Is Austalia's Giant Crown Casino Cheating to get back at the Cheats?

Is the Crown cheatng its players?

A few years back, the Crown Casino in Melbourne was the victim of a giant insider-casino-scam to the tune of some $40 million. Several employees including surveillance inspectors rigged camera locations to film playing cards to be used at baccarat tables.

The scam hurt the Crown and was also a huge embarrassment.

Well, now the Crown casino itself has been accused of turning the tables on the cheats, that is the poker-machine tables. Whistleblowers in the country's federal parliament claim that Crown executives ordered the tampering of poker machines to increase the amount of money the players lot.

Of course casino authorities deny these very serious allegations, but if they are proven to be true, he harm to the Crown casino Melbourne and all its other worldwide casino properties could be devastating.

Very Interesting article on Cyber Cheating Slot Machines

Can he stop the high-tech casino cheats?

Remember the mysterious Russian math whiz and cyber-gang casino-cheat leader known as Alex who figured out how slot machines manufactured by Australian gaming company Aristocrat Leisure generate the pseudo-random numbers that determine when the machines odds shift in favor of the player?

Well, if you don't, Alex sent an army of cyber casino-cheats to invade casino slot machines worldwide armed with this knowledge--and they won/cheated tens of millions from major casinos on several continents.

Well, now Blaine Graboyes, a gambling-machine guru and current CEO GameCo, Inc., a manufacturer of video-game gambling machines, says he has the answer to combat this type of cyber casino-thievery.

Read all about it in this very interesting article.

Could the recent Las Vegas Massacre have had anything to do with Casino Gambling or Cheating?

Normally I do not stray off course when writing articles for this blog, mainly sticking to topics that are directly related to casino cheating or casino advantage play. But sometimes I do, and this will be one of those times.

We are all interested in what could have propelled Stephen Paddock to commit such a horrific crime and take the lives of so many people and injure hundreds more. We have not heard of any connections to white supremacist groups or international terrorist organizations, or anything else that could have driven him to take revenge against someone or something.

However, we have heard that some big-time gambling and big-time gambling losses have played a significant part in Paddock's confusing past. In fact, it has been reported in the media that Paddock has claimed that he'd lost in excess of a million dollars gambling in casinos in a single year.

It has also been established that Paddock unsuccessfully sued the Cosmopolitan casino for $100,000 in damages after he fell and injured himself in a casino. The casino was able to prove that scores of other people did not fall where Paddock had. Perhaps Paddock hatched this scheme to get back some of the money he lost gambling?

So could any of this have played a part in his motive?

Well, I have heard about gamblers losing lots of money, in some cases everything: meaning their homes, savings and family. Some of these people do flip out and do crazy things. Some of them blame the casinos, falsely accusing them of luring them to gamble away their life savings at their tables--as if they had a gun to his head.

And some of them take a twisted form of revenge, going as far as to say the casinos cheated them out of their money, which is altogether ridiculous

And perhaps Paddock had another gripe to pick with casinos for not being found legally responsible for  his fall.

I sure hope this has nothing to do with Paddock's motive; I'm sure the Las Vegas casinos hope so as well, as this type of revelation would be severely damaging to their public relations.

And even though I doubt at the end that this is somehow behind Paddock's motive, unfortunately it is entirely possible--given the fact that no clear motive has been established or released by any investigative authority.

Cambodian Casinos quickly becoming Casino Cheat Action-Spot for Crooked Dealers

Cambodian/Chinese Dealer Cheat Gang

Don't get me wrong! Singapore's casinos with the Marina Bay Sands at the helm still remains the Asian hot-spot for Dealer-Insider Cheat-Scams, but the relatively small casino industry in Cambodia is quickly catching up.

Over the past few years I have posted several times about Cambodian casino dealers, both Cambodian nationals and Chinese, teaming up with agents to rip off their casinos.

The most recent Cambodian dealer-cheat scam occurred at the Vimean Khsarch Sar casino in Preah Sihanouk Province and resulted in a $20,000 loss to the casino, which seems to me quite a substantial sum coming out of a Cambodian casino.

Yao Fengyu, the 42-year-old Chinese manager of the casino's online games, along with 23-year-old Phan Bros and 19-year-old Neak Vichheka, both Cambodian card dealers, were all charged with fraud for cheating the casino. Apparently Fengyu operated a cheat scam with the casino's online games while the two Cambodian card dealers worked a scam on the brick and mortar gaming tables.

No other details of the scams were released.

My take: Well, Vimean Khsarch Sar is about the weirdest and most difficult casino name I've had to pronounce in 14 years of blog-writing...and the accused's names don't make things much easier.

Bizarre Tail of Casino-Cheating-Robbery aboard Cruise Ship while docked in Greece.

Cruise Casino-Cheat Lawyer? 

The online news account posted by a maritime lawyer reports that two Bulgarian men aboard an unnamed cruise ship won over a million dollars in the ship's casino and were later robbed of much of that money by two cruise ship officers, who then said that the Bulgarians cheated to gain the money and they were simply recovering the ill-gotten gains for the cruise line, which is not identified either.

Sounds like a bad movie, right?

Local Greek police supposedly arrested the two cruise ship officers, who claimed they committed no crime.

My first question is: Did this really happen?

My second is: Why is this being reported by Jim Walker, a partner in the maritime law firm Walker and O'neill based in Miami? Perhaps it is just a ploy to gain some business.

But what I am really wondering is whether or not this happened?

If it really did, it is a major story...and I would sure love to know how two guys cheated a cruise ship casino out of more than a million bucks! Cruise ships are not generally known for even legitimate action that could result in such winnings, besides maybe slot jackpots.

