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Cheating in casinos refers to actions by the player or the house which are prohibited by regional gambling control authorities. This may involve using suspect apparatus, interfering with apparatus, chip fraud or misrepresenting games. The formally prescribed sanctions for cheating depend on the circumstances and gravity of the cheating and the jurisdiction in which the casino operates. In Nevada, for a player to cheat in a casino is a felony under Nevada law. In most other jurisdictions, specific statutes do not exist, and alleged instances of cheating are resolved by the gambling authority who may have more or less authority to enforce its verdict.

Advantage play techniques are not cheating. Card counting, for example, is a legitimate advantage play strategy that can be employed in blackjack and other card games. In almost all jurisdictions, casinos are permitted to ban from their premises customers they believe are using advantage play, regardless of whether they are in fact doing so and even though it is not cheating, though this practice of barring law-abiding citizens from public places is subject to judicial review. So far, courts in New Jersey and North Las Vegas, Nevada have found the practice of barring law-abiding citizens to be illegal.

Online casinos are also vulnerable to certain cheating methods. In the early 2000s, some players discovered that the random number generator at one poker site did not produce truly random sets of 'decks', and instead chose from about only 200,000 different possible deck configurations. Generation of true random numbers by machines continues to be difficult. This allowed the players to know what flop was coming if they knew the hands being held by three players.

Methods of cheating by players[edit]

Cards used at table games are altered by the casinos to prevent them from being used to cheat at table games.

The machines can hold 1,000 coins or tokens, therefore, if this device is used on a $1.00 machine, then it can be emptied of $1,000.00 in SECONDS!!! Also works on Video Poker machines. Effective on ALL denomination machines: Quarter, $1.00, $5.00, $25.00, $100.00, etc.
Poker Cheatss and Casino Cheats Hall of Fame. Dennis Sean McAndrew. Dennis Sean McAndrew, better known by his original name, Dennis Nikrasch, was born in September, 1941, and has been called the greatest slot machine cheat in gambling history.

The well-written video poker cheating story comes from the October issue of Wired magazine. It details how Las Vegas resident John Kane, and his friend, Andre Nestor, were able to exploit glitches in video poker machine software to capture jackpots ranging up to the tens of thousands of dollars range.

The methods for cheating in a casino are often specific to individual games and include the following:

Past posting: After a bet is won, a player replaces smaller-denomination chips with large-denomination chips.
Hand mucking: Palming desirable cards, then switching them for less desirable cards that the gambler holds.
Card marking: Various methods exist to mark cards during play.
Marked decks: Usually involving the collusion of casino employees, it may be possible for a marked deck to be introduced into play. There are many different ways to mark decks of cards, some of them very difficult to detect. Casinos often replace their cards at table games and either sell or give away the used decks. These decks are usually cut or altered before they are sold or given away. This to prevent cheaters from buying used decks and then using the cards to cheat at table games.
Slot machines: Methods exist for altering the outcome of slot machine games.
Collusion: In poker games, the practice of two partners signaling to each other the values of their cards can be very difficult to detect.^[1] Also, in table games, players can collude with the dealer.
Using auxiliary devices: In Nevada, New Jersey, and other jurisdictions, using any device which helps to forecast the odds or aid in a legitimate strategy such as card counting is regarded as cheating.^[2]
Top hats: In Roulette, players place a bet after the ball has landed. The chips are disguised using a third party's chip - the 'top hat'.
Using a computer to gain an edge, illegal in Nevada since 1985.

Methods of cheating by casinos[edit]

Using a rigged roulette wheel.
False deals: A dealer may be able to deal the second card from the top (used in conjunction with marked cards), or the ability to deal the bottom card of the deck (used in conjunction with placing desirable cards at the bottom of the deck), see for example Mechanic's grip.
False shuffles and cuts: A dealer may seem to mix or cut the cards, while retaining certain cards or the whole deck in a desired order.
Using a deck of cards with non-standard composition.
Using a cold deck.
Using loaded dice.
Using rulesets not sanctioned by a gambling control authority.
Using slot machines which pay lower than the statutory minimum.
False advertising by not paying advertised promotions.
Mail fraud or sending a mail offer but not honoring the offer once the customer is at the casino, also called bait and switch.
Rigged video poker machines, such as the Vegas 'American Coin Scandal'^[3]
Rigged drawings, such as at The Venetian, Las Vegas.^[4]
Corrupt regulators, such as Ronald Dale Harris.
Using a computer to gain an edge over the players.

