Baccarat Great Learning 2nd Advance Learning: Xuxu Siyou !
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City of Dreams Macau Opens!
Opens on 1st of June 2009, the new $2.4 billion Asian underwater-themed City of Dreams casino aims to draw mainstream Chinese gamblers and tourists to Macau.
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Chinese New Year Special '09
Go Out Rat! Come In Ox!
MacauCasinoWorld.com wishes all a Happy & Prosperous Year of the Ox!
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Fear of Losing in Macau !
Living Life to the Fullest at MGM
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Wall Street Baccarat Lesson
Find out why the failure of major US Financial institutions has anything to do with Baccarat.
Quote of the Year
“Our policy is that we will not allow any casinos to just shut down and cease operations.”
- Edmund Ho, Macau’s chief executive to reporters on worst case scenario, after his annual policy address.
MGM Grand Macau achieve Four Star Rating
MGM GRAND Macau announces that both the hotel resort and spa have achieved the distinction of Four-Star ratings in the first Mobil Travel Guide review of Macau and Hong Kong, after only eight months of operation. Click here to read more.
Wynn Macau to offer Texas Hold 'Em Poker!
You heard it first on macaucasinoworld.com. Wynn Macau will be introducing poker gaming come 6th November!
For a start, you can place your bet at any of the 8 poker gaming tables. Wynn Macau even offer a beginner table for newbies to learn the hands of poker free of charge, with dummy chips! There will be 3 learning session on a daily basis, each lasting half an hour.
This is definitely good news for pokers fans as more establishments in Macau starts to offer poker on their menu.
And the Winner Is ....
Alex Ho is the King of Mahjong 2008 and his take home prize is a cool US$500,000 ! Click here for more photos and report in Chinese.
The second-annual World Series of Mahjong entered final stage today at the Wynn Macau. 32 mahjong players, out of the original 302 contestants from 15 countries, battled in the fifth round this morning. After 12 hours of four elimination rounds, the world champion was crowned at 10:30pm. Alex Ho Kwok-Hung from Hong Kong became the new mahjong world champion, while Hong Kong natives Tong Kam-Wing and Lam Ho-Nam settled for the second and third place respectively, followed by Japanese player Shigeru Aono.
World Series of Mahjong - Day 2
The Second World Series of Mahjong commenced with the first round yesterday at the Wynn Macau. The tournament continued today from the second to the fourth round. There were 302 players from 15 countries started the play yesterday, and remained with 256 players from 12 countries at the start of today. Majority of the players come from Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan, competing for the world champion title. Click here to view Day 2 report of the World Series of Mahjong.
World Series of Mahjong - Opening Ceremony and Day 1 第二屆「世界麻將大賽」 十五國家選手雲集
麻將風雲再現濠江 ！
September 19,2008. At exactly 10a.m, the highly anticipated World Series of Mahjong has officially kick off! Over the coming three days, players from over 15 countries will pit their skills, tactics, memory and even luck at the green felt table of the Mahjong. It will be very exciting to see who will emerge as the new King / Queen of Mahjong.
Besides the attractive prize money of US$500,000 for the winner, the champion will be awarded a unique STEELA&STEELO designed necklace pendant worth HK$150,000.
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World Series of Mahjong
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The 2nd annual World Series of Mahjong will be held from September 19-21, 2008 at fabulous Wynn Macau resort in Macau.
The tournament will again offer a minimum, guaranteed cash prize purse of US$1,000,000! The cost to join the tournament is US$5,000. Prize money will be paid to the top 32 places in the main tournament !
At the moment, there are more than 300 players coming from 15 countries, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, England, United States, Denmark, Australia and Canada who have registered for the tournament. Although it is difficult to say who will shine at this year’s tournament, last year’s event showed that the world’s best players will certainly have the upper hand. Below are some of the hottest players coming this year.
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Macau August 2008 Photojournal
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Macau June 2008 Photojournal
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Major projects still under construction in Cotai: Galaxy Megaresort,
City of Dreams and The Four Seasons.
Macau first dedicated Poker Room !
PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site, announced the opening of Macau’s first live poker room - PokerStars Macau. Housed in Macau’s prestigious Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino in Cotai, it will have a 250 person capacity and offer cash games as well as a robust weekly tournament calendar.
Click here to read more on Galaxy Entertaintment Group agreement to bring in Banyan Tree into The Cotai Strip® !
Price War & Margin Squeeze !
One of the most significant shift in Macao VIP Revenue landscape is the increase of commission rate of VIP rolling chip sales (i.e dead chips) from the traditional 0.7 % to the current 1.35% (offered by Crown Macau). Now, there is huge inter-casino pressure to balance revenues, market share as well as profitability at the end of the day.
Inside Asian Gaming's May cover story presents an excellent write up on this BIG Squeeze covering the tiny city of Macau.
Gaming Sector Development Frozen
The Government will not consider issuing more casino operation concessionaires in the foreseeable future. The Chief Executive Ho Hau Wah (何厚鏵) told legislators that the decision will be formalised through legislation. He also announced that new landplots, including reclamation landplots due to be authorised by the Central Government in the future, will no longer be conceded for casino development projects.
Happy Chinese New Year !
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The Venetian Macao Opens !
Macau 27th casino opens today on August 28th 2007 at 7.18pm This is the world 2nd largest building, Asia biggest Integrated Resort. It has over 850 gaming tables and 3,400 slot machines. Watch this space for more updates and photos as I will be in Macau this weekend and you bet I am going to be on Cotai Strip® ! The monstrous area covers 10.5 million square feet, with 3,000 hotel rooms, 22 restaurant, a Spa centre as well as convention area of 1.2 million square feet. The performance venue can sits 15,000 audience and a theatre of 1,800. This place also have an area of 1 million square feet of shopping mall. Click here to view more photos on the first Sunday of operation!
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