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There is a captivating story to the Cambodia gambling dens that reside just over the border from nearby Thailand, in which gambling hall wagering is prohibited. Eight casinos are anchored in a relatively small location in the municipality of Poipet in Cambodia. This group of Cambodia casinos is in a prime destination, a 3 to four hour drive from Bangkok and Macao, the 2 biggest gambling centers in Asia. Cambodia gambling halls do a huge business with Thai blue-collar workers and tourists from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very couple of Westerners. The astonishing capital gained from the gambling halls ranges from 7.5 million dollars to over twelve and a half million dollars, and there are a few limitations constraints for casino ownership. Ownership is presumed to be largely Thai; still, financial sources are vague. The borders are officially open from 0900 to 1700, and though visas are supposedly needed to pass, there are methods around this, as is accurate of many borders.

The initial Cambodia gambling halls premiered in Phnom Penh in 1994, but were required to close in the late nineties, leaving only 1 gambling hall in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a moored barge casino, features 150 one armed bandits and 60 table games. The Naga river boat is open 24 hours with forty two tables of mini-baccarat, four tables of chemin de fer, ten of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and one each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.

The 1st casino in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in the late nineties and the Golden Crown quickly followed. There are one hundred and fifty slot machine games and five tables at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four slot machine games and 68 gaming tables at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Casino and Resort highlights three hundred one armed bandits and seventy gaming tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 slot machine games and ninety six gaming tables, including 87 baccarat banque (the most dominant game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. Additionally, there is the Casino Tropicana, with 135 one armed bandits and sixty six of the familiar gaming tables, as well as a single table of Casino Stud Poker. One more of the eight gambling dens in Poipet, again in a motel, is the Princess Casino with one hundred and sixty six slot machine games and 97 table games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of a comprehensive resort and hotel complex that contains many conveniences accompanying the gambling den, which provides ten thousand square feet of one hundred and thirty slot machine games and eighty eight gaming tables.