Second Largest Gaming Market in Asia
May 8, 2007 at 1:06 am 2 comments
When you’re just a couple of hours flight time from a country of 1 billion people who love to gamble, your gaming industry will take notice, and begin positioning for the boom in Chinese tourism.
Check out these figures on how big the Philippine market is, in terms of machines installed, as estimated by PacificNet.
A couple months ago Tong said the Philippine gambling market is “even bigger than Macau” in terms of gambling machine installations and presents “huge opportunities” for PacificNet Games.
Tong said he believes the Philippine market will continue to grow rapidly as one of the top destinations for Chinese tourists from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, since it is only a two-hour flight from Manila to Hong Kong.
After achieving early success in the Macau gambling market, Victor Tong, President of PacificNet said, he believes PacificNet is “ready to expand into other parts of Asia” as he sees strong demand and opportunities for growth in other Asian gambling markets.
According to recent report by Global Gaming Business, Jeffries Wall Street, the Philippine gambling market consists of about 5,000 gambling machines, over 620 gaming tables and over 8,500 positions, and represents the second largest gambling market in Asia, after Macau.
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Pinoy Gambler | June 29, 2007 at 4:29 am
in the Philippines, casinos will need to install one machine per person – why? coz the slots and video poker patrons are buwaya – even if they have no money anymore, or they have to pee or go somewhere – they will leave something on the machine like an empty coin holder to indicate that they are still there – that they are still playing the machine – worse, they will leave 1 credit in the machine and when an innocent non-regular player puts in their coins – they will be confronted with “why’d you play my money” – hustlers – even the old ones – lola na hustler pa – grabeh.
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