Cheating expert Sal Piacente joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about cheating at casinos. Can slot machines be hacked? Why is card counting illegal? How can you tell if dice are loaded? What's it like working security at a casino? Could an Oceans 11-style heist ever happen in real life? Are casinos ever the ones to cheat? Answers to these questions and plenty more await on Casino Cheating Support.
Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan
Editor: Paul Tael
Expert: Sal Piacente
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Camera Operator: Caleb Weiss
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Production Assistant: Ryan Coppola
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Stella Shortino
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Additional Editor: Samantha DiVito
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan
Editor: Paul Tael
Expert: Sal Piacente
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Camera Operator: Caleb Weiss
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Production Assistant: Ryan Coppola
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Stella Shortino
Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo
Additional Editor: Samantha DiVito
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
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00:00My name is Sal Piasanti. I catch casino cheaters. Let's answer your questions from the internet.
00:05This is casino cheating support.
00:12Absurd. Name. 5231. Do you think any casinos rig the deck in Blackjack using the shuffle machine?
00:20Yes, back in the old days when the mob read things, casinos did cheat.
00:24For example, one way the mob would cheat is a cooler.
00:26In Blackjack, 10 Jack, Queen, Kings are 10. So here's a 10, 10, 8, 10, 10, 9, 4, Ace, 5, 2, 3, 6, 7.
00:37Set these cards up in this order and do it four times.
00:40When you have the cards set up in this particular order, no matter how I deal these cards out, you make a big bet.
00:46Look at that. You have a 14. You have a 19. I have a 20. You can't win. That's how the mob used to cheat.
00:52Today, casinos don't need to cheat. They have math on their side.
00:56All of these games are mathematically designed for the casinos to win.
01:01You can get lucky. You can win.
01:03But if you're winning consistently over time, there's something wrong.
01:06And that's what the casinos have to figure out.
01:08And if they can't figure it out, then they call me.
01:11Turbulent Maximum 596 asks,
01:14Has anyone experienced dealers cheating?
01:17Absolutely. There are many ways dealers could cheat.
01:19One simple way a dealer could cheat is here.
01:21You make a bet, let's say $75.
01:23So when I pay you, I should just size into you and pay you $75.
01:28But if you're my partner and no one's looking, I really gave you $100 there.
01:32A more sophisticated way a dealer could cheat would be something like this.
01:36You're working with me. You're my partner.
01:37You make a bet of $25.
01:39But when you win, I come out and I pay you.
01:42And it looks like I just paid you $25.
01:44Where in reality, I didn't.
01:46I used a chip cup.
01:48This is the Trojan horse of chips.
01:50This stack right here looks like a stack of five.
01:53It's not.
01:54It's a hollow stack of chips.
01:56Where inside it, I conceal higher denomination chips.
02:01So even though it looks like I'm giving you a stack of $5,
02:05I'm not.
02:06I'm giving you $400.
02:07Another way a dealer could cheat is the second deal.
02:10For example, if I know this nine of spades is on top and I want to save that,
02:15when I deal this card's out, I'm going to keep that nine right there.
02:19But I would do it on the pitch.
02:22As I push the top card over, the second card is exposed right there.
02:26And I'm taking it right from the upper right corner.
02:29And I pull the top card back.
02:30If I did it face up, it would look like this.
02:34And that card stays on the top.
02:36As a matter of fact, there's an old joke.
02:37The dealer was so crooked, the top card was getting dusty.
02:40NoobSlayers wants to know,
02:42How do you guys check if the dice is loaded?
02:45Well, if you look at a casino die, these dice are made to perfection.
02:49However, when the crooked dice maker makes these dice,
02:52he drills certain spots deeper and puts a heavy metallic alloy into it,
02:58thus making certain sides heavier.
03:00How do we check for that?
03:01This is a balancer.
03:02If I take a regular casino die, and I put it right here, and I spin it, watch how that die acts.
03:10That's a regular die.
03:11Now, let's put this die into it, which is the loaded die, and let's see how that one acts.
03:16And you're going to see it's not balanced.
03:18This is called a dead ace.
03:19If you roll this die on the table, more than percentage dictates, a one will come up on this die.
03:25I can roll this die a hundred, there's a one.
03:28I can keep rolling it.
03:30There's a four.
03:31There's another one.
03:32A one will come up more often.
03:34But it's not guaranteed.
03:35When you're going to put crooked dice into a casino, you need a guarantee.
03:40So let me show you how that would happen.
03:41If you look at these dice, they look the same.
03:43Look at the one, you'll see the casino name.
