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Cambodia Casinos
There is a captivating history to the Cambodia gambling halls that sit just over the border from next door Thailand, where gambling hall gambling is prohibited. Eight gambling halls are situated in a generally tiny location in the metropolis of Poipet in Cambodia. This band of Cambodia gambling halls is in a prime destination, a 3 to four hour drive from Bangkok and Macao, the two largest gaming centers in Asia. Cambodia gambling halls do a huge business with Thai blue-collar workers and guests from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very couple of Westerners. The phenomenal income accrued from the casinos ranges from 7.5 million dollars to over 12.5 million, and there are a number of restrictions requirements for casino ownership. Ownership is presumed to be mainly Thai; although, financial sources are ambiguous. The borders are officially open from 0900 to 17:00, and despite the fact visas are apparently needed to pass, there are ways around this, as is correct of many borders.
The 1st Cambodia gambling halls opened in Phnom Penh in 1994, but were required to close in the late nineties, leaving just a single casino in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, an anchored ship casino, contains 150 slot machine games and sixty gaming tables. The Naga casino is open 24 hours with forty two tables of mini-punto banco, four tables of blackjack, 10 of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and 1 each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.
The 1st casino in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in the late nineties and the Golden Crown before long opened. A total of 150 one armed bandits and 5 tables at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four one armed bandits and 68 tables at the Holiday Palace. The newest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort features three hundred one armed bandits and 70 gaming tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 slots and ninety six gaming tables, including 87 baccarat chemin de fer (the most dominant game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. In addition, there is the Casino Tropicana, with one hundred and thirty five slot machines and 66 of the normal gaming tables, as well as 1 table of Casino Stud Poker. One more of the 8 casinos in Poipet, also in a motel, is the Princess Casino with 166 one armed bandits and ninety seven games. The Star Vegas Casino is is located in an all-around vacation and hotel complex that contains many luxuries on top of the casino, which has ten thousand sq.ft. of 130 one armed bandits and eighty eight gaming tables.