There is an interesting history to the Cambodia casinos that reside just over the border from neighboring Thailand, in which casino gambling is not permitted. Eight gambling halls are established in a generally tiny space in the metropolis of Poipet in Cambodia. This group of Cambodia gambling halls is in a prime area, a 3 to four hour drive from Bangkok and Macao, the two most popular betting locations in Asia. Cambodia casinos do a thriving business with Thai laborers and guests from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with just a couple of Westerners. The phenomenal capital accrued from the casinos ranges from $7.5 million to more than twelve and a half million dollars, and there are a number of restrictions constraints for casino ownership. Ownership is required to be mostly Thai; however, financial sources are vague. The borders are formally open from 9:00 a.m. to 17:00, and though visas are for all intents and purposes required to pass, there are means around this, as is real of many borders.
The 1st Cambodia casinos premiered in Phnom Penh in the mid nineties, but were forced to close in 1998, leaving just one casino in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a docked barge gambling hall, features 150 slots and sixty tables. The Naga gambling hall is open all hours with 42 tables of mini-baccarat chemin de fer, four tables of chemin de fer, ten of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and a single table 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 followed. A total of 150 slot machine games and 5 table games at the Golden Crown and 104 slot machine games and sixty eight table games at the Holiday Palace. The latest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort features three hundred slot machine games and 70 gaming tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 slots and 96 gaming tables, including eighty seven baccarat (the most popular game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. Also, there is the Casino Tropicana, with 135 one armed bandits and 66 of the familiar table games, as well as a single table of Casino Stud Poker. Another one of the eight gambling dens in Poipet, also a part of a hotel, is the Princess Casino with one hundred and sixty six slots and ninety seven table games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of an international vacation and hotel building that features numerous conveniences accompanying the gambling hall, which has ten thousand square feet of one hundred and thirty slot machines and 88 table games.
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