Cambodia Casinos
Sunday, 2. May 2010
There is an appealing background to the Cambodia casinos that lie just over the border from nearby Thailand, where betting house gambling is illegal. 8 gambling dens are situated in the fairly tiny area in the city of Poipet in Cambodia. This area of Cambodia gambling establishments is in the perfect place, a three to four drive from Bangkok and Macao, the 2 largest gambling centres in Asia. Cambodia gambling dens do a flourishing business with Thai workers and guests from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only extremely few Westerners. The extraordinary earnings gained from the bettings houses ranges from $7.5 million to over twelve and a half million, and there are few limitations or registration prerequisites for gambling establishment ownership. Ownership is assumed to be largely Thai; nevertheless, investment sources are vague. The borders are officially open from 9:00 a.m. to five p.m., and even though visas are supposedly needed to cross, you will find methods to circumspect this, as is true of many border crossings.
The 1st Cambodia gambling dens opened in Phnom Penh in 1994, but were forced to close in 98, leaving only one gambling establishment in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a fixed boat gambling establishment, attributes one hundred and fifty slots and 60 table games. The Naga gambling establishment is open round the clock with 42 tables of mini-baccarat, four tables of pontoon, ten of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and 1 each of Pai gow and Tai-Sai.
The first gambling establishment in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in ‘99 and the Golden Crown soon followed. There are a hundred and fifty slot machines and 5 table games at the Golden Crown and 104 slots and 68 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 Casino, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty-six slot machines and ninety-six gaming tables, including 87 baccarat chemin de fer (the most well-liked casino game), Fan Tan, and Double-hand. Also, there could be the Casino Tropicana, with a hundred and thirty five slots and 66 of the familiar table games, as well as one table of Casino Stud Poker. One more one of the eight casinos in Poipet, also in the hotel, is the Princess Casino with 166 slot machine games and ninety seven games. The Star Vegas Betting house is part of an international resort and hotel complex that attributes a number of amenities in addition to the betting house, which has ten thousand sqft of one hundred thirty slot machines and 88 table games.
Across the Cambodian border at Asmech/Surin is one betting house, the Betting house O Samet, with 100 slot machines and fifty tables of baccarat banque. Furthermore, the Koh Kong Betting house, in the province of Trat, is open every day from 9:00 a.m. to ten p.m., with 100 slot machine games and four table games. A smaller betting house, Le Macau Gambling establishment and Hotel, opened recently at Bavet on the Vietnamese border.
Posted in Casino by Lance