The Insiders of Gaming Crimes | Cheating Vegas | Episode 1 | FD Real Show

las vegas nevada the landmark of modern gambling more than 30 million people flock here every year hoping to hit the jackpot they'll bet 115 billion dollars to do it and odds are they will go home with less than they came with some people don't like those odds so they cheat cheating probably nets somewhere in the millions if not tens of millions of dollars and some of the most difficult cheaters to catch are the ones who know how to work the system best from casino employees to people throwing the games and those trying to stop them it's an insider's war on the casino floor it does really boil down to good guys versus bad guys if you're coming in to cheat and to get what's not yours you're breaking the law and you're on the other side in exclusive surveillance video cheaters are exposed doing what they do and security responds in force it's vegas from the inside some of the most common sheets caught on tape are fairly simple past posting is making a bet after you know the winning number operating as a team the man at the right of the screen is working with the man at the top of the screen in an effort to distract the dealer who is not in on the scam the man on the right places a late bet that is rejected with the dealer's focus elsewhere the cheater at the top of the screen adds more chips onto the winning number for a payout of 35 to 1. other cheats are fairly complex here a woman strategically uses her purse as an attempt to block security cameras then her partner in crime comes in to block with his body the man seated is using a specially designed tool that's inserted into the mouth of the video poker machine he's attempting to trick the payout sensor into triggering a jackpot no matter what they know or don't know about security cheaters always think they're smarter rest assured the casinos are watching 24 7 and if anything defines security it's the eye in the sky i do believe there are more cameras in las vegas in washington dc so here in las vegas big brother is watching [Music] it's estimated that there are tens of thousands of surveillance cameras blanketing nearly every inch of every casino and when something goes down they will have it on tape it's eyes where we can't be so it's a force multiplier if you will for the security and the surveillance staff [Music] since their earliest days casinos have tracked the action on the floor for decades surveillance was little more than beefy men walking the floor looking for obvious cheats but when cheaters upped their game so did casinos catwalks were the big breakthrough suddenly surveillance could invisibly monitor the games from above with the help of two-way mirrors in downtown vegas the hotel nevada opened its doors in 1907 renamed the golden gate casino in 1955 it still has the remnants of their catwalk the original eye in the sky operators got into the catwalk through a secret entrance on the roof so there you see it that's the cart that they would lay down face first on and then they push themselves up and down the track exactly like being in a mine because this would be close so that nobody knew he was in there while older hotels are renovated to keep up with cheaters the new casinos are designed with security in mind the aria resort and casino was constructed from the ground up to be cheat proof security chief ted whiting spent more than three years helping to design arya's state-of-the-art surveillance system anyone who's thinking of cheating in vegas should think twice because we're getting better at this especially specifically at aria we're getting really good at it with unprecedented access we take an insider's view of one of the most sophisticated and restricted security setups ever built arya is one of the most technologically advanced casinos we've got over 1100 cameras on our casino floor in the deepest recesses of the hotel's basement is the surveillance nerve center from here they can oversee more than 150 000 square feet of casino floor including 145 gaming tables and almost 2 000 slot machines we have seven workstations about 40 monitors and of course we have access to all 3 500 cameras on this city center campus surveillance has come a long way even i started in the mid 90s and the cameras were still pretty good back in the old days we used analog cameras so an analog camera they come in two varieties ptz which is pan tilt zoom and that means that our operators can move them they can zoom in and out back and forward up and down the other cameras that we used were fixed cameras and those cameras are just a camera that sees one spot and doesn't move so those are good and we did surveillance for forever for 30 years with those cameras and it worked out fine we opened aria though we wanted to take the best of the old technology and blend that with the best of the new technology which is hd cameras or high def cameras and what that allowed us to do is increase our resolution by three times now we have the luxury of reviewing the video we can prove that somebody cheated and we can see it a lot better in this cheat the cameras caught what was almost too fast for the human eye the cheater seated on the left is playing blackjack and wins when the dealer busts the dealer pays the cheater on his original bet but the player flicks back the payout and then seamlessly replaces the stack including a higher value chip placed on the bottom here it is again in slow motion the flick and replacement the cheater is indignant that the dealer didn't pay out properly the pit boss is called over they review the tape and ultimately the player is asked to leave the casino a lot of times when somebody's doing something dishonest they're trying so hard to act natural and then doing so they're becoming unnatural the surveillance war on cheating one of the newest weapons is the 360 degree high definition