Perhaps Best Casino Cheating Scam of All-Time--Asian Casino Cheats Stick Cameras Inside Shuffle Machines and Film Entire Baccarat Shuffle Sequences!

Macau Cheats With Their Equipment 

They Scammed and Cheated Macau casinos out of HK$ 24 million (more than 3 million US), but still got caught, not only because they were too greedy and didn't let enough time go by between cheat assaults on the casinos' baccarat tables, but because they should have realized that casinos' routine maintenance of the tables' automatic card shufflers would have eventually uncovered the scam. In any event, this is one of the best of the latest high-tech casino-cheating scams

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Macau police have smashed a mainland syndicate that allegedly swindled casinos out of more than HK$24 million using camera-embedded card shuffling machines, arresting seven men. Detectives are also investigating whether dealers may be involved, but would not reveal the names of the casinos.

The modified card machines were first discovered in January but it was not until March 28 that the alleged culprits were identified.

The seven, including two alleged masterminds, were nabbed at hotels or at the border crossing when they attempted to return to Macau this month.
Aged between 37 and 46, they are mostly from Yunnan, and one hails from Jilin. They are believed to have placed their modified machines in casinos and analyzed the filmed card shuffling sequence before laying down bets on baccarat tables.

The modified devices appear to be the same as the ones used in casinos, but each was fitted with a micro video camera and infrared transmitter. Mirrors were also installed to reflect images of cards to a video camera.
Police allege the footage was transmitted to a center outside the casino where the ring took one to two hours to compute the maximum possible probability of winning at baccarat.

The gamblers then reserved VIP rooms and placed bets according to the analyzed results.

Suen Kam-fai of the Macau Judiciary Police said syndicate members relied on distractions during the machine switches. The alleged masterminds are named Liu and Yang. Two others are said to have criminal records for cheating at card games in casinos in 2005.

The scam came to light in January when technicians carried out regular maintenance of shuffling machines at a casino. Officers with the gaming-related and economic crimes investigation department later launched an investigation and found other machines in Macau casinos. Police seized HK$1 million from the seven and are still calculating the total amount involved in the swindle.

Bigmouth Negreanu's Latest Claim! He Says He Can Use Hole Card Cameras To Take Advantage of Tournament Adversaries!

Loudmouth!

Man, do I wish this idiot would shut his big mouth. After all his bitching about poker players wearing sunglasses at the table being a form of cheating, now he has to come out and tell the poker world that he can use the hole-card cameras to "take advantage" of other players. Why not call THIS cheating, Negreanu, you jerkoff!

With this year's new World Series of Poker coverage format which broadcasts the play at tables with only half an hour delay, lots of new questions about cheating have arisen, especially when it could involve the media covering the WSOP. (Remember the bloggers and reporters sitting-at-the-table-flashing signals-scam?

I will examine this matter in more detail soon. Below is the pokernewsreport article on Negreanu's latest poker cheating claims.

"American cable television network ESPN’s seven-day trial allowing the online audience of the World Series of Poker (WSOP)’s $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship main event to view entrants’ hole cards on a 30-minute delay was created to prevent cheating.

However, even with this delay and many other precautions – including the hole-card cameras being fed into a secure control room – many of the pros have used this innovation from Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) to their advantage when facing opponents. And rightly so.

Jamie Horowitz, the ESPN co-ordinating producer, pointed out that “the guys in the hole-card room are the only ones who see the live feed, and they are sequestered from the production team, guarded by security, pass a background test and are approved by the Nevada Gaming Commission”.

Yes, ESPN and the WSOP organisers are taking no chances when providing this thrilling improvement to their main event coverage, with Horowitz adding that “cell [mobile] phones and all forms of communication are strictly forbidden from the (hole-card) room”.

Horowitz also stated that “the first time anyone sees the cards (is) when a hand ends (and) we say to [the room], ‘Reveal the hole cards’.”

While previous WSOP events have not been broadcast on television for many weeks after the conclusion of tournaments, this half-an-hour delay has been brought in to provide broadcasters with a much more ‘live’ feel.

