Anyone who knows anything about Casinos know that they accuse anyone who wins big on more than one occassion of cheating. If the Casino had any proof of him cheating they’d have to actually state it now in their statement of defense. If they aregoing to claim he acted illegally,why don’t they go to the cops or the prosecutor (again no proof its a bald allegations and a known lie, the cops will laugh at them and charge them for filling a false report).
People who actually cheat the casino don’t get to leave, they get held by security until the cops come. They get arrested and charged, plain and simple. Unless of course there is no proof of cheating and you just don’t want to pay out because 11.5 million is a significant profit. But more importantly its a deterent. This guy won’t come back and play for 10 days straight and wipe out the casino for 100 million.
I don’t believe what is described by the casino was criminal. However, casinos have house rules that include invalidating payouts if you trick the staff into performing acts that they are not supposed to perform. The easiest way to invalidate a win is to trick a dealer into improving your odds of winning.
A notable tactic has been to tip dealers after a win and to ask the dealer to rub the gratuity on the winning cards for superstitious purposes. The dealer will unwittingly alter the backs of some cards when doing this (even if you have not altered the casino chips.) Casinos now have strict rules about how cards are handled; and if you rub the cards yourself, you may be committing fraud.
There are other tricks as well, like asking the dealer to rake cards in a non-standard way. In blackjack, it is extremely important to rake the cards as trained, because this improves house odds materially. Most people do not know that the manner of raking cards after a game is extremely important — including dealers. It is very important when playing blackjack that enough players behave as expected. The manner in which cards are raked and shuffled (or randomly picked from an auto-shoe) is tested in computer simulations to ensure the house will win. If the dealer rakes the cards wrong or burns cards too frequently, the ordering of the cards as they are returned to the hopper is unexpected and the odds may tilt in your favor.
Anyway, the “stooge” normally tries to play for even money while getting the dealer to unwittingly do something that would be illegal if you did it. Another player does the winning so there is plausible deniability. For a game like baccarat where the house has a very small advantage, anything that lets you identify a card can make you plenty of money.
Anyone who knows anything about Casinos know that they accuse anyone who wins big on more than one occassion of cheating. If the Casino had any proof of him cheating they’d have to actually state it now in their statement of defense. If they aregoing to claim he acted illegally,why don’t they go to the cops or the prosecutor (again no proof its a bald allegations and a known lie, the cops will laugh at them and charge them for filling a false report).
People who actually cheat the casino don’t get to leave, they get held by security until the cops come. They get arrested and charged, plain and simple. Unless of course there is no proof of cheating and you just don’t want to pay out because 11.5 million is a significant profit. But more importantly its a deterent. This guy won’t come back and play for 10 days straight and wipe out the casino for 100 million.
I don’t believe what is described by the casino was criminal. However, casinos have house rules that include invalidating payouts if you trick the staff into performing acts that they are not supposed to perform. The easiest way to invalidate a win is to trick a dealer into improving your odds of winning.
A notable tactic has been to tip dealers after a win and to ask the dealer to rub the gratuity on the winning cards for superstitious purposes. The dealer will unwittingly alter the backs of some cards when doing this (even if you have not altered the casino chips.) Casinos now have strict rules about how cards are handled; and if you rub the cards yourself, you may be committing fraud.
There are other tricks as well, like asking the dealer to rake cards in a non-standard way. In blackjack, it is extremely important to rake the cards as trained, because this improves house odds materially. Most people do not know that the manner of raking cards after a game is extremely important — including dealers. It is very important when playing blackjack that enough players behave as expected. The manner in which cards are raked and shuffled (or randomly picked from an auto-shoe) is tested in computer simulations to ensure the house will win. If the dealer rakes the cards wrong or burns cards too frequently, the ordering of the cards as they are returned to the hopper is unexpected and the odds may tilt in your favor.
Anyway, the “stooge” normally tries to play for even money while getting the dealer to unwittingly do something that would be illegal if you did it. Another player does the winning so there is plausible deniability. For a game like baccarat where the house has a very small advantage, anything that lets you identify a card can make you plenty of money.