There’s an interesting history to the Cambodia bettings houses that lie just over the border from neighboring Thailand, where gambling establishment betting is illegal. 8 casinos are located in the relatively small area in the city of Poipet in Cambodia. This conclave of Cambodia casinos is inside a perfect place, a three to four drive from Bangkok and Macao, the two biggest gambling centers in Asia. Cambodia bettings houses do a successful business with Thai workers and visitors from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very few Westerners. The phenomenal income obtained from the bettings houses ranges from $7.5 million to over 12 million, and there are few limitations or registration requirements for betting house ownership. Ownership is presumed to be largely Thai; however, investment sources are vague. The borders are officially open from nine a.m. to five p.m., and despite the fact that visas are purportedly required to cross, you’ll find techniques around this, as is true of many border crossings.
The 1st Cambodia casinos opened in Phnom Penh in ‘94, except were pushed to close in 1998, leaving only one casino in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a fixed boat betting house, functions one hundred and fifty slots and 60 table games. The Naga casino is open round the clock with 42 tables of mini-baccarat, four tables of chemin de fer, 10 of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and one each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.
The 1st betting house in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in 1999 and the Golden Crown soon followed. You can find one hundred and fifty slot machines 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 Gambling den and Resort features 300 slot machines and seventy table games and the Princess Hotel and Betting house, also in Poipet, has 166 slot machine games and ninety-six gaming tables, including eighty seven baccarat banque (the most well-known casino game), Fan Tan, and Double-hand. In addition, there will be the Casino Tropicana, with 135 slot machines and sixty-six of the familiar table games, as well as one table of Gambling den Stud Poker. One more one of the eight casinos in Poipet, also in a hotel, could be the Princess Casino with 166 slot machines and ninety seven games. The Star Vegas Betting house is part of an international resort and hotel complex that characteristics several amenities furthermore to the gambling den, which has ten thousand sqft of a hundred thirty slot machine games and eighty eight table games.
Across the Cambodian border at Asmech/Surin is one casino, the Gambling establishment O Samet, with 100 slot machines and fifty tables of punto banco. Additionally, the Koh Kong Gambling den, in the province of Trat, is open every day from 9:00 a.m. to ten p.m., with 100 slot machines and 4 table games. A smaller betting house, Le Macau Betting house and Hotel, opened not too long ago at Bavet on the Vietnamese border.