As I said, you can start with as much money as you like and add to it at any time. The help file gives a good and concise introduction to the rules and strategies for them all and you can call it up at any time. All of the games play easily with the mouse. Some of these are further subdivided so that you can play for a minimum stake of $2.00, So what are they like to play? There are 16 of them including four poker games, seven types of slot machine, baccarat, roulette and craps. Okay, so the games wont jeopardise your house, car or marriage. Im not sure how Virgin are going to get round this. No honey-skinned blonde hooker sat on my lap and stuck her tongue in my ear or anything. Why be excited about winning $500 when you could have just given it to yourself in the first place? I got lucky at roulette, clearing two grand. If unlimited money takes the thrill out of gambling, it also robs winning of its savour. If you lose, just give yourself more money. In this game you can give yourself as much money as you like and bet what you like on whichever game takes your fancy. Unless youre gambling something you dont want to lose, theres little point. I dont mean that when you win you can make it to the car without being rolled by the owners friends. Some authenticity has been sacrificed here. Theres no bar, and blue eyes isnt singing in the corner.

Is this like the real world? I mean, when the fbi raided Caesars Palace in 1970 they found one million dollars in cash that had been skimmed off the takings for the mob. The program doesnt cheat, and the payouts from the slot machines seem, for want of a better word, fair. The best card games here are those when all the players are against the house, rather than each other. In games of bluff you rely on other peoples expressions. Its an unnerving experience to play poker against these faceless opponents. Or else you can make them watch you lose your pot. Its a good idea to watch them for a while before you put your chips on the table.

You can bet or you can watch or you can play against three computer players of differing skill and recklessness. Caesars Palace has the gimmick that you wander round the casino, dropping by 16 individual games. This is a gambling game, of which there is a fair number already - especially for Windows. Perhaps Id get the chance to play one of those legendary figures like Bugsy Siegel who changed Las Vegas from a sleepy railway junction in 1931 to the monument to western civilisation it is today.Īlas, no. When the editor gave me Caesars Palace for Windows I thought: at last, the Mafia meets A-Train.

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