There is an appealing story to the Cambodia casinos that lie just across the border from next door Thailand, where gambling hall gaming is not permitted. Eight gambling dens are based in a relatively tiny space in the metropolis of Poipet in Cambodia. This band of Cambodia casinos is in a prime location, a 3 to four hour travel from Bangkok and Macao, the 2 most popular gambling locations in Asia. Cambodia gambling dens do a huge business with Thai workers and guests from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very few Westerners. The amazing capital gained from the gambling dens ranges from $7.5 million to over 12.5 million, and there are a couple of controls constraints for gambling hall ownership. Ownership is presumed to be largely Thai; still, financial sources are ambiguous. The borders are formally open from 0900 to 1700, and despite the fact visas are apparently needed to pass, there are ways around this, as is true of many border crossings.

The original Cambodia casinos premiered in Phnom Penh in 1994, but were forced to close in the late nineties, leaving just a single gambling hall in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, a stationary ship gambling den, features 150 one armed bandits and 60 tables. The Naga gambling den is open all hours with forty two tables of mini-baccarat chemin de fer, 4 tables of blackjack, ten of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and one each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.

The first gambling den in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in 1999 and the Golden Crown before long followed. There are 150 slots and five table games at the Golden Crown and one hundred and four slot machines and 68 tables at the Holiday Palace. The newest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort contains 300 one armed bandits and seventy tables and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 one armed bandits and ninety six table games, including 87 baccarat (the most dominant game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. Additionally, there is the Casino Tropicana, with 135 slot machines and 66 of the familiar table games, as well as 1 table of Casino Stud Poker. Another one of the eight gambling halls in Poipet, also a part of a hotel, is the Princess Casino with one hundred and sixty six slot machines and ninety seven table games. The Star Vegas Casino is is located in an international vacation and hotel complex that highlights numerous conveniences aside from the gambling den, which contains 10,000 square feet of one hundred and thirty slot machines and eighty eight table games.