Dragonara Casino - Malta

 "The Dragonara Casino is a 19th Century Palace built by the Marquis Scicluna as his Summer residence on a narrow peninsula of St Julians, Malta. It is a spectacular Mediterranean seaboard location and forms part of the wider original palace complex.
 - From the Dragonara Casino website




The scale of this place is nothing comparable to Las Vegas, but this is probably the most impressive place I've played at, mainly because it's actually real IE the building is a couple of hundred years old.



 I only played a couple of tournaments here which didn't go particularly well..
 The last one I remember particularly well, we were down to the last 6 or 7 players and I was at the 10-15bb level.
 I was in the big blind with pocket Aces and I was pretty sick to see everyone chucking there cards away until it got round to the small blind. He raised for about a 3rd of his stack. He had only slightly more chips than me and was in  a the same position as me, he either doubled up or started getting blinded away with the blinds starting to get heavy. His raise had pretty much made him pot committed. so after doing the obligatory Hollywood routine, I jammed all my chips in the middle and I was delighted to see him confidently insta-call and flip over AK of spades. He let out a sort of yelp when he saw my pocket aces and had his head in his hands cursing loudly. I was 87% favorite to scoop the lot.
The dealer duly delivered the flush on the river, so I put my jacket on and left the room to the sounds of the villain whooping and banging the table with delight.