camera [Music] similar to google earth's ability to see city street details from outer space the 360 system is like having dozens of cameras digitally combined as one image this bird's eye view gives observers the advantage of going back in time and zooming in or out to see exactly what happened 365 technology is not used as a live viewing tool this is strictly a forensics tool that's used after the fact this is where we would go back after an incident has happened so that way we can zoom into the picture and see where the patron has gone or the theft has taken place and we do not miss anything on the casino floor we can go back seven days and virtually drop into the image and look around and watch a patron walk from one area casino all the way across the other area for surveillance insiders the key to catching thieves is being able to identify them older eye in the sky systems have lower resolution cameras that make it difficult to see faces clearly to solve that the aria's design and layout was created with high quality cameras shooting at eye level and by forcing patrons to go through camera heavy choke points narrow paths in and out of the casino surveillance is guaranteed a clean face shot we can actually grab individuals faces and grab great id shots we have about 50 throughout the casino so at some point with you walking through the casino we're going to get your face i don't have a bunch of people but i have 1100 cameras i'm going to put some of those cameras on choke points which is the skinny part of the casino so now we use these cameras every day had we not put in these choke points we'd never have a face shot of them we have a list of over 6 000 people that have done things that they shouldn't do in casinos before they even arrive in the hotel we put them through a filter in our database of people who have been trespassed or arrested here so how do we protect the guests we stop them before they even check in [Music] in this exclusive footage provided by the aria we can see from the inside exactly how the coordinated effort of the 360 degree cameras work when combined with the hotel's choke points the couple who are playing the slots walk away without realizing they've left a purse behind within minutes they realize the purse is gone and contact security security will call and say hey we've got a woman who whose purse is missing and if she was on row 100 we will track that back even though it happened five or six hours ago with our 360 cameras so we'll track the thief back to the point where they stole the purse using the 360 degree cameras they can literally travel back in time and focus on the exact area around the slot machine where the purse was left behind soon after the couple leaves the 360 degree cameras reveal a man in a black shirt carrying a white jacket he looks around then settles at the machine next to the one where the couple had been playing he looks around again picks up the purse and quickly conceals it in his jacket he makes his way out of the slot area but to leave the casino he must pass through a specific path or choke point where the arya's cameras are focused for his close-up we catch them with a chokepoint camera now we take that picture of their face and send it out to our security network our surveillance network and then we catch them almost instantaneously the man's face is uploaded to casinos throughout vegas and in a couple of hours he is arrested and booked for theft at the aria the high-tech security system is a definite advantage but the real inside secret to successful surveillance is having a team who can proactively id cheaters before they strike we can look at somebody and tell okay they're all right or no that behavior doesn't make sense when you see people um doing things that they're not supposed to do they behave differently they give off tells just like a poker player is looking for tells our surveillance people look for tells for cheats a classic cheat found in vegas happens when a player tries to swap or introduce cards from outside the game insiders call it card mucking here the aria has a mucker in its crosshairs and card marking is when a player brings a card in to make sure that he wins and then he's got to get the bad card out again so what they'll do is their hand will be flat on the table so the other hand moves around and works and they're drinking their drinks and they're picking their nose scratching their head and this hand works this hand can't work though because there's a card under it because each casino has its own proprietary card design for the mucking to work the cheater needs to acquire specific cards with the same design and logo this is often done by sneaking them off one at a time or having an insider who works at a casino steal an entire deck for them you can see the guys manipulating the cards in a strange way when he reaches into his jacket though we start to think something might be wrong now we see that the card has left our field of view we can't see it it's obscured by his hand now his hand is attached to the table it's a perfect example of a flat hand as a tell another cheat casinos watch for is known as card marking we deal our games face up when we can and the reason for that is game protection if the cards are face up on the layout the players aren't allowed to touch them therefore they can't mark them right well that's not right because we've got video of a guy right here who's marking cards face up and he just made a mark his bet loses he comes out with a hundred dollars while he does it though he notches the card he had a piece of glass attached to his thumbnail and he was hitting the card every time he collected a bet or he put out a new bet so he touches the card and marks it with that piece of glass [Music] we suspect this person is cheap we don't know he is but we suspect he might be so when he walks over the craps table we