PokerStars to open a Poker Room in Macau
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
PokerStars have just announced that they will be opening a land based poker room at the Grand Lisboa Casino in Macau. The poker room is going to be the biggest one in Asia with 22 tables that will be open 24/7.
Macau is an island in the Southern parts of China. The economy of the island is based mostly on gambling and casino businesses and their aim is to become the Las Vegas of Asia.
Grand Lisboa is a recently built sky scraper with hotels, restaurants and casinos. On the second floor of this building is where PokerStars are now going to open their brand new poker room where the main game will be Texas Holdem.
According to a PokerStars representative there are going to be play money tables for those players who are new to the game and wants to learn before trying to play at the real money tables. The cash game table limits are starting from $10/$20 (Hong Kong Dollars) and later on they are going to add high stakes table with deep stack play for the more experienced players.
PokerStars have also promised that they will start arranging a lot of poker tournaments in their new poker room, they will offer anything from freerolls to high buy in tournaments. In this poker room they will also host a series of qualifiers to the Asia Pacific Poker Tour.
The fact that PokerStars are opening a poker room in Macau will have to mean that they are trying to reach the Asian market and get the Asian people to discover the game of poker. It is safe to assume that they are opening this land based poker room in order to attract Asian poker players to the online poker room which is PokerStars.com.