I've just realized a number of bros on this forum are also Poker Players, or at least love to play poker...

I've always found the game fascinating, so I just wanted to ask...who on this forum plays poker?

We should hit Macau for all their money!

Yes.. poker..  lets go hunting in Macau and then win all their money. Love those Sauna's in Macau..

LoL...w0Rd...

I love Macau, because I get to play poker...win money, then I get to relax in the Saunas...

Also like to dabble on the poker tables when I visit Macau....

Prefer to play in a group so that we can gang up on the dealer

Macau? , unless its changed from the 80s I wouldn't bother , ie there are almost always stories of a friend of a friend who goes there wins big and is invited to the back room to celebrate with some champagne, at which they are beaten up and tossed into the bins behind the casinos.

Even in London where a couple of guys won 2 million UK £ they were arrested by the police and questioned, the house ALWAYS wins.

Poker isn't the game to play if you want to win lots of money, if you want to win lots of money you want to play blackjack and use tri/quad team card counting, just don't get too greedy and remember to lose 60% of your winnings as card counters are incredibly easy to spot in that they always place mininmum bets until the cards fall into their favour.

At which you are invited to the backroom or they stick a stun gun in your leg and oh my god hes had a heart attack lets take him to the back room to give him some medical attention (ie a beating).

i used to play a lot of poker couple years ago.  nowadays hardly play, i'll just play for fun with friends at home games for entertainment.

i know quite a few gamblers and they seem fine after their wins, hopefully this stays true

have you seen all of this in moviess???

i know lisboa was well known for stealing peoples money as tips! to the point where they were beaten? hmmm

as for london! london or anywhere in the uk is the safest place to gamble mate! the people who got taken back were also guilty of using a mobile phone device to calculate the speed of the ball on roullette right???

I think Macau nowadays is safe overall .i.e. gambling in the casinos that is....

As for the tips.....

I remember in the Old Lisboa that if you won a game .i.e. Roulette. The croupier would take a very small % of your winnings as a tip without even asking you....

Not only just the once too. Maybe the motto then was to tip more to win more.... . Croupiers can spin to the areas that you want on a high percentage...

As for the casinos now....i dont think that croupiers taking % of winnings is in effect now.....

I play a lot but prefer online.

I'm usually thinking other thoughts when in HK / MK

Slightly more than a year since 2007 Venetian opened its door, I think I visited Macau around 30 times. average 4 days per visit.  No big deal for bros living in HK... But to me, that's alot, especially I go to gamble,... sort of.

Have only encountered twice dealers want to take tips before handing over me my winning. Told them hand me all my winning, I will give them what they should get later,they were fine with that.


The rest, only do their jobs and hope you are friendly enough to make his/her jobs easier. Some dealers even advise not to give them tips.

Macau is safe for gambling. At least for western ownership. Once saw one guy won 4 million HKD, been paid immediately. I saw him months later, he is OK and still playing in Wynn.

dealers at old lisboa  use to always steal winnings of gamblers cos they lived of tips i heard! what i mean is they dont have a fixed wage, hence why they have to steal

none of this now though cos the americans are fucking up stanley ho

lisboa dealers were all offered high pay to join Sands and wynn forcing mr ho to pay them to stay

lisbao even offered free char sui rice to suck in customers haha!

Kennichi its not like this anymore lol...

You got some imagination!

Well the Police found a chopped up body in Macau fairly recently

cut at the joints and put in 5 suit cases, doesn't happen in the UK , bodies go to Kebab shops!

http://www.bigwhiteguy.com/archi ... _have_known_better/

Macau murder, had been rotting for quite some time....

U all talking about Texas Hold'em right?  How would u gang up on the dealer?

Also, how's the rake structure?  % of the pot? Or do u pay every 1/2 hour?s

i started off playing live 4/8 limit holdem back in 2002...
funny thing is, that i was buried in debts from playing blackjack, roulette, paigow, and mini baccarat...  
starting making a few hundy here and there, then i mustered up the confidence to start playing the only 10/20 limit game in town....
soon after in 2003, i turned to online poker. it was booming like crazy, luckily i jumped in and made a big chunk of money.
shy'd away from live holdem ever since i started to play online, also quit my job in 2004.....
only recently, nov 2007, a good poker buddy trained me how to play NL holdem... i find NL game boring, too much thinking, not as much action as limit games, swing variance is also smaller...
pretty sick of playing poker for a living, it basically controls my life

yah...poker/gambling put in me a lot of debt before, but luckily I went on a huge upswing before moving to HK, and managed to clear everything, and even buy an apartment with the help of my uncle, setting up a mortgage and everything.

I also started playing Limit Holdem, I love playing Limit, but I hate 10/20 that game puts me on tilt I only play 20/40 or above.  But it sucks cuz in HK/Macau everyone plays NL....sigh...

Otherwise I wouldn't mind putting a big chunk of money on the line!

Oh...and I hate online!

Reply  #1 paka's post

I played in the UK. It's not legal in HK (as far as I'm aware) and I don't got to Macau.

Reply  #4 asia-play's post

I presume you mean "Casino Poker," where the aim is to make a pair of more in three cards?

Reply  #5 Kennichi's post

Blackjack is the only beatable game run in casinos that they actually back. As long as you aren't caught cheating then you should be ok in respectable casinos. Although if you hit them big then you cuold be asked not to come back.

While technically counting cards in BJ is not illegal if you don't use some device to help you, the casinos don't see it as being in the "spirit" of gambling entertainment. And yes, they could get a bit brutal if they catch you doing this or cheating. But I think the UK is better than a lot of places for this. Check out this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4069629.stm

If you want to win a lot of money without worrying about the house then poker is the game to play since the house has no risk. Although to win big, you better be good and have a serious bank roll that can take the swings.

I heard the best odds gambling game that you can play is punto banco for pure entertaniment purposes.

Reply  #14 Kennichi's post

According to the article that was a loan problem rather than someone winning big. I don't think it often gets to that level of violence. Especially now it's big corporation casinos, they don't want to scare away big fish and tourists with bad publicity. Like how Vegas used to be a lot worse before the major corporations.

Reply  #16 5-htp's post

Still having the ability to win consistently is reassuring. If you ever decide to take a normal job then at least you know you can quit to do poker again.


Yeah bad, but to be expected as it's basically now your job. I expect being a porn star is a lot less fun in reality than it seem as a fantasy.

Reply  #17 paka's post

I think 5-htp means £10/£20 limit. Do you really mean £20/£40+?

i'm not sure if i can relate to a 'normal' job anymore, quit 4 yrs ago, love my new life, but it gets the better part of me...

sleep sched is whack, overspending, no concourse to radical behaviour....

how the fuck can i work for someone for 40k/yr??? 8hrs daily?? shit... sounds so fucked up... i like to wake up at noon

and im sure being a porn star isnt all cut up to be extravagant or glorious, gotta have ups and downs like most jobs....

i was talkiing about $10/20 canadian... not british pounds... shit, i dont even know where the '£' key is on my keyboard....

paka: im glad you had a sick run, and then moved to hk, bought a place too, i for one, spent all my $ on new car and tons of pussy

[ Last edited by  5-htp at 16-11-2008 09:44 ]

can anyone with money enter these tournaments or have u got to be a ranked player??

you know a viet girl player names liz liew???

i would want to bang her on that table than play against her