Casinos and Rain in SihanoukVille, Cambodia

Not much happening on the Casino scene here in SihanoukVille during the rainy season.
The casinos are all doing well, however, due to the rain. Much nicer being in a well lit, well maintained, happy place, gambling, eating and drinking, than being on the beach on an overcast day with rain.

Golden Sand's Golden Beach Club has added a couple popular baccarat machines that use real playing cards and can accommodate up to 6 people at a "table". They're also having prize drawings during the next two months.

Holiday Palace Casino has finished the renovations of the Lobby Casino, exclusively with gaming machines, and is now turning back to the main casino, with numerous renovations.

Fortuna and Peak Casino are doing well as usual.....

That's it.

More and more

With the 400% growth in casino here in the last year (from 1 to 4), the number of gamblers has probably grown twice as much.

Holiday has completed it's new gaming machine room, and usually has a dozen or more people minimum inside. The baccarat tables have more and more people every day. Texas Hold'em still hasn't taken off, however.

Golden Beach, has gotten in new baccarat machines, and is doing well with it's roulette machine.

Fortuna's got the biggest blackjack crowd, with it's $2 tables, and is doing well with baccarat as well.

Rumours of 2 existing places getting gambling licenses, as well as some talk of casino's on the islands.

No big events coming up in the near future that we know about.

Texas Hold'em is enjoying a small boom at a half dozen of the bars around town, and every week, someone else advertises another tournament.

That's all for now.

New Years continues.

New Years is over (thank god) and the party is continuing in the casinos.

Competition is really heating up, and it's great for the gamblers.

Holiday gave away several (dozen) prizes for new years, including motorcycles, TV's, mobile phones, and lots of bottles of booze. Every table was packed for most of Khmer New Year.

Peak Casino, with their $10 table credits and $5 food coupons is also enjoying a good crowd.

Fortuna has been doing the best late night (after midnight) business. Sunday night at 8pm is the Lucky Drawing for $100, $300 and $600 prizes. Coupons are given out at all the tables, and it's great on the $2 blackjack tables.

and Golden Beach Club Casino at the Golden Sands Hotel has really been impressive. They've been handing out $20 credits for the gaming machines on the beach, and have had many "Sit Down, Order a Free Beer, and Get a $10 credit" for the machine promotions. (only catch is that you have to double your money to get any money out). Fair Deal!

The Golden Beach Club and Fortuna have been cashing in on the tourist boom at the Ocheteaul Beach end of town. The beach is slated for renovation soon, so next tourist season should be even better.

That's it!!! 'til later.....