think okay this is it maybe we're going to catch something here and yep he's making late bets in the field which means he watches the dice land he sees it's a winner and then he throws his money down the funny thing is when he's doing this we're watching him we're getting security stage to go grab him so there's no question he was found guilty it was this was easy the video never lies once they catch the cheaters on camera hotel security works with nevada gaming to make the arrest we'll make arrests on the floor simply to send a message to both the cheaters and to those who may be involved with them that they're not going to get away with this catching the cheater red-handed is important so speed is everything when it comes to the arrest remember the man who was swapping cards we had security go grab him they didn't grab him quick enough though and he was able to get his arm free he reached into his jacket popped the card in his mouth and ate it as for the card marker the glass was still on his thumb when they made the arrest and the past poster once outnumbered he went down quietly the gambling that they are doing is that whether or not they're going to go to jail and how much time they're going to do you know you get caught that's that's it do your time if you're a criminal and you're a cheat going to jail is part of your job description [Music] there is another kind of insider working las vegas and it's one that has casinos worried it's when a dealer crosses over to the dark side even the most sophisticated tools can't always stop the casino insider who knows exactly how to cheat fast and cheat big about 30 of our arrests involve employees one way or another we have seen numerous cheats involving millions of dollars with the dealer or other pit personnel the story of one of vegas's most infamous cheats begins far from the bright lights of the strip in 2002 with a dealer named fawn tron who works at the small saiquan casino near san diego california he was a gambler through and through he dealt cards at sequon for a while but then he got fired armed with an advantage of knowing how security works from the inside tron hatches his plan to cheat the casino but to do it he needs help and he's got it in all the right places his wife van tran is also a dealer at cyclone and her brother ty tran just happens to manage the asian table games tytran knew intimately how each game worked so he could help develop their protocols of dealing for security what have you he also hired all the dealers so that's where his knowledge came in the tran gang focuses on mini baccarat a table game where two hands are dealt per round one is for the player and the other is for the house or the bank players can bet on either hand the hand closest to a nine wins rules allow players to openly track and record cards and winning hands it's part of the game so you can have a sheet of paper writing each the order of the cards that coming out which is kind of how they got the idea of tracking cards because you're allowed to do it a member of the tran organization tracks the cards then the dealer who's also a member uses his skill set to pull off one of the oldest tricks in the book the false shuffle a false shuffle is simply making it appear that you're mixing the cards but you're really not [Music] this is van tran so you can see there's a large chunk of cars that are protected right here and as we can see it's going to be on the top of the deck so she continues to have a very thick stack of cards throughout the whole shuffling process where she's protecting it [Music] now let's suppose that you recorded the exact order of these cards as the dealer picked them up the dealer's in the scam and the dealer keeps the cards in order so for this demonstration i'm going to put these cards face up on the top of the discard rack on the next round same thing would happen the cards would get picked up in order now comes time for the shuffle and the dealer would mark the spot and then shuffle to it all of these shuffles will be fine no fall shuffles not a full shuffle now here's the group that was recorded this is the only shuffle that will be false and watch carefully it looks as though i'm shuffling the cards in fact i'm not mixing the cards [Music] after the dealer finishes the false shuffle the tran players at the table must wait for their tracker to signal them that the winning sequence of cards are in play because they know the exact order of these cards and who's going to win all bets are dramatically increased they only needed one person who really knew what the betting scheme was so that one person will make a bet and then everyone else that's with them at the table will make that same bet all of a sudden the entire table wins to perfect their skills the tran organization does a number of test runs at the small quiet saiquan casino at first they stay low-key keeping winnings down to a few hundred dollars but eventually surveillance spots van tran not following shuffling procedure she is fired but by then they know their scam works and they're ready for larger action by early 2003 the tran organization has expanded to include about 15 family members soon they take their cheat on the road to cash creek casino near sacramento california [Music] before long they are making big money in just one month they clear 158 thousand dollars they want more but to do it they'll need more insiders who are willing to fix the deck because they went from jurisdiction to jurisdiction they had to have different dealers cheating in every jurisdiction they would go into different casinos and they would just have a friendly chat up with the dealers they tended to go for the people that might already have had a gambling problem so they would pick out their vulnerabilities if they might have some financial situation or if they're just looking for a little bit of excitement if someone