There is a captivating background to the Cambodia casinos that reside just over the dividing line from next door Thailand, where casino gaming is banned. Eight casinos are anchored in a relatively small area in the municipality of Poipet in Cambodia. This collection of Cambodia gambling halls is in a perfect location, a three to 4 hour drive from Bangkok and Macao, the two largest gambling locations in Asia. Cambodia gambling halls do a thriving business with Thai workers and travelers from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very few Westerners. The astonishing income acquired from the casinos ranges from 7.5 million dollars to more than 12.5 million dollars, and there are a couple of controls requirements for gambling hall ownership. Ownership is required to be largely Thai; however, funding sources are vague. The borders are officially open from 9:00 a.m. to 17:00, and although visas are allegedly required to cross, there are ways around this, as is accurate of many borders.
The initial Cambodia gambling dens premiered in Phnom Penh in 1994, but were forced to close in 1998, leaving only a single gambling den in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, an anchored boat gambling hall, features one hundred and fifty slots and sixty table games. The Naga casino is open 24 hours with 42 tables of mini-baccarat, 4 tables of blackjack, ten of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and a single table each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.
The initial casino in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, premiered in the late nineties and the Golden Crown soon opened. A total of 150 one armed bandits and five tables at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four slots and sixty eight table games at the Holiday Palace. The newest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort contains 300 slots and seventy table games and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty six slot machine games and 96 table games, including 87 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 table games, as well as one table of Casino Stud Poker. Another one of the 8 gambling dens in Poipet, again a part of a motel, is the Princess Casino with 166 one armed bandits and 97 casino games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of a comprehensive resort and hotel building that features many luxuries in addition to the gambling hall, which houses 10,000 sq.ft. of one hundred and thirty one armed bandits and eighty eight gaming tables.
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