03:45And if we roll these dice, there's a hard eight, there's a five, with a one and a four.
03:50But you know what you're not seeing?
03:52A seven.
03:53These dice cannot make a seven.
03:55On the bottom of that four, it should be a three.
03:57It's another four.
03:58And the bottom of that five should be a two.
04:01It's another five.
04:02There are only one four or five on these dice.
04:04These dice cannot make a seven.
04:06And you will win, guaranteed.
04:08That is the reason why craps tables have mirrors around it.
04:12So the boss could look into the mirror and see the opposite sides.
04:16So now you're probably wondering, how do the cheaters switch the dice?
04:19How do you get the dice into the game?
04:21I'll bring in the green dice.
04:22So let's suppose I want to switch the green dice for the red dice.
04:26When it's my turn to shoot, as I reach for the red dice, I switch them for the green.
04:31It's called a palm switch.
04:33Out of all the cheating moves, that is the hardest one to do.
04:36But now watch how that looks with the same color dice.
04:38I cannot tell you the last time I've ever heard of crooked dice being used and getting
04:44caught.
04:45But I do know they're being made.
04:47And they're not made for entertainment purposes.
04:49Peer Mail wants to know, what is it like working security at a casino?
04:54You're looking for things out of the norm.
04:56For example, a dealer should never turn off a game.
04:59If a dealer ever turns off a game to look at me, the only reason that dealer is looking
05:04at me is to see if I'm looking at them.
05:06And usually, that means that they're about to do something.
05:10Now, when you're a dealer, you're looking for the players to cheat.
05:12Some of the signs that you're looking for is distractions, trying to make your dealer
05:16look elsewhere, where you're going to hit them on the other side of the table.
05:20Or when they start putting their hands too close to their bet.
05:23That means they're about to pinch a bet or press a bet.
05:25If they win the bet, they're going to add to it.
05:27If they lose the bet, they're going to pull some back.
05:29Or when hands leave the table.
05:31Those cards always have to stay in view.
05:33When these cards leave the table, the player can be switching cards, can be marking cards.
05:37Definitely up to no good.
05:41Paypaloo23 wants to know, can somebody teach me how to count cards?
05:44I'm ready now.
05:45Counting cards is very, very simple.
05:48Each card is assigned a value.
05:50Two, three, four, five, sixes are assigned a value of plus one.
05:54Seven, eight, nines are zero.
05:56Tens and aces are minus one.
05:58If the dealer just dealt you these two cards, your count's minus two.
06:02Every time you see cards dealt, you just get an accumulative count, and that is the running count.
06:07However, all decision, whether it be betting, playing, or insurance, is done with the true count.
06:13What is the true count?
06:15It is the ratio of high cards versus low cards in each single deck that remain.
06:20As soon as the true count hits plus two, that means the cards now favor you.
06:25That means now it's time to increase your bet, not by a lot.
06:28The bigger the plus count, the more you increase your bet.
06:31So in a nutshell, card counting just means that you're keeping track of what's left.
06:36When there are a lot of high cards that are left to be played, now the cards favor you.
06:41When there are a lot of low cards to be played, now the cards favor the house.
06:44VasCoconut2609 asks, how magnetic dice are used to cheat in casinos?
06:51Well, magnetic dice are mostly used in private games.
06:54For the man, I believe it was Thailand, he had magnets implanted into his hands to cheat on the dice cups that were there for 40 years.
07:02But because he was going to travel, he was afraid that the magnets might get detected.
07:07He certainly had to take them out.
07:08So what are magnetic dice?
07:10If we look right here, you can see I have one die made where the spots were not filled in.
07:14And these dice right here are balanced.
07:16You can roll them, they're regular dice, until you put a magnet near them.
07:20When you put a magnet near them, then you can control it.
07:23So the cheaters would get a magnet under the table or on the sides of the table.
07:27One scam that happened was a magnet was actually concealed in the wheelchair of a player.
07:33And the battery that controlled the wheelchair also controlled the magnet.
07:38So when the shooter threw in the magnetic dice, the guy in the wheelchair just hit the button and they won a lot of money.
07:45Flying Dutch Madden wants to know, Casino, the movie, any truth to this?
07:50Was Las Vegas really different back when and really run by gangsters?
07:55Absolutely.
07:55The movie Casino does a great deal on showing you what it was like when the mob ran things.
08:00A common question asked to me today, Sal, do they really beat up players and cheaters the way they used to back then?
08:07Well, no, they don't.
08:08Today they'll prosecute you, they'll back you out.
08:10But when the mob was running things, yes, violence was the solution.
08:14And guess what?
08:15It was an effective solution.
