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There’s an interesting history to the Cambodia bettings houses that lie just over the border from bordering Thailand, where casino wagering is illegal. 8 bettings houses are located in a relatively small area in the city of Poipet in Cambodia. This area of Cambodia bettings houses is in the perfect spot, a 3 to 4 drive from Bangkok and Macao, the 2 largest wagering centers in Asia. Cambodia gambling dens do a booming business with Thai workers and visitors from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only incredibly couple of Westerners. The incredible earnings obtained from the bettings houses ranges from $7.5 million to over twelve million, and there are few restrictions or registration prerequisites for betting house ownership. Ownership is presumed to be largely Thai; nonetheless, investment sources are vague. The borders are officially open from nine a.m. to five p.m., and even though visas are purportedly needed to cross, you will discover ways around this, as is true of most border crossings.

The very first Cambodia gambling establishments opened in Phnom Penh in ‘94, except were forced to close in ninety-eight, leaving only one gambling den in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a stationary boat casino, characteristics one hundred and fifty slot machines and sixty table games. The Naga casino is open twenty four hours with 42 tables of mini-baccarat, four tables of blackjack, 10 of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and 1 each of Pai-gow-poker and Tai-Sai.

The first casino in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in 1999 and the Golden Crown soon followed. There are a hundred and fifty slots and five table games at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four slots and 68 table games at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Gambling den and Resort functions three hundred slot machines and seventy table games and the Princess Hotel and Gambling den, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty-six slot machines and ninety-six gaming tables, including 87 punto banco (the most popular game), Fan Tan, and Pai gow. Also, there could be the Betting house Tropicana, with one hundred and thirty five slot machines and 66 of the familiar table games, as well as one table of Gambling den Stud Poker. An additional one of the eight casinos in Poipet, also inside a hotel, may be the Princess Casino with 166 slot machines and ninety seven games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of an international resort and hotel complex that functions many amenities also to the casino, which has ten thousand square feet of one hundred thirty slots and 88 table games.

Across the Cambodian border at Asmech/Surin is one casino, the Betting house O Samet, with one hundred slot machine games and fifty tables of baccarat chemin de fer. Furthermore, the Koh Kong Gambling establishment, in the province of Trat, is open every day from nine a.m. to 10:00 p.m., with a hundred slot machine games and 4 table games. A smaller gambling establishment, Le Macau Gambling establishment and Hotel, opened recently at Bavet on the Vietnamese border.