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There is a fascinating story to the Cambodia casinos that reside just over the border from next door Thailand, where gambling hall wagering is not permitted. Eight gambling halls are based in a generally small area in the city of Poipet in Cambodia. This conclave of Cambodia gambling halls is in an excellent area, a 3 to four hour travel from Bangkok and Macao, the two largest wagering centers in Asia. Cambodia casinos do a thriving business with Thai blue-collar workers and guests from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with just a couple of Westerners. The phenomenal capital accrued from the gambling dens ranges from 7.5 million dollars to more than 12.5 million, and there are a few controls requirements for gambling hall ownership. Ownership is required to be largely Thai; still, financial sources are cryptic. The borders are officially open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and even though visas are allegedly needed to cross, there are ways around this, as is accurate of many border crossings.

The initial Cambodia gambling halls opened in Phnom Penh in the mid nineties, but were forced to close in the late nineties, leaving just a single gambling den in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a docked ship gambling den, features 150 slot machine games and 60 tables. The Naga gambling hall is open all day and night with forty two tables of mini-baccarat, 4 tables of twenty-one, ten of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and 1 each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.

The initial casino 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 five tables at the Golden Crown and 104 slot machines and sixty eight gaming tables at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Casino and Resort contains three hundred one armed bandits and seventy table games and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 slot machines and 96 gaming tables, including eighty seven punto banco (the most beloved game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. In addition, there is the Casino Tropicana, with 135 one armed bandits and 66 of the familiar gaming tables, as well as 1 table of Casino Stud Poker. An additional of the 8 gambling halls in Poipet, also a part of a hotel, is the Princess Casino with one hundred and sixty six slots and 97 table games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of a multinational resort and hotel compound that features numerous luxuries in addition to the casino, which contains ten thousand square feet of one hundred and thirty one armed bandits and 88 gaming tables.