November
8
2006
By: Poppy Z
I heard the news claiming Macau could soon take the title away from Las Vegas as the gambling capital of the world.
Deal or no deal?
The Baccarat game and casino capital of Asia is said to have gained by 39 per cent in September with its gaming revenue totalling to $578m. This year’s opening of Wynn Macau Casino aided in the rise of visitor arrivals in the area, ergo snubbing those hot Las Vegas package offer deals.
It’s not just the casino owners who are profitting from this boom. The Macau Daily reported that Macau’s gaming industry employed a total of 29,993 employees in the second quarter of this year, up 28.4 per cent over the same period of last year.
But wait just a second, are these numbers enough proof that Las Vegas is losing its charm among its loyal patrons? Or does this have something to do with other factors?
For example, politics. Yes, a force that is sending…
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October
22
2006
By: MaxCohen
Macau is so hot a gambling capital that it keeps breaking records, of others and its own.
Months into forecasts that Macau will overtake Las Vegas in casino gaming, Macau continues to climb steadily and narrow the gap between itself and Las Vegas. China’s baccarat gaming capital recently saw an over 12% annual increase in gambling and betting revenue, shattering a previous record it set only a while back.
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The so-called Las Vegas of Asia recorded a year-on-year hike of 12.6% in August in gross receipts from the gambling and betting industry, which amounted to $4.34 billion for 2006’s first eight months. This, according to the government-run Statistics and Census Service (SCS). Macau recorded $584 million in gaming gross receipts for August alone, breaking a record of $578 million it set last March, says SCS.
Since the middle of the year, analysts have been going on record to predict that Macau will leapfrog Las Vegas as the world’s top gambling destination by 2007…
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October
17
2006
By: Syndicate
If you like all those Hentai stuff, and you love playing Baccarat, then iFaFa is for you.
What is iFaFa? It is an live online casino site positioned to be the largest Live Baccarat Room online casino that features real time sexy Asian casino dealers that you’ll probably drool over.
iFaFa is combining broadcasting quality that can rival all those ESPN programs you’ve been watching with probably the most-popular Asian casino game of all-time. Yep, I’m talking about Baccarat.
If you love Baccarat you’ll
love iFaFa because the site delivers one of the most exciting live online casino gaming experience there is. Top it off with cute little Asian hotties dressed in those cute dealer outfits then you just know you have a winner right there.
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Baccarat is an Italian reference to ‘’zero.'’ The classy-sounding moniker and allusions to high-style, tuxedoed James Bond types is no coincidence, baccarat is believed to have originated in Italy shortly before the turn of the 16th century, and had been claimed by the…
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