Shoe games in Asia

[blackjack4life]

Does anyone know where I can find SHOE games of blackjack in Asia? Please state the country,city, and name of casino. Please help!! Seems CSM's are all over the place here in Asia.

[Martin Gayle]

All the shoes in Asia have been thrown away or at visiting Presidents...


But seriously,
I remember seeing an article, I tried to look it up but couldn't find anything, but some of the best BJ games in the world are in Nepal. If this is history I don't know but it might be worth the research.

BTW, I have never played in Nepal.

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[FLASH1296]

The trend for East Asia, as I understand it, is to use only CSM's, as in Macau, or even "electronic games" in the poorest of SouthEast Asian countries.
Decades ago, the world's best games were found in South Korea, The Philippines, etc.
but those days are long gone <sigh>

[chichow]

South Korea (Seoul) still offers a good game. No CSM with 6 deck and a decent amount of tables with 1 deck cut offs.

[blackjack4life]

Originally Posted by chichow

South Korea (Seoul) still offers a good game. No CSM with 6 deck and a decent amount of tables with 1 deck cut offs.

Thanks for your kind reply. Will definitely be looking into Korea, any names for the casinos and rules?? Besides Korea, any others in ASIA with shoe games, I am so disappointed with the CSM games in Asia. Damn~

[chichow]

There is Walker Hill and many different 7 luck casinos in Seoul

[ihate17]

Besides Walker Hill offering a great game over 30 years ago there was a strange group of private clubs. Not familar with the law, it appeared that several retired U.S. soldiers, who were living in Korea, opened both VFW and American Legion clubs that offered blackjack games. Most of their customers were either GIs or American civilians attached to the military(Korean nationals were not permitted to play). Some of those games were less than honest and some of them were fantastic but I always wondered how much could be extracted without problems because they were probably poorly financed and there was no one to complain to if they did not pay you.
The fact that I was once beaten and robbed in the back parking lot at Walker Hill and one of my assailants was an employee there, helped make me a bit paranoid about these places being they were not resorts or hotels, just a club perhaps upstairs above different types of shops.
But one of them dealt a 4 deck game and cut just enough cards so that they could finish the last hand.

I later got to know one of the owners of one of these clubs. He was a retired army Master Sargent, who had been running the NCO club system before retirement. He landed up getting into some trouble with the local law because, like just about all club owners in that day, he had purchased his booze off the black market, and had an appointment with the province prosecutor (like a state's attorney general over here) and knew that I knew him. He wanted to know how to bribe him. I would not help him.

Wondering if these kind of clubs and games still exist over there.

ihate17

[chichow]

I don't know about the private games. Walker Hill seems pretty corporate right now.

[ihate17]

Originally Posted by chichow

I don't know about the private games. Walker Hill seems pretty corporate right now.

Back in the 70's Walker Hill was a Sheraton (Corporate) but the Casino could have been a concession. Corporations in Nevada have proven to not be very much better than the mob in Nevada except that they probably do not kill people.

ihate17