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Beyond the normal chip
switching and cheaters trying to swindle fellow players, cheating
at a casino is as close to impossible as you can get and it comes
with some pretty heavy consequences.
That being said, it's
been tried. The bottom examples are the coolest I've heard for
craps.
Switching the Die
Switching the Die was
the old method of cheating. The Shooter would palm the die and
switch them out for leaded die that are wieghted to give a more
consistant roll for the shooter.
A couple of things
make this difficult now. The first being that now there are 4
casino employees watching your every move, not to mention the
100's of cameras that are watching your every move.
They also alter up
the die with some regularity. If the die are found to be unbalanced
(because they weigh them) the video tapes from the day are reviewed
and the shooter that switched the die is apprehended.
On the old riverboat
casino of the south, when they found a cheat they would actually
pull over the boat and string him up.
Stacking the Die
I love this one. The
shooter would arrange the die in the palm of his hand for the
number he wants to show on the table. He makes a big deal of shaking
his fist and hurling the die across the table.
What the shooter is
actually doing is sliding the die down the table.
The Casinos combated
this by changing the table.
First there is a ridge
on the table near the end that will make the die pop-up and flip
in the air. Second the egg carton foam on the sides of the table
create a completely random bounce off the far wall.
Boxman will disallow
a roll if the roll does not bounce off the far wall.
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