Cambodia Betting Houses
Posted in Casino on 04/12/2010 10:22 pm by Anthony
There is an interesting history to the Cambodia gambling dens that lie just over the border from bordering Thailand, where gambling den wagering is illegal. Eight gambling establishments are positioned in a fairly small area in the city of Poipet in Cambodia. This conclave of Cambodia bettings houses is in a prime location, a three to four drive from Bangkok and Macao, the two biggest betting centres in Asia. Cambodia gambling establishments do a flourishing business with Thai workers and visitors from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very few Westerners. The extraordinary earnings obtained from the bettings houses ranges from 7 dollars.5 million to over twelve and a half million, and there are couple of restrictions or registration prerequisites for gambling establishment ownership. Ownership is assumed to be mostly Thai; on the other hand, investment sources are vague. The borders are officially open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and though visas are supposedly required to cross, you will discover methods to circumspect this, as is true of most border crossings.
The first Cambodia gambling dens opened in Phnom Penh in 1994, except were pressured to close in 1998, leaving only one gambling den in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a stationary boat casino, characteristics a hundred and fifty slot machine games and 60 table games. The Naga betting house is open round the clock with forty two tables of mini-baccarat, four tables of chemin de fer, 10 of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and one each of Pai-gow poker and Tai-Sai.
The first gambling den in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in ‘99 and the Golden Crown soon followed. You can find a hundred and fifty slots and five table games at the Golden Crown and 104 slot machine games and 68 table games at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Gambling den and Resort characteristics three hundred slots and seventy table games and the Princess Hotel and Betting house, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty-six slot machines and 96 gaming tables, including eighty seven baccarat banque (the most well-known casino game), Fan Tan, and Pai-gow. Additionally, there will be the Gambling establishment Tropicana, with a hundred and thirty five slot machines and sixty-six of the familiar table games, as well as one table of Gambling establishment Stud Poker. An additional one of the eight casinos in Poipet, also inside a hotel, could be the Princess Gambling den with one hundred and sixty-six slot machines and ninety-seven games. The Star Vegas Gambling den is part of an international resort and hotel complex that characteristics a number of amenities in addition to the gambling den, which has ten thousand square feet of one hundred thirty slots and eighty-eight table games.
Across the Cambodian border at Asmech/Surin is one betting house, the Casino O Samet, with a hundred slots and 50 tables of punto banco. Also, the Koh Kong Gambling establishment, in the province of Trat, is open daily from 9:00 a.m. to ten p.m., with one hundred slots and 4 table games. A smaller gambling establishment, Le Macau Casino and Hotel, opened recently at Bavet on the Vietnamese border.