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Landlocked Kazakhstan has continued to be a mystery to the western traveler for hundreds of years, unknown from the pages of Marco Polo or Kipling. A handful of outsiders have acquainted themselves with the enchantment of this central Asian country, aside from the sellers who plied the Silk Road. Yet, given that Kazakhstan attained its independence in 1991 and above all under the ingenious and warmhearted presidency of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the country has developed. As the nation blooms, so do Kazakhstan casinos. Flushed with oil capital, it’s boom time in the playing associations of this former soviet republic. There are 7 cities that have within them legal casino capacities of which there are exactly twenty-eight such spots. Indeed if you are ready for a stake, the tables are the only game in town, as Kazakhstan casinos are the only betting operations permitted there.

Most notable to the constant gamer would be the long-time capital as well as the greatest city in the region, Almaty, that apparent Las Vegas of central Asia, boasting not less than eighteen casinos and counting. With an elevating nine percent enhancement per annum, the Kazakh economy has expanded immensely in the last decade and with it the Kazakh appetite for the gaming tables. The cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic, multinational city of Almaty is unrecognizable from its last time as the first city of a grey Soviet satellite state. New wealth has brought style and also exhilaration to the place, a fact best embodied by the city’s grandest casino, Casino Viva. One of a chain, this exceptional Kazakhstan casino hotel can maintain 26 games tables and ninety-three slot games.

What’s more, the craze for on-line poker has not gone without observation in Kazakhstan casinos with the innovation of video poker rapidly becoming a crowd pleaser. Outside of Almaty, the invincible casino player is also served; for example, the capital Astana has 5 casinos, the premium one amongst them being one of the Casino Zodiak chain that boasts definitely no less than 20 card tables. If that is not nearly enough for gamblers, casinos are also to be found further afield in the cities of Aktobe, Kokshetau, Pavlodar, Shimkent, and Ust-kamenogorsk. It is clear, anyway, that the Kazakh delight for the green baize and clink of chips is not stated, seeing that the vice-foreign minister a short while ago went to Macao as well as Hong Kong. The visit was considered to be a "short but fruitful" trip put together to study the gambling industries of these towns and instigate enthusiasm in Kazakhstan’s nascent casino business. Actually, a potential direct air link has been publicized between Almaty and Hong Kong or Macao, which would boost interest for this once alluring area soon set to become the desire of the popular crowd.