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Cambodia Casinos
There is an appealing history to the Cambodia gambling dens that lie just over the dividing line from neighboring Thailand, where gambling den wagering is banned. Eight gambling dens are situated in a relatively small area in the municipality of Poipet in Cambodia. This group of Cambodia casinos is in a perfect location, a three to 4 hour travel from Bangkok and Macao, the two most popular gambling centers in Asia. Cambodia gambling dens do a huge business with Thai blue-collar workers and guests from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with just a couple of Westerners. The phenomenal capital accrued from the gambling dens ranges from $7.5 million to over 12.5 million dollars, and there are a few controls requirements for gambling hall ownership. Ownership is assumed to be largely Thai; although, funding sources are cryptic. The borders are formally open from 9:00 a.m. to 17:00, and though visas are supposedly required to cross, there are means around this, as is correct of many borders.
The initial Cambodia gambling halls opened in Phnom Penh in the mid nineties, but were required to close in 1998, leaving only a single casino in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, an anchored ship casino, features 150 one armed bandits and sixty tables. The Naga gambling den never closes with forty two tables of mini-baccarat, four tables of 21, 10 of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and 1 each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.
The original gambling hall in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in the late nineties and the Golden Crown quickly opened. There are one hundred and fifty slot machine games and five tables at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four slot machines and 68 table games at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Casino and Resort highlights three hundred slot machines and 70 table games and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty six slots and ninety six table games, including eighty seven punto banco (the most dominant game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. Also, there is the Casino Tropicana, with one hundred and thirty five slots and 66 of the familiar table games, as well as a single table of Casino Stud Poker. One more of the 8 gambling halls in Poipet, also in a hotel, is the Princess Casino with 166 slot machines and ninety seven casino games. The Star Vegas Casino is is located in a comprehensive vacation and hotel building that contains a number of luxuries on top of the gambling den, which houses ten thousand square feet of 130 slot machine games and eighty eight table games.
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