By Samantha Williams
Playing casino slots is as easy today, as finding a site that you like, registering to play, making a deposit and being given quite a bit of free money to play with – playing at online casinos. These virtual casinos are dedicated to making your gambling experience as life-like as possible and they follow through many different themes – feel like you are live in Las Vegas or meandering through the Venetian – Macau. No matter how much fun playing casino slots online is, it is never quite the same as being in a real life casino, although it’s a lot less expensive. I mean where is the fun in not having to have to wait for a seat at the slots game you want to play?
That having been said, it is still one of my life-goals to get to visit Macau – Macau used to be like a mini Las Vegas; but now Vegas is a mini Macau! It must be a real eye opener to visit a gambling den where people spend $4 for every $1 spent in Las Vegas. Macau is where China likes to spend it; but many more international gambling fans are heading for these Asian shores today than are heading to the sights and sounds of the city of sin.
Chinese workers are incredibly industrious; they are also completely committed to saving money to get what they want. What they want is to spend enormous sums from their savings, gambling on the acres of casino floors which make up the isle of Macau. Obviously casino slots are only some of the games being played, but they do take up a great deal of space on these casino floors. However, for pure exclusivity, Macau just can’t be beat.
For example – the Paiza Mansions; try to book at this hotel online? Forget it, Tripadvisor can’t help – the Paiza Mansions chooses you. It offers 6,000 sq ft suites, access to each by private elevator, 60 inch, end-of-bathtub TVs; their own butlers (2) and a masseur. Yet it costs nothing to stay here – simply spend HK$10-15million (£800,000-£1.2m) downstairs in the casino and receive your free invitation!
This is part of the service offered to high rollers at the Macau Venetian, which also happens to be the worlds largest casino and the 5th largest building on Earth. Buy something which says “Made in China”, and you can guarantee that at least a portion of the money you spent on that item will end up playing casino slots on the Venetian casino floor.
By comparison Las Vegas is puny, a mere pimple on the backside of international gambling. Chinese punters are spending approximately £70 billion at the baize tables of Macau, and baccarat is their preferred game – there are acres of baccarat tables. We are looking at estimated spend figures for 2011 of £1 trillion!! To put £1 trillion into perspective; as we are speaking GBP – take all the cash issued in the UK, from every ATM for a year and multiply this by five!!
