Reply #1 bigcock21's post
There are points I did not address, especially in a practically.
As "Rico" pointed out clearly, it boils down to "NO MONEY NO HONEY!" That's it.  $$$$
So how to "splash the cash" to invest smartly your $ to achieve your goals?
For sure, converting your $ into drinks for you is NOT the solution.
My guess is that 100% of the girls at Players II are there for ONE reason: $
Here are few ideas that came to my head from practices over years in this area.
1) When you walk in, go straight to the bathroom...for your eyes to adjust to the change of light and avoid the desperate ones rushing on new comers with "Honey I love you!" (99% chance that would be a disaster). 
2) Then go settle at the BAR, place to SEE and BE SEEN, by girls and waitresses (girls generally have a favorite waitress handling their drinks...so when waitresses see something they might tell the girls "There is a nice generous guy there") ), close to the bartenders. 
3) When you order a drink (no Corona please = cheap signal!) pull from your wallet (where there visibly are more) a HKD500 banknote and hand it to the bartender. That is a much better signal that HKD50 or HKD100. Then when you get your change back, there is more money to be seen. 
Do not use a TAB as it is NOT visible!
(I would only use a tab at JB as i know them well and they know me!)
4) Once settled at the bar with a drink in hand, you can study the ...battlefield. 
Don't stare at girls you don't want otherwise they may come to you, you say "No" and then others may think you do not want any girl.
5) Being at the bar, you can have small talks with the bartender and offer her a shot!
Bartenders (and some senior waitresses) are used to and paid for that; it's entertainment. They can take a lot, and they are good at playing Three Cards Monte with shots of Tequila or ...water 
6) Btw, for your "Blow Job" (to drink with your hands in your back) training, better learn with a bartender and tissues nearby. 
7) In those places, the DJs are generally very skilled, so if there is something you especially appreciate, call a waitress and give her tip for the DJ with some kind of reason why. $
8) Once you have identified your  "objective", and as "godisdead" pointed made eye contact, get "her" waitress, when she comes to the bar for an order, give HKD100 and tell her to buy a drink for the girl you have in mind and to keep the change for her. The girl is likely to come say thank you and stay.
9) Then you'd better move to a table on the right side where it is more comfortable and private. 
At Joe Bananas, I think more than 50% of the customers are normal customers so finding HONEY can be more tricky but there are also more opportunities to flash your MONEY.
a) First you settle in the FIRST PART of the bar to SEE and BE SEEN. Any girl going from the dance floor to the bathroom will see you and you will see her.
If you are at the end of the bar or at a table, you might be invisible. 
b) JB bartenders are good and nice. Some are perfectly and happily married but they are ready for all kind of stunts (don't ask!) because it is ENTERTAINMENT, their jobs! So offering shots to the bartenders and the amazing (she has ~3 -4 pairs of eyes!) Lead Waitress, Renuka, is always a good idea...for your PR! 
c) The band and especially Aura, the excellent lead female singer (and entertainer / clown!) are another opportunity. I think the 2 main factors getting the $ into JB's cash register are Aura and Renuka. Simple.
So when the band, or the "clown", have performed something very well filling up the dance floor, go and put some banknotes in the band Tip Box or ask Renuka to do it for you (the message will pass anyway).
Then Aura is likely to take the mike and thank you loudly, with your first name or nickname (or whatever she decided to call you )...or if it is close to their break time (1/2H shift), she may simply come thank you at the bar.
She is NOT running on ice, more like cognac or whatever is around...sometimes with side effects (don't ask).
d) You can offer a rack of shots (I think they are 7 or 8) to the band. Again, task Renuka with that. She will take care of your PR.
Asian male (I assume you are Chinese)
Phils are often looking to ...marry a Westerner and hope "god" will help them...
Indonesians or Thais are not fixated like that.
Since 2020 and for a while, foreign tourists are grounded outside,
but once the gates are open, look for ...Mongolians!
In Ulaanbaatar,
* Mongolian girl + younger Westerner => bar fight. Mongolian guys are VERY nationalistic and jealous!
* Mongolian girl + older (that implies potential political connections => troublemaker jailed at sight) Westerner looking a bit Russian (highly respected in Mongolia), drinking vodka and offering vodka to Mongolian guys around => Very smooth and even the local guys might help you land a girl in your bed (once, bugged by a girl, nice but a but a little bit drunk, I looked at guys around showing embarrassment and seeking advices: Reaction, they clearly indicated to me to take her to my hotel and as I walked out with the girl, they were showing to others "This is OK!!"...and it was ok. Weird endorsement)
* Mongolian girl + Chinese guy => WAR, onsite beating 
So when those girls are out of UB, in Beijing, Singapore or Hong Kong, they absolute don't mind going out with a Chinese guy!
But for now, in Wanchai, no foreign tourists and some girls that got PR status in some ways have gone home
as the income does not cover the costs to stay here.
That is why, if I go out to Wanchai in the evening, it will be only with my regular Mainland Chinese pros
(was unexpectedly at JB last week, so I speed dialed one who was just closing shop and rushed to JB)
and my Indonesian friend, for the future.
What is left at Players II and alike now has nothing to do with the standards at Escape until 2019.
If you are a regular with one of those Mainland Chinese ladies, ask her for overnight and go to JB (or Players II) with her.
Then while in good company, you can study the dynamics around (it's fun to watch)
(I did that ages ago for my ~ first time at Neptune II, coming with a Thai (as a "hedge" and I told her of course)
who was the boss of a massage place; then later of course
we went to her place for exercise) | |
$$$$
"objective", and as "godisdead" pointed made eye contact, get "her" waitress, when she comes to the bar for an order, give HKD100 and tell her to buy a drink for the girl you have in mind and to keep the change for her. The girl is likely to come say thank you and stay. 
