Poker growing in Asia
Submitted by admin on Tue, 10/30/2007 - 01:33.
Poker appears to be expanding in a market that everybody in the industry has their eye on.
Just recently PokerStars announced their first APPT event to be held in Macau, a special administrative region of China, and the hits keep coming.
On Friday the PokerDome group announced they had partnered with the Diamond Casino in the Holiday Inn with the plan of unveiling the first permanent cash game in China.
The target opening date is Nov. 20 and the room is scheduled to have eight tables although in the future it would be possible to expand that number by 25 to 30 more tables. The plan is to spread the popular poker games including No-Limit Hold'em and Pot-Limit Hold'em, with Pot-Limit Omaha and Seven-Card Stud and their lowball variants likely in the works as well.
Big-name professional poker player Jeffrey Lisandro, who recently took down his first WSOP gold bracelet, will be one of the feature attractions of the room. Lisandro, who is a PokerDome shareholder, plans on making his home in the burgeoning poker room for at least a few months of the year. He will also help oversee the room's operation.
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