So if anyone out there can enlighten me about this story, please do!

New Novel Lauches Casino-Cheat Main Plot!

New Casino-Cheat Novel

I have always thought that casino-cheating would be a good backdrop if not a main plot for literary thrillers, and now one has finally hit the bookstores.

It is called "His Just Desserts" and the author is John Raymond Williams, whom I imagine has an intricate knowledge of both casino-cheating and casino surveillance.

I wonder if he has ever participated in cheating casinos himself? Ummm....

In any case, go here to read the plot. For me it is a must-read!

Want to Convert Forgery Proceeds into Cash via Casino Chips?....

Found way for Marina Bay Sands to help

Just go to Marina Bay Sands Casino in Singapore.

As just about any casino and non-casino fraud in Singapore somehow ends up at Singapore's Marina Bay Sands casino in Singapore, why not use it to convert your illicit fraudulent gains into cash via that casino's gaming chips?

Apparently it has already been done.

Mr.Reichie Chng Teck Kian, a 51 year-old former grassroots volunteer from his congressional constituency in Singapore and now a cabdriver, allegedly pulled off a fraudulent investment scheme against twelve people by using WhatsApp and screenshots to create a false electronic history of his dealings with well-to-do business people throughout Asia. He then convinced his victims to invest with him in various business and property schemes.

The total amount of his fraud was in excess of a million dollars.

So when he had the problem of washing the proceeds, he turned to the criminal haven known as the Marina Bay Sands casino. I don't know why but he turned his criminal proceeds into casino chips and then probably back into cash.

According to court documents, Kian has made more than $50,000 in restitution, but still faces up to 10 years in prison.

My take: Well, if you can't figure out a way to casino-cheat the Marina Bay Sands, it is always there to help you launder your money from whatever criminal enterprise.

Can we believe any of these "Advantage Play Experts" out there?

The short answer is yes...but that answer is very short, because as far as I'm concerned, there is only one real Advantage Play expert out there, and his name is Eliot Jacobson.

The real AP expert!

This self-professed ex-mediocre advantage player is quite more than mediocre when it comes to analyzing advantage play methods and techniques, both for prospective players and casinos looking for advice on how to make their gaming tables less vulnerable to advantage play. Jacobson has for many years thoroughly examined everything advantage play from simple card-counting to Phil Ivey's monster edge-sorting baccarat scam.

He has written it all in a superb book called "Advanced Advantage Play."

Although I have some differences of opinion with him, one of such being Jacobson's assertion that Phil Ivey's edge-sorting tactics amount to advantage play and not cheating (for me edge-sorting is as much cheating as any other cheat move if the dealers' procedural methods are altered in any way by the player to gain an edge), I have the utmost respect for Eliot Jacobson for his truly in-depth and accurate analysis of anything advantage-play related that comes across his desk--even if his videos are interrupted by an occasional invited guest--mainly his dog!

Woman Casino Cheat gets a year in jail for colluding with Blackjack Dealer in Chip-dumping scheme

More Casino Cheating

It happened at the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, a hotbed of all forms of casino cheating, some with the help of crooked dealers, others by casino cheats acting by themselves. This one included a crooked dealer, who simply dumped excess chips on his female cohort's winning hands.

They worked the blackjack scam on several occasions--and made a hefty $78,000 profit from the casino. It is not surprising that such a low-level and amateurish scam could make so much money at the Mohegan Sun. Scams like this have been successfully pulled off there time and again.

Thirty-eight year-old Marlene Rivera, who suffered from substance abuse, allegedly convinced her dealer friend Roy Mariano to perpetrate the blackjack cheating episodes. Mariano told investigators that he agreed to participate because he was upset that his working hours at the casino had been reduced. However, he has pleaded not guilty to the crime and is awaiting trial.

Rivera, on the other hand, pleaded guilty to first degree larceny and could have been sentenced to three years in prison. She told the court that she has been undergoing counseling to help with her substance abuse problems.

My take: It amazes me that it doesn't amaze me how these ridiculous scams net so much money before being caught.

Trio of Dice-Sliders Cheat Louisiana Casino for $56,000. One arrested, Two on the lam.

One die doesn't tumble or hit the back wall

Dice-Sliding Casino Cheat Scams are getting more and more popular these days, and I have trouble understanding why casinos are having so much trouble stopping them.

A trio of Filipinos, Allan Arana, Lim R. Tan and Jaime Iglesias, hit the Baton Rouge casino on August 9th. Thirty-five year old Arana was the dice-slider while his two partners were the big betters. After hitting the Louisiana casino, Arana was arrested in a Natchez, Mississippi casino after being caught dice-sliding again. He was shortly released by Mississippi gaming authorities and then headed directly to the New Orleans airport, probably to get the first plane back to the Philippines.

It is not clear if Tan and Iglesias were with Arana at the Mississippi casino. Arrest warrants have been
issued for both.

Dice-Sliding is simply sliding the dice instead of rolling them. In that fashion they don't tumble so the shooter sets up one or both dice in order to attain the winning numbers on various bets. Usually one or more craps players create lively conversation with the dealers and other diversions to get their attention away from the dice-slider, who then slides at least one of the dice instead of rolling it.  A good slider can imitate a legitimate tumble of the dice but the one thing he cannot do is "imitate" both dice from hitting the back wall and tumbling, which all but nullifies the set-up position of one or two dice.

And that's all casinos have to do to stamp out dice-sliding. Just make sure the dice tumble and hit the back wall!