Poker In Macau
 

Does anyone know anything about poker in Macau?

I heard that they have huge private games there (often in hotel rooms above the casino). Do they have poker rooms there? What are they like? Is Holdem the game of choice?

BA

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There's about to be a whole lot of drunk people!

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Hey Brandon,

I'll be out in HK next semester studying abroad and I'm interested in the same thing. I talked to someone who was at Wynn Macau's opening and they said it didn't have a poker room, but that there was still planned expansion so who knows now.

On a side note, I think my high school friend Ravi at Harvard knows you. Tell him playing me heads up is -EV haha. Anyways, I'd like to see what others have to say on the topic.

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The way I hear it, China is the wave of the future when it comes to poker, so games should be plentiful. Be sure to watch out for the TOTAL GLOBAL DOMINATION though.

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I heard there wasn't I'll be in HK starting Dec 24th -> Jan 10th. I'm sure ill call them up when im there to see if they got any. GF will call them when we are there, considering i speak no chinese or portugese.

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what others think? dave, good thing you are going to HK--you are getting away from an embarrassing game. stick to what you know buddy, this isnt it.

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I will be going to HK in early January and will be spending about 4 days in Macau.

Last I went they had no poker rooms and no one cared. The bacarrat tables were all full and everyone was throwing money around. People just don't know holdem right now. They prefer quicker action games like bacarrat, pai gow, & blackjack.

The casino floor makes so much on these pit games that poker rakes will seem like pennies and lots of real estate must be used to open up a poker room. Until the boom has arrived I don't think we'll see any poker rooms there.

Olivert has mentioned about the WPT launching there, was it in 07, 08, or 09? I'd be so willing to pay huge rakes if they started games there. The action would be crazy and many novice Chinese poker players play open enders or flush draws like the nuts. It would be alot of fun and with a bit of luck, huge potential to make decent $.

No poker so I'll just visit China City, new clubs and Rio. If Wynn had a poker rooom that would be sweet. It won't happen for at least another year before the poker boom explodes there. Probably more.

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WPT will be on Macau Cable TV in 2007. That's really small potatoes (expected viewership to be on the order of 1000 households or less) given that most of the gamblers in Macau are day-trippers from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the GuangDong Province of China. (Cantonese is the dialect of choice in Macau.)

(Discovery Channel Asia won't air the BetFair APT in China, Taiwan, or Hong Kong until the Spring of 2007.)

I don't expect a WPT event in Macau at the MGM Grand Macau until the 1st quarter of 2008 at the earliest. The MGM Grand Macau won't open until the 4th quarter of 2007.

There is a possibility that another American-owned mega-resort casino in Macau (i.e. Wynn Macau or Venetian Macau) will host a major televised poker tournament in the 2nd half of 2007. That event obviously will NOT be a WPT event.

Nothing has been announced yet.

Texas Hold'em will eventually have a niche in Macau, but I don't expect much if any progress until 2008.

(My client swung my Macau on her trip to Singapore in November. She told me that those hourly Air Macau "gambler" commuter flights between Taipei and Macau were jam-packed.)

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Ravi- Do you live in Sacremento??
I think I may know you..

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"My client swung my Macau on her trip to Singapore "

Is that a euphemism or a typo ?

Otherwise, thanks for the information.