Hi there!

I am sorry but I really have problem to find answers to my questions here. There are so xxx many posts.

I am moving to Macau in a couple of weeks and need to rent a furnitured apartment for minimum 3 months.

Before I google and search for this I would apprecate advices of where to stay and what arrangements to do.

We are a Swedish couple with 1 child and need a 1 bedroom apartment, I want to stay close to the best pokerroom. Our apartment budget is 10 000 HK dollars per month.

Hope to get good advices from you Macau experts!

Thanks.

Posted a while ago - just go back a few pages. Basically - obvious collusion, haphazardly / arbitrarily applied rules, and horrible floor rulings. I have faith in the Pokerstars Macau staff though, and I'll give the room another shot if Pokerstars takes it over, but I'm not going to play there until significant changes are made.

I played there last week. To be honest, I didn't believe that it is so bad until I played there. Frankly speaking, nobody knows what he is doing there. I haven't seen an unorganized place like that room, it is really horrible.
One of the incidents that have to me:
It was basically my first hand on the table. As usual, the dealer asked me to post and I did. then a guy raised to 50. Between me and that guy, there was another player sitting, still in the game, hiding his cards with hands. So, I directly called the 50 raise. The dealer looked at the next player, but then he found out that there's still another player, who wanted to re-raise the 50 bet.
So that guy re-raised to 100. Then, I said: Sorry, I didn't know that guy is still in the game, I want my money back. They starting to quarrel in Chinese and so on until they called the ultimate hero, the manager of the table, who confirmed that I lose my bet, without truly knowing what happened.
The best and funniest part is yet to come:
30-60 min later, same table different players, me still on the table, same incident. The dealer confirms that the player can remove his bet. I was so angry. I have a couple of more stories to tell.

Thanks Squibz,

I misunderstood you and got the impression that you had seen some funny things going on at PSM. Usually palying at PSM as I have full confidence in Pokerstars on and off line.

Have to say that my experiences from Starworld so far also good. Grand Lisboa just looks shady and obviously it is!

Looking forward to your other stories but I doubt anyone who had played at GL would be surprised.... Hope the rumour about PokerStar shifting there is true......

I wish I had read this thread before I went to Macau. Would have saved me the time of searching out every casino that had poker tables. I was disappointed going to the Venetian, MGM, and so on. Had a great experience playing at StarWorld though. Tables seemed pretty soft at 10/20 and I also had a good run. I tried playing at the Wynn once, but the waitlist was so ridiculously slow.

FishD, are you the tall manager guy who was wearing glasses at StarWorld? I was in Macau this weekend. I was wondering if the tables still that weekend were still soft from New Year's, or if they were of normal difficulty?

From what I can gather from local Hong Kong girls Valentine's Day is something to be celebrated. However, I'll still be gambling that night

Hello,

Just sent you a pm that should help.

- Fred

What we really want to know, is WHERE it will be taking place!

Grand Waldo

You guys that lives in Macau...I would appreciate if you could tell me a little about how it is. You know, outside of the pokerrooms, how is life?

Thanks Thomas!

PS I am thinking of moving there, that is why I am asking.

DS How about the pokergames compare to Vegas? Where is the best value to play poker full time, Vegas or Macau? If one play NL 10/20 and lower?

Macau is a tedious place with little to offer outside of the casinos and brothels. Pollution is bad 50% of the time and only moderate the rest of the time. Stinking hot during the day unless you are sitting under the A/C unit.

If you don't speak Cantonese or Mandarin you won't make many friends here either as there are fewer and fewer English speakers to be found.

There are some nice buildings but you will have seen them all in 2 days.

Luckily you can walk into China or take the ferry to Hong Kong to relieve boredom, but even then.....

What to do outside of poker? Hmmm.... massages, eat, drink, nightclubs, sauna, bang, sleep.

Not a hell whole lot to do, take a 45min ferry to HK. That's about it. IMO.

Looks like I should change my plans then, and go somewhere else instead.

How about the value of pokergames then? If anyone can compare the value to the games in Vegas I can get a good picture.

I see now that i wrote NL 10/20 limits and lower in my erlier post, just want to clarify that i am talking about us dollars.

Can someone clarify for me, are you suggesting the Grand Lisboa staff are dishonest or just unaware of the correct rules? I am in a position to correct some of the problems but need to seperate actual issues from preference.

Bottom line is poker doesn't make a lot of money. Even when GL had a monopoly and 12 cash games it made less than a single sic bo table. It just wasn't worth a dedicated manager, hence the inconsistencies mentioned on this forum. There are several staff with poker experience but these tend to be more senior staff who are better utilised elswhere.

However, it seems there is enough disatisfaction that GL needs to reconsider its commitment to the game. I don't intend to be a regular contributer but I can assure you that any messages will be read and where possible changes will be made.

I would suggest if you have any serious problem while playing you ask to speak with a gaming shift manager. There are usually four on shift and one other more senior manager. Often one of these will be an overseas manager who will be familiar with poker.

We would like to improve the product and certainly there is an obvious need to do so. Hopefully though, you all will be realistic enough to understand that the options are limited given the revenues that poker generates.

Finally, as the posters here are from a small distinct group, that is either expat or English speaking Chinese, can you tell me in general if you would play in GL if the improvments were made. Some managers at GL have the opinion that most of the poker players are of a background that would lead them to prefer a western style environment/facility and therefore any change or improvments will not bring a reasonable ROI as they are less inclined to play in a "Chinese" property than a "Western" operation. Is there any truth in that view?