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They're just playing 9-handed NLHE with stakes about 2-3x higher than what people saw on High Stakes Poker. Is it really that interesting to anyone who isn't a poker player?

Never seen a $200K straddle in HSP.

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08-01-2014 , 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by MarginOfErrr

They're just playing 9-handed NLHE with stakes about 2-3x higher than what people saw on High Stakes Poker. Is it really that interesting to anyone who isn't a poker player?

50k/100k/200k blind big bet games are a totally different league than anything most people have ever seen. These games make the Andy Beal heads up games look small.

FFS, you'd be putting a million in the pot preflop just to raise after 2 limpers. Any pf 3b is going to over a million.

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08-02-2014 , 04:55 AM

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Originally Posted by thehabit 420

Nerd your incorrect on that. Since 2004, when I first came to China, most are able to transfer any amounts throughout an ATM to another person. Much easier process then the west.

As far as taking money out from an ATM, that may vary. I have a limit of about 3k usd a day, but other cards may have an unlimited amount.

Insurance guys always pay out. It's Macau...

thanks for correcting me. i just read about this, but sources seemed credible ... are you a Chinese citizen?

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08-02-2014 , 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by PTLou

Well for starters , hell will freeze over.

(on possible casinos on the mainland at some point in the future)

but wouldn't we have said the same thing 25 years ago about all kinds of things in China? What do you see as the barrier? Ideology? I don't claim to know a lot about China but observed from outside it appears to be pretty money-driven. Why wouldn't they open a state-owned or licensed casino if it could help them pay for their aging population?

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08-03-2014 , 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by LektorAJ

(on possible casinos on the mainland at some point in the future)

One point of view would be that china would prefer their citizens reinvest their funds into infrastructure rather than casinos which also goes to explain their restrictions on expatriating funds out of the country and visa entry restrictions into Macau. The current system works well for now. They get indirect revenues from Macau without as much social risk and they get to use Macau as testing grounds for now.

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08-03-2014 , 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by NerdSuperfly

thanks for correcting me. i just read about this, but sources seemed credible ... are you a Chinese citizen?

No, I'm American.

What your thinking of may be the limit that a Chinese national can exchange per year which is only a total value of 50k USD.

There is no limit on how much rmb can be sent out and received to ones bank.

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08-03-2014 , 02:30 AM

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I care about the stakes playing in these games but I want to see the people/characters that are playing these crazy 48 hr sessions much more. I really want some footage of the tailing end of a long session, would be the sickest thing to watch.

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08-03-2014 , 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by AEAB1105

It was probably linked at the time, but if you do a google search for monaco cash game ept 10, you can get a little taste of a cash game with a lot of the same guys, including Richard Yong I think - although it is only two hours and the blinds are only 1K/2K euros. Phil Ivey is like - Why are we playing so small? :-)

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08-06-2014 , 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by The4thFilm

Still don't get what junket operators actually "do."

Why don't casinos themselves have their own junket operators?

Casinos don't offer lines of credit which is what the junkets offer. And the junkets will have gangsters coming to your door to threaten and kill you if you don't pay up when you lose

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08-07-2014 , 03:42 AM

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Originally Posted by billstraightener

Is there any good youtube links to documentaries on Macau?

This is a National Geographic piece on the building of The Venetian in Macau, it was interesting. This is from a few years back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl2aOLlIUOc

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08-07-2014 , 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by MarginOfErrr

They're just playing 9-handed NLHE with stakes about 2-3x higher than what people saw on High Stakes Poker. Is it really that interesting to anyone who isn't a poker player?

A vice half hr piece on macau in general (not just the poker) would be incredible.

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08-07-2014 , 05:30 AM

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Originally Posted by thehabit 420

can't remember the article i got 'my infos', but was a biz site and it was like "chinese can't get more than 2k per day on an atm and therefore they need credit"

but thanks, will try to do some research on that topic

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08-07-2014 , 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by billstraightener

Is there any good youtube links to documentaries on Macau?

This isn't a video, but is quite a good read:

The God of Gamblers - Why Las Vegas is moving to Macau.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...od-of-gamblers

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08-08-2014 , 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by moving shapes

This isn't a video, but is quite a good read:

The God of Gamblers - Why Las Vegas is moving to Macau.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...od-of-gamblers

Good trad . Ty

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08-08-2014 , 08:42 AM

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t0pb1ll1n

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Interesting article

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08-08-2014 , 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by SleightOfJam

A vice half hr piece on macau in general (not just the poker) would be incredible.

Documentary about the big games and general development of the place would be great.
Other than that, there are just casinos which are filled with baccarat tables, expensive boutique shops, expensive hookers, some saunas with "line ups" and handful of nightclubs, that's it.
If you don't gamble, you get bored in less than a week.
If you gamble tho, it's awesome obv.

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08-08-2014 , 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Anthony James

Yeah you should snap call the $500k, especially with another LAG behind who is likely to get it in with something exactly like As X. It turned out to be a good fold purely because of the results, but imagine how you would feel when the turn pairs!
Excellent session nonetheless!

If you aren't bankrolled for the stakes is a fold here better?

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08-08-2014 , 09:22 PM

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The games last year there were crazy when I went but without knowing key people it is hard to get into the really good games imo. Was blatant political nonsense

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08-09-2014 , 12:39 AM

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PlzCoolerMe

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Wow, Organized crime running the beat-downs... Sounds like a great place.

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08-09-2014 , 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by moving shapes

This isn't a video, but is quite a good read:

The God of Gamblers - Why Las Vegas is moving to Macau.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...od-of-gamblers

Too long.

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08-09-2014 , 04:17 AM

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Originally Posted by moving shapes

This isn't a video, but is quite a good read:

The God of Gamblers - Why Las Vegas is moving to Macau.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...od-of-gamblers

"Around his home village, *** Hing, which means Celebrating Fortune"

lol

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08-10-2014 , 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Daddys_home

Too long.

Yeah, the first sentence was a bit long.

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08-10-2014 , 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by username4744

Great article, thanks for posting.

this

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08-10-2014 , 03:19 AM

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lol poker players who can't read a few pages of well constructed English, yet can watch the merry-go-round of cards for days.

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08-10-2014 , 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by shulenberger

lol poker players who can't read a few pages of well constructed English, yet can watch the merry-go-round of cards for days.

But cards have pictures

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