08:17If you're a dealer that was cheating and you just saw some guy walk out with two busted hands,
08:21you're going to think twice before you steal from that person.
08:23Now, in the movie Casino, Robert De Niro is the casino manager and he's walking through the pit and he noticed a dealer lifting the whole card up.
08:31The player at another table will see that card and then signal it back to the person playing.
08:36Well, when De Niro saw that, they got the two players, they brought the person downstairs and they broke his hand with a hammer.
08:42When the mob ran casinos, they definitely did things a little differently.
08:46The people that they hired to watch the games were ex-cheats.
08:49They actually knew the moves.
08:51They knew what it looks like.
08:52They were more qualified to catch it than anybody else.
08:55Today, it's not that way.
08:57Let's see.
08:58Big Kuzzleswick.
08:59Could you actually pull off an Ocean 11 heist in real life?
09:02Theoretically, could it be possible?
09:04I don't think so personally.
09:05Well, you're wrong.
09:06Las Vegas is definitely iconic.
09:08The Las Vegas Strip, the mob, the Rat Pack.
09:11However, the gambling mecca of the world is Macau.
09:15It's a small island outside of Hong Kong and the gambling that goes on there is unreal.
09:20You'll see people betting $300,000, $400,000, a million dollars one hand.
09:25So what happened out there?
09:26They flew a high roller in.
09:27He was met at the airport with a limousine.
09:30They chauffeured him to the hotel.
09:31They had the managers outside waiting for him to greet him.
09:34They escorted him in.
09:35They brought him upstairs to a high-limit room on the 23rd floor.
09:39It was a private suite.
09:40They beat him for, let's just say, $25 million.
09:42And then when that player came back to the casino and said,
09:46Listen, I lost $25 million on your private VIP suite on the 23rd floor.
09:51The casino said, We don't have a private suite on the 23rd floor.
09:54These cheaters or these scamsters took a private suite,
09:59took all the furniture out of the suite and pushed it into a bedroom
10:03and set up a mock casino.
10:05They had phony surveillance cameras.
10:06They had phony supervisors with suits and badges.
10:09They had cocktail waitresses.
10:11And then they beat him.
10:12Now, I do happen to know the surveillance VP at the time.
10:15And I said, Is there any surveillance footage?
10:17And he said to me, Sal, what footage?
10:19All we have is people walking into the room.
10:21We know who they are and what they look like.
10:24But there's nothing of the actual play because it's a hotel room.
10:27That's Ocean's Eleven.
10:29Yank in Australia wants to know, marked cards, how often do you find them?
10:35Marked cards have been behind some of the biggest scams in the casino industry.
10:38A simple way of marking cards, they sell these pastes.
10:41It goes on the finger.
10:43The professionals, they'll keep it right on the table.
10:46And they'll just mark the cards like this.
10:48How?
10:48This little tin is concealed inside the chips.
10:52So, as you're playing, as you're dealing, I'm playing with my chips.
10:55Now, right here, I just got it on my hand.
10:58I want to mark these two cards, right?
10:59I don't know what they are.
11:00So, when I come over, I see it's a four and a six.
11:04I'm hitting the six right here.
11:05Now, I spin them, and I'm hitting the six again.
11:08Now, I transfer the cards, and now I'm hitting it dead center.
11:12Now, I'll be honest.
11:13If your eye is not trained to see that, good luck.
11:17I don't care how you mix these cards up.
11:18When these cards are on the table, from right here, I can't miss it.
11:22There's your four, and there's your six.
11:24A real simple and effective way of marking cards, a real fine emery board,
11:30where you can actually sand off some of the back.
11:32Let's suppose I want to get these aces.
11:34I can take these cards, file them down in the middle,
11:38and by filing down in the middle, what you're going to do
11:41is you're going to make these aces look like an hourglass.
11:45You can't see it, but they're shaped like an hourglass.
11:49So what's the big deal?
11:50So in theory, when I shuffle this deck right now,
11:52when I grab them in the middle, I'm coming in contact with every card except an ace.
11:57So now I should be able to pull those aces right out.
12:00These are called in strippers.
12:01Why in?
12:02Because the center is cut in.
12:04And believe me, there are a lot more ways of marking cards than what I just explained.
12:09Shuffleupagus wants to know,
12:11no way they have special cards like Austin Powers in real life.
12:15Now, these cards are marked from the back.
12:17Can I see it?
12:18No, I can't.
12:19However, I take these glasses off,
12:21I put these glasses on,
12:23and now it's a different ballgame.
12:25A blind person can see this.
12:26That's a three.
12:27There's your ace.
