Nine scandals that shake the gambling industry

Facebook email icon folder. Indicates that you can send emails.

An illustration of a bird with a twitter icon tweeted.

Twitter icon Linkedin

Linkedin link icon chain link image. Associate the link URL of the website.

Copy Icon Bolt Link Icon Link icon in the shape of lightning.

Save Article ICON Bookmark Getty image

This article is limited to Business Insider subscribers. Do you have an account? Signing in

• Over the years, Las Vegas and other casinos have won millions of dollars (hundreds of millions of yen) with Ikasama scandals.
• For many years, some Ikasama teachers have been around the security of casinos, but most of them are in prison.
• Here are nine scandals that have shaken the gambling industry.
• For other articles, see the Business Insider website.

If you apply for a subscription, we will deliver the largest topic of today's topic in market, technology, and business every day. Read the preview

Thank you for your registration! To the newsletter setting Thank you for your subscription! You can access your favorite topic from the go. Download the app advertisement

Gambling has long been an activity for dangerous and dangerous people who want to try their luck.

However, sometimes the agent scammer tried luck from the equation.

For many years, Las Vegas and other regional casinos have been dropped down by millions of dollars, saying that criminals have found a way to leave with a large prize that they were not lucky.

Some criminals have been overwhelmed by casinos for many years, but most of them are in prison. Whether you count the cards, manipulate the machine illegally, go out, or just take out a bag full of cash, many of them get a big prize, but they often leave. You will pay for it.

advertisement

Here are nine illegal scandals that have shaken the gambling industry for many years.

advertisement

Tommy Glenkaekel's devices such as "Paw 'Monkey" and "Light Wand" helped to operate the sprotch machine illegally and steal millions of dollars from the casino.

A man who played a slot machine at the Amelistar casino in Kansas City, Missouri, photographed on Friday, January 15, 2016. Charlie Riedel/AP Photo

For about 20 years, Tommy Glenkamykel has stealed millions of dollars from the casino by crafting the slot machine.

One of his inventions was known as a slider or monkey foot, turned the microscope off through a wire in a machin e-paying bag, tricking the machine to release the jackpot.

As the technology of the slot machine progressed, the technique of Cermae Kel has advanced. Using the camera battery and a small light bulb, he invented a "glowing stick" that could not see the sensor of the slot machine and flutter the machine to exhale coins. According to the Los Angeles Times, Carmykel succeeded in earning several thousands of dollars a day on a slot machine.

In 2001, Cermicell was arrested by the FBI investigation and received a 32 6-day prisoner and three years of care. Admission to the casino was also banned.

advertisement

MIT's infamous Black Jack Group has led card counting to a new height from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Stephen Lovekin/ Getty Image

From the 1970s to the 1990s, MIT's Blackjack Team used a card counting technique to defeat a casino and earn millions of dollars.

This team, which is composed of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, and other famous schools and former students, is one of the first Black Jack Teams who defeated the casino using organizational and scientific tactics. It is.

It is said that Group leader Bill Caplan has trained more than 100 black jack players for many years and earned $ 10 million for himself and for casinos around the world. It is. "

Eventually, the casino learned of this elaborate plan and began to ban gambling as a group member. Some members continued gambling in the 2000s, but the group broke up by 1993. The group of this group was a hint for the 2008 movie "21".

advertisement

In the early 1990s, the software designer of the Nevada Gambling Committee coded a slot machine to pay a huge jackpot to his partner.

Getty image

In the early 1990s, Ron Harris was a software engineer and wrote a fraudulent software for the Nevada State Gambling Management Committee.

However, he secretly codeed a machine with a hidden software switch, where the player puts coins in a specific order and paid a huge jackpot.

According to CNN, Harris has made 30 machines before the accomplices play slots and run hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Harris eventually captured Rwan when one of his partners trying to get out of Ken games in Atlantic City was broken. According to Las Vegas Saint, Harris acknowledged four blackmails in 1996 and was sentenced to seven years.

advertisement

Delicatessen's purveyor Louis 'The Coin' Coravecchio was captured with more than 750 pounds of fake coins and machines in a car.

