Thai government forms ‘Casino Committee’ to consider legalized gambling entertainment complex opening

[jacko45k]

8 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

Sorry HBH,  you are so wrong on this one, I honestly thought that there would be casino's here a long time ago, but it won't be long now, hope you are ready to swallow your pride.

So you have been wrong before, I do hope you are again. 

[Destiny1990]

Oh great another comitee they really speeding things up now.????

[hotchilli]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thailand’s Royal Gazette yesterday, February 3rd, announced the establishment of a ‘Casino Committee’ to study and consider the potential opening of a legalized gambling entertainment complex to solve illegal gambling problems and boost the domestic economy.

The money from illegal gambling already boosts the domestic economy... 

Thais spend there ill-gotten gains every day.

 

[hotchilli]

10 hours ago, HashBrownHarry said:

How long have you been predicting this now? has it happened?

The government is cash-strapped..

They'll go for anything to get revenue in.

[rott]

9 hours ago, HashBrownHarry said:

The neighbours have had casino's for years, why have they waited?

I am wondering why you put an apostrophe in casinos but not in neighbours, they are both plurals. I always thought the apostrophe was only used when it was possessive. Or an abbreviation. Perhaps that is the exception that proves the rule. 

Perhaps an English teacher or similar learned worthy could advise. 

[jacko45k]

32 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

The government is cash-strapped..

They'll go for anything to get revenue in.

They should not be, it is not like they have given out fortunes in furlough schemes. 

[hotchilli]

34 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

They should not be, it is not like they have given out fortunes in furlough schemes. 

Off-shore investments?

[topt]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

A total of 60 people were listed as committee members in the announcement

Hard enough getting anything done with 12 committee members but 60...........

Smoke and mirrors again......

Not forgetting junkets to study casino's abroad perhaps..........

[law ling]

I don't see that one (or a few) legal casinos (no doubt with lots of rules, dress-codes and restrictions) would put any sort of dent in the illegal "casinos" here - some Thais I've seen just love to sit cross-legged on the floor - for hours and hours - slapping down cards with B20 bets.

 

 

[newnative]

     Jeez.  Not another committee to study this once again.  Hasn't it been studied enough all these many years?  Just do it already.

[In Full Agreement]

 

Casinos  would be a Godsend for Thailand.    There couldn't be a better means for corruption.

 

 

[kingstonkid]

Any Casino that is run here has to be operated by one of the big international groups like Wynn Caesars or MGM.  The simple method is to tax the casino X amount on winnings.  Also like Vegas there is a winnings limit where if you win so much they comp you a room and such while clarifying how much tax to deduct.   

 

Let's face it Pattaya has the girls the bars and is close to BKK.  

 

The only way they can do it though is as I said bring in one of the big guns. Another choice of course would be HARD ROCK as they have the Hotel already so they could incorporate the hotel and the casino.  I would suggest only starting with 1 casino to see how it works.

 

It could be built where the statue to condo is or if HR got it o their land.

[HashBrownHarry]

5 hours ago, rott said:

I am wondering why you put an apostrophe in casinos but not in neighbours, they are both plurals. I always thought the apostrophe was only used when it was possessive. Or an abbreviation. Perhaps that is the exception that proves the rule. 

Perhaps an English teacher or similar learned worthy could advise. 

Yeah, i dunno to tell you the truth, just looked right, maybe it's not?

[rott]

14 minutes ago, HashBrownHarry said:

Yeah, i dunno to tell you the truth, just looked right, maybe it's not?

H I thought you had come on to lambast me for being a grammar nazi. 

 

It is a very common error for exactly the reason you stated - it looks right. 

 

The apostrophe does not go in a plural but does go in the possessive, like so:-

 

I am going for a drink with two moderators. 

That is a moderator's pint not mine. 

 

In early English it would have been :- that is a moderator his pint.

Over time this became abbreviated to moderator's. 

 

Thank you for accepting my comment in the spirit it was given. 

[Burma Bill]

19 hours ago, Leaver said:

go the same way as Sihanoukville - Cambodia. 

Also the cities of Phnom Penh and Poipet which now have casino complexes!

[Burma Bill]

19 hours ago, Leaver said:

Pattaya could very well go the same way as Sihanoukville - Cambodia.

Not only Sihanoukville but the cities of Phnom Penh and Poipet as well!

[PETERTHEEATER]

16 hours ago, HashBrownHarry said:

The neighbours have had casino's for years, why have they waited?

They've  never been able to agree the profit split.....

[HashBrownHarry]

18 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

They've  never been able to agree the profit split.....

And you think they can now?

 

I don't care one way or the other if casinos happen but, as mentioned, it has been talked about for decades.

[Thailand]

16 hours ago, HashBrownHarry said:

The neighbours have had casino's for years, why have they waited?

Thaksin was about to get the first casinos in Thailand in late 2005 early 2006. Talks almost completed with certain persons from Macau.

 

Then along came another one of those things that happen every four years or so, no- not the Olympics, those coup thingies.

[Leaver]

1 hour ago, Burma Bill said:

Not only Sihanoukville but the cities of Phnom Penh and Poipet as well!

 

A lot of these casinos on the borders cater for Thai's.  What's a ban on casinos actually achieving here? 

 

I would implement something like the casino model in Vietnam.  Only Vietnamese Nationals earning over a certain amount can enter the gaming rooms. 

 

In reality, no Vietnamese are allowed into the gaming rooms.  All other casino facilities are open to them, like restaurants etc, but not gaming. 

 

With a similar model here, I don't see the harm to Thai Nationals.

 

 

[ncc1701d]

My opinion is they will trial somewhere like Phuket and they will restrict locals like they do in Singapore. Rumour is a large swathe of land has already been purchased in Phuket, just waiting for the approval of casinos. 

[Leaver]

1 hour ago, ncc1701d said:

My opinion is they will trial somewhere like Phuket and they will restrict locals like they do in Singapore. Rumour is a large swathe of land has already been purchased in Phuket, just waiting for the approval of casinos. 

 

And when other tourist areas complain they are not getting their share of the pie, they will be allowed casinos as well, and then they will be all across Thailand.   

[tomyami]

Isnt the top floor of the ambassador hotel pattaya/jomtien direction already decked out as a casino

A casino needs an adjacent airport for high rollers popping in they wont travel baht bus types, utapao surrounds might work.

Its would be allowed by this King as previous speculated why not start the party another reason to go to pattaya

Edited February 6, 2022 by tomyami

[Leaver]

1 hour ago, tomyami said:

Isnt the top floor of the ambassador hotel pattaya/jomtien direction already decked out as a casino

A casino needs an adjacent airport for high rollers popping in they wont travel baht bus types, utapao surrounds might work.

Its would be allowed by this King as previous speculated why not start the party another reason to go to pattaya

 

High rollers will use helipads if there are no nearby airports.  The casinos will pay.  

[Sharron Merrilees]

On 2/5/2022 at 2:23 AM, Meat Pie 47 said:

Nonsense I live in OZ now and casinos are legal I never lost a cent yet

I work in a leagues club on the Central Coast NSW, and if you have never lost a cent you either don't play them, or are one  in a million I see it every day I work at that money that goes through them, what do you thing keeps the Pubs and clubs going and of cause the taxes. Thailand DOSE NOT NEED them, if so curtain area's only, I have to wounder if the Chinese are behind this.    

[balo]

I hope it will happen, but being Thailand they will probably build a different type of casino that brings more money in the pocket of the owners, instead of working with the international casinos. 

[Leaver]

On 2/12/2022 at 6:01 AM, balo said:

I hope it will happen, but being Thailand they will probably build a different type of casino that brings more money in the pocket of the owners, instead of working with the international casinos. 

 

Knowing Thailand, it will be free entry into the casino, but a 1000 baht taxi journey to the casino, and only taxis allowed onto the casino property.   100 baht to the taxi driver, 900 baht to the corrupt in authority here.  ????  

[Meat Pie 47]

On 2/7/2022 at 7:08 AM, Sharron Merrilees said:

I work in a leagues club on the Central Coast NSW, and if you have never lost a cent you either don't play them, or are one  in a million I see it every day I work at that money that goes through them, what do you thing keeps the Pubs and clubs going and of cause the taxes. Thailand DOSE NOT NEED them, if so curtain area's only, I have to wounder if the Chinese are behind this.    

The thing is you have to quit when you are ahead we don't have leagues club where I live in WA and we don't have one arm bandits here in pubs and the poker machines in the casino are different to the ones in NSW