Cheating Expert Answers Casino Cheating Questions

Cheating expert Sal Piacente, who’s got the perfect name, accent, demeanor, and face for someone who helps casinos catch cheaters, stops by Wired Tech Support to answer reader queries about how gamblers & casinos attempt to bamboozle each other.

Can slot machines be hacked? Why is card counting illegal? How can you tell if dice are loaded? What’s it like working security at a casino? Could an Oceans 11-style heist ever happen in real life? Are casinos ever the ones to cheat? Answers to these questions and plenty more await on Casino Cheating Support.

Whoa, I’d never heard of the chip cup before — it looks like a stack of low-denomination chips but actually hides a smaller stack of high-denomination chips inside of it. The false shuffle demo and the edge sorting explanation are especially interesting.

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Casino Cheating Expert Reviews Card Counting and Casino Scams From Movies

Sal Piacente is an expert in casino game protection (aka he thwarts cheaters & people who are beating the house) and in this video, he shows us some literal tricks of the trade while reviewing card & dice gambling from movies like Rain Man, Rounders, The Sting, Austin Powers, and Casino. Fascinating. My eyes widened when he started talking about juiced cards — check out this video for more about them. Genius.

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