Cambodia Gambling Halls
There is a captivating background to the Cambodia casinos that sit just over the border from neighboring Thailand, where casino gambling is not legal. Eight gambling halls are situated in a relatively small space in the city of Poipet in Cambodia. This band of Cambodia gambling dens is in an excellent destination, a three to four hour trip from Bangkok and Macao, the 2 most popular wagering locations in Asia. Cambodia gambling dens do a thriving business with Thai blue-collar workers and travelers from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very couple of Westerners. The astonishing capital acquired from the casinos ranges from seven and a half million dollars to more than 12.5 million, and there are a couple of restrictions requirements for gambling den ownership. Ownership is required to be mainly Thai; still, financing sources are vague. The borders are officially open from 9:00 a.m. to 17:00, and even though visas are apparently needed to pass, there are ways around this, as is true of most border crossings.
The 1st Cambodia casinos premiered in Phnom Penh in 1994, but were required to close in 1998, leaving just one gambling hall in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a docked barge gambling den, highlights 150 one armed bandits and sixty tables. The Naga gambling den never closes with 42 tables of mini-baccarat, four tables of chemin de fer, ten 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, premiered in 1999 and the Golden Crown quickly opened. A total of 150 slot machines and 5 table games at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four one armed bandits and sixty eight table games at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Casino and Resort highlights three hundred slot machine games and seventy gaming tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty six one armed bandits and 96 table games, including eighty seven punto banco (the most dominant game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. In addition, there is the Casino Tropicana, with 135 slots and 66 of the familiar table games, 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 one hundred and sixty six one armed bandits and ninety seven table games. The Star Vegas Casino is is located in an all-inclusive resort and hotel complex that features numerous comforts aside from the gambling hall, which has 10,000 square feet of 130 one armed bandits and 88 gaming tables.