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Bringing Down the House

BRINGING DOWN the house Cheaters who flipped the odds in their favor INFAMOUS Casino Hacks THE REMOTE CONTROLLED 1973 Roulette ball CASINO DEAUVILLE DEAUVILLE, FRANCE THE Monique Laurent Pajoff $984,251 THE Player Places the bet. THE Insider THE Driver 5 MILLION FRANCS Influences the modified roulette ball to determine a favorable outcome. Introduces the modified ball on to the wheel. in one week THE HACKING OF THE THE 1999 Slot Machine Jackpot $46 MILLION LAS VEGAS STRIP LAS VEGAS, NEVADA "tick, ,tock 7 DENNIS Nikrasch Modifies a slot machine computer chip. He is able to open the slot machine and insert his chip in under a minute. THE 2011 Cufflink Camera THE Payoff an estimate of $10 MILLION+ THE COSMOPOLITAN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA THE Cutters Gang Takes picutres of the card deck with a tiny camera hidden in a cufflink. They excuse themselves, review the pictures quickly, and proceed to play the game accordingly. п COMMON Cheating Lingo V Mucking hiding cards to later switch into play. V Cold Deck sneaking in a pre-ordered deck. Pinching when a player takes away from the original bet. O Capping when a player adds to the orignal bet while the dealer is distracted. O Card Counting tallying the value of the cards to keep track of those remaining. CHEATERS WHO Definitely Cheated CHEATERS WHO Didn't Actually Cheat TOMMY GLENN Carmichael "GIVE ME A SLOT MACHINE AND I'LL BEAT IT" GONZALO Garcia-Pelayo THE RECORD PRODUCER TURNED ROULETTE MASTER He studied the inside of slot machines and developed a light wand that, when shined into the machine, blinded the sensor and caused it to payout coins He identified wheel biases on roulette wheels and used that knowledge to pick casinos in Spain and Las Vegas clean HIS CHEATING SPANNED FROM: 1980-2001 HE RETIRED WITH AN ESTIMATED: $1.5 MILLION in that time he was arrested FOUR TIMES Spain's supreme court said he only used "ingenuity & computer techniques." IDA Summers DOMINIC Loriggio THE "HAND MUCKING" BEAUTY "THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM" She brazenly used every gambling cheating method in the book: hand mucking, using cold decks, and palming cards right in the middle of a game. She was one of the only people to ever successfully insert cold decks multiple times before finally being caught. Through his knowledge of physics, he controlled his craps dice tossing, and was able to get them to roll specific numbers. HE HAS BEEN AN ADVANTAGE HER CHEATING 1960-1979 25 YEARS BLACKJACK PLAYER FOR: SPANNED FROM: He now teaches the revolutionary SPEED COUNT & Optimum Basic Strategy at that time she was the only known FEMALE CHEAT KEITH Taft MIT Blackjack Team THE REAL LIFE INSPECTOR GADGET THE CARD COUNTERS Brilliant MIT students decided to use statistic- He created a series of card counting computers that he wore in the early 1970s. His technology was so advanced for its time the US officials couldn't even figure out how he used it for cheating, and he was released without penalty. based systems of counting cards to beat the game of blackjack. Subsequently, they cleaned out Las Vegas casinos for years. $40,000 IN ONE WEEKEND THEY ACCRUED: $400,000 IN THE FIRST WEEK OF USING HIS DEVICE HE MADE: he was inducted into the Blackjack Hall of Fame in 2004 the movie "21" is based on their story there are an average of 5,000 HD CAMERAS per casino with zoom capabilities: can read dice, cards and chips of every play. WAYS CASINOS Catch Cheaters RFID: RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION Rfid chips aid in the collection of individual's gambling habits to detect anomalies. Facial recognition AND BODY LANGUAGE Experts observe players from how clothes are worn to hand position to facial ticks. BiometricsTECHNOLOGY Capable of spotting known cheaters through disguises, reconstructive surgery, and contact lenses. Y visual COMMUNICATION Players must use hand gestures for each move. Dealers clap and show spread fingers between games. SOURCES: presented by http://listverse.com/2010/01/24/10-gamblers-who-beat-the-casinol DEVELOPED BY N NOWSOURCING http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?s[1][id]=EXFRUS5.08 rate in january 1973 POKERSITES COM

Bringing Down the House

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Cheaters who flipped the odds in their favor. Card counting is just one way to beat the house.

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