Casino is a gambling establishment offering a variety of games for money. These include slot machines, table games like blackjack and roulette, and even sports betting. A casino is usually staffed with dealers and croupiers who enable the games and manage payments. It is also common for a casino to offer loyalty bonuses to their players. These bonuses can come in the form of free spins or cashback offers.

While casinos may seem slick, expensive places filled with flashing lights and noise, they are engineered to slowly bleed their patrons of money. This is so well known that mathematically inclined minds have tried to use their knowledge of probability and game theory to beat the house.

In the modern casino, there is almost always someone watching you, whether it’s a security guard, floor manager, or a casino employee. Every table is watched by cameras that are adjusted to focus on suspicious patrons by workers in a room full of banks of security monitors. Casinos also have an “eye-in-the-sky” system where a bank of surveillance cameras are mounted on the ceiling and can be focused on any part of the casino at any time.

Casinos make most of their money from high rollers, who bet tens of thousands of dollars or more on each hand or spin of the wheel. These gamblers are given perks known as comps, which include discounted transportation, hotel rooms, food, show tickets, and other items.