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The confirmed number of Kyrgyzstan gambling halls is a fact in some dispute. As information from this state, out in the very most central section of Central Asia, tends to be difficult to receive, this may not be too bizarre. Whether there are 2 or three legal gambling halls is the thing at issue, perhaps not really the most all-important article of info that we do not have.

What no doubt will be accurate, as it is of the lion’s share of the ex-Soviet states, and definitely correct of those located in Asia, is that there certainly is a lot more illegal and underground casinos. The change to legalized gambling did not encourage all the illegal locations to come out of the dark into the light. So, the contention regarding the total amount of Kyrgyzstan’s gambling dens is a small one at most: how many accredited ones is the thing we are attempting to reconcile here.

We are aware that in Bishkek, the capital municipality, there is the Casino Las Vegas (a marvelously original title, don’t you think?), which has both table games and slots. We can also see both the Casino Bishkek and the Xanadu Casino. The pair of these contain 26 slot machines and 11 table games, divided amongst roulette, vingt-et-un, and poker. Given the remarkable likeness in the size and layout of these 2 Kyrgyzstan casinos, it may be even more bizarre to see that both share an address. This seems most confounding, so we can perhaps state that the list of Kyrgyzstan’s gambling halls, at least the legal ones, stops at two casinos, 1 of them having changed their name not long ago.

The state, in common with the majority of the ex-USSR, has experienced something of a rapid conversion to free-enterprise economy. The Wild East, you may say, to refer to the lawless ways of the Wild West a century and a half back.

Kyrgyzstan’s gambling dens are certainly worth going to, therefore, as a piece of anthropological analysis, to see money being played as a form of social one-upmanship, the conspicuous consumption that Thorstein Veblen talked about in 19th century usa.