Traditionally the high-roller games in a casino were baccarat and roulette. The whole high-roller Monaco scene has been about roulette for a couple of hundred years now, because it was originally the Aristocracy that played it. The richest of Europeans vacationed in the south of France, and roulette was how they passed the long hot nights.

Baccarat has been a high-roller game going back to when it was called “Chemin de Fer” in the 1500’s. The game gives near-even odds, which attracts the biggest of gamers to try their luck. There is one famous story about a player named Akio Kashiwagi winning $6M at Trump Plaza in Atlantic City in 1990 by making $200,000 bets per hand.

Today high rollers play all sorts of games. Blackjack is a favorite these days, and the popularity of poker has drawn the attention of any gambler with a big bankroll to throw around.