12:29There's your jack, and so on.
12:30And these can be read at great distances from across the table.
12:33The glasses are only for demonstration purposes.
12:36In real life, you buy the contacts,
12:38and then no one knows you have contacts on,
12:40and you can read these marks across the table.
12:42Civil aside, 359.
12:45How casinos prevent people from stealing or mass-producing chips?
12:49Well, this is money.
12:51So if you could counterfeit this the way you can counterfeit money,
12:54you're actually counterfeiting money.
12:56So the way casinos stop you from doing this
12:58is they put RFID into these chips.
13:00Now, when I was in Macau one time,
13:02I actually went to mainland China,
13:05and there was a place that actually made chips.
13:08He says,
13:08If you bring me any chip, I can make it.
13:10I asked the shaman,
13:11How do you get them back to me?
13:12Not that I'm going to do this,
13:13but I was curious for information,
13:15because this is what I do.
13:16I train.
13:16I want to know.
13:17He said,
13:18Poker sets.
13:19If customs was to open it up,
13:20the first chip will say World Poker Tour,
13:23but every chip after that
13:24will match the casino that you gave him.
13:26People collect chips.
13:27They'll go in, buy a chip, and take it home.
13:29Nobody's taking home $500 chips just for collection.
13:32Now, another way casinos catch this
13:34is by inventory.
13:35The casinos know exactly how many chips they have,
13:39and on a monthly inventory,
13:40if they realize they're over,
13:42they know they have counted for chips.
13:44LadyLala22,
13:46How did the MIT blackjack team
13:48ever make so much bank
13:49when card counting only gives you a 1% edge,
13:53according to Wikipedia?
13:54In this business, people lie.
13:57Math doesn't.
13:58If you have a small edge over the house
14:00dispersed over a long period of time,
14:03you're going to make the money.
14:04And with the big bankroll,
14:06you could do that.
14:07And with a lot of players,
14:08you could do that.
14:09Back in the early 90s,
14:11the MIT team,
14:12students formed a team
14:13to beat the casinos using card counting.
14:15They definitely became popular later on
14:17with the movie 21,
14:19the book Bringing Down the House.
14:20A team is a group of people,
14:22very skilled up blackjack,
14:24that will go into the casino,
14:26count,
14:27and as soon as the cards favor them,
14:30put the big money in.
14:30You would have, for example,
14:3220 blackjack tables.
14:34You put 20 players on each table.
14:36So you have one counter on each table
14:38betting very little.
14:39But as soon as those cards favor you,
14:42then you call in another team member
14:44called the BP,
14:46which means the big player.
14:47He's the person
14:48that's going to be betting the big chips.
14:50So as soon as those cards
14:52become favorable to the team,
14:54they will call that team member in.
14:55They do not want the casinos
14:57to know that they're working together.
14:59Next question, by Brandon White.
15:01Super random,
15:03but this drunk guy at the casino
15:04asked if I was using a thumper.
15:06What is that?
15:07It's an electronic signaling device
15:09used for players to communicate
15:10to each other.
15:11It's called a thumper
15:12because it's vibrating.
15:14When they push down on the transmitter,
15:16the receiver vibrates or thumps you
15:18with Morse code telling you what to do.
15:21So I might give you a signal
15:22to come over to the table.
15:24In poker,
15:25I might give you a signal
15:26to raise me.
15:27I might give you a signal to fold.
15:29A great example of a thumper
15:31being used
15:31is in the movie Casino
15:33where one player
15:34was signaling information
15:35to another player
15:36sitting at another table.
15:38Usually a thumper
15:39could be on the thigh
15:40and then you just push down
15:41on the button
15:41with your hand in your pocket.
15:42But it could be anywhere
15:44as long as it's concealed.
15:46I like Corn wants to know,
15:47question for the blackjack market.
15:49Does anyone know
15:50where I could find
15:51a perfect strategy computer?
15:53I'm looking to hit the house
15:54or maybe a few.
15:55They're not as easy to get
15:56as they used to be
15:58because they're highly illegal
15:59in a lot of jurisdictions.
16:01In some jurisdictions,
16:02they're not.
16:02However, in Vegas,
16:03if you get caught
16:04with one of these,
16:05you can be prosecuted.
16:06Now, what is a perfect strategy computer?
16:08It's a computer
16:09that keeps track
16:10of every card being dealt
16:12so it knows
16:13how many tens are left,
16:14how many aces are left,
16:15how many threes are left,
16:16and can play blackjack better
16:18than any brain.
