Cambodia Gambling Dens
Wednesday, 17. July 2019
There is a captivating history to the Cambodia gambling halls that lie just over the border from nearby Thailand, where casino gaming is illegal. Eight gambling dens are based in a generally tiny space in the municipality of Poipet in Cambodia. This group of Cambodia gambling halls is in a perfect destination, a three to 4 hour trip from Bangkok and Macao, the two biggest gambling centers in Asia. Cambodia casinos do a thriving business with Thai blue-collar workers and guests from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very couple of Westerners. The amazing income accrued from the gambling dens ranges from seven and a half million dollars to over 12.5 million dollars, and there are a couple of restrictions constraints for casino ownership. Ownership is assumed to be largely Thai; although, funding sources are cryptic. The borders are formally open from 0900 to 1700, and though visas are for all intents and purposes necessary to pass, there are ways around this, as is true of many border crossings.
The original Cambodia gambling dens premiered in Phnom Penh in the mid nineties, but were required to close in the late nineties, leaving just one gambling hall in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a stationary barge casino, contains 150 slot machine games and sixty table games. The Naga casino never closes with forty two tables of mini-baccarat chemin de fer, 4 tables of blackjack, 10 of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and a single table each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.
The original casino in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, premiered in 1999 and the Golden Crown quickly followed. A total of one hundred and fifty slots and 5 table games at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four slot machine games and sixty eight tables at the Holiday Palace. The latest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort contains three hundred slots and 70 gaming tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty six slot machine games and ninety six gaming tables, including 87 punto banco (the most beloved game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. Additionally, there is the Casino Tropicana, with one hundred and thirty five slots and sixty six of the common tables, as well as a single table of Casino Stud Poker. Another one of the 8 gambling dens in Poipet, again a part of a motel, is the Princess Casino with 166 slot machine games and 97 casino games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of an international vacation and hotel complex that contains numerous conveniences accompanying the gambling hall, which provides ten thousand sq.ft. of one hundred and thirty slot machine games and 88 table games.
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