Last Call: A Casino Story

Your father died owing ten thousand dollars, and he opened the credit in your name. The man who holds the paper sells it on at six in the morning. Housekeeping clears out your father's room at six as well. You have five hundred dollars, and the doors are open. LAST CALL is one night in a pixel-art casino. Walk in past the doorman, cash in at the cage, and pick a table. Every hand you win moves the marker. Every hand you lose moves you toward a different night than the one you planned. THE TABLES Blackjack from a shoe that isn't reshuffled between hands, so paying attention pays. A full craps layout with free odds behind every point. Roulette, baccarat, three card poker, pai gow, fixed-limit hold'em against people you've been drinking with, slots, a progressive jackpot, full-pay video poker and keno. The rules are the real rules and the odds are the published odds. There's a loose…