16:19Now, a perfect strategy computer
16:21is normally worn in the shoe
16:23where there are four toe switches,
16:25one above the left toes,
16:27one below the left toes,
16:29one above the right toes,
16:30one below the right toes,
16:32and there are sign numbers,
16:34one, two, four, and eight.
16:36So when the dealer deals a six,
16:38you hit the two and a four key.
16:39If it's a nine,
16:40you hit one eight.
16:40So the computer
16:41is actually knowing
16:43every card that was dealt
16:44and it signals to you
16:46how to play the hand
16:47by a small vibrating device,
16:49normally worn
16:50on the heel of the shoe.
16:51The signaling normally
16:52is a small set
16:53of long and short vibrations.
16:55For example,
16:56two short vibrations
16:57might mean stand.
16:59One long vibration
17:01might mean hit.
17:03That might mean double down.
17:05Scrammer, double zero.
17:07Why is card counting illegal?
17:08They don't throw you off Jeopardy
17:10for remembering things well.
17:11Card counting is not illegal.
17:14You cannot get arrested,
17:15you cannot get detained
17:16for card counting,
17:18providing you're not using a device.
17:20But to use your brain,
17:22it is not illegal.
17:23When you count cards,
17:24you have the edge.
17:25And the casinos
17:26don't want you to have the edge,
17:27they want to keep the edge.
17:28In some casinos,
17:29they are not allowed
17:30to kick you out
17:31for card counting,
17:32but they are allowed
17:33to back you off blackjack
17:35and actually say to you,
17:36your skill is too good for us,
17:38you're allowed to play
17:38any other game
17:39in the casino floor,
17:40but you're not allowed
17:41to play blackjack.
17:41Amazing username.
17:43What are some clear signs
17:44that people are working together
17:46at the poker table?
17:48This is going to be
17:48very hard to detect.
17:49The reason being is
17:50when a person folds,
17:52you don't see what they have.
17:54Let's suppose we're
17:55playing poker right now.
17:56I look at my hand,
17:57I have a pair of kings.
17:58What does this person have?
17:59I have no idea.
18:00But my partner says,
18:01Sal, I got a pair of tens.
18:03So what am I going to do?
18:04I'm going to signal to her,
18:05get out.
18:06I'm going to tell her
18:06just like that.
18:07So she's going to fold.
18:08She's folding a pair of tens.
18:10She would never fold these.
18:11Why is she folding tens?
18:13Because I'm telling her,
18:14I got a pair of kings.
18:15If this player wins
18:17with a pair of aces,
18:18did he just get cheated?
18:20Absolutely he got cheated.
18:21He should have won her money.
18:22But the only problem is
18:23when this person folds,
18:25you don't get to see
18:26what they have.
18:26It goes right into the muck.
18:28There are many ways
18:28of signaling.
18:29You can do hand signals.
18:30Here, that's one pair.
18:32That's two pair.
18:33That's three of a kind.
18:35That's a straight.
18:36Two fingers on top
18:37is a flush.
18:38If I'm using chips,
18:39right there,
18:40that's an ace-king.
18:41That's an ace-king suited.
18:43Ace-queen,
18:44ace-queen suited.
18:45Ace-jack,
18:46ace-jack suited.
18:47If I go inside,
18:48that's a pair of aces,
18:49pair of kings,
18:50pair of queens.
18:51If I go like this,
18:52I just told her right now,
18:53I have a low pair.
18:54That's a medium pair.
18:56That's a high pair.
18:57There are a lot of ways
18:58players could work together.
18:59One way you could possibly
19:00help yourself
19:01to give yourself
19:02a better edge
19:02is simply pay attention.
19:05When you see people
19:05getting dealt,
19:06look at their eyes.
19:07If they're looking
19:08at other players' cards
19:09before they look at their hand,
19:10it's possible
19:11they're looking for signals.
19:12Poker is a social game.
19:13Players talking to each other.
19:14No one's paying attention
19:15to the cards.
19:16Next question,
19:17what's the wildest example
19:18of cheating
19:19you uncovered
19:19in all your years
19:21in casino security?
19:22One of the wildest examples
19:24of scams
19:25that I've ever heard of
19:26is something that happened
19:27in Atlantic City.
19:28They did a cooler.
19:29A cooler is a prearranged
19:31deck of cards
19:31that they're going to switch in.
19:33What happened was
19:34in Atlantic City,
19:35they needed everybody
19:36to be distracted
19:37or as the cheaters call it,
19:39the turn.
19:40Because everyone
19:40is turned away
19:41from where the move
19:42is happening.
19:42And this one person
19:44stands up
19:45at a blackjack table
19:46and yells,
19:48I think I could fly.
