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Macau’s Lui Bets Big as Ho Family Splinters on Casino Empire
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Casino billionaire Francis Lui fakes a puzzled frown as he poses for a photo shoot behind a mountain of chips at a baccarat table normally reserved for high rollers who bet as much as $250,000 a hand.
“Do you want me smiling or poker-faced?” he asks with a soft baritone laugh that reverberates around the wood-paneled 39th-floor penthouse suite atop his StarWorld Casino in the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau.