49 minutes ago, Airwolf said:

who in their right mind would invest in this business model?

Mafia n triads n yakuzas 🤣🤣

Casino's will be a bigger problem than cannabis.

Will they close them all on Buddha and voting days!!

Another disaster . Like cannabis ill thought through. If they did the research they would not have them. Everywhere there are casinos there is misery.

See how casinos destroyed the once scenic seaside location of Sianukville  in Cambodia.Or at least the Chinese mafia that ran them .

 

2.5 hours away, 5k baht rtn, be great if it gets to 25% of Macau, to get my poker fix.

this will be the ruin of Thailand on so many levels 

bla ... bla ... bla .....  heard this for the past 20 years.   Just garbage talk

2 hours ago, norsurin said:

I lived in surin before..near the border to cambodia.Crazy numbers of thais crossing the border everyday.People loose their homes and more.After go borrow money from loansharks and their life get worse.

Yeah, I have also stayed there for a while. Took the route for Chon Chom border crossing sometimes. There you really se them. Not to talk about Poi Pet.

would anyone seriously consider using the services of a Thai casino, really ?, these places need to be heavily regulated by government to stop cheating - good luck with that in Thailand 

 

just another way to extract money from foreigners 

This was Thaksins  baby back in 2006 before the coup in September, since he came back here we go again. Chinese money and expertise (Macau) will probably be the catalyst!

10 hours ago, pomchop said:

In related news:  Sales of Brown Envelopes Surge

And make up for losses due to cannabis mess.

Then thats will be overturned in 12 months can’t trust government after weed debacle 

Will they offer those 15 million "Fragiles"  10000 baht each in  digital chips ? Get their money back that way !😁

6 hours ago, champers said:

Chang will be paying for the casino in Pattaya. They own all the vacant land where it will be built and their own property arm will be developer. Together they will keep the profits, less taxes, of course.

They need to get a shift on because Japan have plans in place to build 3 casinos as well, according to today's Bangkok Post.

 

The last thing Pattaya needs is more hordes of Chinese flocking to the casinos to play.
In the end Thailand may end up like Cambodia, and Pattaya like Sihanoukville.

 

13 hours ago, webfact said:

This move is part of a broader strategy to position Thailand as a premier tourism hub

Keep the good looking birds in the bars will do it for most people I suspect!

As for the gambling it will probably go the same way as the cannabis did and they will ban it a year after it is legalised as one general said to another, maybe we should have stayed in the army and not bothered with this government stuff 🙂

duplicate post apologies!

10 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Sure tourism will surge, but it shows again that Thailand has no clue about tourism. In the Western world casino's are legalized many years back, so influence on tourism will be not much, or only for the rich Chinese. It is more the profits of the owners that will be skyrocketing

80 % of punters in my city are Asians 

And how long is that gonna last before they change their minds? 

So Thailand legalised Weed in order to boost tourism and is now flip=flopping on that.  It now proposes to legalise casinos for the same reason.  I wonder how long before this too is flip-flopped.  Will it be 1 month, six months or one year or even longer?  The Book is now open.  Place your (hypothetical) bets ladies and gentlemen.   

20 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Who will pay for the construction, and who will own them ? 

 

I'm guessing the Chinese...

 

16 hours ago, Dirk Z said:

And maybe private rooms for some related fun?

Yeah 'cuz that sort of fun isn't readily available at at every other venue in every province already. 

What took them so long? it's virtually a licence to print money, legally, just remain to see the stories that will come

out from running those places and the people connected to them, I envision a lot of interesting and juice stories

to come out from there thick and fast...

Thai's have a huge problem with gambling addiction, so let's legalize gambling.  Oh but Marijuana bad, let's make that illegal again. 

 

 

18 hours ago, Hakuna Matata said:

Wake up! This is a move in the wrong direction.

 

Next step would be legalization of cocaine and heroine?

 

Thailand is going crazy?

Legalization of those drugs would INDEED be a move in the RIGHT direction. We do not need a nanny state for drugs.

19 hours ago, Jackbenimble said:

if you prefer to continue banging on about the cannabis u-turn there are threads for that.

Take your own advice.  I didn't mention the "c-word".....YOU did.

21 hours ago, chiman said:

in 12 months, they will roll that back after Thais loose all their money in casino's, commit suicide by killing all their family as well.. 

You think there is no gambling in Thailand now?

2 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

You think there is no gambling in Thailand now?

Yeah is like nothing changes except it then being official revenue, while in reality 'illegal casino money' stops coming in for what then comes into the 'legal casino money'. Perhaps a slight increase of keeping Thais here too instead of going to Cambodia or Laos ones.

all the illegal casinos protected by the men in brown will suffer?

 

or they just move in to protect them from themselves in the new place ?

 

in my local shopping mall, see men in brown visiting regularly, they don't buy, but have a chat... lol... time to pass the protection envelope

 

weird that robbing's of this unsecured places do not happen daily

 

it is not that the one security guard ,unarmed, not for the shop, but for the whole shopping mall will do anything

Cambodia should not be allowed to keep on monopolizing casino gambling. Thailand needs the revenue.