Once a young and reckless Englishman named Ashley Revell decided to radically change their lives.He sold everything he had, including the house and clothes, and arrived in Las Vegas, in one fell swoop all the proceeds put $ 135,000 on red.And he won twice!An even greater prize waiting for an American guy from Los Angeles, who came to Las Vegas for a basketball game and went to the casino just to kill time.
However, heart-rending stories about the incredible losing streak at the casino in history, too, abound.
there for the operation of a casino's faith in its own uniqueness, or just another way to have fun, depending on who will have to answer this question.Someone loses his head here, and along with everything else, someone just have a good time.This modern casinos allow a rest, so not once sat down for a game table, and coming up with new ways to attract players.Forbes magazine selected worldwide 7 most notable casinos.
Venetian Macao (Macau, China)
younger brother of the Las Vegas The Venetian succeeds vymahal much healthier than his distinguished relative.It's no joke: it is the biggest casino in the world and the fifth largest building on the planet.Four thematic Hall - Imperial House, Red Dragon, Phoenix and Golden Fish - occupy an area of eight average gambling houses and can accommodate 3,400 machines and 800 gaming tables.However, the size of Venetian Macao is not designed to break the architectural records: the owner of the casino, the corporation Las Vegas Sands, just came here to make a record of money.
Since 1850 the Portuguese administration is legalized gambling, Macau has earned a reputation as the "Eastern Monte Carlo," and today nearly 50% of revenues in the region falls on the local casinos.Moreover, revenue from gambling there has killed performance in Las Vegas and continues to grow.
not surprising that competition among casino here is incredibly high, so each institution is trying to think of something besides the usual Blackjack and Slots.The Venetian Macao (except, of course, the Venetian subjects and relevant entertainment like gondola rides on artificial channels) it is also the exclusive Cirque du Soleil show a nice Russian ear the name «Zaia».Half-hour presentation about life, space and infinity, the 75 actors, and its scope of action is not inferior to the global statement.
In addition, it is here that each year spend a beauty contest "Miss Macau", and for football fans there is a unique attraction The Manchester United Experience, allowing to be on the virtual football field in the form of one of the greatest teams in the world.
Casino di Venezia (Venice, Italy)
Belgian Casino de Spa defiantly boasts longevity and calls itself the oldest in the world, although it is not so: almost four hundred years ago, in 1638, in Venice, opened Casino di Venezia.And it's really great age, compared with a couple of centuries of the casino at Spa.Besides the building itself, which is located in the Venetian casino, much older - luxurious Palazzo Vendramin Calergi was built in 1509, designed by Mauro Koduchchi, author of the famous Church of San Zaccaria.
Another well-known name associated with the palazzo - Richard Wagner.This connection, however, is very sad: German composer has visited Venice, his last sigh heaved it in the walls of Vendramin Calergi.Now that the mezzanine, where Wagner stayed with the family, is a museum dedicated to his life and work of some deaths.
Until recently, the Venetian Casino had two brothers, but first, Casino del Lido, surrounded by golden sands of Lido, unfortunately players closed 11 years ago.The second part - Casino di Ca 'Noghera - is right next to the airport, Marco Polo, and it is currently live.Casino is designed on the principle of the US: a large number of slots (400, to be exact), blackjack, roulette and Caribbean poker;just over one thousand gaming places.In addition, there have consistently demonstrated the latest advances gaming technology, such as a fully automated electronic roulette Pepo or 9-slot local analogue of the American game show Wheel of Fortune.
Circus Circus Casino (Las Vegas, USA)
October 1, 1993 was the largest casino heist in history: the criminals took away about $ 3 million. The perfect crime was committed by 21-year-old Heather Tolchif and her choice of Roberto Solis - Killera thief and a poet.They met in San Francisco a couple of months later, moved to Las Vegas, and after a couple of months their names learned the whole country.In Las Vegas, Heather got a job as a driver and collector car one day just left with a bunch of bills intended for refilling ATMs.Then, disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair, and her doctor, and Tolchif Solis flew freely from the United States.Heather, however, came back 12 years later with a frank confession and penniless, and Roberto Solis looking for today.
stolen a couple of bills intended for ATMs casino Circus Circus.Coincidence, of course, random - a casino in Las Vegas enough.But from Circus Circus - Casino, starred in the movie often many famous actors - familiar to almost anyone, even if he never sat at the table.For those who never went to the cinema, Circus Circus - this is the casino that Hunter S. Thompson described with particular fury in his "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."It was here during the game over the head of sports acrobats, and for a small fee, you can broadcast your hi mom on a huge screen, towering over the city center.And it is here in a state of altered consciousness Hunter S. Thompson made his famous phrase destructive force, "Just look: two women e ... ut a polar bear."It is somewhere else could happen largest casino heist in history?
Tusk Rio Casino Resort (Klerksdorp, South Africa)
usual European consciousness within the walls of the South African Tusk Rio Casino is experiencing serious difficulties: the terms of Africa, exotic atmosphere, totally different culture, somewhere near the elephants roam.But in the midst of this - the carnival in Rio de Janeiro.Such cocktail not stand each, and my head is spinning.But it is on this effect, apparently, counted the owners of the largest casino in the southern hemisphere.
work around the clock gambling house has at its disposal a variety of ways to entertain visitors: 300 slot machines, poker tables, blackjack and dozens of other card games, weekly championships (including the game of pool) - and all this inrelaxing atmosphere and infinite Brazilian carnival.There are, of course, an exclusive lounge for the most serious players, and separate playgrounds for the youngest visitors, where you can leave a child without fear that it will be just for a second dull without the pope, squander or selling state-owned slot machines.
way, Tusk Rio is not confined to the casino - a place for families.The complex enough other attractions for a holiday to never visit the playing hall from paintball battles to the game of golf, diving and cutting circles on the sports map.In addition, the city of Klerksdorp, around which the resort is located, is known for its gold-mines;one of the oldest mines can easily visit and to see, in the XVIII century, this metal is mined.
