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This is the sort of thing you’d typically only see in a Hollywood heist movie: an ongoing NLHE cash game, at a secret location in a Macau casino, with blinds of $1,300 / $2,600, and big name talent including Phil Ivey experiencing regular swings of a million dollars or more. Believe it or not, this is really happening somewhere inside the StarWorld’s Poker King Club casino.

Last weekend, Macau hosted the APPT Main Event. Phil Ivey was in town for his first poker appearance since Black Friday. Although he only made it to Day 2 of the tournament, he apparently stuck around to participate in the high stakes cash game, facing off against respected pros such as Tom Dwan, Johnny Chan, Peter Chan, Guy Laliberte, Winfred You, Andrew Robl, James Bord, Sam Trickett and whatever wealthy Chinese businessmen happened to be around that day.

Robl stirred up some attention on Thanksgiving when he tweeted about winning “2 million USD straight” followed by “now lost 2 million straight.” Whether he meant to say HKD, which would equate to about $190k USD, is unknown, but the fact is that large sums are being won and lost regularly.

According to TwoPlusTwo forum member Frank Op de Woerd, who was supposedly at the Poker King Club, the cash game is so exclusive that Patrik Antonius was denied entry, and foreigners are required to pay 20% of their earnings to the casino, at least in some cases. Apparently, James Bord wanted Antonius to play but Laliberte refused because of the Finnish pro’s reputation for tight play.

Sources suggest that the biggest winner of the games so far is Johnny Chan, who is apparently positive by $1.4 million. The biggest loser is Tom Dwan, who has dropped $2.6 million. Dwan has supposedly lost his passport, meaning that it will be sometime before he’s able to return and recoup his losses.