There is a captivating background to the Cambodia gambling halls that lie just over the border from neighboring Thailand, where gambling hall betting is prohibited. Eight gambling halls are situated in a generally tiny location in the city of Poipet in Cambodia. This band of Cambodia gambling dens is in a prime location, a three to four hour travel from Bangkok and Macao, the two most popular gaming centers in Asia. Cambodia gambling halls do a huge business with Thai workers and guests from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very couple of Westerners. The phenomenal capital acquired from the gambling halls ranges from 7.5 million dollars to more than 12.5 million dollars, and there are a couple of controls constraints for casino ownership. Ownership is assumed to be mostly Thai; still, financing sources are cryptic. The borders are formally open from 09:00 to 5:00 p.m., and despite the fact visas are allegedly needed to pass, there are methods around this, as is real of many borders.
The 1st Cambodia casinos opened in Phnom Penh in the mid nineties, but were required to close in the late nineties, leaving just a single gambling den in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a moored boat gambling den, highlights 150 one armed bandits and sixty gaming tables. The Naga casino is open all day and night with 42 tables of mini-punto banco, 4 tables of blackjack, ten of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and 1 each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.
The first gambling den in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, premiered in the late nineties and the Golden Crown before long followed. There are 150 slot machine games and 5 tables at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four one armed bandits and sixty eight table games at the Holiday Palace. The latest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort highlights 300 slot machine games and 70 table games and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty six slots and ninety six table games, including 87 baccarat (the most popular game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. Also, there is the Casino Tropicana, with 135 slots and 66 of the common gaming tables, as well as a single table of Casino Stud Poker. One more of the eight gambling halls in Poipet, again in a hotel, is the Princess Casino with 166 slots and 97 table games. The Star Vegas Casino is part of a comprehensive resort and hotel complex that features a number of comforts accompanying the casino, which offers ten thousand square feet of one hundred and thirty one armed bandits and eighty eight tables.