Baden Baden Casino (Baden-Baden, Germany)
In October 1866 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was in a very difficult situation: his wife and his brother recently died, leaving the writer to the care of children and created his brother magazine "Epoch", whichIt requires significant investment.Everything else has been added and fatal passion: being in a state of depression, the famous writer and at the same time gambler dropped his last savings to the casino in Baden-Baden - the most fashionable resort at the time.The situation is further complicated by the contract with the publisher Stellovsky - if Dostoevsky does not give him a new novel to the first of November, he gets right to republish all the works of a writer without compensation fee.Trying to cope with the bulk business, Fyodor Mikhailovich, hiring a stenographer for the advice of a friend, for 21 days dictates her story based on his own sad experience.October 31 the product is finished and completely rewritten, November 1, a novel called "The Gambler" is on the table Stellovsky, and a week later Dostoevsky does offer a stenographer - Anna Snitkina.Soon they get married, go on a honeymoon in the same Baden-Baden, where the writer once again played to the nines.After giving his wife a vow never to approach roulette, where the writer really followed until the end of life, Dostoevsky wrote the novel "The Idiot".
Casino in Baden-Baden has existed since 1821 and during that time besides Dostoevsky attracted many famous visitors.Marlene Dietrich called it the most beautiful casino in the world, adding that everyone else has seen.Leo Tolstoy described in "Anna Karenina" is Baden-Baden.This famous casino has received because of its location - this place full of hot springs, was chosen by the ancient Romans.However, many went there not so much for the sake of improvement, much to quench your gambling itch.By the way, in addition to its unique history, the casino does not offer anything extraordinary: a standard set of "roulette, poker and blackjack" has recently been supplemented by a few hundred slot machines.
Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)
story about a casino in the tourist complex Marina Bay Sands pales in comparison to the rest of the description of the complex - and despite the fact that the local casino is the most expensive among similar institutions in the world.The cost of its construction amounted to about $ 8 billion. The casino occupies 3 floors in which there are 500 gaming tables and 2,300 machines.Table games include baccarat, roulette, sic-bo and their variations, but there is the usual Hold'em.But there is a Singaporean poker game supposedly invented specifically for Marina Bay Sands (in fact it is the same Caribbean poker with a slightly modified scoring system).Any special attractions besides the scale and luxury casino there, but full of attractions around: at least Sands SkyPark - terrace the size of a hectare, located on the roof of the 55-storey hotel.In addition to the observation deck with a stunning view, park in five hundred trees and a variety of nightclubs and cafes there is a huge swimming pool, swimming in which it seems that just bask in the sky.
the way, the first US-based Las Vegas Sands resort is planned to open in 2009, but the ever-increasing costs and the global financial crisis forced to revise plans.The complex had opened in stages, the last of which - the official opening - took place recently on 17 February 2011.On the same day earned Museum ArtScience, which now runs the world premiere of the exhibition-performance "Van Gogh Alive";Illumination Water Show Wonder Full;and on the local theater scene was first played on Broadway musical "The Lion King."
Crown Casino (Melbourne, Australia)
Among the many projects of the Australian construction magnate Lloyd Williams, the most striking and significant is undoubtedly the largest casino in Australia - Crown Casino.The complex, covering an area of about two quarters of Melbourne, argues with the South African Tusk Rio for the title of the largest casino in the southern hemisphere.And if the size of the actual playing area Crown loses, then the luxury and grandeur of his peers and the world will be a few: the atrium is decorated in black marble, and the hall "Palladium" handmade carpets - here are many official Australian ceremonies by presentingthe most prestigious television award to the country's Logie Awards awarding the winners of the Australian Grand Prix, "Formula 1".
Crown Casino Gambling halls are not inferior in magnificence.And if "Mahogany Hall" and "Tick Hall" - a restraint and refinement, the hall "Las Vegas" - irresistible shine and luster.In the play area a mile-long play (in addition to the standard set of "Blackjack - Roulette-bones") in Asia "Pai Gow", poker, sic bo and baccarat,.Crown Casino is famous by the fact that here was first established electronic roulette - Rapid Roulette, - allowing players to bet, without waiting for the queue.The experiment was successful, and more recently, in addition to the casino roulette there are electronic versions of Sic-Bo, Baccarat and "Wheel of Fortune".
Outside and inside the complex audience entertained illuminated water features and along the main entrance are six towers, of which at night the sky erupt huge fireballs.And without this kind of fireworks night Melbourne is impossible to imagine.
This luxury, however, not to everyone's liking - at the opening of the complex in 1997, there was a scandal: Australian actress Rachel Griffiths in protest at the new building, spoiling, in her opinion, the city's appearance, paraded topless with a crown of thorns on his head.Quite remarkable in every sense a trick, given the natural gifts of the future owner of "Golden Globe".
George Alpatov
Articles Source: forbes.ru
