Cambodia Gambling Halls
August 4th, 2018 at 4:37
There is a fascinating history to the Cambodia casinos that lie just over the border from nearby Thailand, where casino wagering is not legal. Eight casinos are anchored in a generally tiny location in the municipality of Poipet in Cambodia. This band of Cambodia gambling dens is in a perfect location, a 3 to four hour travel from Bangkok and Macao, the two largest gambling locations in Asia. Cambodia casinos do a thriving business with Thai laborers and travelers from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with just a few Westerners. The phenomenal income acquired 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 gambling den ownership. Ownership is presumed to be mainly Thai; although, funding sources are cryptic. The borders are formally open from 0900 to 17:00, and although visas are allegedly necessary to cross, there are methods around this, as is true of most borders.
The 1st Cambodia gambling halls premiered in Phnom Penh in 1994, but were forced to close in the late nineties, leaving only 1 gambling hall in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, an anchored barge gambling den, features 150 one armed bandits and sixty table games. The Naga gambling den is open all hours with forty two tables of mini-baccarat, 4 tables of twenty-one, ten of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and one each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.
The 1st casino in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in 1999 and the Golden Crown before long followed. A total of 150 one armed bandits and 5 tables at the Golden Crown and 104 one armed bandits and sixty eight tables at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Casino and Resort highlights 300 slots and seventy table games and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 slots and ninety six gaming tables, including 87 punto banco (the most dominant game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. In addition, there is the Casino Tropicana, with one hundred and thirty five slot machine games and sixty six of the normal table games, as well as one table of Casino Stud Poker. Another one of the eight casinos in Poipet, also in a motel, is the Princess Casino with one hundred and sixty six slot machines and 97 table games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of a multinational vacation and hotel complex that contains many luxuries on top of the gambling hall, which has ten thousand sq.ft. of one hundred and thirty slot machines and eighty eight gaming tables.