There is certainly an interesting background to the Cambodia gambling dens that lie just over the national boundaries from neighboring Thailand, where betting house gambling is illegal. Eight bettings houses are positioned in the fairly small area in the city of Poipet in Cambodia. This conclave of Cambodia gambling dens is in a prime spot, a 3 to 4 drive from Bangkok and Macao, the two largest wagering centres in Asia. Cambodia casinos do a successful business with Thai workers and visitors from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only incredibly couple of Westerners. The phenomenal earnings acquired from the casinos ranges from seven dollars.five million to over twelve and a half million, and there are few limitations or registration requirements for betting house ownership. Ownership is presumed to be mostly Thai; even so, investment sources are vague. The borders are formally open from nine a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and although visas are purportedly needed to cross, you can find ways to circumspect this, as is true of the majority of border crossings.
The initial Cambodia bettings houses opened in Phnom Penh in ‘94, but were forced to close in 98, leaving only one gambling den in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a stationary boat betting house, features one hundred and fifty slots and sixty table games. The Naga betting house is open 24 hours with 42 tables of mini-baccarat, four tables of pontoon, ten of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and one each of Paigow poker and Tai-Sai.
The 1st gambling establishment in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in ‘99 and the Golden Crown soon followed. There are one hundred and fifty slot machines and five table games at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four slots and sixty-eight table games at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Betting house and Resort attributes 300 slot machines and seventy table games and the Princess Hotel and Gambling establishment, also in Poipet, has 166 slots and ninety-six gaming tables, including 87 baccarat banque (the most popular game), Fan Tan, and Double-hand. Also, there will be the Gambling den Tropicana, with 135 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 bettings houses in Poipet, also inside a hotel, may be the Princess Gambling den with 166 slot machine games and ninety-seven games. The Star Vegas Betting house is part of an international resort and hotel complex that attributes several amenities also to the betting house, which has 10,000 sqft of a hundred thirty slots and eighty eight table games.
Across the Cambodian border at Asmech/Surin is one betting house, the Gambling establishment O Samet, with one hundred slot machines and fifty tables of baccarat chemin de fer. Additionally, the Koh Kong Gambling establishment, in the province of Trat, is open everyday from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., with a hundred slot machines and four table games. A smaller gambling den, Le Macau Casino and Hotel, opened recently at Bavet on the Vietnamese border.