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1. The typical Japanese person doesn't have enough spare time to sit at home playing online poker. They only go home to sleep, if that. Most Japanese do their gambling in Pachinko parlours located on the street near their office.

Additionally, Internet Cafes in Japan are extremely expensive by any standard, and especially by asian standards.

2. Gambling is completely illegal in the Kingdom of Thailand. The web pages of most online gambling sites are blocked by the government net filter, although if you bring the client install file with you on an ipod (or get someone to send it to you over MSN) then you can usually access the site. You cannot withdraw money from most poker sites from a Thai IP, although you can play on Party the last time I tried (1 year ago, it might be different now).

3. Asians like to gamble, but most asian countries have never heard of Poker. Casinos in Macao don't spread poker.

4. Gambling is also illegal in China (apart from in Macao). Those online gambling sites that aren't blocked by the great firewall of China typically experience timeouts and connection issues due to the firewall.

So that leaves Hong Kong and South Korea that have cheap, reliable internet connections and no gambling bans.

Malaysia, Singapore and the Phillipines don't currently ban online gambling - but all have strong religious groups (Islam in Singapore/Malaysia, Catholicism and Islam in the Phillipines) that would be utterly opposed to any form of gambling boom in those countries.

China would probably allow online gambling ONLY on sites that were wholly owned and run by the Chinese government. They aren't stupid enough to let some foreign company take all those profits offshore. On the plus side, any theoretical Chinese-owned Gambling site would probably allow foreigners to play there (but you'd probably need to learn to read Chinese).

In other words I wouldn't hold your breath.

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