is on the fence about joining the organization the tran recruiters get creative sometimes van tran would go into the casinos and kind of flirt with the guys trying to get them to well maybe we can date a little bit if you want to try doing this cheat with us they would just play up that it's a great lifestyle you're going to be so happy that you joined our organization and all you have to do is learn how to do the shuffle by 2003 the tran organization consists of several former dealers and card trackers they all have inside knowledge of how to fix the game of mini baccarat and conceal it from anybody watching they crisscross the country scamming smaller casinos winning thousands every time they will sit there for two or three decks possibly and then they will leave and they'll leave the city of the state [Music] the tran gang is long gone by the time casino accountants notice something is wrong they have it down to a science where they want to know how each table is doing so that's where the first inkling that something was wrong came from because the table might lose eight percent a night um and all of a sudden this specific table with a specific dealer is losing 15 to 20 a night so they went to their video and realized it was all the same people playing since a lot of these gamblers that are cheating they're all using their player clubs cards to get the free perks that go along with it so the casinos have a record of exactly who was playing at the table how much they cashed in for how much they won at a gaming conference in 2003 casino security directors start to compare notes there has been intelligence in the community that members of the tran family and fong trung were up to something one of the security operators at cash creek casino outside sacramento had noticed that there was a certain group of people that were doing something wrong at their tables they think they're cheating they don't know exactly what the fbi begins trying to document the tran organization's activities the gang runs their operation with military precision using cell phones and hand signals to communicate with each other in this video gang member willie tran is tracking cards and calling them back to a van where they are being recorded he keeps his hair long to cover the cell phone earpiece he would bring his girlfriend with him so that his girlfriend would be playing and he could be reading off the cards but to anyone around them it looks like he's just talking to his girlfriend after months of honing their skills they are confident and believe they are ready to cheat vegas they knew that las vegas would have been a cash cow for them if they could figure out how to get through their security the security in vegas is world class and they knew it [Music] in late 2004 the tran gang pulls into vegas but their reputation precedes them we were aware of the tran organization that they had been operating in california and we thought that they were the possibility they would come to las vegas we were not aware that uh mr tran here was going to show up but in fact he was one of the ones that was running the operation here in las vegas in the video we see fat recording the order of the cards as they are played after the false shuffle tran waits patiently for the portion of the deck that was never shuffled those are the cards they have the exact order for there are three members of the organization that are sitting around the table and fat is on the edge signaling to these guys the cards that fat had recorded earlier start to play on the table here's how it unfolds fat trans signals to the table that it's time to bet the player in the center bets on the banker knowing it is the guaranteed winner soon thereafter other tran insiders put down larger wagers on the same banker bed this is an instance where they won 18 000 between the three of them after the hit fat quietly rips up his handwritten log of the card order and disposes it into trash cans in different areas of the casino he doesn't know it but everywhere he goes he's on camera security collects the trash and pastes the baccarat log back together after three years of cheating across the country authorities have what no one else could get the hard evidence to bust the gang insider fat tran they were on him like a hawk at that point in december before they arrested him for conspiracy to cheat and several of his members including the dealer at palace station their greed basically of wanting more money and wanting more casinos to cheat at was their downfall although weakened after the vegas bust the remaining members of the organization still won't give up the cheat but once again they'll need to find dirty dealers on the inside they were definitely more visible and then since they were spreading out across the country trying to find these casinos they were introducing a lot of new people to this scheme who went immediately to their security and their supervisor saying there's this group out here and they're wanting to cheat the fbi also knows the gang needs dealers and are ready to help them find one john man how are you doing this is the actual undercover footage from the fbi sting as they catch insider font tron trying to recruit a dealer we have a confidential informant who actually was a former dealer that was approached by the trans he got caught and now he's trying to work off the beef and he's introducing an undercover agent who is this other gentleman the undercover agent is posing as someone that's a dealer you know what we do surveillance cannot see here fung is describing to his prospective dealer to that you really need to know what's happening in a casino and what's happening with the security and what happens with the protocol to get away with things you only steal like once a month but tron like most crooks can't seem to practice what he preaches and in the same breath that he talks about