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There is a fascinating background to the Cambodia gambling halls that sit just over the dividing line from next door Thailand, where gambling den gaming is banned. Eight casinos are established in a relatively small area in the municipality of Poipet in Cambodia. This collection of Cambodia gambling halls is in a perfect spot, a three to 4 hour travel from Bangkok and Macao, the two most popular gambling locations in Asia. Cambodia casinos do a huge business with Thai workers and tourists from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with just a few Westerners. The phenomenal capital acquired from the gambling halls ranges from $7.5 million to over twelve and a half million dollars, and there are a few limitations constraints for gambling den ownership. Ownership is assumed to be mostly Thai; although, financial sources are vague. The borders are officially open from 0900 to 5:00 p.m., and despite the fact visas are for all intents and purposes required to pass, there are means around this, as is accurate of most border crossings.

The original Cambodia casinos premiered in Phnom Penh in 1994, but were required to close in the late nineties, leaving only a single gambling hall in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, an anchored barge casino, highlights one hundred and fifty one armed bandits and sixty table games. The Naga gambling hall is open all day and night with forty two tables of mini-punto banco, four tables of blackjack, ten of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and a single table each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.

The original casino in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in 1999 and the Golden Crown soon opened. There are 150 slots and 5 table games at the Golden Crown and 104 one armed bandits and 68 table games at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Casino and Resort contains three hundred slot machine games and seventy table games and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has one hundred and sixty six slot machine games 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 slot machines and sixty six of the common table games, as well as a single table of Casino Stud Poker. Another one of the eight casinos in Poipet, also in a hotel, is the Princess Casino with one hundred and sixty six slot machine games and 97 casino games. The Star Vegas Casino is is located in an all-inclusive resort and hotel building that contains many conveniences aside from the gambling hall, which provides ten thousand square feet of 130 slot machine games and eighty eight gaming tables.