Ironically, the casino has become a symbol for Las Vegas heists since appearing in the 2001 film “Ocean’s Eleven.” Unlike the movie, though, the suspect in Tuesday’s robbery was believed.
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Ah, the casino… a chance to triple your money, and have fun while doing it. Or go home completely broke, and have fun while doing it.
If the characters visit Las Vegas, there will definitely be at least ONE of these, and someone will probably go home broke, either due to strange House Rules or legitimate bad luck. (If the story takes place in Europe, substitute Monte Carlo for Las Vegas.)
In video games, this is sometimes a Minigame Zone if you can play the games there, but not always. One could also have to bring down The Mafia there too.
For where the gambling isn't actually legal and licenced, see Illegal Gambling Den.
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- In the episode of Cowboy Bebop where Spike meets Faye, a casino chip with a microchip in it is to be exchanged in one of these. For added fun, it takes place in a casino/space station shaped like a roulette wheel.
- In Descendants of Darkness, Tsuzuki actually had to pretend to be a dealer on a cruise ship's casino in order to investigate murders.
- Rosette and Chrono first meet Azmaria in a casino owned by her adoptive father in Las Vegas (Atlantic City in the anime).
- City Hunter has at least one storyline centered on underground casinos in Tokyo.
- From the same author, Cat's Eye has a storyline where the owner of the targeted painting also owns at least three underground casinos.
- One Piece Film: Gold is set to take place on a cruise liner which houses what is virtually the city of Las Vegas in it.
- In Chassis, Elizabeth Tall Mountain is the owner of the Dream Catcher Casino on the Algonquin reservation. The casino is the sponsor of her 'nephew' Mark Little Crow: the first Native American Aero-Run racer.
- In FREAKIN GENSOKYO, Yukari has a casino of her very own, the Golden Grin.
- The Peony Pavilion Resort and Casino is where the action of the Hell Casino/Maifya Arc of One Piece: Parallel Works takes place. However, at this casino, the biggest winners are forced to prostitute themselves under orders by the Dragon Lady. If they don't comply, they will be killed.
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Films — Live-Action
- The film Casino.
- This is a mainstay of spy movies. In particular:
- James Bondbooks and films form the basis for the association of casinos with espionage. Truth in Television as author Ian Fleming's usage of casinos was inspired by Casino Estoril in Portugal, which was a den of spies during World War II.
- Several spy movie parodies also feature casino scenes. This is no surprise, as many of them draw from the James Bond series.
- The first Austin Powers movie.
- Casino Royale (1967).
- If Looks Could Kill.
- Spy.
- In the movie 3000 Miles to Graceland, there's a shootout in one of these, featuring robbers wearing Elvis outfits.
- Both the original Ocean's 11 and its remake Ocean's Eleven are about schemes to rob casinos in Vegas.
- Ocean's Thirteen feature the titular team rigging all the games in one of these for revenge.
- When Tony Stark is given an award at a ceremony held in Las Vegas, he misses accepting the award because he's busy working. And by 'busy working', we mean 'having some fun gambling'.
- Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise from Back to the Future Part II includes a casino.
- In Cars 2, the Lemons actually use an old casino in Italy as their evil lair.
- The Thieves centres around a Caper Crew put together to heist a $20 million dollar from a casino in Macau.
- The plot of Monte Carlo centers around Countess Helene Mara's attempt to escape from a Marriage of Convenience by gambling her way into a fortune.
Casino Heists New Vegas
- As mentioned above, the James Bond series of books is heavily associated with the depiction of casinos in spy novels.
- Vampire Academy:
- Rose, Lissa, Eddie Castile, Victor Dashkov, Adrian Ivashkov, and Robert Doru spend time in various Las Vegas' casinos in Spirit Bound. They do not have much time to enjoy the sights are they are hunted down by Dimitri the Strigoi and his subordinates.
- The same book establishes that there is a Moroi-owned casino in Las Vegas, called the Witching Hour. It figures out again in the plot of Last Sacrifice. Eric Dragomir met his mistress Emily (Mastrano) there, fifteen years before the events of the book.
- In 'The Theft of the Cuckoo Clock', Nick Velvet is hired to steal a broken plastic cuckoo clock. What makes the theft challenging is the clock's location: inside the manager's office at the centre of a well-guarded casino.
