The Casino is chairsy in its current state and just refers to casinos existing. It may possibly be able to be salvaged as something more specific.
Wicks checked: 50/50
Possibly salvageable concepts (9/50, 18%)
A casino is involved in some sort of crime (5/50, 10%)
- Film.Heist 2015: The robbery at Pope's casino by Vaughn and Cox's group is what sets out the movie's main conflict, though it's not until bus hijacking where the arching situation begins.
- Literature.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.
- Bad News has the crew become involved in an attempt to take partial ownership of a casino on an Indian reservation by a group of conmen having one of their number pose as the last heiress to one of the three tribes (now extinct or scattered) that has title to the reservation. The casino members representing the other two tribes put up a fight, partially to avoid having to pay an extra third in profits but mostly because they don't want an audit to show they've been embezzling.
- Series.Dempsey And Makepeace: In "Lucky Streak", Dempsey happens to be present at a casino when it is robbed and a security guard murdered.
- Series.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.
- VideoGame.The Swindle: You rob them in tier three.
Fictional Las Vegas standin (4/50, 8%)
- Film.The Last Jedi: Canto Bight is a casino city on the planet Cantonica.
- TabletopGame.The Stars Are Fire: Stardeep is famous for its casinos, each of which features an amazing historical or fantastical theme. PCs who wish to engage in a bit of gambling can find pretty much any game or betting activity they desire: slots, roulette, poker, baccarat, craps or something more modern.
- TabletopGame.Cerulean Seas: Fortunis, the unofficial gambling capital of the Cerulean Seas, is home to many casinos, wastrels and sleazy types.
- Literature.Geist Series: Xanadu is basically the setting's Vegas.
Thing exists (19/50, 38%)
Casinos exist (18/50, 36%)
- Characters.Old World Blues: Mr. House has four of these in the New Vegas Strip, three are managed by the New Vegas families while he lives in the Lucky 38, his personal casino that he owned before the war.
- Recap.Hustle S 7 E 3 Clearance From A Deal: The Wendell London casino is where the bet takes place.
- ComicBook.Sinister War: The setting for Mephisto and Stephen Strange's high-stakes game of chance.
- Film.The Mighty Gambler: After the opening Time Skip, the next scene Sheila is shown is in a casino, proving her gambling skills by winning a massive wager over a crime boss which is her competitor. The same casino shows up in multiple scenes, true to the film's title.
- Film.The Casino: That's where the film is set and where the bloody final battle takes place.
- VideoGame.The Simpsons Tapped Out: The Casino Event in February/March 2016 has several, most notably Burns' Casino.
- Every Casino pitched to Mr. Burns during that episode is available, including Hail Brittania. Homer and Ned's "Vegas wives" were also offered as premium characters.
- WebVideo.Stampys Lovely World: The 'Fortune Fountain' casino is this.
- Film.Bet Your Life: The action starts and ends in the Tower Casino: an exclusive, members-only high-roller casino in Las Vegas. It is so that exclusive that when Chuck tries to get info on the place, he learns that many of the major playersin Vegas have never even heard of it.
- Webcomic.Vorto The Pirate: Baron Moorlock is first introduced in a casino in "Talking of Michelangelo"
- Webcomic.Holiday Wars: There's the Jack O'Lantern casino in Vegas which is ran by Halloween.
- Series.Dr Vegas: Dr. Grant works in a Casino in Las Vegas.
- VideoGame.The Brains And The Brawn: The World Grand Casino, which is the center of the plot. The King of the World, the Unsatisfiable Customer who costs Taylor their job, runs the casino, and Blaire eventually gambles their life savings away to get them a better job.
- Series.Barbary Coast: Cable operates out of a secret room inside Conover's Golden Gate Casino.
- Characters.Stardew Valley: Runs one, which features blackjack and slots.
- Literature.Cyber Spell Force Magi Tech Ranger: The “Faire Play” casino introduced in Chapter 28b.
- Characters.Greyhawk Deities: Temples to Norebo, often called "Churches of the Big Gamble," are found throughout the Barbarian States, as well as in large cities throughout the Flanaess. Donations to the churches are most often in the form of lost bets, as the churches usually double as gambling houses.
- Recap.Big Finish Doctor Who DOTD 9 Night Of The Whisper: This is New Vegas, so of course there are many. Wolfsbane owns one.
- Literature.The Mystery Of The Blue Train: Much of the action takes place in the gardens or gaming rooms of the casino at Monte Carlo.
