Cambodia Gambling Halls
There is an interesting story to the Cambodia gambling dens that reside just over the dividing line from neighboring Thailand, where casino gaming is not legal. Eight casinos are established in a relatively small space in the city of Poipet in Cambodia. This group of Cambodia casinos is in a perfect spot, a 3 to 4 hour trip from Bangkok and Macao, the 2 most popular gambling centers in Asia. Cambodia gambling halls do a huge business with Thai workers and visitors from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with just a couple of Westerners. The amazing capital gained from the gambling halls ranges from 7.5 million dollars to more than 12.5 million, and there are a number of controls requirements for casino ownership. Ownership is presumed to be mostly Thai; still, investment sources are cryptic. The borders are ceremoniously open from 0900 to 1700, and though visas are for all intents and purposes needed to cross, there are methods and means around this, as is true of many border crossings.
The original Cambodia gambling halls premiered in Phnom Penh in the mid nineties, but were forced to close in the late nineties, leaving only 1 casino in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, an anchored bateau gambling den, contains one hundred and fifty slots and sixty table games. The Naga gambling den never closes with forty two tables of mini-baccarat chemin de fer, 4 tables of blackjack, 10 of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and one 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 soon followed. There are one hundred and fifty slot machine games and five tables at the Golden Crown and 104 one armed bandits and 68 gaming tables at the Holiday Palace. The newest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort contains three hundred slot machine games and 70 gaming tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty six slots and ninety six gaming tables, including 87 baccarat chemin de fer (the most popular game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. Also, there is the Casino Tropicana, with 135 slots and 66 of the common table games, as well as a single table of Casino Stud Poker. An additional of the 8 gambling dens in Poipet, also a part of a motel, is the Princess Casino with 166 slot machines and 97 table games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of a multinational vacation and hotel compound that features many conveniences on top of the casino, which houses ten thousand sq.ft. of one hundred and thirty slot machine games and 88 table games.
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