Cambodia Casinos

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There is an interesting history to the Cambodia gambling halls that sit just across the border from nearby Thailand, in which casino wagering is illegal. Eight gambling dens are anchored in a relatively small location in the metropolis of Poipet in Cambodia. This group of Cambodia gambling halls is in an excellent area, a 3 to 4 hour travel from Bangkok and Macao, the two most popular gaming locations in Asia. Cambodia casinos do a huge business with Thai laborers and visitors from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with just a few Westerners. The phenomenal income acquired from the gambling halls ranges from seven and a half million dollars to over twelve and a half million dollars, and there are a number of controls requirements for gambling hall ownership. Ownership is assumed to be mainly Thai; however, funding sources are ambiguous. The borders are officially open from 09:00 to 1700, and although visas are for all intents and purposes required to pass, there are methods and means around this, as is correct of many borders.

The original Cambodia gambling dens opened in Phnom Penh in 1994, but were required to close in the late nineties, leaving just 1 gambling hall in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a docked boat casino, highlights 150 slot machine games and sixty tables. The Naga gambling hall never closes with forty two tables of mini-punto banco, four tables of chemin de fer, ten of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and one each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.

The first gambling den in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in 1999 and the Golden Crown soon opened. There are one hundred and fifty slot machine games and five table games at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four one armed bandits and sixty eight tables at the Holiday Palace. The latest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort highlights three hundred slots and seventy gaming tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty six slot machine games and 96 gaming tables, including eighty seven baccarat banque (the most dominant game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. Additionally, there is the Casino Tropicana, with 135 slot machine games and sixty six of the familiar tables, as well as one table of Casino Stud Poker. An additional of the 8 casinos in Poipet, again in a motel, is the Princess Casino with 166 slots and 97 games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of an all-inclusive vacation and hotel complex that features a number of luxuries in addition to the gambling den, which has ten thousand sq.ft. of 130 slots and eighty eight gaming tables.