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Originally Posted by chuchu59
Pai gow tiles is akin to a scoundrel's game. You wont find any decently dressed person playing the game and the noisier the cracking of tiles the better. Ah, how I miss the good old days playing this game at Jai-Alai casino in Macau. I played for more than 36 hours non stop at the table (no seating)with my friend. That was more than 15 years ago though.
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Haha... last time I bothered to pay attention, the players weren't too scruffy.. but this was like 20 years ago as well
The Jai Alai is the scene of my worst-ever run of luck playing sic bo... I wonder if they still play Jai Alai any more... but I've spent countless hours in there as well - even tried the pachinko machines when they had them...
36 hours without seating, though...
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Simmo, unless Stanley HO offers better pay packages to his staff, they will basically remain the same and try to pinch customers' money at all costs. It doesnt matter whether you are wiining or not. If you take the bankl at the paigow game, right after a clean sweep, you are TOLD that a portion of the chips at the next game are theirs already and if you win you have to pay double that portion to them and even pay the commission for them. Its really ridiculous like the wild west.
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Are they still doing that, Chuchu?
Simmo - the Western operations are actually better, but the Venetian, like all the other new operations when they opened, had a number of hiccups. You have to understand that every time a new casino opens, people queue up beginning the night before - in the case of the Sands, there was a rumor that they were giving away free money, so on opening day there was literally a stampede, glass doors busted, etc. No such thing at the Venetian but I still imagine it was akin to a stampede, and of course the staff simply can't keep pace.
No matter how much advance planning is done for a casino opening in Macau, they will never ever get it right. I guarantee you though, by the time we get there in late November, everything will be running quite smoothly.