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Originally Posted by Love_the_game
Where would you say is the best place to play in the Philippines? Visiting towards the end of the year and not sure where to go. Ive heard that Cebus Nustar is a nice new casino. Newport world resorts in Manila seems to get good reviews as well. How about Royce casino in Clark?
I played at Cebus Nustar seemed like a complete rake trap setup in my very limited experience there (2 sessions). Both times it was only a few 50/100 games running with lots of obvious house players bouncing around tables to keep the games going. Seemed extremely obvious they were doing their best to maximize rake, even by Filipino standards.
I've ran really bad at Royce Casino so haven't played there much lately. They have a lot of house players as well but they do have higher stakes games. Usually at least one table each of 50/100, 100-200, and 100-200-400.
Occasionally they'll have 500/1000 action as well, but generally private game. If you are a loose playing foreigner you may have a chance at getting in the game even if you aren't Korean or Chinese.
As far as Manila goes I can only speak to Okada, I'm guessing it has the most tables running of any room in philippines. Games don't start till 12-2 PM (games go till at least 5-6 AM) but once it gets a little later in afternoon there's a big selection of 25/50, 50/100, 100/200. I never had to wait long to get a table. Then there will almost always be at least one bigger game usually 300/600 but can be 200/400 or 500/1000.
Often times 100/200+ games here play way deeper than you might see in the states. Okada is 100k max buyin for 100/200 and some people actually do buyin for that and many 40k+. So you are talking about a $1.70/$3.40 game with a 1700 max buyin.
A lot of head phone wearing grinders but you can table change and there were a decent amount of awful players as well.
From what I've seen action has been pretty bad in the summer in Philippines but things were much better when I played in Nov and Dec.
Last edited by WPNdonk; 07-12-2024 at 08:38 AM.