There is an appealing background to the Cambodia casinos that reside just over the border from next door Thailand, where casino gaming is prohibited. Eight gambling halls are based in a generally tiny location in the municipality of Poipet in Cambodia. This group of Cambodia casinos is in a prime spot, a three to 4 hour drive from Bangkok and Macao, the two biggest betting centers in Asia. Cambodia casinos do a thriving business with Thai blue-collar workers and travelers from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very few Westerners. The phenomenal capital gained from the casinos ranges from 7.5 million dollars to more than 12.5 million dollars, and there are a couple of restrictions constraints for casino ownership. Ownership is presumed to be mostly Thai; however, investment sources are cryptic. The borders are officially open from 9:00 a.m. to 1700, and although visas are apparently necessary to cross, there are ways around this, as is correct of most borders.
The initial Cambodia gambling dens opened in Phnom Penh in the mid nineties, but were forced to close in the late nineties, leaving only one casino in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a moored barge casino, features one hundred and fifty slots and 60 tables. The Naga gambling hall is open all hours with forty two tables of mini-baccarat chemin de fer, four tables of twenty-one, 10 of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and 1 each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.
The 1st gambling hall in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in 1999 and the Golden Crown quickly opened. A total of 150 slot machines and 5 table games at the Golden Crown and 104 slot machine games and sixty eight gaming tables at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Casino and Resort contains three hundred slot machines and seventy table games and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 slots and 96 gaming tables, including 87 baccarat banque (the most beloved game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. Also, there is the Casino Tropicana, with 135 slot machines and 66 of the common gaming 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 hotel, 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 international vacation and hotel building that contains numerous luxuries aside from the casino, which offers ten thousand sq.ft. of 130 one armed bandits and eighty eight table games.
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