The 10 BIGGEST Casino Scams EVER!!
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Number 10: The Roselli Brothers.
The advent of the Internet enabled some of the greatest things to ever exist, but it also made possible numerous scams and all kinds of thefts. One of such is the infamous Roselli Scam.
In the time frame from 1995 to 2000, two online scam artists pulled off something insane. They called themselves the “Roselli Brothers” and, during those five years, they operated in casinos from Nevada, Puerto Rico and New Jersey. And they stole $37 million dollars from them.
The Roselli brothers hired someone who was great with computer hacker and managed to obtain credit information for people with really good credit scores and, within just a couple of months, the Roselli Brothers were able to get credit lines from major casinos, and up the stakes. What happened next is like something from the “Ocean’s Eleven” franchise: by the year 2000, they were playing 100k-bets per hand. After cleaning the casinos out, the Rosellis disappeared. No one could find any trace that would lead to them. The FBI needed additional six month to realize what had happened – nobody had even known that the heist had even occurred! And needless to say, the name Roselli Brothers was just a backdrop, as the real Rosellis had died years ago. To this day, no one knows who the casino scammers were.
Number 9: The Cigarette Scam.
The previous entry was like something out of Ocean’s 11, but this one – this is straight James Bond material right here. And it involved a pack of cigarette – how fitting.
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In 1973, at the Casino Deauville in France, a roulette scam took place, and it made the list of the smartest casino scams ever. The set-up is as follows: one of the casino’s dealers was also in charge of the radio signaling. He had come up with a radio transmitter that was a perfect fit for a pack of smokes. But that was just one piece of the puzzle; there was also a receiver, a weightless one, which the dealer had placed inside a roulette ball. Of course, it was the roulette ball from the table he was working at.
The dealer’s brother-in-law played as an unknown casino visitor, and he placed bets at the table. The third member of the gang, the dealer’s sister, used the pack of cigarettes and pressed the transmitter button. Every time the button was pressed, the roulette ball would slide off from its spin and fall into a group of only six numbers that were possible per combination. The roulette ball was 90% accurate, and the team managed to rake in over $5 million in one week. They were eventually caught, not because their scam fell through, but because the dealer’s sister was so good-looking that she caught the attention of the casino staff. After realizing he was always at the table, they became suspicious… But the cigarette scam is still one of the biggest ever.
Number 8: The Contact Lens Scam.
Technology can really help you go a long way – especially if you’re creative.
This scam took place in 2011, when a Frenchman, backed by three Italians, stole little over $80,000 from a casino in Cannes, using a really smart method. The game they played was stud poker; what the Frenchman would do is mark the card decks with special ink the normal eye cannot detect – and then the three Italians wore special kinds of contact lenses. These lenses could notice the marking made on the card decks.
When two substantial winnings took place in the same casino, the staff members became very alert. Right away, they called the police. But once the police came, it took them quite some time to figure what had happened. It was pretty clear, right from the start, that invisible ink was involved, but the police couldn’t prove how the scammers were able to see the ink. After an in-depth investigation, they saw that each of the scammers had those contact lenses. In the end, the scammers all faced long jail sentences, but this has got to be one of the most creative casino scams ever.
Number 7: The Edge Sorting Scam.
Before we get into it, let’s first make sure you know what “edge sorting” really is. It’s a method of memorizing cards in a deck, and using them for running all kinds of shady plans. In order to do this, you have to be good with the cards; I mean, you have to have your “way” with them.
All Comments (21)
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Have you ever heard of anyone scamming a casino before?
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Ivy is no cheat, the casino failed, the casino used a defect deck. Ivy took advantage of public info without any other action than observe.
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Card counting isn’t cheating, it’s being smarter than the casino.
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# 3 is an interesting read. Louis Colavecchio was a retired machinist from Rhode Island. When Foxwoods opened it was literally his first casino ever. He got interested in the slot machines and the coins and then tokens they used. As a joke he had the tokens metal analyzed, made similar size and weight coins and tokens. The only way he was caught, besides winning so much and drawing suspicion, was one day or one week the casino did an informal token inventory and found out they had more tokens than they issued! So they realized somebody was putting in fake tokens! Louis got a little crazy and started making bags and boxes of coins, going to different casinos with his car trunk loaded with fake tokens, becoming a high roller, getting comps and suites. He could have quietly made maybe $ 100 K a year and nobody would have ever known.
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Ivey didn’t cheat! He kept track of the cards in his head! How is that cheating?
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"After 2 substantial winnings the casino called the police" LMFAO
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Edge sorting isn't a scam. It's the casino's problem if they use cards that can be sorted by deviations.
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Anyone who cons a casino deserves my utmost respect. All casinos do is con gamblers, so anyone getting their own back is fine by me. Gambling can be an addiction, and casinos are just taking advantage of people in EXACTLY the same way as a drug dealer does with an addict. Casinos and bookies ruin just as many lives (if not more) than a gun toting drug dealer!!! The only difference is drug dealers don't advertise on TV and online!!!
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Great video!
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The one with Phil wasn't a scam. Him and the casino agreed on certain terms. And one of the terms allowed Phill and the person he was with at the time to look at the cards dealt, before placing a bet. The casino was sour because of what they allowed.
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These are impressive!
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Bro turn down the background music
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Taft didn't cheat, it was a computer that played very well. They made a law after, that it wasn't allowed.
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Most of these are really inaccurate or just don’t explain the real story at all.
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In defense of Phil Ivey, he was never arrested by the casino commission and -- although it exploited a weakness in the casino system -- it is NOT cheating and NOT illegal. The fact that he lost the suit and could not recover his winnings just proves the casino has better lawyers or that the commission couldn't let this go. Phil Ivey is not a cheat and did nothing illegal
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The heists fascinate me that people can come up so many creative ideas. I love games too.
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I don’t get why the Rosselli brothers aren’t number one on this list instead of dead last. Over 30+ million stolen and both of them never caught? Perfect heist. Literally.
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That s shocking ! Great video
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That guy that was accused for memorizing patterns on the cards is complete bs should have been let go with his winnings the casino should be held responsible and replace their cards.
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