My friend Andy is in Macau today playing poker; using business as an excuse, I go to Macau to see him play there.

When I see Andy at Starworld, he has already visit the Grand Waldo poker room; he said there is no players there at all. The Starworld poker room’s business is better than I thought. Apparently there are two factors that I have missed previously: Starworld poker room has unlimited free drink including red wine and whiskey, and they use some pretty girls as service attendants to help the players to change chips.

I still do not like the Starworld poker room, it is too small and crowded. The tables are smaller than the usual size and there is not enough room for the players. After playing a while, I and Andy go to Grand Lisboa.

The Grand Lisboa poker room has made some changes too. They have moved all the tables from a part of the casino floor to a separate corner all by itself. I think it is a very good move, now the players do not have the other casino games playing besides them. They now have 11 tables in total, and they have changed all the tables to new ones with automatic card shuffling machines, speeding up the games tremendously. Now the players will not change their chips at the poker table; they will do all the money changing at the cashier window at the side. I think all the changes are good move.

I think there are less players at Grand Lisboa than before, probably some of them are now playing in the other poker rooms. It seems the battle between the three Macau poker rooms is heating up; all this could only be good news for poker player here.