Welcome to Crown Melbourne - Explore Melbourne's best accommodation, restaurants, casino. Explore our packages and special offers. May 02, 2019 Hi friends! Welcome back to the poker vlog! This week I have my friend Eli with me, and we are playing in the $150 MONDAY MEGASTACK at Crown Casino in Melbourne.
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Since the PokerNews team just returned from down under for the Aussie Millions, it's only appropriate that we take a look at the room at the Crown Casino. The first observation is that this is truly a room made for the players. I spent the first several nights playing $1/$2 No Limit Hold'em on one of the 10 PokerPro machines/tables and I got a chance to talk to the locals about 'their' room. This is the biggest room by far in Australia and one of the biggest in the entire Southern Hemisphere. Along with the 10 PokerPro tables there are 45 dealer tables arranged magnificently in a very large room.
The PokerPro tables are new, they have been in just a month now but they are very popular. At present the all electronic tables are dealing $1/$2 NLHE and $.50/$1 NLHE. The process is very fast once you have your PokerPro card and have loaded it with some cash.
The other tables are all dealer tables with those on the upper level 'High Level' area equipped with auto-shufflers. The range of games dealt in the Las Vegas room here at the Crown start at $5/$10 Limit on all games. Right now with the Aussie Millions in town the games range all the way to $500/$1000 and each and every night the tables are full. Generally speaking this is a very busy room, which has grown from three tables over in the corner just a few years ago to its present 55 table stature. The 'normal' big game is $20/$40 and there are generally several of those tables in play. Weekends can stir up a $50/$100 table.
The great news about this room is that with all the space they have, many more tables could have been jammed into the space but the architecture remains player and staff friendly with lots of room to move about. I particularly like the various levels to break the room into several different open areas. The new lighting not only clearly illuminates the tables but also adds a friendly feeling to the room. You don't feel like its all about just the poker and the rake but rather that you are being welcomed into a comfortable space to have some fun.
If you look closely you will notice that the car park (garage for you Yanks) that is just outside the Las Vegas room has some support pillars that resemble the structure inside the poker room Yes folks, this used to be full of automobiles but the poker boom has put the demand for more space on high priority and the Crown grab a big chunk of car spaces for the now very elegant Las Vegas room.
The staff at the Crown is typically 'Australian Friendly' and so are I might add are the players. Very few floor calls are made or needed. The players not only know the rules, they respect them and they respect the staff including the dealers. The dealing staff is also very experienced and very professional. I have yet to see a dealer check their watch for a push and I have yet to see a late push. While this may just be the typical social atmosphere here in Australia, it certainly makes playing the game a lot more fun and a lot more relaxing.
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08:1617 Nov
Melbourne’s Crown Casino, home of the Aussie Millions, has come under intense scrutiny after whistleblowing gambling inspectors leaked CCTV of huge amounts of money being allegedly laundered in its highroller junket room.
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The footage appears to show a man pulling bricks of $50 and $100 banknotes from a shopping bag and exchanging them for high-value casino chips.
This, it is claimed, is a regular occurrence in the Suncity junket room, a dedicated highroller gambling area in the Crown run by a Macau-based tour operator catering to wealthy Chinese gamblers.
The alleged money-laundering claims made it all the way to the federal parliament as MP Andrew Wilkie called for a Royal Commission to investigate the gambling industry.
Mr Wilkie revealed he was sent the footage “because a number of Victorian government gambling investigators decided they had had enough of all the lies and cover-ups”.
He added:
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'These investigators say they've been forced to watch on as crimes are routinely committed inside Crown, only for Crown to then publicly deny everything. '
One whistleblower can be heard, his voice obscured, saying:
“People probably think that everything that goes on is squeaky clean...but in fact it’s fucked.' He adds: “Anybody can walk in with any amount of money and launder it…nobody really cares.”
Then Crown has come under fire on numerous occasions, allegations of money laundering, machine tampering, drug running and domestic violence at the casino all appearing over the past few years.
Wilkie, who had earlier calls for a Royal Commission voted down by parliament, stated:
“For many years we’ve been told of shocking crimes occurring at Crown and now we have new footage that supports these claims.”
A Crown spokesperson responded by saying there is 'no basis to these allegations' and claiming that it has “a comprehensive anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing program”.