But, of course, many of the more experienced pros have utilised this broadcasting development in an attempt to gain even the slightest advantage – particularly when facing an amateur opponent.

Canadian superstar Daniel Negreanu – who has four WSOP gold bracelets – reckons this “new format is a serious competitive disadvantage for the amateur player”, and admitted that he made use of the ‘live’ hole-card cameras to beat an amateur during the initial stages of the main event.

The 36-year-old – who is known as The Poker Kid – confessed that he “had someone texting me with physical tells while I was at the table”, before providing an example of what he was doing when adding that “there was a guy from St Louis – an amateur – and I knew what he was capable of because I had a friend watching for me”.

Negreanu was keen to know what his opponent would do in a particular situation, posing the question: “Does he only bet when he has two aces, or can he be an aggressive bluffer?”

This knowledge, Negreanu believes, means he “can learn that from watching a single hand” to make a move that will win him hands, although this ploy didn’t do him too much good as he finished down in 211th for $47,107!

Broadcasters ESPN, however, are not overly concerned by this use of their technology, with Horowitz dismissing Negreanu’s claim when saying that, while “information is valuable…you need so much information to act on it, the idea that you can take one hand and learn something is absurd”.

Quite rightly, Horowitz pointed out that, “if I bluff and you see it 30 minutes later, I know that you know and you know that I know – so who has the advantage?” Indeed.

He was also at pains to stress that “we’ve made changes to the format in the past, and purists have complained that it threatened the integrity of the game, but – you know what – it didn’t”.

Horowitz concluded by suggesting that, no matter what advantage players believe they gain by seeing an opponent’s hole cards some time later, “the good players win – it’s that simple”.

We’re not so sure, but he certainly has a point. What do you think? Do pros gain an unfair advantage over amateurs? Or is everything fair when sitting down at a table to play some poker?"

UK Casino Cheat With A Conscience....Gives Casino Back Chips He Won Roulette Pastposting!

Repentant Casino Cheat

Source: Birmingham Mail

A CROOK with a conscience chose not to cash in his winning chips after fraudulently scooping £425 on a roulette wheel.

Birmingham Magistrates’ Court heard that unemployed casino cheat Adam Williams was an opportunist who placed his bet after the table had closed and when the croupier wrongly turned his back.

Not realising what had happened, the roulette spinner thought Williams was a genuine winner and handed him his prize.

The crime took place at Broadway Casino, in Broadway Plaza, Ladywood Middleway, on April 28.

Williams did not cash in his chips that night and, the court heard, regretted his actions the following morning.
His brother later returned the chips to the casino on his behalf, sparking an investigation. CCTV footage of the incident was studied, which led to the croupier being sacked for turning his back on the wheel and Williams being arrested.

At an earlier hearing, 27-year-old Williams, of Horseshoe Crescent, Great Barr, admitted a charge of fraud by false representation. Handing him a fine of £100 with £15 victim surcharge and £100 costs, District Judge Robert Zara gave Williams credit for not seeing through his crime.

“I accept that this was an opportunist fraud which you later repented of,” he told him. “It did have consequences for somebody else but that’s not a matter for this court. You do have a criminal record but nothing for dishonesty since 2003. I take the view that this is serious enough to deal with by way of a financial penalty, though I give you credit for your plea.”

The prosecution was the second case of roulette fraud in Birmingham this year. In May, a croupier and a customer were found guilty of cheating Maxims Casino in Norfolk Road, Edgbaston, out of thousands of pounds. CCTV footage showed Lindon Latham, 30, and his accomplice Damian Lumbley, 25, rigged the wheel to win £4,600.

Loudmouth Negreanu Accuses Michael Binger of Cheating at World Series of Poker Tournament

Negreanu's Victim Binger

Embattled hotshot poker pros Daniel Negreanu and Michael Binger got into a big-time fracus at the WSOP $10K H.O.R.S.E. Event on Wednesday. Negreanu directly accused Binger of being an "angle shot" cheat specialist in front of everyone at the table as well as the spectators. Evidently Negreanu, in spite of his big mouth, might have some just say there, inasmuch as tournament director Robbie Thompson did give Binger a warning.

