Cambodia Casinos
There is an interesting history to the Cambodia gambling dens that lie just over the dividing line from neighboring Thailand, in which casino gaming is against the law. Eight gambling dens are anchored in a relatively tiny location in the municipality of Poipet in Cambodia. This group of Cambodia casinos is in a perfect area, a 3 to four hour travel from Bangkok and Macao, the 2 most popular betting locations in Asia. Cambodia gambling dens do a thriving business with Thai blue-collar workers and guests from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with just a few Westerners. The phenomenal capital gained from the casinos ranges from seven and a half million dollars to over 12.5 million, and there are a few limitations constraints for gambling hall ownership. Ownership is assumed to be mainly Thai; still, financial sources are vague. The borders are formally open from 0900 to 17:00, and despite the fact visas are for all intents and purposes needed to pass, there are methods around this, as is true of most border crossings.
The 1st Cambodia gambling dens premiered in Phnom Penh in the mid nineties, but were forced to close in 1998, leaving only 1 casino in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a stationary barge gambling hall, highlights 150 one armed bandits and sixty gaming tables. The Naga gambling den is open all hours with forty two tables of mini-baccarat chemin de fer, 4 tables of chemin de fer, 10 of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and 1 each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.
The 1st gambling den in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in 1999 and the Golden Crown soon followed. A total of 150 slot machine games and 5 tables at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four slot machine games and 68 table games at the Holiday Palace. The newest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort features three hundred slot machine games and seventy gaming tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 one armed bandits and ninety six gaming tables, including eighty seven baccarat (the most dominant game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. Also, there is the Casino Tropicana, with one hundred and thirty five slot machines and sixty six of the normal tables, as well as 1 table of Casino Stud Poker. An additional of the 8 casinos in Poipet, again a part of a hotel, is the Princess Casino with 166 slot machines and 97 table games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of an all-inclusive resort and hotel compound that contains a number of luxuries accompanying the gambling den, which contains 10,000 square feet of one hundred and thirty slot machines and eighty eight tables.
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