Poker in Korea

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I have played there. They had what amounts to a $5/10 No Limit Holdem game the day I played.

By law, no Koreans are allowed to play in the game. 80% of the players were Korean North Americans. The play was of much higher quality than you would find in a typical $5/$10 no limit game in the U.S.

The worst aspect of the game, by far, was the rake. They were dropping over $15 (15,000 Korean won) PER HAND. This is in a $5/$10 game !

At my request, when the game got short handed, one of the players asked his bud the manager to drop the rate. He dropped the rake to $10 per hand.

This is the highest rake I have ever witnessed, $10 per hand in a short handed 5/10 NL game.

The casino is very pretty, as are the surroundings and the cocktail waitresses [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] But poker is gimped until rakes come down (surely an unlikely event).