being low-key he brags about the spoils of his cheating i have seven cars myself now well for real okay turbo porsche mercedes like park everywhere in front of my garage everybody know me in may 2007 armed with overwhelming video evidence the authorities move in on the rest of the tran organization fon tron and 46 other members of the gang are indicted for racketeering money laundering and theft fon tron is sentenced to 70 months in prison and ordered to pay back millions of dollars to the casinos and the irs ty tran is sentenced to 54 months in prison in january 2011 van tran pleads guilty to racketeering charges and is awaiting sentencing uh we were able to prove that they achieved seven million dollars uh over the course of the scheme we do believe that they took more than that but we were able to prove seven million not every insider comes from the casino in the world of betting on professional and college sports all it takes is an athlete who crosses the line to become the ultimate insider sports betting is big business in las vegas in just one year 2.4 billion dollars was legally wagered at casino sports books and where there is money there are cheaters i would say basketball would be the sport that would be easiest to do some business with because you get one or two key players and they play a bad game or or they don't suit up that affects the game dramatically through the years vegas sports books have had to deal with fixed fights horse races basketball baseball and football games sometimes at the hand of a crooked player owner or referee so the action on each of these games is closely monitored because an intentionally missed goal can cost millions steven smith of dallas texas has been shooting hoops since he was six years old my mother said once i laid eyes on it that was my sport and i just had to have a ball in my hand at 40 smith seems like any other weekend warrior it's hard to imagine he was once the main player in one of the most notorious college basketball betting scandals to ever hit las vegas when you're in your early 20s and you're immature and all you're thinking about is girls money and stuff like that you don't think about the consequence in 1994 senior steven smith is captain of the arizona state sun devils basketball team and a rising star pundits are already considering number 44 a lock for the nba draft people start talking about the nba nba i just kept working hard just hoping you know one day my dream will come true smith wants the nba and everything that goes with it but living large costs money and smith has none a young immature athlete that's going to school full scholarship only getting four 500 a month then he meets 22 year old campus bookie benny silman who introduces him to the world of sports betting as soon as i got to campus he was always around the basketball players but unfortunately smith is not nearly as good at gambling as he is at shooting hoops soon smith is ten thousand dollars in debt to the local bookie with no money he's in trouble until bookie sillman offers him a way out he said fix the game he's like just control you know the outcome so you can win the game but just make sure you don't win by however many points i tell you one baby that's right what sillman is talking about is called point shaving and it's illegal at the time smith had never heard of it but he figured as long as he didn't have to lose the game no harm no foul you know where i'm from you say you know gambling you're talking about shooting dice playing poker i wasn't educated to point shaving to understand point shaving you have to understand sports betting as strange as it sounds casinos don't care who wins or loses they just want half of the gamblers to bet on one team and half on the other every game is not an even game one team is usually superior to the other so we attach points to it so it balances the betting out the most common bet is based on the point difference between the two teams at the end of the game to make teams even for betting every game is handicapped a point spread or betting line is used to level the playing field so the underdog can be equal to the favorite the point differential or spread is determined by vegas oddsmakers who are hired by the casinos to figure out how many points a team will be favored by so that bettors on both teams have an equal opportunity to win the bet point shaving changes the odds when a player or group of players makes sure that their team's margin of victory is less than the point spread determined by the bookies in order for smith to get out of debt silman will tell him how many points he can win by and no more for taking part in the scam silman agrees to wipe out smith's debt and pay him 20 000 for each game he shaves so i'm thinking i can win the game okay cool [Music] on january 27 1994 sillman and smith kickstart their scam against oregon state las vegas oddsman set smith's asu as 14 point favorites silman and gang bet heavily on oregon state smith fixes the game by slacking on defense the sun devils win but only by six points since asu doesn't cover the vegas spread silman wins [Applause] after the game campus bookie sillman delivers smith's payout 20 thousand dollars for a job well done did i accept the money yes i was trying to live that fast life sillman and smith fixed two more games without drawing any heat flush with success sillman lets a lot of people in on the secret sillman's friends from chicago new jersey fly to vegas for the next game [Applause] march 5th 1994 saturday morning smith and his sun devils prepare to face the university of washington at home there's nothing extraordinary about this game yet in las vegas college age gamblers hit the sports books as soon as they opened they were like a bull in a china shop when they were making their bets they just kept coming repeatedly repeatedly repeatedly instead of like every couple