There is an interesting background to the Cambodia gambling halls that lie just over the border from neighboring Thailand, in which casino betting is prohibited. Eight gambling dens are anchored in a generally small area in the city of Poipet in Cambodia. This collection of Cambodia gambling halls is in a prime spot, a three to four hour drive from Bangkok and Macao, the 2 largest betting locations in Asia. Cambodia gambling halls do a thriving business with Thai laborers and travelers from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with just a couple of Westerners. The astonishing income acquired from the casinos ranges from $7.5 million to more than 12.5 million dollars, and there are a few restrictions constraints for gambling den ownership. Ownership is presumed to be largely Thai; still, funding sources are ambiguous. The borders are officially open from 0900 to 5:00 p.m., and although visas are supposedly necessary to cross, there are means around this, as is real of many border crossings.

The first Cambodia gambling dens opened in Phnom Penh in 1994, but were required to close in the late nineties, leaving only one gambling hall in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a docked bateau gambling hall, features 150 one armed bandits and sixty tables. The Naga river boat never closes with forty two tables of mini-baccarat, 4 tables of 21, 10 of roulette, two of Caribbean Stud Poker, and a single table each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.

The original gambling hall in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in the late nineties and the Golden Crown before long opened. A total of 150 slot machine games and 5 table games at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four slot machine games and sixty eight table games at the Holiday Palace. The newer Holiday Palace Casino and Resort contains three hundred slot machines and 70 tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 slots and ninety six table games, including eighty seven baccarat (the most popular game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. In addition, there is the Casino Tropicana, with 135 slot machines and sixty six of the familiar table games, as well as 1 table of Casino Stud Poker. An additional of the eight gambling halls in Poipet, again a part of 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-around resort and hotel complex that contains numerous comforts accompanying the gambling den, which offers ten thousand square feet of one hundred and thirty one armed bandits and 88 gaming tables.