Binger's reaction, which he verbalized, was that Negreanu should shut his goddmaned mouth! Binger also expressed concern that his tournament WSOP life was in jeopardy. Negreanu, a four-time WSOP bracelet winner, did not back down and kept accusing Binger of angle-shooting with half-bets to get a gauge on his opponents' strategies.

My take: As much as I hate Negreanu, especially with his bullshit antics about banning sunglasses at poker tables, he may have a valid point here.

Tran Organization-Type Dealer-Cheat Mini-Baccarat Scam Hits Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun Casinos in Connecticut...But This Time It`s Not the False-Shuffle---It´s Marking the Baccarat Cards!

When will the inside casino dealer cheat scams involving baccarat stop? Probably never! As I have mentioned various times in the past, Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut has again show its propensity to being the world's number-one casino-cheat victim. And its neighbor casino the Mohegan Sun is not far behind. The article below details the latest in this major inside casino dealer/Asian recruiter casino cheat scam.

Two New York City men accused of cheating a Connecticut casino out of more than $150,000 in a scam involving crooked dealers and marked cards pleaded not guilty on Tuesday.

Leonard Hu and Hung Leung, both of Queens, denied felony casino cheating and larceny charges in New London Superior Court. They remain free after posting bail.

State police said two dealers, Jian Ng and Bong Louie, both of Norwich, marked the 7, 8 and 9 cards at mini-baccarat tables at the Mohegan Sun casino in southeastern Connecticut by bending them with their thumbs and helped Hu and Leung win tens of thousands of dollars.

Mini-baccarat generally is played with the same rules as regular baccarat but with lower betting limits. It involves betting on whether players' hands of cards will beat the dealer's hand.

On Feb. 11 and in the early morning hours of Feb. 12, after Louie had marked the cards and left the table when his shift ended, Hu pocketed $101,600 and Leung walked away with $52,000, a state police arrest warrant affidavit says.

The two dealers also were charged with casino cheating and larceny and were released on bail. Their lawyers didn't return phone messages Tuesday.

State police said Ng admitted marking the cards eight times since last fall but told troopers he didn't know if any other dealers were doing the same thing.

A Mohegan Sun spokeswoman declined to comment Tuesday.

The affidavit said Hu and Ng met at the nearby Foxwoods Resort Casino last fall and Hu asked Ng to mark the mini-baccarat cards in return for $1,000 a night.

A week after winning the $153,600, Hu and Leung returned to the Mohegan Sun and won more than $30,000 at a mini-baccarat table where Ng had marked the cards, state police said. Hu took in more than $25,000, and Leung won $6,100.

Casino patron win-loss records obtained from the Mohegan Sun by state police showed that Hu won nearly $235,000 at mini-baccarat from October to December of last year after state police said he met with Ng. He won another $119,000 last January, troopers said. From January to September 2010, Hu had $129,000 in losses and $37,750 in wins at the casino.

Leung lost $100 at Mohegan Sun in July 2010 but went on to win $9,870 in November, $51,400 in December and $34,600 in January, state police said.

No one answered phone listings for Hu and Leung on Tuesday. Their cases were continued to August 2.

Full Tilt Poker Looking to Kahnawake Gaming Commission For Online Poker License in Wake of Cheat Scandal

Source: Casino City Times

One day after its license to operate an online poker room was suspended by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission, rumors are swirling that Full Tilt Poker may be looking to obtain a license from the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) to resume games.

While the IP address for www.fulltiltpoker.com is still located in Ireland, a trace route for the IP address shows that traffic is routed through the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory. The final destination was masked, as the trace route did not terminate, but was unable to display the next destination.

Given the nature of Internet traffic, it is highly unlikely that traffic would be routed through the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory unintentionally.

