Casino – Cheating Two-way Street Part2
June 8th, 2009 | 
Author: Yes, it appeared that some blackjack dealers knew when the catwalks were unmonitored. I was once at the Desert Inn playing open blackjack. The dealer was a whizz—man, was he fast! The cards were skillfully snapped off the top of the decks (it was a hand-held two-deck game.) The cards and his hands went faster and faster. Not a rapid calculator, I had the feeling that the five or six little cards I was dealt totaled more than 21, but he paid me and swiftly swept the cards away. Now I was alerted, and damned if the next string of small cards he put in front of me didn't total 22, and yet I was paid again!
Maybe I did the wrong thing, but for one of only two times in my life I tipped the dealer before leaving the table. I threw the bastard a bone because it goes against my nature to get something for nothing. But it was most uncomfortable for me to be the unwitting "winner," boxed into being an accomplice!
A big-time baccarat scam was perpetrated on the Atlantic City casinos a few years back. A planeload of whales from Hong Kong descended on the town and in a series of lightning moves shot from casino-to-casino, making major killings at the baccarat tables.
It was their version of Hit and Run. Once they had their bounty, they got back on the plane to Hong Kong. Wags joked that it was surprising the plane could get off the ground, it was so loaded down with casino money.
The casinos were stunned. They knew something was wrong, but they couldn't put their finger on it. They went back and played and replayed the videotapes of the Asian contingent in action. The first thing they noticed was that at every casino just one of the Chinese players seemed to be the "lucky" one, and when he got the shoe, all the other players would bet heavily with him.
Finally, after endless rerunning of the videotapes someone noticed something—an unusual hand motion used by the "lucky" player with the shoe. As far as I know that's as far as the casino people got in their investigations, and I haven't heard that they ever got any money back.
In one of John Scarne's classic books on casino gambling, he relates an episode at the baccarat table in the Mafia-run Sevilla Baltimore in pre-Castro Havana. The mobster/owners scoffed at Scarne's claim that a player could cheat the casino in baccarat. Scarne bet $500 that he could do it, and with all the boys watching. Scarne asked for—and got—$10,000 in chips for the purpose of testing his boast.
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