There is an interesting background to the Cambodia gambling dens that lie just across the dividing line from next door Thailand, where gambling den gaming is not permitted. Eight gambling dens are anchored in a relatively small area in the city of Poipet in Cambodia. This collection of Cambodia casinos is in an excellent destination, a 3 to 4 hour travel from Bangkok and Macao, the two biggest gaming locations in Asia. Cambodia gambling halls do a thriving business with Thai workers and visitors from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very couple of Westerners. The amazing capital acquired from the casinos ranges from 7.5 million dollars to more than twelve and a half million dollars, and there are a number of limitations requirements for casino ownership. Ownership is required to be mostly Thai; still, financial sources are vague. The borders are officially open from 09:00 to 1700, and even though visas are apparently required to pass, there are means around this, as is true of most border crossings.
The initial Cambodia gambling halls premiered in Phnom Penh in 1994, but were forced to close in 1998, leaving just one gambling hall in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a docked ship casino, highlights 150 slot machines and sixty gaming tables. The Naga river boat never closes with forty two tables of mini-baccarat banque, 4 tables of 21, ten of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and a single table each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.
The first gambling hall in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in the late nineties and the Golden Crown before long followed. A total of 150 one armed bandits and 5 table games at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four one armed bandits and 68 table games at the Holiday Palace. The latest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort contains 300 slot machines and seventy tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 one armed bandits and ninety six table games, including 87 baccarat chemin de fer (the most beloved game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. Also, there is the Casino Tropicana, with one hundred and thirty five slots and 66 of the common tables, as well as a single table of Casino Stud Poker. One more of the 8 gambling dens in Poipet, again in a motel, is the Princess Casino with 166 slot machines and 97 table games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of a multinational vacation and hotel building that contains numerous amenities accompanying the gambling den, which provides 10,000 square feet of one hundred and thirty slot machines and eighty eight tables.