No one from the KGC was immediately available for comment.

Full Tilt was at one time licensed by the KGC. But in 2007, when the U.K. released new rules requiring online casinos, sportsbooks and poker rooms to be licensed by white-listed jurisdictions in order to run advertisements, the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory wasn't one of the white-listed jurisdictions. Full Tilt applied for and received a license from Alderney, which is located just off the northern coast of France, thus allowing the company to continue to market itself to a U.K. audience.

Like Full Tilt, the KGC has seen its share of controversy. Both UB.com and Absolute Poker are licensed by the KGC, and cheating scandals in those poker rooms — combined with the lack of a timely response by the KGC — stained the reputation of the licensing authority.

Full Tilt has had problems meeting its financial obligations since many of its assets were seized and its owner, Ray Bitar, was indicted by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York on money laundering and bank fraud charges on April 15.

According to the KGC's regulations, corporations applying for an online gaming license must have "a good business reputation, sound current financial position and financial background."

American players still have no idea when they might be paid the balance of their accounts, and players outside the U.S. have also reported problems receiving withdrawals.

Even if Full Tilt is able to find a new jurisdiction willing to grant them a license, it may be difficult for the company to find a payment processor. Moneybookers announced yesterday that they would no longer allow players to deposit money on the site, as Full Tilt had been blocking player withdrawals to the payment processor.

UPDATE (4:50 p.m. ET): The KGC has issued a press release stating that Full Tilt has held a "Secondary Client Provider Authorization" with the KGC since July 2010.

"The KGC issues a Secondary CPA only in cases where an operator holds a valid license issued by a primary jurisdiction and has its head office and focus of operations in that primary jurisdiction," the release reads.

It goes on to say that as a result of the AGCC's actions, it is reviewing "all available information" to determine whether that relationship should continue, and that an announcement with regarding that decision will be made shortly.

My take: Well, what else could Full Tilt Poker have been expected to do? Let the online poker cheating go on!

Is It True That Cheating Has Decreased At The World Series of Poker?

In fact, it is. Why? The main reason is the sheer size of the event. Since professional poker tournament cheating syndicates thrive on collusion cheating at the poker tournaments, they have been taking their poker cheat operations elsewhere, mainly to smaller tournaments on the World Poker Tour and other professional poker tournament circuits.

Actually, cheating at the World Series of Poker has been declining for several years now, ever since the entry fields exploded to several thousand players for the main event as well as other events. Huge fields like those make it more difficult for the collusion cheating syndicates to get one or more of their members to the final table or even down to the last few tables. If they do not get a player or two down very deep in the tournaments, they will not make a profit, and professional poker cheats are not in it to lose money.

Of course other forms of cheating have thriven at the World Series of Poker, mainly chip dumping, chip pass-offs, chip hold-outs, even counterfeit-chip play. All these forms of tournament chip-cheating are implemented to get the poker cheats more chips in their tournament arsenal. But do to some highly publicized WSOP chip-cheating scandals the past few years, these forms of cheating have decreased as well.

Has poker-cheating been on the decrease overall?

NO WAY, JOSE!!!

Dodge City, Kansas Casino Poker Dealers Accused of a New Form of Cheating--Running Illegal Poker Games on the Side!

Leslie Enriquez...Moonlighting?

The Daily Globe interviewed five people Wednesday about their reactions to news that the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission is investigating employees of Boot Hill Casino and Resort. The commission is looking into allegations that the employees were involved in illegal off-site poker games.

About two dozen employees could face suspension or loss of their state licenses, the Associated Press reported last week.

The Racing and Gaming Commission provided few details of the allegations, but spokesman Bill Miskell said most worked at the casino's table games, according to the AP. The employees under investigation will be notified that their licenses, which they need to work at the casino, are under review.

Here are the responses from the Globe interviews:

Q: What was your reaction to the news that the Racing and Gaming Commission is investigating employees of Boot Hill Casino and Resort?

