There is a fascinating history to the Cambodia gambling dens that reside just across the dividing line from neighboring Thailand, where casino wagering is illegal. Eight gambling dens are established in a relatively tiny area in the city of Poipet in Cambodia. This group of Cambodia casinos is in an excellent destination, a 3 to 4 hour travel from Bangkok and Macao, the two biggest gaming locations in Asia. Cambodia gambling dens do a huge business with Thai laborers and tourists from Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, with only very few Westerners. The phenomenal income gained from the casinos ranges from 7.5 million dollars to more than 12.5 million, and there are a couple of controls constraints for gambling hall ownership. Ownership is required to be mostly Thai; however, funding sources are vague. The borders are formally open from 9:00 a.m. to 1700, and though visas are apparently necessary to cross, there are means around this, as is accurate of many borders.

The 1st Cambodia gambling dens premiered in Phnom Penh in 1994, but were forced to close in 1998, leaving only a single casino in the capital, the Naga Resort. The Naga, an anchored boat casino, contains 150 one armed bandits and 60 table games. The Naga gambling den never closes with 42 tables of mini-baccarat banque, 4 tables of blackjack, ten of roulette, 2 of Caribbean Stud Poker, and 1 each of Pai-Gow and Tai-Sai.

The initial casino in Poipet, the Holiday Palace, opened in the late nineties and the Golden Crown soon opened. A total of 150 slots and five tables at the Golden Crown and 104 slots and sixty eight table games at the Holiday Palace. The newest Holiday Palace Casino and Resort highlights 300 slots and 70 table games and the Princess Hotel and Casino, also in Poipet, has 166 slot machine games and ninety six gaming tables, including eighty seven baccarat chemin de fer (the most popular game), Fan Tan, and Pai Gow. Additionally, there is the Casino Tropicana, with one hundred and thirty five slot machine games and 66 of the normal table games, as well as 1 table of Casino Stud Poker. One more of the 8 casinos in Poipet, also a part of a motel, is the Princess Casino with one hundred and sixty six one armed bandits and 97 games. The Star Vegas Casino is is located in a multinational vacation and hotel compound that features a number of luxuries on top of the gambling den, which has 10,000 sq.ft. of one hundred and thirty slot machine games and eighty eight gaming tables.