft tip.
Overall increase of darts interest because of television. More
programs attracting new players as well as those who haven't played
in some ten years. A negative factor why many have stopped playing
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"Darts is upside down pool and all you have to do is follow through"
& "I look forward to visiting Thailand" John
introduced me to all the people working in the store, my apologies
for losing the rest of the names. John's wife is Kelly but he called
all the other women either another wife or a future wife. For some a
job is a job but it was easy to see that this was an atmosphere
where people enjoyed what they were doing. Additionally you have
word class darts players that can answer any question you may have.
I always enjoy shopping and meeting the fine folk at A-Z Darts on
visits to my parents. To visit the A-Z Darts website
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folks - think Johnny got a bit fed up with me moaning at him,
therefore he has given me my own space in the News Letter. My aim is
going to be to try to set things correct that I hear whilst out
playing, so if you have a problem Darts related E Mail me at
sezharry@gmail.comJust a few points first, (A) We will not print your name or the bar/team you play for. (B) We will not accept attacks against individual players or members of the Committee, you can name The Bar, The Team or The Committee. (C) Send your correct name when forwarding, we will not print complaints from Noddy and the such (take note Jayke). (D) Do not ask me who posted complaints, my lips are sealed. (E) We will also accept compliments you wish to see in print. So there it goes - get all the things you're talking about off your chest, this will only work with your cooperation.  Now
a few to get started with,(1) Noticed since the departure of Ben that the throwing areas are falling below standard. Bar Owners and Captains take note, you can't expect your team to win if the set up is not correct. (2) Lighting - Don't put a 25 watt bulb into a spotlight - MOST OF US CAN'T SEE AS IT IS. (3) Captains are loading teams, remember you can be voted out as well as in. (4) Food whilst not compulsory, please feel free to feel guilty if you are getting fed at away games and not at home. Hope you enjoyed and agreed with those points just a few I heard this week. DISCLAIMER - HARRY IS NOT A RESPONSIBLE PERSON HAVE FUN THROW TRUE - - - HARRY |
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 The
actual date - long forgotten. The darts event - Jayke challenges Ben
to a best of three of 501 selecting a girl in the bar that can
"easily" beat him. Ben's advantage - he's at the top of his game.
Jayke's advantage - two maps one of Thailand and the other a world
map both out of eye sight of the darts board. The wager - the loser
rings the bell buying a round for all in the bar - Jayke covering
his selected girl's unlikely loss. GAME
ON - Ben's on fire hitting numbers like a madman. Jayke now seems
uninterested in the game and the maps now have his full attention.
After Ben throws, Jayke asks, so Ben where exactly are you from in
the UK? Ben a bit frustrated knowing Jayke's never forgetting memory
of trivial knowledge, remarks how he's got to be drunk but assists
Jayke at the map pointing out his home town. In the meantime -
Jayke's girl scores well? Again and again Jayke has a geography
question for Ben after he shoots. Ben gets increasing frustrated
with Jayke telling him he's hopeless when he's had too much to drink
but always goes to the maps to answer Jayke's questions. Again and
again Jayke's girl is hitting big numbers and closing? Well easy to
see how this one turns out - Jayke's girl wins and Ben rings the
bell.So Ben - you've always said that Jayke could teach you nothing about the game of darts. WRONG - "Don't answer geography questions when trying to play a serious game of darts." By the way Ben - thanks for the beer. |
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EDITOR'S NOTE We're back - late as usual but we're back and hope to be bigger and better in the future. We missed a June issue but will continue a monthly newsletter. With my camera problems there is no Dart Bar of the Month in this issue. However I have already talked to Steve from The Half Moon Pub in Chiang Mai and plan to have his place featured next month. Special thanks to the increasing number of people contributing to DT. Our goal is to soon have dart reports from all the areas where darts are played throughout Thailand. We're nearly there. If you're a darter traveling to Thailand by all means pack your darts. New to Thailand? Contact us and we'll point you in the direction of the nearest darts bar. Traveling in a group and want an impromptu darts match - no problem - - Johnny "The Big Witkowski" soi22johnny@yahoo.com |
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