The daddy of all casino heist movies, in terms of budget, A-List star power, box-office takings and sheer irresistible suavity, has to be 2001's Ocean's Eleven. Riffing on the classic 'one last job to set us all up for life' yarn, Danny Ocean, aka George Clooney, assembles, with the help of trusted friend Rusty, aka Brad Pitt, a gang of eleven ne'er–do–wells to help him take down not one, not two, but three casinos, in the same night. Everyone is gorgeous, every wit is sharp, the casinos are places of fascinating elegance, and even the bad guys are good guys at heart. The heist itself is both impressively simple and fiendishly complicated, and it's possible to credit Ocean's Eleven for sparking a mini Vegas renaissance, as a faintly magical, cocktail-drenched place, where you and your friends could come to gaze into the swirling fountains outside the Bellagio, and dream of pulling off the big one.

The interesting thing about 2008's 21, is that its protagonists would probably argue it wasn't a heist movie at all. They simply got very good at counting cards, under the tutelage of MIT Professor Kevin Spacey, and this gang of statistical whizzkids descended on the blackjack tables of Las Vegas, to prove the old adage incorrect, that the house always wins. Based on a true story, it's a fascinating portrayal of how greed corrupts, and the buzz of winning big in Sin City. We've seen this before, in Rain Man, where Tom Cruise's unscrupulous Charlie takes his autistic genius brother, Raymond, to count cards at the Vegas blackjack tables until the casinos are begging for mercy. In 3000 Miles to Graceland, there's no such subtlety; dressed as Elvis-impersonators, Kevin Costner and Kurt Russell simply burst in, all guns blazing, and hope for the best, which, unsurprisingly, they don't get. You also can't do this in an online casino like those listed at http://www.bellerockentertainment.com, here you will find the best advice as to where to play all your favourite casino games.