19:49And he rips open his shirt
19:50and there's a Superman T-shirt.
19:53So everybody right now
19:54is looking at this nut.
19:55But no one saw
19:56six decks of cards
19:58being switched in
19:59on the table next to them.
20:00At Japan Pulse,
20:02I wonder how many gamblers
20:03are able to successfully
20:04beat the system at casinos.
20:06Well, there are many.
20:07And usually,
20:09they all get caught
20:09because the casinos
20:10have books full of them.
20:11So when you walk
20:12into a casino
20:13and they recognize
20:13you're in the book,
20:14they know you were
20:15one of the ones
20:16that could beat the system
20:16and they back you out.
20:18They ask you to leave
20:19and you're not out
20:19to play anymore.
20:20The records of the casinos
20:21keep on players.
20:22In the old days,
20:23there were actually binders
20:24called the Griffin.
20:25Casinos actually subscribed
20:26to it and received binders.
20:28Today,
20:29it's a digital database.
20:30For example,
20:31Biometrica.
20:32When you get put
20:32into that system,
20:33all the casinos
20:34that subscribe
20:35has access to the database.
20:37So once you're put
20:38into that database,
20:39all the casinos
20:40could bring it up
20:41and with facial recognition
20:42could see if you're
20:43in that system.
20:44Natatha, 855.
20:46What's the biggest scam
20:47or threat
20:48that casino surveillance
20:49should be looking out
20:50for this year?
20:50The biggest scams
20:51that are going on today
20:52are with cameras,
20:54small cameras,
20:54recording cards,
20:55and transmitting information.
20:57For example,
20:57one casino in Singapore
20:59got hit for half a million dollars
21:01before they got caught.
21:02They were transmitting cards
21:03outside to another player
21:05who was putting them
21:06in an Excel spreadsheet
21:08and then transmitting information
21:10back to the player
21:11at the table
21:12on how and when to bet.
21:13And they beat the casino
21:14for half a million.
21:15Now,
21:16technology aside,
21:17the most common scam
21:19that happens in casinos
21:20are dealers
21:21dumping the game.
21:22The dealers
21:23working in collusion
21:24with the partner,
21:25paying losing bets.
21:26If you lose,
21:26they just pay you.
21:27There are thousands of cameras
21:28in some of these biggest joints,
21:30but a lot of the rooms
21:31are understaffed.
21:32The chances of them
21:33missing that move
21:34could be good.
21:36Illustrious soul.
21:37Like,
21:38do you know how many cameras
21:39are in casinos?
21:40If you talk about
21:41a small casino
21:42off the strip,
21:43there might be
21:43hundreds of cameras.
21:44You go into a major casino
21:46in Macau,
21:47there are thousands of cameras.
21:48Now, remember,
21:49a lot of surveillance rooms
21:50are understaffed.
21:51However,
21:52these cameras
21:52are high def,
21:54which means
21:54they could zoom in
21:55and zoom out
21:56after the fact.
21:57Before,
21:58when they only had VHS tapes,
22:00you had one week
22:00and then those tapes were gone.
22:02They were erased.
22:03Today,
22:03surveillance could record
22:04that footage
22:05and then look at it
22:06a month later.
22:07Many companies
22:08that own
22:09several casinos
22:10are actually
22:11going into
22:12one surveillance room.
22:13So one surveillance room
22:14could be watching
22:15up to four or five properties.
22:17Now,
22:17even though companies
22:18are centralizing
22:19surveillance rooms,
22:20casinos do keep
22:21in touch with each other.
22:22So if you get backed
22:23out of one casino
22:24and walk into another casino
22:25that's owned
22:26by a different company,
22:28chances are good
22:28a call was made already.
22:30So even though
22:30you walk into another company,
22:32surveillance rooms
22:33do keep
22:34in touch with each other.
22:35Let's see,
22:36news crash.
22:37How long
22:37until most casinos
22:39have computer vision,
22:40AI,
22:41keeping count
22:42and using that info
22:43to back off players?
22:44It's too late.
22:45It's already there.
22:46Many casinos
22:47have systems
22:48and computer software
22:50that keep tracks of cards
22:51and know if a person
22:52is counting.
22:53There's one casino
22:54in downtown Las Vegas.
22:56They actually take
22:57your driver's license,
22:58scan it
22:58and have you look
22:59at the camera
23:00so they know
23:01who you are.
23:01They know when
23:02you're leaving that floor,
23:03when you're entering
23:04the floor,
23:05how long you've been there,
23:06where you are.
23:07They can keep track
23:08of you from the moment
23:09you go on property
23:10to the moment
23:11you leave.
