Cambodia Casinos
April 17th, 2010 at 16:22
There is an interesting background to the Cambodia bettings houses that lie just over the border from nearby Thailand, where betting house wagering is illegal. 8 casinos are situated inside a fairly tiny area in the city of Poipet in Cambodia. This conclave of Cambodia bettings houses is in a perfect spot, a 3 to 4 drive from Bangkok and Macao, the two largest betting centres in Asia. Cambodia gambling establishments do a thriving business with Thai workers and visitors from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very couple of Westerners. The extraordinary earnings obtained from the bettings houses ranges from $7.5 million to over 12.5 million, and there are few limitations or registration requirements for gambling establishment ownership. Ownership is presumed to be largely Thai; nonetheless, investment sources are vague. The borders are officially open from nine a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and even though visas are supposedly necessary to cross, you will find ways around this, as is true of most border crossings.
The very first Cambodia gambling dens opened in Phnom Penh in ‘94, but were pushed to close in 1998, leaving only one gambling den in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a stationary boat gambling establishment, characteristics one hundred and fifty slot machine games and 60 table games. The Naga gambling den is open 24 hours with forty-two tables of mini-baccarat, four tables of chemin de fer, ten of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and 1 each of Pai-gow poker and Tai-Sai.
The first betting house in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in ‘99 and the Golden Crown soon followed. You can find one hundred and fifty slots and five table games at the Golden Crown and a hundred and four slot machine games and sixty-eight table games at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Gambling den and Resort features three hundred slots and 70 table games and the Princess Hotel and Betting house, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty-six slots and ninety-six gaming tables, including eighty seven baccarat chemin de fer (the most popular casino game), Fan Tan, and Pai-gow. In addition, there could be the Betting house Tropicana, with 135 slot machine games and sixty six of the familiar table games, as well as one table of Gambling establishment Stud Poker. Another one of the eight gambling establishments in Poipet, also inside a hotel, is the Princess Gambling establishment with one hundred and sixty-six slots and ninety-seven games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of an international resort and hotel complex that functions a number of amenities also to the gambling establishment, which has ten thousand square feet of one hundred thirty slots and eighty-eight table games.
Across the Cambodian border at Asmech/Surin is one gambling den, the Gambling establishment O Samet, with one hundred slot machines and fifty tables of baccarat. Also, the Koh Kong Betting house, in the province of Trat, is open everyday from 9:00 a.m. to ten p.m., with a hundred slot machines and four table games. A smaller gambling establishment, Le Macau Betting house and Hotel, opened not too long ago at Bavet on the Vietnamese border.