hours maybe popping in and making a play although the sun devils are 11 point favorites somehow all the wagering is on washington in response to the lopsided betting the point spread which is also called the line keeps dropping as oddsmakers desperately try to even out the action the line on the arizona state game opened at 11 and it dropped to three by tip off and that type of movement on a college basketball game is unheard of sportsbook managers are concerned they check with the other casinos they found that pattern of betting was only here in las vegas and was all over town at that time there was no knowledge that a crime was being committed we just knew that something odd was happening the betting action is way out of the ordinary suspicious sportsbook managers alert the ncaa in a normal pac-10 game a regular season we we might ride eight ten thousand somewhere in that general area but for this particular game we we wrote well into the low six figures it was an unbelievable flurry of action on that game at tip-off the betting line has dropped so dramatically asu can only win by two points or less for smith to successfully throw the game the pressure is on at half time smith's fix is working the score arizona state 25 washington 23. [Applause] sun devil's coach bill frieder is given the heads up that something is not right in the locker room the coach confronts smith the team's captain he was fierce oh yeah i can't see it on camera but it's some bleep bleep bleep bleep going on be afraid to get angry after frieder's halftime tongue lashing smith abandons the point-shaving scheme there wasn't nothing to think about it was over we went out second half and blew him out [Applause] most observers reported this game as a game of two halves the first half asu was totally inept and the second half they were you know final four quality team the sun devils crush washington 73-55 everyone who bet on washington is out of luck smith knows he has to face an angry sillman who lost all of his bets since we lost the game thinking you know the same money he was giving me i had to give to him i go home ben is there so i'm saying don't worry about it man i got your money upstairs i was prepared to give him forty thousand dollars it's like nah it's bigger than that like what the hell you talking about are you scared ain't nobody's just gonna lose and everybody be still alive he left town that night i didn't talk to nobody my best friend my mother i didn't tell nobody in las vegas agents from the nevada gaming control board are closing in after weeks of forensic auditing of the sports book records they uncover evidence of unusually high betting on the march 5th game and several more asu games before that if you're taking advantage of the knowledge of the outcome of an event to then defraud a casino or a sports book then you're guilty of fraud three months later smith wins athlete of the year as for the scam rumors of the point shaving persist but nothing comes of it and smith thinks it's behind him i thought i was gonna beat it then in june 1994 smith's big moment arrives the nba draft he can finally cash in on his talents legally but now the whispers of throwing a game are no longer whispers and the nba doesn't want to play with smith i thought i was untouchable but that wasn't reality all pac-10 team captain highest scorer in asu history number 44 steven smith goes undrafted smith spends the next three years playing minor league ball everywhere from paris france to sioux falls south dakota trying to rebuild his reputation it takes years but in 1997 the dallas mavericks come calling smith's not the only one whose luck has changed in las vegas after years of investigating the nevada gaming control board and the fbi cracked the point-shaving case they managed to work back through people that they had indicted people that had given them information to one of the players on the asu team i didn't think it would blow up like like it did and it blew up huge who is it it's the back place and the feds came in i found out the numbers it was over 1.3 million dollars lost on the game that was scary smith was in the nba at the time that he was indicted uh so it cost him his professional basketball career in november 1999 smith goes before a judge and gets a year in prison and a new number going from static smith to zero one zero four four seven four eight you know that was my federal prison number i mean if that ain't real i don't know what the hell is real smith is released from prison in 2000 won a european cup they'll never talk about that they'll never talk about the fact that i had a 3.5 gpa that i was a male student athlete of the year i beat our fear mix who's now one of the top golfers in the world they don't talk about that we're going to talk about the records i still have right to this day not only in the pac-10 but at arizona state you're just only here stephen smith the one who points you that's just something i got to live with for the rest of my life you know [Music] there are two kinds of insiders when it comes to cheating vegas those who are cheaters and those who are watching cheaters a cheat when he comes into a casino is very different than a tourist he's looking for something he's observing the dealers he's watching what's happening he doesn't see the lights he doesn't see the flashing signs he sees what we're doing and the money he's going to take from us and here are seven of the most common sheets demonstrated in detail by our own insiders these scams are what the surveillance professionals are looking for every day [Music] of all the ways there are to mark playing cards in play the simplest thing is to bend the playing cards i'm going to show you an example of how the bad guys bend cards and play in a casino you notice a high card in a low card and simply in the action of either hitting or asking for a card or tucking the