Cambodia Gambling Dens
Thursday, 29. October 2015
There is a fascinating story to the Cambodia casinos that lie just across the dividing line from neighboring Thailand, where gambling hall gambling is illegal. Eight gambling dens are anchored in a generally small space in the metropolis of Poipet in Cambodia. This collection of Cambodia gambling halls is in an excellent area, a three to 4 hour drive from Bangkok and Macao, the two most popular gaming locations in Asia. Cambodia casinos do a huge business with Thai laborers and visitors from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with just a couple of Westerners. The astonishing capital accrued from the casinos ranges from seven and a half million dollars to over 12.5 million dollars, and there are a couple of restrictions requirements for gambling den ownership. Ownership is required to be largely Thai; still, investment sources are cryptic. The borders are officially open from 09:00 to 5:00 p.m., and even though visas are apparently required to cross, there are methods and means around this, as is true of most borders.
The original Cambodia casinos opened in Phnom Penh in the mid nineties, but were forced to close in 1998, leaving only one gambling den in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a moored boat gambling hall, contains one hundred and fifty slot machines and sixty gaming tables. The Naga gambling den is open all day and night with forty two tables of mini-baccarat, 4 tables of blackjack, 10 of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and a single table each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.
The first casino in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, premiered in the late nineties and the Golden Crown quickly followed. A total of 150 slot machines and five tables at the Golden Crown and 104 slots and 68 tables at the Holiday Palace. The newest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort contains 300 one armed bandits and seventy gaming tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 slot machines and ninety six gaming tables, including eighty seven punto banco (the most popular game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. In addition, there is the Casino Tropicana, with 135 slots and 66 of the common table games, as well as one table of Casino Stud Poker. Another one of the 8 casinos in Poipet, also in a motel, is the Princess Casino with 166 slots and 97 casino games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of an all-around resort and hotel compound that highlights numerous conveniences on top of the gambling hall, which offers ten thousand square feet of one hundred and thirty one armed bandits and eighty eight table games.
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