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There is a captivating story to the Cambodia casinos that reside just across the border from neighboring Thailand, in which gambling hall wagering is banned. Eight gambling dens are established in a generally tiny space in the municipality of Poipet in Cambodia. This collection of Cambodia gambling halls is in a perfect location, a 3 to 4 hour travel from Bangkok and Macao, the 2 largest gaming centers in Asia. Cambodia gambling halls do a huge business with Thai laborers and tourists from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with just a few Westerners. The phenomenal capital acquired from the gambling halls ranges from 7.5 million dollars to more than twelve and a half million dollars, and there are a few limitations constraints for gambling hall ownership. Ownership is assumed to be mainly Thai; still, financing sources are vague. The borders are ceremoniously open from 0900 to 5:00 p.m., and although visas are supposedly needed to cross, there are methods and means around this, as is real of many border crossings.

The initial Cambodia casinos premiered in Phnom Penh in 1994, but were forced to close in the late nineties, leaving only one gambling den in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a moored barge gambling den, highlights one hundred and fifty slot machines and 60 gaming tables. The Naga river boat is open 24 hours with 42 tables of mini-punto banco, four tables of blackjack, 10 of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and one each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.

The original gambling den in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, premiered in the late nineties and the Golden Crown quickly opened. A total of one hundred and fifty one armed bandits and five table games at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four one armed bandits and 68 tables at the Holiday Palace. The newest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort features 300 slot machine games and seventy tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 one armed bandits and 96 gaming tables, including 87 baccarat chemin de fer (the most popular game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. In addition, there is the Casino Tropicana, with one hundred and thirty five slot machine games and 66 of the normal tables, as well as a single table of Casino Stud Poker. An additional of the eight gambling dens in Poipet, also in a motel, is the Princess Casino with one hundred and sixty six slot machine games and ninety seven casino games. The Star Vegas Casino is is located in a comprehensive vacation and hotel compound that features numerous luxuries on top of the gambling den, which has ten thousand square feet of 130 slots and eighty eight gaming tables.