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There is a captivating background to the Cambodia gambling dens that lie just over the border from nearby Thailand, where casino gaming is against the law. Eight casinos are established in a relatively small location in the municipality of Poipet in Cambodia. This group of Cambodia casinos is in an excellent location, a 3 to 4 hour trip from Bangkok and Macao, the two biggest betting 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 astonishing capital accrued from the gambling halls ranges from 7.5 million dollars to more than 12.5 million dollars, and there are a number of limitations constraints for gambling den ownership. Ownership is assumed to be largely Thai; although, investment sources are vague. The borders are formally open from 9:00 a.m. to 17:00, and though visas are allegedly necessary to cross, there are ways around this, as is accurate of many border crossings.

The 1st Cambodia casinos opened in Phnom Penh in the mid nineties, but were forced to close in the late nineties, leaving only a single casino in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a docked barge gambling hall, contains 150 slots and 60 gaming tables. The Naga gambling hall never closes with forty two tables of mini-baccarat, four tables of 21, ten of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and one each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.

The 1st gambling hall in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in the late nineties and the Golden Crown soon followed. A total of 150 one armed bandits and 5 table games at the Golden Crown and 104 slot machines and sixty eight gaming tables at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Casino and Resort features 300 slot machines and seventy table games and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 slot machines and ninety six gaming tables, including eighty seven baccarat banque (the most beloved game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. Also, there is the Casino Tropicana, with 135 one armed bandits and 66 of the familiar gaming tables, as well as one table of Casino Stud Poker. One more of the 8 casinos in Poipet, again a part of a motel, is the Princess Casino with one hundred and sixty six slot machines and 97 casino games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of an international vacation and hotel complex that contains numerous conveniences accompanying the gambling hall, which contains 10,000 square feet of one hundred and thirty slot machines and 88 table games.