23:12WiseMe
23:13wants to know,
23:14can you false shuffle?
23:15That's a great question
23:16because when a person
23:17is going to cheat,
23:18usually that's the first
23:19thing they learn.
23:20I'm going to explain to you
23:21and show you
23:21how to false shuffle
23:22and I'm going to turn
23:24the top cards face up.
23:25The first shuffle,
23:26I pull back the top card
23:28and that leaves a bookmark.
23:29We call it an injog
23:31and I shuffle for real.
23:32But right below this ledge
23:34are the cards
23:35that I want to control.
23:36The next shuffle,
23:37I just push up
23:38on that bookmark
23:38and it forms a break
23:40right above the cards
23:41that I want
23:41and I just shuffle them
23:42right back to the top.
23:44The next shuffle
23:45was the Hindu shuffle.
23:46I just took them
23:47from the middle.
23:48I'm just shuffling them
23:49from the middle.
23:49That's all I'm doing
23:50and I just kept
23:51those cards right here.
23:52Oh, this is a poker
23:53for I see those four aces.
23:54I go to throw them
23:55in the middle.
23:56The last second,
23:57I drop these
23:58and they go right back
23:58on top
23:59but it looks like that.
24:00Then I pick these up,
24:02throw them onto the table.
24:03They're right here.
24:03I kick these out,
24:05I push them back
24:06to the top
24:06and I just go like this
24:08and now they look
24:09like they really got mixed
24:10but those aces
24:11are under my control.
24:13This shuffle
24:14is called
24:14in the hand ripple.
24:15They take the cards
24:16and they shuffle them
24:18like this
24:18and all I'm doing
24:20is I'm just keeping
24:21these cards on top.
24:22How?
24:23The left hand,
24:24I let the cards fall faster
24:25than my right hand
24:27and these cards
24:28go right back on top
24:29and as you're talking
24:30and you're not paying
24:31attention to your hands,
24:32it's very deceptive.
24:34This is the casino shuffle.
24:35I keep the cards
24:36I want on top.
24:37When I cut,
24:38I hold a break
24:38right above them
24:39and then I strip
24:40to that break.
24:41Now watch that
24:41face down.
24:48That's a false shuffle.
24:50This is from
24:51NoStupidQuestions subreddit.
24:53Is it theoretically possible
24:55to put a camera
24:56in glasses
24:56that can accurately predict
24:58where the roulette ball
24:59will drop?
25:00Absolutely.
25:01There are people
25:02selling roulette
25:03prediction computers.
25:05I've seen demonstrations.
25:06I still have my doubts.
25:07Lauren Scott
25:08wrote a great
25:09two-volume treatise
25:10on visual wheel prediction
25:12where you can mentally
25:13track the ball speed
25:14and the rotor speed.
25:15However,
25:16there are so many
25:16factors involved.
25:18You need a dealer
25:18to allow you to bet
25:19right up until the ball drops
25:21which is a breaking procedure.
25:22Also,
25:23the way the roulette wheels
25:24are being manufactured today,
25:26the base is lower
25:27so the cone,
25:28it's a lower profile.
25:30They're putting more
25:30deflectors on it
25:32and all these are
25:33to help increase
25:34ramdenness.
25:35So I gotta be honest,
25:36it's not as easy
25:37as you think.
25:38Vashina Roy wants to know,
25:39can you hack
25:40the slot machines?
25:42I don't know.
25:42Now,
25:42can the casinos
25:43alter the machines?
25:45Absolutely.
25:46By the turn of a screw,
25:47they can make the machines
25:48looser,
25:48which means more payouts,
25:50or tighter,
25:50meaning less payouts.
25:52It is 100% illegal
25:53to make those machines
25:55where they cannot pay out
25:56at all,
25:57but
25:57it can be done.
25:59I was told by a slot tech
26:01that they keep
26:02the machines
26:03that pay more
26:03closer to the entrances.
26:05They're not the big jackpots,
26:06but it's enough
26:07to bring people
26:08into the casino
26:09where they think
26:09they have a chance.
26:10And when they go
26:11for the slot machines
26:12with the bigger jackpots,
26:13those are gonna be
26:14the ones
26:14that are tougher
26:15to win on.
26:16Dearboy157,
26:18how do you cheat
26:19sports betting?
26:20Well,
26:21in a casino,
26:21if you want a big money scam,
26:23you gotta get
26:24the dealer involved.
26:25If you wanna cheat
26:25at sports,
26:26you need the players.
26:28Arnold Rothstein
26:28set up the World Series
26:29where they got
26:30the White Sox
26:31to throw the game.
