Cambodia Gambling Dens
There is an appealing history to the Cambodia gambling halls that reside just over the dividing line from nearby Thailand, where gambling hall gaming is banned. Eight casinos are based in a generally small area in the municipality of Poipet in Cambodia. This group of Cambodia casinos is in an excellent spot, a three to four hour trip from Bangkok and Macao, the two biggest gaming centers in Asia. Cambodia casinos 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 amazing income gained from the gambling halls ranges from $7.5 million to over 12.5 million, and there are a few limitations constraints for gambling hall ownership. Ownership is required to be mostly Thai; although, investment sources are cryptic. The borders are formally open from 0900 to 1700, and although visas are apparently required to pass, there are methods around this, as is true of most border crossings.
The first Cambodia gambling halls opened in Phnom Penh in 1994, but were forced to close in 1998, leaving just a single gambling hall in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a moored bateau gambling hall, highlights 150 slot machines and 60 tables. The Naga gambling den is open all hours with forty two tables of mini-baccarat chemin de fer, 4 tables of twenty-one, ten of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and 1 each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.
The first gambling den in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in the late nineties and the Golden Crown before long opened. A total of one hundred and fifty slot machines and 5 table games at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four slots and 68 table games at the Holiday Palace. The newest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort highlights 300 slot machines and seventy table games and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty six one armed bandits and 96 gaming tables, including 87 baccarat banque (the most dominant game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. Also, there is the Casino Tropicana, with 135 slot machine games and 66 of the normal gaming tables, as well as one table of Casino Stud Poker. One more of the 8 gambling halls in Poipet, again in a hotel, is the Princess Casino with 166 slots and 97 casino games. The Star Vegas Casino is is located in an all-inclusive vacation and hotel building that features numerous conveniences accompanying the gambling hall, which has ten thousand square feet of one hundred and thirty slot machine games and eighty eight table games.
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