Exploring the Fascinating World of Casino Cheating Techniques is an engaging and educational book about how casinos cheat. It covers methods like false shuffles, full deck control and palming as well as some lesser known techniques which may not have been given sufficient consideration by its author.
From the MIT Blackjack Team to notorious casino cheats, this book illuminates some of the bold methods that people employ to defraud casinos. Additionally, it provides tips for both players and management alike.
Cheat codes
Casinos employ stringent security systems to prevent cheating, but some professional casino cheaters still manage to fool machines into paying out. Some of these tricks recall Ocean’s Eleven where magnets and wires were used to manipulate slot machines – though using such techniques in most casinos is illegal and experienced casino cheaters will likely get caught quickly.
Even though modern slot machines rely on random number generator software, they remain vulnerable to glitches that cheaters can exploit. One such method was the yo-yo coin trick; here cheaters would string a fake coin onto string and use it yo-yo into a machine’s scanner causing it to think it had received a real coin when it hadn’t. While this strategy worked on older machines with less sophisticated sensors or vending machines with optical sensors for coin identification it wouldn’t work anymore.
False shuffles
False shuffles are an age-old casino cheating technique. By creating “slugs” of cards that remain together after being shuffled by a dealer, false shuffles allow teams of cheaters to remember which order the cards were dealt in and place large bets when those cards reappeared in the shoe. Recently in San Diego a former dealer who worked with an organization which recruited disgruntled dealers and taught them the scam was found guilty for this crime.
After the dealer shuffles, an accomplice will write down the order of cards in the previous shoe slug and signal for a false shuffle by cheaters; this will make it appear that the dealer followed protocol but in reality have their own special stack in place – similar methods of culling, palming and mucking can also be employed to control desired cards in a deck.
Spinning reels
Spinning reels are the ubiquitous form of slots game play, deployed across most games. Their simplicity, speed and winning potential makes them popular choices; some may even enjoy rapid-firing bets at low stakes in order to see results quicker; but keep in mind this has no bearing on how things turn out!
Prior to modern video slot machines becoming widely available, people often used magnets to stop reels when winning combinations were achieved – an extremely popular method that offered huge payouts until developers caught on to its use and began developing more efficient slot machines.
Spinning reels differ from casting reels in that they utilize a fixed spool with an operable bail to wrap line onto it when the handle is turned. A gear ratio, or speed ratio, refers to how often the bail turns around for every full turn of the handle; an elevated gear ratio usually indicates slow speed while low gear ratios indicate fast speed.
Random number generators
Random number generators (RNGs) are essential parts of online casino gaming. Their use ensures that when you spin a slot machine reel or flip a roulette wheel, the outcome will always be completely random and unpredictable.
RNGs use highly intricate algorithms that are difficult to hack; however, this has been done. Most commonly these hacks occur due to security flaws within the system itself as opposed to players attempting to cheat directly.
However, while some players might think they can use intuition to beat an RNG, this is physically impossible. An RNG produces millions of different numbers every second, making it nearly impossible to anticipate what might come next. Furthermore, every millisecond new numbers are being generated – making it almost impossible to accurately predict when something might come up on screen! Even after watching one slot machine spin for an hour’s duration without success it wouldn’t be possible to predict its outcome!