- Dortmunder: In What's the Worst That Could happen?, the final crime in the escalating series of crimes committed by Dortmunder in his attempts to regain his ring is an Ocean's Eleven style heist on Max Fairbanks' casino in Las Vegas.
- Lerch's casino from The Grey Automobile, designed in Art Nouveau style.
- In River of Teeth, Corrupt Hick Travers runs an entire chain of casino boats on the Harriet, including pleasure barges where his guests can rest from losing all their money.
- In Heroes, there's Linderman's casino, and it's a plot point for much of the first series.
- These pop up pretty frequently in CSI.
- As well as the series Las Vegas, which is set in one.
- The episode 'Double Down' in NUMB3RS revolves around card counting in a casino. Larry is revealed to be a former card counter, and he, Charlie, and Amita gamble at a casino.
- The Hustle take down a Vegas casino for $5 million in 'Big Daddy Calling' after the owner has Albert roughed up.
- The first half-season of Mr. Lucky takes place largely in (and/or aboard) these.
- In Criminal Minds Reid goes undercover, and fails to blend in, at a casino looking for an Unsub after proving his experience by being banned from casinos in three cities.
- Dempsey and Makepeace: In 'Lucky Streak', Dempsey happens to be present at a casino when it is robbed and a security guard murdered.
- Whodunnit? (UK): 'Adieu Monsieur Chips' is about the murder of a casino manager and the theft of a large amount of high value chips from his office.
- Viva Las Vegas, of course.
- Not surprisingly, Stern Pinball's High Roller Casino takes place entirely in one.
- Jack*Bot is The Casino IN SPACE!
- In Rocket Age the Rocket Cat nightclub in Emancipation, Mars, has a secret casino hidden in the back, available by invitation only.
Casino Robbery
- Pokémon Red and Blue's Game Corner, while a Minigame Zone, is also the front for Team Rocket's base of operations.
- Baccarat in SaGa Frontier. At least three characters go there during their quests, but none of the games can be played
- In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, there's the Pianta Parlor, owned by the mob. E Rating, indeed.
- Glittertown/Neon City in Wario Land Shake It is this kind of area, with multiple casino type areas in two levels set in an extremely obvious fictional pastiche of Las Vegas especially given that you go through a couple desert levels first.
- The third mission in Bonanza Bros. takes place in a casino. Depending on whether or not you're playing a Bowdlerized version, either the Casino Executives are corrupt and you're stealing evidence, you're testing an elaborate security system, or it's just a straight-up heist.
- In Action Doom 2: Urban Brawl, as you're riding an elevator upwards through the corporation building and punching out everyone you meet along the way, one of the floors you come upon is a casino, complete with snazzy casino music and mini-games to play.
- Sonic Adventure's third stage is casino themed, but the focus is on pinball, with Sonic as the ball. The main wagering you do is hoping to collect 100 rings in a game to avoid being dumped into the sewer, and one pinball game has a slot bonus, where one set of symbols (Dr. Eggman's face) will steal all of your rings.
- The Fallout series has several of these starting with Gizmo's casino in Junktown and The Hub's Maltese Falcon in the first game
- Fallout 2 has several casinos in New Reno run by rival crime families.
- Fallout: New Vegas naturally has a few casinos in that city. Plus one in Primm.
- Fat Cat's Casino from Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, which is based on the TV series episode, 'Adventures in Squirrel-Sitting'. The boss is one of Fat Cat's henchmen, who tosses coins from a slot machine.
- The Golden Grin Casino in PAYDAY 2. Your mission is to rob the place blind, but you can also play the slots while you're there.
- The climatic sixth Palace in Persona 5 takes the form of a casino. In order to reach the palace's treasure, you need to accumulate coins at the casino's various games. The problem is, that most of the games are rigged, forcing you to cheat back in order to progress. Palaces are Mental World versions of real places. The real building that the casino represents is the courthouse, making it both an In-Universe and out of universe Take That! to the Japanese legal system.
- One of the mid-tier locations in The Swindle is the Casino district. It introduces a fascinating new variety of murderbots to make your life harder.
- The first disc ofCountdown Vampires is set in a horror-themed casino hotel known as 'The Desert Moon'.
- In Holiday Wars, there's the Jack O'Lantern casino in Vegas which is run by Halloween. You can check it out here.
- Detentionaire has The Hydra, owned by a man known only as The Serpent. Since the characters are in High School, they're a little more concerned with the secret submarine base hidden beneath it than gambling.