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Originally Posted by iicycold
Is tis place the ex koeropoek food court? I knw it has reopen since last mth,but they still using the same top up card system? If so,not gng to waste my time.
Thx!
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Not too sure about this koeropoek food court as I'm quite annoyed by the top up system style food court in batam. Hence, usually I don't take a second look at it s for this time as the interior design of the place caught my attention.
Anyway in batam my favourite food is nasi goreng, bako mee, la'ksa and mie pansit. Others only occasionally a meal or two in the entire trip.
By the way, skip the game zone (arcade, Donno what is the exact name) at the cinema level. I know some might like to play the shooting fish game for gift/$$ , just wanna share that this place earn super high commission.
This is the way it works, you buy coin ranging from 1k rupiah to 1 juta ++++ (imagine you topped up 500k, and after sometime of playing, you have 800k worth of points and can be exchange for cigarette which can be sold to the agent hanging around there..
Per cigarette pack (in 10) cost 190k worth of points, this pack of cigarette can be exchanged for only 150k to the agent (market price =155k-158k) which mean for every pack of cigarette you exchanged you lost 40k in profits.. by the way it is sampoerna red cigarette.
Back to the fiction story, you have 800k worth of points which can only change 4 packs cigarette with a balance of 40 token (800k- (190kx4) =40 token, 1k per token). After rhe exchange you will have 600k cash and 40 token from the actual 800k that you should have won.. Most gaming place pay you 1 slot of cigarette in exchange of 160k worth of point. They earn 2 to 5k from each exchange unlike these in the malls.. However these are the one that can still be operating under legal licence whereas those operating outside are all closed for business (some are caught/raid, some are laying low, maybe reopen after puasa).
The main point is, play for fun only in the mall and don't expect to win.. The odds there are definitely with them , it's harder to win than you play in the casino.
Last thing to share is (only for those are interested), the way they operate in order for you to receive cash after playing is usually through the hidden agent there or there's a provision shop nearby buying back cigarette. Legal or not legal I donno.
Anyway my current favourite game is the climbing monkey game. It's like watch live horse racing at kranji.
If can avoid playing it.
If cannot, play wisely.
TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
If you are a regular gambler, you should know there are winning are loses bit end of the day, 99% of us are the losers.
For machine gaming, the house always win, if you had won, you are actually winning another person loses. Always be on alert when you are carrying extra cash, one of my "girl" friends who are Indonesian working in Singapore came for holiday in batam was robbed by a few guys outside taka deli near siang malam at night. For your information, My "girl" friends are a group of 4 guys in their 30s.