I've been to the Lisboa Casino and I assure you, downtown Macao is not beautiful.I played fan tan while there which consisted of a dealer plunging a cup into a bowl full of beans. Then the bettors would bet on 1,2,3,or 4. The dealer would then spill the beans out on the table and start separating them in groups of four. The winning number was the amount of beans in the last group. As long as you paid the 5% vig, you could bet any combination of numbers, even laying 3-1 and taking any 3. The cup probably held 30-40 beans and I was fascinated at how the Chinese seemed to know the winning number almost immediately after the beans were spilled.Pacapio is a form of keno and Tai Sai is game where you bet on the total of 3 big dice.
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