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Prevention of cheating[edit]

Cheating can be reduced by employing 'proper procedure' - certain standardized ways of shuffling cards, dealing cards, storing, retrieving and opening new decks of cards.^[5]

Most casinos are obliged to have an extensive array of security cameras and recorders which monitor and record all the action in a casino, which can be used to resolve some disputes. Some casinos use facial recognition software to detect known cheats and criminals.^[6]

References[edit]

^T. Hayes, 'Collusion Strategy and Analysis for Texas Hold'em', 2017
^Forte, Steve. Casino Game Protection. SLF Publishing, 2004
^American Coin: A True Story of Betrayal, Gambling, and Murder in Las Vegas, Frank Romano, 2013, ISBN1475985096
^Simpson, Jeff (25 February 2004). 'Venetian Settles Complaints'. Las Vegas Sun. casinocitytimes.com. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
^Zender, Bill. Casino-ology 2 : new strategies for managing casino games. Huntington Press. ISBN9781935396437.
^Prince, Todd (13 October 2018). 'Facial recognition technology coming to Las Vegas Strip casinos'. Las Vegas Review-Journal.

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Many video poker machines are as vulnerable in regards to being cheated and scammed as slot machines, however there was recently a major bug discovered on a land based video poker machine that could turn a small winning payout into a much larger sized one.

Video Poker Machine Secrets

Imagine playing a multi denomination video poker game and being able to increase the coin values at which you are playing at, but after you have actually played off a hand. If you could do that then you would be able to play that game for low stakes and then when you have a decent winning hand combination increase the coin values and get paid out much more.

Well, that has actually what you have been able to do on one of the most commonly found video poker machines in many land based casinos for many years now! The only problem was that not everyone knew how to do it and recently a case went to court regarding two men who accidentally stumbled on this design flaw on the Game King video poker machine.

How to Game King Video Poker Bug Worked

Let us explain how this very unusual bug in the Game King video poker machine worked. You would first need to locate a machine on which the double up gamble feature option was switched on and available. The machine you choose must always have been a multi denomination one. It is worth noting that many casinos chose to deactivate the gamble option as many players found it annoying as it slowed down their game play.

However, by asking a passing slot attendant a player could request that the double up option was turned on and this would be something any slot attendant would be more than happy to do for those players.

Next you would simply have to choose one of the different video poker games offered on the Game King machine to play, and set that game to play with just one coin which must be the lowest valued coin option available. The majority of Game King Machines would give players the option of play for coin values of 1.00, 2.00, 5.00 or 10.00 and obviously in such case a player would simply choose the 1.00 coin value setting and then play off five of those coins per hand dealt out.

You would have to keep playing that video poker machine on stakes of 1.00 for as long as it takes to get dealt out one of the better paying hand combinations on the pay table, and as soon as one was dealt out to you this is where the bug could be exploited.

As soon as that high valued hand combination was dealt out, you should not cash out those cash but instead click on the More Games button and locate a different video poker game to play and then start to play that game until a wining hand combination of any value has been dealt out to you.

Next you need to insert more money into the machine which should be enough in value to cover the largest possible valued bet you can play. You then click on the More Games button once again but this time increase the coin denomination setting to the maximum one, which in most cases was 10.00 and then once you have changed the coin denomination to the highest setting simply select the original game you was playing on which you had been dealt out the high valued hand but hadn’t yet cash it out.

Once the game is loaded the original winning payout for that hand combination will now be waiting to be cash out not based on the original 1.00 setting, but due to a bug in the machine it would suddenly become a win based on coin values of 10.00 and as such you are awarded a much bigger winning payout.

What made this bug a very profitable one was that once you played around with the games and found other ways to exploit the bug a player could repeat the cycle of cashing out a big win over and over again by repeating the above cycle repeatedly on the same one original hand combination, and a player could also do the same on other peoples jackpot or high valued winning payouts by jumping on those machines if a player had won the jackpot or a high valued win.

Does the Game King Video Poker Bug Still Work?

This bug was exploited to great effect by two guys who discovered it, however eventually suspicion was aroused in one land based casino when they chose to repeatedly rinse the same winning hand combination more than once.

An alert security team member who was viewing the CCTV footage noticed something wasn’t quite right and upon further investigation by reviewing the footage repeatedly the casino employees were able to replicate the bug and those two men were subsequently arrested and charged.

However, when the court case date came around both men refused to plead guilty and the prosecution were trying to find something that they could be charged on, even a plea bargaining was offered, however eventually the Justice Department decided to drop the case and both men were free.

As soon as Game King became aware of this bug on their gaming machines an urgent patch was launched and each machine, it is thought, has now been given a software update which means sadly you are unable to make use of this bug anymore, that is unless of course you chance upon a machine that has not had its software updated.