Cambodia Gambling Dens


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There is an appealing history to the Cambodia casinos that reside just across the dividing line from next door Thailand, in which casino wagering is not legal. Eight casinos are situated in a relatively small space in the metropolis of Poipet in Cambodia. This band of Cambodia casinos is in an excellent area, a 3 to four hour drive from Bangkok and Macao, the 2 most popular gaming centers in Asia. Cambodia gambling halls do a thriving business with Thai blue-collar workers and visitors from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very couple of Westerners. The phenomenal income acquired from the gambling dens ranges from 7.5 million dollars to over 12.5 million dollars, and there are a few limitations requirements for casino ownership. Ownership is required to be largely Thai; although, financial sources are vague. The borders are ceremoniously open from 9:00 a.m. to 1700, and although visas are supposedly required to cross, there are methods around this, as is true of many border crossings.

The initial Cambodia gambling halls premiered in Phnom Penh in 1994, but were forced to close in the late nineties, leaving only a single gambling hall in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a docked barge gambling hall, features one hundred and fifty one armed bandits and sixty tables. The Naga gambling den never closes with forty two tables of mini-punto banco, four tables of vingt-et-un, ten of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and a single table each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.

The first gambling hall in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in the late nineties and the Golden Crown before long followed. A total of 150 slots and five table games at the Golden Crown and 104 slot machine games and sixty eight tables at the Holiday Palace. The newest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort contains 300 one armed bandits and seventy tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty six slot machines and 96 table games, including eighty seven baccarat chemin de fer (the most popular game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. In addition, there is the Casino Tropicana, with one hundred and thirty five one armed bandits and 66 of the common gaming tables, as well as a single table of Casino Stud Poker. An additional of the eight gambling halls in Poipet, again a part of a hotel, is the Princess Casino with 166 one armed bandits and 97 table games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of an international vacation and hotel complex that contains numerous comforts on top of the gambling hall, which provides ten thousand square feet of one hundred and thirty slots and 88 tables.

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