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There is an interesting history to the Cambodia casinos that lie just across the border from nearby Thailand, where gambling den gambling is illegal. 8 gambling establishments are situated in a relatively small area in the city of Poipet in Cambodia. This area of Cambodia gambling establishments is in the prime spot, a 3 to 4 drive from Bangkok and Macao, the 2 biggest gambling centers in Asia. Cambodia gambling dens do a flourishing business with Thai workers and visitors from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very couple of Westerners. The extraordinary earnings acquired from the gambling establishments ranges from 7 dollars.five million to over 12 million, and there are couple of constraints or registration prerequisites for betting house ownership. Ownership is presumed to be mostly Thai; nonetheless, investment sources are vague. The borders are officially open from nine a.m. to five p.m., and though visas are supposedly required to cross, there are ways around this, as is true of most border crossings.

The first Cambodia gambling establishments opened in Phnom Penh in ‘94, but were pushed to close in 98, leaving only one betting house in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a stationary boat betting house, attributes 150 slot machine games and sixty table games. The Naga betting house is open round the clock with forty two tables of mini-baccarat, four tables of pontoon, ten of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and 1 each of Pai-gow-poker and Tai-Sai.

The 1st casino in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in ninety-nine and the Golden Crown soon followed. You can find 150 slot machine games and five table games at the Golden Crown and a hundred and four slots and sixty-eight table games at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Casino and Resort attributes three hundred slot machines and seventy table games and the Princess Hotel and Gambling den, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty-six slots and 96 gaming tables, including eighty seven baccarat chemin de fer (the most popular casino game), Fan Tan, and Pai-gow. Also, there may be the Gambling den Tropicana, with a hundred and thirty five slot machine games and sixty-six of the familiar table games, as well as one table of Gambling establishment Stud Poker. One more one of the eight gambling dens in Poipet, also in the hotel, could be the Princess Gambling establishment with 166 slot machines and 97 games. The Star Vegas Gambling establishment is part of an international resort and hotel complex that features many amenities also to the casino, which has ten thousand square feet of 130 slots and 88 table games.

Across the Cambodian border at Asmech/Surin is one betting house, the Betting house O Samet, with a hundred slot machines and fifty tables of baccarat banque. Also, the Koh Kong Gambling establishment, in the province of Trat, is open daily from 9:00 a.m. to ten p.m., with 100 slot machines and 4 table games. A smaller betting house, Le Macau Casino and Hotel, opened recently at Bavet on the Vietnamese border.