Casino Tricks

Read more about the
Las Vegas 2024 Super
Bowl Streaker!

There is an captivating history to the Cambodia gambling dens that reside just across the border from neighboring Thailand, in which casino gaming is prohibited. Eight gambling halls are established in a relatively small area in the metropolis of Poipet in Cambodia. This group of Cambodia casinos is in a perfect spot, a three to 4 hour drive from Bangkok and Macao, the two most popular gaming centers in Asia. Cambodia gambling halls do a thriving business with Thai workers and travelers from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with just a couple of Westerners. The astonishing capital accrued from the gambling dens ranges from 7.5 million dollars to more than twelve and a half million dollars, and there are few controls constraints for gambling den ownership. Ownership is assumed to be mainly Thai; still, funding sources are vague. The borders are ceremoniously open from 0900 to 17:00, and despite the fact visas are apparently necessary to cross, there are methods and means around this, as is true of many borders.

The first Cambodia gambling halls opened in Phnom Penh in 1994, but were forced to close in 1998, leaving just a single casino in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a moored bateau gambling den, contains one hundred and fifty slot machine games and 60 table games. The Naga casino is open 24 hours with forty two tables of mini-punto banco, four tables of twenty-one, ten of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and 1 each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.

The original gambling den in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in the late nineties and the Golden Crown quickly opened. There are one hundred and fifty slot machines and five tables at the Golden Crown and one hundres and four slot machines and sixty eight gaming tables at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Casino and Resort highlights three hundred slot machine games and 70 gaming tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 slot machines and 96 gaming tables, including 87 baccarat banque (the most popular game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. Also, there is the Casino Tropicana, with one hundred and thirty five one armed bandits and 66 of the familiar table games, as well as one table of Casino Stud Poker. Another one of the 8 casinos in Poipet, also in a hotel, is the Princess Casino with one hundred and sixty six slot machines and 97 casino games. The Star Vegas Casino is is located in all-around vacation and hotel building that contains a number of luxuries aside from the casino, which offers 10,000 square feet of one hundred and thirty one armed bandits and eighty eight gaming tables.