Baccarat Scam Nets Casino Gang $1.3 Million

[chessplayer]

Again, I am not trying to cast doubt but clarifying. I am not that clear, how does a gambler riffle the cards without causing suspicion. Won't the whole deck which is to be cut be in one line?

Another thing I heard was that it was a camera hidden up his sleeve, so as he riffled back and forth with the cut card like a superstitious gambler, he was actually scanning the cards and transmitting what it saw to a confederate. Now, that's a story I can buy. Magicians use up the sleeve devices all the time; in this case, it would simply be a strap or other gizmo attached to the arm on which to mount the camera securely and at the proper angle.

 

[Gamblor]

Its called NANO tech. DARPA's got it. zg

Yes, not something these guys would get from Brookstone

Wonder if there is an enterprising DARPA recipient, using some crazy advanced technology to try to beat some casino games, a la Thorp back in the day using such crazy advanced technologies as computers.

 

[aslan]

Again, I am not trying to cast doubt but clarifying. I am not that clear, how does a gambler riffle the cards without causing suspicion. Won't the whole deck which is to be cut be in one line?

Acting like a wildly superstitious Asian player, I suppose, riffling the cut card against the long stack of shoe cards. I guess it was suspicious to some, not to others who bought the act. Surveillance should be able to catch something like this I would think, if they were watching at the time. I can imagine him riffling back and forth. Of course, only the camera might be in line to actually see the riffled cards. But your guess is as good as mine. The events were reported in the newspapers; I wasn't there.

 

[Wookets]

Its called NANO tech. DARPA's got it. zg

I read an article the other day that said the special forces have created flying cameras the size of flies that can be used for intel purposes. Pretty amazing stuff!

 

[aslan]

I read an article the other day that said the special forces have created flying cameras the size of flies that can be used for intel purposes. Pretty amazing stuff!

I think I read that in a spy novel (could have been Splinter Cell?). I don't know whether fiction writers stick to the real world realities or not.

 

[zengrifter]

Again, I am not trying to cast doubt but clarifying. I am not that clear, how does a gambler riffle the cards without causing suspicion. Won't the whole deck which is to be cut be in one line?

If they used the camera I describe, they don't need the riffle or order.
All they will have is the first card of the round to be dealt, giving them about 5% EV. zg

 

[zengrifter]

I think I read that in a spy novel (could have been Splinter Cell?). I don't know whether fiction writers stick to the real world realities or not.

Yes, DARPA - humming bird and dragonfly surveillance drones, and smALLER FLIES, and soon mosquito-sized drones. zg

 

[zengrifter]

Yes, DARPA - humming bird and dragonfly surveillance drones, and smALLER FLIES, and mosquito-sized AND gnat-sized drones. zg

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