26:32Aria Casino
26:33wants to know,
26:34what is chip dumping
26:35in poker?
26:36Chip dumping
26:37means taking your chips
26:38and purposely losing them
26:40to your partner
26:41to make them
26:42the chip leader.
26:43So if me
26:43and two other partners
26:44are on the table,
26:45me and my other partner
26:46will dump our chips
26:47off to the third person
26:48to make them
26:49the chip leader.
26:50Dank Poker
26:50wants to know,
26:51did Phil Ivey cheat
26:53and what is edge sorting?
26:54Phil Ivey
26:55is a world famous
26:56poker player.
26:57He became a Baccarat player
26:58with a partner
26:59named Kelly Sun.
27:01And they were able
27:02to beat the casinos
27:03for millions of dollars.
27:05Now,
27:05is it illegal
27:06what he did?
27:07This is the biggest debate
27:08in the casino industry.
27:09Half the industry
27:10said this was cheating,
27:11the other half
27:12says he wasn't.
27:13So you're probably
27:13sitting there saying,
27:14what is edge sorting?
27:15Well,
27:15let me just give you
27:16a simple example.
27:17If I take this casino
27:18deck of cards,
27:19yes,
27:20there are circles
27:20in the middle
27:21because before the casino
27:22sells what gives them away,
27:24they drill them
27:25so they can't be reintroduced.
27:27If I take this deck
27:28and I shuffle them
27:29and I'm gonna try
27:30and tell you
27:30where the 10s
27:31and aces are.
27:32Is that a 10 or an ace?
27:33No,
27:33it's not.
27:34It's a low card.
27:35How about that one,
27:35Sal?
27:36That's a low card.
27:37That's a low card.
27:38Oh,
27:38that's a 10 or an ace.
27:39I guarantee it.
27:40How about that one?
27:41That's a low card.
27:42This is a low card.
27:43There's your 10 or an ace.
27:44So you're probably saying,
27:45how is he doing this?
27:47Because of the manufacturing process
27:50on how playing cards are cut,
27:51it is impossible
27:52to cut a card evenly.
27:54This is called a diamondback.
27:56This card's a staple
27:57in the casino industry.
27:58If you look on this edge
27:59right here,
28:00you're gonna see
28:01this edge
28:02is a half a diamond
28:03where on this edge
28:04it's a full diamond.
28:05So in this particular deck,
28:07every card is cut
28:08the same way.
28:09However,
28:10if I could somehow
28:12get cards turned around,
28:15I could distinguish
28:15one from the other.
28:17Even though they're shuffled,
28:19if I look down,
28:20I see this is a full diamond.
28:21That is a low card.
28:23I see that is a half a diamond.
28:25That is a 10 or an ace.
28:27Very simple.
28:28The hard part
28:29is getting the casino
28:30to turn the cards around.
28:33So how did Phil Ivey
28:34get the casino
28:35to turn cards around for him?
28:37Well, first of all,
28:38Phil Ivey's a big gambler.
28:39Casinos want the money.
28:41So all Phil Ivey said was,
28:42we want the cards
28:43to become pre-shuffled
28:44and we don't want to wash.
28:46That's where the casino
28:47takes the cards
28:48and scrambles them
28:48all over the table.
28:49The casino says,
28:50no problem,
28:51no wash.
28:52Then he says,
28:53we want the cards
28:54shown to us first.
28:55And then we want to tell the dealer
28:57how to pick up the cards.
28:58Plus, we want to bet
28:59after the cards have been dealt.
29:01So let's play around
29:02Phil Ivey style.
29:03Now, Phil Ivey makes his bet,
29:06a little bet.
29:06We'll bet here.
29:07Now the casino showed
29:08Phil Ivey each card.
29:10If Kelly's son said
29:11that card is unlucky,
29:13she wants it turned over this way.
29:15Unlucky.
29:17That's unlucky.
29:18Lucky cards get turned over that way.
29:20So, because certain cards
29:22were turned over this way,
29:23certain cards were turned over that way,
29:25no matter how these cards
29:27get shuffled,
29:28providing they're not spun around,
29:30you can look down
29:31and see,
29:31wait a minute,
29:32big diamond,
29:33big diamond,
29:33big diamond,
29:34little diamond.
29:35There's your eight or nine.
29:36So what does that mean?
29:38Bet big on the banker
29:39because you have a big edge
29:40over the house right now
29:41knowing this is an eight or a nine.
29:43So those are all
29:44the questions for today.
29:45Thanks for watching
29:46Casino Cheating Support.