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The World Game Protection Conference convened in Las Vegas last week and there was actually an awards presentation for the top casino scams of this past year.
Few could argue with the winner.
A married couple from Kazakhstan won more than $800,000 at different card games at a Crown Sydney casino using a tiny camera hidden in a Mickey Mouse T-shirt.
The couple was arrested by New South Wales police in November after security at the Barangaroo casino saw a woman wearing a camera attached to her shirt.
WGPC founder Willy Allison explained that the couple started playing Texas Hold’em and Mississippi Stud.
“They were cheating using concealed cameras,” Allison said. “Initially, they were using a cell phone placed on the table in the first position right next to the shuffle. They were able to receive the image of the cards.”
When the couple started winning, the casino banned cellphones from the surface of the table. The couple went away, then returned and continued to win using the concealed camera.
Not to be outdone, the WGPC also recognized an incident that occurred at the Mohegan Sun Casino & Resort in Connecticut that involved marked pai gow tiles.
From CDCGaming:
Shamar Miller, a Mohegan Sun security analyst, appeared at the conference to talk about the scam —marking the tiles with a piece of sandpaper glued to the man’s right thumb.
Miller said an organized group of 10 to 15 patrons marked more than 32 boxes of tiles, which they during the game. A man was arrested and he had more than 20 players cards from Boston and the rest of the East Coast.
A further examination led to the discovered of the marked tiles and the Mohegan Sun Casino & Resort has since changed its procedure involving an extensive examination and cleansing, Miller confirmed.
- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com
