There is an interesting story to the Cambodia casinos that reside just across the border from next door Thailand, in which casino gambling is prohibited. Eight gambling dens are anchored in a generally small location in the metropolis of Poipet in Cambodia. This band of Cambodia gambling halls is in an excellent area, a 3 to four hour drive from Bangkok and Macao, the 2 largest wagering locations in Asia. Cambodia gambling halls do a huge business with Thai blue-collar workers and guests from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very few Westerners. The amazing income gained from the gambling dens ranges from $7.5 million to over twelve and a half million dollars, and there are a few controls constraints for gambling den ownership. Ownership is required to be mostly Thai; still, investment sources are cryptic. The borders are ceremoniously open from 9:00 a.m. to 1700, and despite the fact visas are apparently necessary to pass, there are means around this, as is accurate of many border crossings.
The 1st Cambodia casinos opened in Phnom Penh in the mid nineties, but were required to close in 1998, leaving only a single gambling den in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, an anchored boat gambling hall, features 150 one armed bandits and 60 gaming tables. The Naga gambling hall is open all hours with forty two tables of mini-punto banco, four tables of twenty-one, 10 of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and 1 each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.
The 1st casino in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in the late nineties and the Golden Crown before long followed. There are 150 slots and five table games at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four slot machine games and 68 table games at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Casino and Resort contains three hundred slot machine games and seventy gaming tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 slot machines and ninety six gaming tables, including 87 punto banco (the most beloved game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. Also, there is the Casino Tropicana, with one hundred and thirty five slots and sixty six of the normal table games, as well as one table of Casino Stud Poker. An additional of the 8 gambling halls in Poipet, also in a motel, is the Princess Casino with 166 slots and ninety seven table games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of an international resort and hotel complex that highlights a number of luxuries on top of the gambling hall, which offers ten thousand sq.ft. of 130 slot machine games and 88 tables.