Re: Poker In Macau
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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