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Landlocked Kazakhstan has been left a mystery to the western traveler for generations, unknown from the pages of Marco Polo or Kipling. A handful of outsiders have experienced the fascination of this central Asian country, aside from the vendors who plied the Silk Road. Still, since Kazakhstan gained its independence in 1991 and especially under the ingenious and unselfish presidency of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the country has grown. As the nation develops, so do Kazakhstan casinos. Flushed with oil revenue, it’s boom time in the betting companies of this one-time soviet republic. There are seven cities that have amidst them legal casino capacities of which there are precisely twenty eight such areas. Actually if you are craving for a wager, the tables are the only game in town, as Kazakhstan casinos are the only gambling operations enabled there.

Most celebrated to the committed bettor will have to be the previous capital and of course largest city in the region, Almaty, that veritable Las Vegas of central Asia, claiming no less than 18 casinos and counting. With an ascending 9 per cent growth every year, the Kazakh economy has enhanced exceptionally in the last 10 years and with it the Kazakh craving for the gaming tables. The cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic, multinational city of Almaty is masked from its previous period as the central city of a grey Soviet satellite state. New wealth has brought style and of course exhilaration to the place, a fact best embodied by the city’s biggest casino, Casino Viva. One of a chain, this exceptional Kazakhstan casino hotel can hold twenty-six games tables and ninety-three coin-operated machines.

What’s more, the rage for on-line poker has not gone unnoticed in Kazakhstan casinos with the innovation of video poker hurriedly becoming a favorite. Outside of Almaty, the high-spirited bettor is also served; as an example, the capital Astana has five casinos, the premium one in the midst of them being one of the Casino Zodiak chain that delights in not less than 20 card tables. If that is not actually enough for you, casinos are in fact located further afield in the cities of Aktobe, Kokshetau, Pavlodar, Shimkent, as well as Ust-kamenogorsk. It is very obvious, for that matter, that the Kazakh admiration for the green baize and clink of chips isn’t stated, because the vice-foreign minister lately visited Macao and also Hong Kong. The visit was expressed to be a "short but fruitful" trip devised to study the casino industries of these towns and encourage enthusiasm in Kazakhstan’s nascent casino industry. As a matter of fact, a plausible direct air link has been credited between Almaty and Hong Kong or Macao, which would lift desire for this once captivating spot soon set to become the choice of the cream of society.