Leslie Enriquez: "They shouldn't be investigated. Why? Everybody does it anyway. Everybody gambles."

Maria Gonzalez: "I think it's good because that way, employees know to be careful when they have people playing there, not cheating."

Frank Alcala: "I think if the people knew it was illegal, it was not a very smart idea to do it."

Pat Heeke: "My initial reaction was, 'How sad. We were the first state-owned destination casino, and now we have a black mark.'"

Patrick Whisennand: "Until the investigation continues and more details are brought out, I can't criticize nor be upset of what is going on."

My Take: Go for it, Leslie! Heck, it's better than cheating your own casino with an inside poker cheat scam.

Why Pastposting and Bet-Capping Will Always Be Number-1 Choice of Casino Cheats

There are hundreds (I will not exaggerate and say "thousands") of ways to cheat gambling casinos. Some are sophisticated such as laser card-marking and the use of digital cameras to spy what are supposed to be unseen cards. Others are simple if not hard to pull off such as mucking cards or switching dice on craps tables. Still others are real easy, mainly pastposting and bet-capping, although the more professional casino cheats applying these methods have to develop considerable skills to make their cheat moves.

But why are bet-capping (simply adding chips to an already winning or very probable winning bet) and pastposting (making an entire bet after a winning outcome is known) the most popular? And why will they always be the most popular methods of cheating gambling casinos? Because in casino cheating theory they are often the first thing all levels of casino cheats think of. What could be more conceptually simple than adding chips to a winning bet and betting when you already have a winner. Add to this that there usually is no equipment involved and that it is usually quite easy to physically do and you have the perfect formula to Casino Cheating 101 through Casino Cheating 1001. As sophisticated as my professional casino-cheat teams were, they were always based on pastposting, bet capping or other types of chip manipulations. Why get involved in laser and digital equipment if you can cheat the casinos for big money using only your brains and your hands (not to mention your balls!) And, of course, by cheating the casino via pastposting or bet-capping you are avoiding the bigger legal problems incurred when getting caught with cheating equipment.

So if you gotta cheat, keep it simple, straight and stupid and whatever else KISS can stand for!

Hall of Fame Craps Cheat Brent Eli Morris Sentenced to 8 to 20 Years in Vegas!

Cheat Hall of Famer Morris

Yep, upon his latest casino cheating conviction, Morris got another stiff sentence. He has already spent a significant time in prison for other casino cheating violations. This guy really has it in his blood!

Article:

Already blacklisted from casinos, Brent Eli Morris was sentenced to eight to 20 years in prison on Monday for cheating at craps.

Morris was arrested Sept. 22 after he was spotted playing craps at Caesars Palace.

A District Court jury convicted the 54-year-old in March of two counts of felony commission of a fraudulent act in a gaming establishment or cheating.

In a separate trial immediately before the sentencing, Judge Jerry Tao found Morris guilty of four gross misdemeanors for entry into a gaming establishment by an excluded person. Tao also ruled Morris was a habitual criminal, a sentencing enhancement under the law that allows for a lengthier prison term.

Prosecutor Rob Stephens said Morris' method of cheating is known as "past post betting," meaning that after the dice had rolled, he slipped chips into winning areas on the table.

Morris was placed in the infamous Black Book, also known as the List of Excluded Persons, by the Nevada Gaming Commission in February 1994 after he served several years in the Southern Nevada Correctional Center at Indian Springs for cheating at a Lake Tahoe casino in 1989.

In September, Caesars Palace surveillance personnel alerted the Gaming Control Board's enforcement division that a person who looked like Morris was seen playing craps inside the casino.

Morris had reportedly been seen playing craps on Sept. 17 at the Excalibur.

When Morris was detained by gaming agents, he had numerous $500 gaming chips from The Orleans. Gaming agents said Morris also had been gambling at The Orleans.

Morris, who is also on New Jersey's list of excluded persons, has a history of assault and battery, theft, fraud, and cheating arrests and convictions dating to 1975.

The defense attorney for Morris did not immediately return a call requesting comment.