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- The VIP poker room is said to be the only large Texas Hold'em Poker Club in the world that offers top-level watch appreciation service. The company is working in collaboration with the Swiss Time Group from Switzerland to create the Macau poker room. According to MegStar, the poker room has transformed the entire mass casino part of the hotel.
- Wynn Casinos have their own venue in Macau, with a good range of poker going on. The room has a very good reputation for service and comfort, and serves free water, coffee and Chinese tea. The games tend to start at HKD 10/25, and the 50/100 is still extremely soft, even for live poker.
According to Tom Hall, CEO of Asian Logic, the tournament has been approved by the Macau DICJ and already has 26 registered players. Poker King Club, one of Macau’s busiest poker rooms based at the StarWorld Hotel will be organizing the super high roller tournament which according to the organizers “could go down in poker history books as. There are 33 casinos in Macau, with the biggest being the Venetian Macau, but even with large casino firms operating outside of the city, Macau took to gambling trends slowly. Poker was only introduced to the city in August of 2007, with the first Asian Poker Tour Macau event being held in November of the same year.
The world’s largest casino market experienced a 70.5% drop in year-over-year gambling revenue in November, which was the best month it had since the COVID-19 pandemic began wreaking havoc in February.
Macau’s casinos won $845.34 million from gamblers in November, according to numbers released by the Gaming Inspection & Coordination Bureau. It’s actually down from the $910 million casinos won in October, but the percentage decline was slightly better in November.
Following six months with more than 90% drops in revenue year-over-year, the market is beginning to show signs of a rebound. However, analysts were expecting a slightly better month with a 60%-65% fall, according to a Reuters report. Those same analysts believe it will be well into 2021 before casinos return to pre-pandemic levels of revenue.
Through the first 11 months of 2020, Macau gambling revenue is down 80% compared to the same time frame last year. June was the worst month of the year for operators with $89.7 million in revenue.
Earlier this year, the Chinese government had very strict travel restrictions on anyone trying to travel to the former Portuguese colony. As they have relaxed those mandates, tourism saw an uptick. Now, travelers from China only require a negative test before arrival.
In November, hotel occupancy reached 45 percent and the daily average tourists were more than 20,600, according to numbers released by the Council for the Development of Tourism. Both of those figures were the highest since the pandemic began.
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