High Rollers (VIP) whales
fevr25 A junket player doesn’t need to be a VIP: Macau junket trade group One goal of the Macau junket sector this year should be to persuade the city’s casino concessionaires to be flexible about where – within a concessionaire’s gaming operation – junket-introduced players can gamble. The focus should be on making the whole sector grow, rather than being caught up by the demarcations of ‘VIP’ and ‘mass’. That is according to veteran junket promoter U Io Hung. He heads the Macau Gaming Promoter Professionals Association. Mr U said that – while the manner in which gaming promoters can be rewarded for introducing players to Macau casinos, i.e., via commission – is set out in the city’s updated gaming legal framework, there is nothing to mandate such players should only be VIP level, or just engage in rolling chip commission gambling. He told GGRAsia: “No part of Macau’s [prevailing] gaming law restricts us to working in a particular zone within the casinos. “Our role is that we should b...