There is a fascinating background to the Cambodia gambling halls that sit just across the border from neighboring Thailand, in which casino gaming is banned. Eight casinos are established in a relatively small area in the municipality of Poipet in Cambodia. This collection of Cambodia gambling dens is in an excellent area, a three to four hour drive from Bangkok and Macao, the two most popular wagering centers in Asia. Cambodia casinos do a huge business with Thai laborers and tourists from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very couple of Westerners. The astonishing capital gained from the casinos ranges from 7.5 million dollars to over twelve and a half million dollars, and there are a few restrictions constraints for gambling hall ownership. Ownership is assumed to be mostly Thai; still, financial sources are ambiguous. The borders are formally open from 09:00 to 5:00 p.m., and despite the fact visas are allegedly necessary to cross, there are ways around this, as is real of most borders.
The initial Cambodia casinos opened in Phnom Penh in the mid nineties, but were forced to close in 1998, leaving just 1 casino in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a stationary boat gambling den, features 150 one armed bandits and sixty tables. The Naga river boat never closes with 42 tables of mini-punto banco, 4 tables of vingt-et-un, ten of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and a single table each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.
The initial gambling hall in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, premiered in the late nineties and the Golden Crown quickly opened. A total of one hundred and fifty one armed bandits and 5 table games at the Golden Crown and 104 slot machines and 68 tables at the Holiday Palace. The latest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort contains three hundred slot machines and seventy table games and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty six slots and ninety six gaming tables, including 87 baccarat (the most popular game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. In addition, there is the Casino Tropicana, with 135 one armed bandits and sixty six of the familiar tables, as well as a single table of Casino Stud Poker. Another one of the 8 gambling dens in Poipet, also a part of a motel, is the Princess Casino with one hundred and sixty six slot machine games and 97 casino games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of a comprehensive resort and hotel complex that highlights a number of luxuries accompanying the gambling hall, which offers ten thousand sq.ft. of one hundred and thirty slot machines and eighty eight gaming tables.
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