Casinos are exciting places where champagne glasses clink and people drink and mingle, all while trying their luck at games from poker to roulette. While some games require strategy and skill, others are more laid back and allow players to sit back and let chance do the rest. Either way, casinos are always a fun and festive place to be, even for those who don’t gamble.
While there are many factors that go into a casino’s success, one of the most important is customer loyalty. The most loyal patrons are rewarded with comps, or free goods and services. These perks can include hotel rooms, tickets to shows, dinners and limo service. Casinos also have elaborate surveillance systems to ensure that their gambling floor is secure.
Something about casinos (probably the presence of large amounts of money) seems to encourage cheating, stealing and scamming to win. To prevent these crimes, casinos employ high-tech surveillance systems that monitor every table, window and doorway. These cameras can be adjusted to focus on suspicious patrons by security workers in a separate room filled with banks of monitors.
Casino is a drama about organized crime and features two stars from Goodfellas, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, completing a trilogy of mafioso movies directed by Martin Scorsese. In a time when violent, profane criminality was in vogue thanks to the breakthrough work of Quentin Tarantino and other millennial auteurs, Casino seemed like a sure thing.