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    China has a new casino: The Philippines

    by David Pierson and Alice Su, Los Angeles Times Jul 07, 2019 5 minutes

    MANILA, Philippines - Gambling is illegal in China, but that didn't prevent Fan Zheng from betting tens of thousands of dollars online.

    The 30-year-old store clerk from the island province of Hainan learned about the opportunity early last year from marketing agents who, Fan believes, contacted him because he played no-stakes online card games.

    "They knew I was a potential gambler," he said.

    At first, the agents persuaded him to bet on card games. That added thrill and a chance of making money to something he was already doing for fun.

    But the card games were slow, and Fan kept losing. The agents suggested that he try a game called Tencent Every-Minute-Lottery, which generates winning numbers based on the total users logged into a Chinese messaging app. As the name suggests, there is a new chance to win every minute.

    Soon he was hooked. Sometimes he bet $1.50. Other

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