Gambling exists (1/50, 2%)
- Fanfic.Checkmate Anla Shok: The Capitol sponsors a bar for gambling on the Hunger Games. This costs the government a fortune when Johanna wins the Hunger Games after 1/4th of the Capitol bet on her at 10-1 odds, and President Snow is a very Sore Loser.
Already covered by existing tropes (5/50, 10%)
Casino Episode (2/50, 4%)
- Literature.Buster Girls: In Chapter 26 the Heartless of the Week, Lady Luck, turns with her powers a whole block into the Lady Luck Casino in which the majority of the confrontation happens.
- Series.Mr Bill: Mr. Bill is brought to one in Mr. Bill Does Vegas, where he pulls three Sluggos on the slot machine, and sees his head become a roulette wheel ball, among other mishaps. He also gets to open for Wayne Newton at a casino in Vegas, leading to him headlining at the Aladdin to an empty house, during the building's implosion.
Casino Park (2/50, 4%)
- WMG.Luigis Mansion 3: The hotel will have a casino area somewhere, if not The Very Definitely Final Dungeon.
- VideoGame.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.
Betting Minigame (1/50, 2%)
- VideoGame.Azure Dreams: Funny enough, the church pastor can suggest this. Notable in that it's usually easier to get coins than lose them, making this is a bit of a Game-Breaker.
Potholes and ZCE (17/50, 34%)
Pothole/inline link (11/50, 22%)
- Cuphead.Tropes N To Z: Ridiculous Repossession: The titular character and his brother Mugman end up being forced to become the repo men for the Devil after losing the bet in The Casino, and were ordered to repossess all soul contracts of those who made the Deal with the Devil. Said repossessions involve fighting said debtors, who are not surrendering their contracts without the fight, in a long chain of painfully difficult boss fights.
- WebVideo.Jimquisition: Sarcasm Mode: Happens occasionally, but rarely do entire episodes get made out of pure sarcasm. A good example is "The Good Boys of YouTube" which praises TMartin and ProSyndicate, the infamous undercover owners of CS:GO gambling sites, to heavens - at least, until Steph gets to discussing PewDiePie who... yeah.
- Quotes.Karmic Death: You have made a habit of using others for your own ends. Now, the Sierra Madre is your reward. Whether you used blackmail or force - or even played to Vera's greed - it will not help down here in the Vault. Greed has led you here. I hope it leaves you as empty as you left me.
- Almighty Janitor: The Temple of Phred, in Dubious Company, has the almighty janitor's closet, which houses the divination pool. The high priest admits that it didn't draw as much attention as the card tables.
- WesternAnimation.The Nightmare Before Christmas: Dangerously Garish Environment: Oogie Boogie, the only monster in Halloween Town who actually kills people, lives in a casino-themed lair. This lair has blacklights that can cause everything to glow vibrant neon colors. This fits with the Creepy Jazz Music associated with Oogie to show that he's Bright Is Not Good to contrast the rest of Halloween Town's Dark Is Not Evil.
- Characters.Lucky Luke The Dalton Family: In Lone Riders, he end ups winning the entire money at The Casino. He then buys the casino and tries to make 1 million $ as fast as possible.
- RecycledInSpace.Other Media: Alternately, Jack*Bot is The Casino IN SPACE!
- Characters.Saga Frontier: Playboy Bunny: While on her Baccarat mission.
- Mission from God: Played With in Dubious Company. The temple elder shoos the heroes out, claiming they are now on a mission for Phred. He really just didn't want them sponging off the temple.
- Percussive Pickpocket: At the end of Guns, Girls and Gambling, it is revealed that 'John Smith' is not Smith's real name. It is an identity he got by stealing the wallet—and the ID—of the man he bumped into in The Casino at the start of the film.
- Fanon.Dream SMP: Certain characters are sometimes drawn with scars resulting from the events that took their canon lives. Tubbo is often depicted with burn scars from the fireworks at the festival, Quackity is sometimes drawn with a missing tooth (sometimes replaced with a gold tooth in light of his Las Nevadas arc) and scarring around his mouth (referencing Techno's line about how he's going to put a pickaxe through his teeth), and Ghostbur is often drawn with a huge open stab wound in his chest from his Suicide by Cop with help from Philza.
ZCE (6/50, 12%)
- Recap.Cowboy Bebop Session 3 Honky Tonk Woman: The focus of this episode.
- Fanfic.Freakin Gensokyo: The Golden Grin, owned by Yukari.
- VisualNovel.Superhuman: Where you, Alice and Michael go to win an unspecified prize in a poker gamer.
- Film.Swingers: In one of the movie's first scenes.
- VideoGame.Wario Land: Glittertown, Neon City.
- Pinball.High Roller Casino: The entire setting though the title gives it away.
