There is an interesting background to the Cambodia casinos that sit just over the dividing line from neighboring Thailand, in which casino wagering is illegal. Eight gambling halls are anchored in a relatively small space in the metropolis of Poipet in Cambodia. This band of Cambodia casinos is in an excellent area, a 3 to 4 hour travel from Bangkok and Macao, the 2 largest gaming locations in Asia. Cambodia gambling dens do a huge business with Thai laborers and travelers from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with just a couple of Westerners. The astonishing capital acquired from the gambling dens ranges from 7.5 million dollars to over 12.5 million, and there are a couple of limitations requirements for casino ownership. Ownership is required to be mainly Thai; still, investment sources are cryptic. The borders are officially open from 0900 to 1700, and even though visas are supposedly necessary to pass, there are ways around this, as is true of most borders.

The 1st Cambodia gambling halls 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, a stationary boat gambling hall, features 150 slots and 60 table games. The Naga gambling hall is open 24 hours with forty two tables of mini-baccarat banque, 4 tables of twenty-one, ten of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and a single table each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.

The initial gambling hall in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, premiered in 1999 and the Golden Crown quickly opened. A total of 150 one armed bandits and five table games at the Golden Crown and 104 slot machine games and sixty eight tables at the Holiday Palace. The latest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort features 300 slot machines and seventy tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 slots and ninety six table games, including eighty seven baccarat chemin de fer (the most dominant game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. In addition, there is the Casino Tropicana, with 135 slot machine games and 66 of the common tables, as well as 1 table of Casino Stud Poker. Another one of the 8 casinos in Poipet, again a part of a motel, is the Princess Casino with one hundred and sixty six slot machine games and 97 games. The Star Vegas Casino is is located in an all-around resort and hotel compound that features a number of conveniences aside from the casino, which provides ten thousand square feet of 130 slot machines and eighty eight table games.