cards into the money i just bent the playing cards you'll notice that one corner does not touch the surface of the table that identifies it to the cheater as a high card you notice that this corner does touch the table that means it's low card now i can tell high cards from low cards in future rounds of play then there's the trick insiders call banging the paints they call face cards paints because there's more ink on the card it looks as though i'm just placing a bet when in fact i'm marking that little card with my knuckle and in the simple act of giving this chip to the dealer as a tip i mark the playing card notice as i touch that card and say here dealer this is for you i've tapped the face of the face card with the chip and i put a mark on the back of the playing card that can be seen and identified in future rounds of play if i see a bump on the back of a card i know it's a high card i would therefore know that anything without a bump is a low card it helps me win by knowing whether i should hit if it's a small card or stand if it's a big card but card games aren't the only ones surveillance officers have to scrutinize cheats can also tamper with dice games like craps this is an old school scam that was used in cheating at crafts called dice switching in this example i brought my own dice from home this is going to be signified by the red colored dice and the house dice will be the green color these dice do not have any one two threes on them they only have four fives and sixes the i can't tell because when you put a die on the table everybody can only see three different sides at one time i'm looking at a four five six you're looking at a four five six the dealer is looking at a four five six the switch takes place when the casino dice was passed to the cheater he would pick up the dice like this and then the crooked dice are dropped to the table at the exact same time the casino dice are picked up into the hand and then the crooked dice are thrown down the layout so these dice can only roll the numbers 8 9 10 11 12 and cannot lose watch 10 12. that was a great one i would have won a lot of money on that roll 11. that was a good one so you can see these dice are very dangerous but not all dice cheats rely on bogus dice some rely on good old-fashioned sleight of hand one of the most common methods of cheating at crafts is known as a slide shot this is where the cheater doesn't throw the die it's being slid in this case i just want to slide a six and then for my partner or myself we've been big on the field the field means if a 9 10 11 or 12 roll i win what would guarantee me is six on one die the only numbers that could hurt me here are the one and the two any other number i win and if the six rolls i win triple so when i pick up these dice my thumb flips over the die and i get him in this position when the dice are thrown the back die is thrown legitimately but that six isn't being thrown it's being whipped out of the hand this whipping action gives the illusion that the dice is being thrown when in reality it's being spun so if i take that six when i throw it that six isn't being thrown it's being slid along the layout this is definitely one of the better ways to take off a crap game but the simple reason is you're using the casino's own equipment against itself you're not bringing in anything from the outside hand mucking is the art of switching cards in play i'm going to show you how that switch might happen in the game of blackjack in order to switch cards you have to have one of the casinos cards so you steal the card in advance or corrupt someone to get you one of the cards and in this case i have one of the casinos aces i add the ace to the game steal the six away and now voila i have the blackjack and if i want to clean up then i go to the sleeve this next game is going to require a little teamwork what just happened right now is me and jason both have bets down on the pass line as soon as i know that bet is going to win jason's going to take over and i'm going to distract the dealer by asking a simple question at the right moment dealer can i get changed for 200 please thank you at the exact same time when the deal was distracted i reached down and added money to my bet and instead of winning 200 now i win 700. what you're gonna see right now was a different form of past posting what you've seen before was me pressing my bet i had a bet and i added more called pressing past posting means i'm actually gonna make a bet after the dice have been rolled i have one chip palmed in my hand that's the chip i'm gonna pass post and that's the chip that's invisible to the dealer so the moment i see a field one the chip that i hold to my hand is what i'm gonna ask for change so as this chip comes down at the exact same time that's getting slapped that's getting dropped guaranteeing myself a short winner but having an inside edge is not always enough in vegas because here casinos know their enemies and will stop at nothing to shut them down the cheats will always try i'm always going to have a job and my main role in life here is to protect the assets and by assets i don't just mean the money that's sitting on the tables i'm talking about the guests and the employees so every day we could come to work and our focus is let's protect this casino [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] you

Channel: FD Real

Views: 399,915

Keywords: Free Documentary, Reality Shows, Documentaries, Factual Entertainment, Factual Television, non-fiction, Best factual series, gambling, gambling show, las vegas, las vegas gambling, gambling crimes, Gaming Crimes, cheating, cheaters, las vegas cheaters, best cheaters, las vegas cheating, las vegas gaming, gambling game, gambling documentary, cheating show, Casino, Slot Machine

Id: 6SRQAn08oFE

Length: 48min 0sec (2880 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 04 2020