Cambodia Betting Houses
April 18th, 2010 at 8:21
There’s an interesting background to the Cambodia gambling dens that lie just over the national boundaries from nearby Thailand, where casino betting is illegal. 8 casinos are situated in a relatively tiny area in the city of Poipet in Cambodia. This conclave of Cambodia gambling establishments is in the perfect spot, a three to four drive from Bangkok and Macao, the 2 biggest wagering centres in Asia. Cambodia bettings houses do a successful business with Thai workers and visitors from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only extremely couple of Westerners. The extraordinary income acquired from the casinos ranges from $7.5 million to over 12 million, and there are couple of restrictions or registration requirements for gambling establishment ownership. Ownership is presumed to be largely Thai; on the other hand, investment sources are vague. The borders are formally open from nine a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and though visas are apparently needed to cross, you can find techniques to circumspect this, as is true of most border crossings.
The 1st Cambodia gambling dens opened in Phnom Penh in ‘94, except were forced to close in 1998, leaving only one gambling den in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a stationary boat gambling den, characteristics a hundred and fifty slots and sixty table games. The Naga casino is open 24 hours with 42 tables of mini-baccarat, four tables of blackjack, 10 of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and 1 each of Pai-gow poker and Tai-Sai.
The 1st betting house in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in 1999 and the Golden Crown soon followed. You can find a hundred and fifty slot machines and five table games at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four slots and sixty-eight table games at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Gambling den and Resort features 300 slots and 70 table games and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty-six slots and 96 gaming tables, including 87 punto banco (the most well-liked casino game), Fan Tan, and Pai-gow. Moreover, there may be the Casino Tropicana, with one hundred and thirty five slot machine games and sixty-six of the familiar table games, as well as one table of Gambling establishment Stud Poker. One more one of the eight bettings houses in Poipet, also inside a hotel, is the Princess Casino with 166 slot machine games and ninety-seven games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of an international resort and hotel complex that features a number of amenities moreover to the gambling den, which has 10,000 square feet of 130 slot machine games and eighty eight table games.
Across the Cambodian border at Asmech/Surin is one casino, the Gambling establishment O Samet, with a hundred slot machine games and 50 tables of baccarat. In addition, the Koh Kong Betting house, in the province of Trat, is open daily from 9:00 a.m. to ten p.m., with 100 slots and 4 table games. A smaller casino, Le Macau Casino and Hotel, opened recently at Bavet on the Vietnamese border.