Tiron Sue/ Reuters

Lewis Core Beckio, known as the Coin, was a famous Richeon who won thousands of dollars from Las Vegas casinos using a manufactured machine coin without betting on a real money.

According to Coinweek, in 1997 he was convicted of coins and was sentenced to a federal prison for 27 months. According to New Haven Register, when he was arrested in Atlantic City, his car had 750 pounds of coins.

According to the Providence Journal, Koreea Beckio was once again arrested last year in a Portel, Lord Island, at the age of 76, forking 2. 400 fake $ 100 bills.

advertisement

John Kane has found a bug in the slot machine and has been able to repeat the same hand over and over again, acquiring $ 500, 000.

Wayne Parry/AP Photo

John Kane succeeded in winning more than $ 500, 000 in video poker, using software bugs found on a nationwide machine.

According to Wired, Kane inadvertently discovered a bug in a video poker king line machine that could repeat the hand with a different keybet. In other words, Kane sits in front of the machine for hours and bets 1 minute at a time, and finally gets a hand of jackpot winning, can repeat the hand of $ 10 with a maximum of $ 10 and get a dividend of $ 10. 00 or more. I was able to do it.

Andre Nester, who was involved in the plan with Kane and his friend, was finally arrested, but both were released because the Federal Prosecutor could not justify the hacking and collusion.

"All of these men just pressed a series of buttons that have the right to press legally," said Kane's lawyer.

advertisement

Casino employee William John Brennan has been missing from the door with the stolen chips and $ 500, 000 cash.

The casino has surveillance cameras everywhere, but William John Brennan still has found a way to disappear.

Brennan was a former sportsbook cashier at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas Strip. According to Las Vegas Saint, Brennan put cash and chips equivalent to $ 500, 000 in a bag and left the casino door and did not show up. According to News 3 Las Vegas, he had to count the sports betting money after the broadcast of "Monday Night Football", wrapped it, and disappeared.

According to the report, the most confusing thing was that the camera did not capture his departure. An arrest warrant was issued, but the incident remains unresolved, nearly 30 years later.

advertisement

Richard Marcus tricked a casino with a series of betting scams, including the "previous post," earning more than $ 5 million.

Richard Marcus, who moved to Las Vegas and became homeless, found a job as a blackjack and Baccarat dealer. According to his own website, he discovered a way to deceive the system as he learned the details of the game.

One of the most successful scams is the "previous post", that is, waiting for a low amount to win by betting a low amount, exchanging low chips with a large amount of chips, and a huge dividend. It was to win. His recklessness was sometimes changed to $ 300 to $ 10, 000 in a few seconds.

According to CNET, he was finally arrested by police, but was not convicted and succeeded in deceiving more than $ 5 million from the casino.

Currently, Marcus is a casino protection consultant and sells books on his escape.

advertisement

In 2016, Bellagio dealers argued that the psycho had correctly predicted the dice with a 452 billion probability, and let his friends win more than $ 1 million.

The Denver Post Via Getty Images

In 2016, Bellagio's Clapsierer Mark William Bran and two accomplices, Jeffrey Martin and Anthony Granito were arrested, and were executed for at least four years in Nevada's prison for more than 1 million dollars. It was.

According to Las Vegas Saint, the group went to a psycholo table with a swing and another dealer, betting on a fictional hopbet, that is, a specific combination of dice.

San reported that one of the two players tweeted, "If you tweet something that sounds like a hopbet, you will pay as if one of the dealers had set up right." The group has testified that it has tried 76 tricks in two years.

According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, the casino staff noticed that the luck of the group has betrayed 452 billion to 1 odds.

According to the Rino Gazette Journal, the group was ordered by a judge of the Clark County Court for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Bran has been sentenced to four to 10 years. He is also registered in the 36th Blackbook of the Nevada Gaming Committee, and it is a felony to enter the casino.