star city

Few days ago for the first time, I went to star city which is a big famous casino in Sydney.
Recently I moved in a new place and now live with Asians. They invited me to join them going to star city. As I had enough time, decided to join them.

A kind of short cultural chock! It was a very big place with thousands of gamblers. Money can be gained and lost in a second. You can choose between machines and tables. When you enter to the casino, you have to submit your passport to create your own account. It means at the end of each day, every single dollar spent in there would be counted. At the first time, they give you $10 to play as well as 3 free non alcoholic drinks. Anyway, I saw people were inserting the notes easily into the machines and losing them in a spot! Roulette is one of the most popular games (I hope I am not wrong with the name) and you can finish your $50 account in a minute by playing that.

A girl from Thailand is the owner of the flat which I live in. here owner means she has rent the flat and made it furnished and then others would pay her the rent weekly. She was the only expert between us and started playing four card poker. I was shocked as she lost $200 in five minutes. When I asked from my other Thai flatmates about her, they told me that she has already lost nearly $50000 in two years in Sydney. She is a student in the field of hair dressing. That night she was lucky, came back home with $1300. Yap! She won that money in one night.

It was interesting that the people who were gambling at that night were mostly Asian or had Iranian or Arabic look. I am not sure about the nationality of them but for me, the portion of the races was different from the real portion of different races that we see in Sydney.

Australian notes are $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100. We can hardly see $100 motes in everyday transactions. In star city, the $100 note was like a leaf of a paper.