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Casino – Cheating Two-way Street Part4
June 9th, 2009 | 
Author: Sometimes you can’t tell the good guys from the bad guys in Nevada. The July 20, 1998 issue of the New York Post reported that former Gambling Control Board Agent Ron Harris was arrested for rigging slot machines. He was sentenced to seven years in state prison.During one trip to Atlantic City, I paused at a roped-off bank of 5$ machines. A typical cleaning-lady type-I don’t know anv,’filler way to describe her-was pumping two $5 tokens, in tandem, into each of two $5 machines simultaneously, and at breakneck speed! I calculated the fast money she was pumping into the two machines was definitely enough to classify her as a Slot Machine High Roller. A player betting a black chip or two at a blackjack table in the baccarat pit couldn’t match the rapid-fire four-coin totals she was feeding the two machines in an identical time span.
The reckless abandonment with which she was feeding her huge pile of $5 tokens into the machines led me to believe that she must be some sort of minor civil service functionary, probably from New York City, who had stumbled onto a crack in the proverbial floorboards where she could siphon off governmental money without getting caught. This was all speculation, of course, but I couldn’t help speculating.
ou know what I’m talking about. Every now and then you read about the civil servant who managed to funnel some city or state funds through loose controls. Like the parking metermaid who discovered a complete set of keys for all the parking meters in Manhattan. She systematically emptied as many of the meters as she could during her off-hours. When the authorities finally caught her, they found 29,000 quarters in a row of cans lined up in the back of her minivan. She was all ready for-you guessed it-her regular weekly run to Atlantic City, where she turned the quarters into folding money at casino coin cashiers’ booths.
Don’t let anyone tell you that the Megabucks slots are rigged and “timed” so that the jackpots are electronically spaced out and can be hit only at certain intervals. That lie was put to rest on Sunday, October 23, 1994 at Caesars in Atlantic City. At 2:30 in the afternoon a couple hit the Quartermania for $1.5 million. Six hours later a guy walked over to the same bank of slot machines and hit the Quartermania again-this time for $407,505.
I’ve shown how rogue dealers can cheat players and how players (usually in cahoots with dishonest dealers) can cheat casinos. But wait-there’s more (or less). Casino cashiers can give you a “fast count.” Be on the alert when cashing in your chips, and don’t get shorted.
Finally, casinos-in the person of pit bosses and casino executives-can steal money directly from their patrons. This isn’t hearsay or suspicion. I know. I was cheated. My chips were stolen from me right before my eyes. I’ll not bandy words. Two casino executives screwed me for the benefit of the goddam casino, and they did it brazenly, right in front me, apparently with no fear of being nailed by the Eye in the Sky videotaping mandated by the Casino Control Commission. The following section is devoted to this episode, which I hope will serve as a warning to you.
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Casino – Cheating Two-way Street Part3
The game commenced. The dealer dealt a few $100 hands before Scarne announced a $10,000 bet on the next hand (which was not unusual in 1958 Havana). Scarne reached for the two cards, held them face down for a few beats, then neatly turned them over, showing a 9 and a picture card—a natural 9.
The dealer paid off the bet and dropped the cards into the discard slot with his shovel. Before the next hand could be dealt, Scarne stopped the game. He asked the dealer to retrieve the discards from the previous hand. The cards were fished out of the pail, and to the casino owners' astonishment and dismay they discovered that in between the standard Bicycle-backed casino cards were two different-backed cards that Scarne had switched into the game!
In his definitive book On Baccarat, Lyle Stuart relates how a baccarat shoe was stacked right in front of his eyes. After much shuffling and cutting, the dealer orchestrated a run of baccarat hands for Stuart, telling him in advance exactly what the hand would be! Even when being dealt baccarat, be alert at all times.
With the computer age, cheating has become sophisticated and high-tech. This was brought to public attention in October of 1998, when the New York Daily News reported that Jorge Torres of Las Vegas was arrested at Bally's Park Place Casino in Atlantic City after playing at a Caribbean Stud Poker table. New to American casinos, Caribbean Stud isn't a new card game at all,- it was introduced long ago on cruise ships that visited the islands. Although it's called poker, it is played only against the dealer, not against other players. It features a progressive jackpot that can reach $300,000 or more.
As the official complaint charged, Torres was arrested "for using cheating techniques." Exactly how he was allegedly beating the house the police refused to say, "because the investigation is ongoing," but the cops confiscated a micro-mini camera that Torres had tucked into his jacket sleeve.
Inside his pickup truck in the casino parking lot were a satellite dish, transmitting equipment, and monitors. Police sources speculated that the suspect was actually just testing the equipment for later use by his Las Vegas gang that had already hit a number of Nevada casinos.
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Lyle Stuart said it best in one of his invaluable books on gambling: To entice a "whale" into a casino, the casino would supply him with baked human being if that was what he wanted. Of course, Lyle was being facetious, but his point was well taken. Not just for whales though—the casinos will go to all lengths to rope in players.
To entice Asian High Rollers, one Strip casino imported an entire Chinese opera company to perform in their show room— just to lure this small segment of players into their casino.
Casinos will go to great lengths to corral a gambler and his or her bankroll. They sponsor the endless line of subsidized buses (mostly filled with slot-machine-addicted women), and chartering jets all the way from Hong Kong and Tokyo to bring in whales.
With new casinos opening in so many states, the casinos in Puerto Rico are hurting.
A friend recently showed me his invitation to a Puerto Rican junket. The invitation offered not just a comped round-trip airfare, but also included a non-transferable $500 chip as a bonus. When every casino would take each other's chips, a downtown casino can1$fjp with an impressive-looking new 25$ chip. It was a bright green; and in fact looked so impressive that some Strip casinos unwit-tinglyl\paid them off, when played, as "quarters" ($25 chips). The word got around quickly when a dealer at a craps table took a real good look at one of them.
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