(photo of the room)
Here's our room. Two people can comfortably stand in it at the same time, but if one of them started dancing it wouldn't be good. We are in the legendary Chungking Mansion - an enormous and compact monster of a building that smells much better than it should - like incense and indian food (the indian food here is amazing).
Nick took us out to Happy Valley. Hong Kong's famous horse racing track. We blew a few hundred Hong Kong dollars on some statistically sound wagers (horses with funny names), but luck was against us. Our losses will be the city/country/administrative state/whatever it is of Hong Kong's gain. The money goes towards public works, or something positive like that.
We had more luck in Macau - the Vegas of Asia. We sat down at a 10/25 HKD table (roughly 1.5/3.5 US), with buyins of about 2500. I was running pretty hot the whole time, and got up to nearly 5000 by the time I cashed out.
The table was full of Chinese, excluding Gus and I. Unlike the Walker Hill Casino in Seoul, although the dealers all speak Korean, the official game language is English. Here, the game was conducted in Chinese. It was still easy enough to follow, and if we didn't understand something, the dealer or someone at the table would explain again in English.
The Chinese players were good. It felt like it could have been any 1/2 or 1/3 game at home.
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