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Casino – Cheating Two-way Street Part3
June 9th, 2009 | 
Author: 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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