1. How did baccarat’s rise as Macau’s dominant casino
game along with local cultural perceptions such as viewing
slot machines as “tigers” and traditional Chinese gambling
superstitions like favoring the number eight and avoiding the
number four force Western casino operators to adapt their
standard casino model to succeed in the Macau market?
2. How does Pachinko’s blend of chance and skill along
with the legal loophole that allows players to exchange
winnings for cash prizes rather than receiving money directly
create a uniquely regulated gambling environment in Japan
compared to traditional casinos?
3. Looking at Pachinko and the way to circumnavigate the
gambling laws in Japan how would you design a game to
circumnavigate some of the laws in America.? pg. 337-338
4. Why would Genting Highlands bar 1/2 the population from
going into their casino, thus cutting their profit in
1/2? pg. 350
5. Does the advent of online gambling make places like
Asper, Macau, and Las Vegas obsolete?
6. The reading says that pachinko parlors in Japan
make $300 billion a year together, as compared to the $60
billion American casinos make in a year. Why haven't
American casinos introduced pachinko? Do you think that
it would attract people like other casino games?
7. Why have we seen so many examples of popular casinos
popping up where there is nothing else. Why wouldn't a
casino near a bustling city be bigger than these casinos out in
the middle of nowhere?
8. People looked down on prostitution in Macau, but it
seems as if it is just a part of the atmosphere in Las
Vegas. Why is it okay in one but not the other?
9. Why would Laorong Fu purposefully keep his employees
from wearing red (a lucky color) and make his buildings white
and green (unlucky colors)?