Scamming the scammers...The early days in SE Asia

Scamming the scammer.

I was very broke, and walking along kosarn road in - Bangkok.

I was waiting for my girlfriend at the time - to arrive in a few days. (with my money).

I was also very, very bored.

I got approached by this well spoken, well dressed guy , and he asked me about participating in some beer advert film shoot
I would get some money, free food and free beer, for my troubles.

Considering I had little food, no beer, no money, and was extremely bored - it took me all of 3 nanoseconds before I agreed to jump into taxi with him, and head off to meet his 'mum', who was the beer advert filmmaker.

I was completely lost where we were in Bangkok, but we eventually arrived at a house.

His 'mum' wasn't there when we arrived, so he gave me some food (very good food, btw) – and lot's of free beer, while we were waiting for her to arrive.

Which was fine with me.

Then his 'dad' arrived.

He just happened to be a croupier back from ...Singapore or Kuala Lumpur, or somewhere ( I can't really remember to be honest).

He then went on to show me his card tricks at the tables and how he scammed people with the said tricks.
(I wish I could remember what he did, because they were very slick - I know that - but it's all a bit hazy now)

This was all quite fun, so far, as I was still being fed lots of beer!

I had no money or my passport on, so wasn't worried about getting mugged – I was just trying to work out the scam – I knew by this time there must be one, I just wasn't sure what exactly- or how - seeing as had nothing on me to steal.. (organ donor did fleetingly cross my mind, but I was too drunk to be scared).

Then they told me 'some guy' was coming to play cards soon (here we go, I thought), and the 'father' asked me if I wanted to make some money by playing, and scamming this rich dude who just happened to be arriving soon?

'Yeah, why not?' I said (still trying to work out the 'how'. The 'guy who just happened to turn up', was obviously in on the scam,). It must involve taking from me, but i had nothing - so how exactly was this going to pan out...?

....the guy arrived and they lent me some money to play with(we are talking $50/100 bets on the table.) The money looked real enough to me.).

We got to a final hand, and I didn't have enough money to match the guys bet, so I couldn't play - but I had next the the best hand. (of course i did..).

After explaining that I had none of my own money with me, to put down on the table. And I didn't have my ATM or credit cards on me, of course - I was just picked up off the street, after all.
(I was figuring it out by now, what the rub was).

So they give me $20 dollars to jump into a taxi back to my hotel, so then I could go to the ATM, and get out the $200 I needed to see the bet, and we would be rich (just as long as the other guy didn't happen to have the one other, better, hand. Yeah right...

'Cool,' I said 'I'll jump into a taxi (it was very near to a main road, I vaguely remember), and I'll be back withing the hour to take all this money off this guy....

I promptly jumped onto a bus, pocketed the $20, and carried on drinking when I got back to Kosarn road!
It was quite a fun day – and a relativity profitable!

So I scammed the scammers!
(of course if it was a real scam on the rich guy - I walked away from $20,000 or so. lol)
...if it's too good to be true, it probably is...