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Cuyahoga County prosecutors and the Ohio Casino Commission brought the case before a grand jury, and the grand jury indicted the cheaters in October of 2015. The perps, Ken Young and Lonnie Bridges, were convicted of cheating the casino out of about $39,000 by using a scam known as “sliding the dice.” <source>
The assistant prosecutor of Cuyahoga County, Jonathan Block, explained that the perps would slide the dice across the table instead of rolling them. The cheat team comprised three people: a shooter and two bettors. They would take turns as shooter and bettors as part of the normal rotation around the table. As the table’s stickman pushed the dice to the member of the team who was next to shoot, the other two would toss in chips to make last-second bets just as the shooter reached down to pick up the dice.
Because the dealers scrambled to gather the bettors chips and place them in their proper positions on the table layout, they were distracted from watching the shooter shoot the dice. This is where the shooter took advantage of the opportunity to slide the dice across the table. Before sliding them, the shooter would quickly and effortlessly position the dice with pre-determined numbers facing upwards.
As you can guess, the bettors would bet on the same pre-determined number. By the time the dealers were ready to look to see what number appeared, the dice had already come to rest showing the pre-determined number. The bettors cheered as the dealers paid their winning bets.
The Craps scam was tipped off by a worker who notified security. It’s unknown if the “worker” was the table’s boxman, whose job it is to scrutinize all aspects of the game including the shooter as he rolls the dice. Actually, if the boxman had done is job correctly, he would have caught the slider the very first time it happened, called a “no roll,” and warned the shooter to roll the dice and hit the table’s back wall instead of sliding them. <Source>
Obviously, that didn’t happen. The cheaters shot over 22 rolls in a few hours and won about $18,000 on their last roll.
Apparently, none of the innocent players at the table noticed or cared enough to report the cheats. So, here’s a moral question for you… if you’re an innocent player not involved in a cheating scam, and if you observed a cheater while playing craps, and if you were winning because of the cheating, would you quietly bring the scam to the dealers’ attention, or would you let it happen and take advantage of it as long as it lasted? Comment below! Check out some safe online casinos such as Sunpalace, Casino Max, or slotsplus.
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We all play the game knowing that the house has an advantage. That’s what makes it so much fun when you win. Knowing that you beat the house. I would not feel right knowing that I was a thief by taking advantage of the situation. I would bring the scam to the dealers attention.
I would not say anything because if the dice move to the end of the table and the casino doesnt say anything thats on them. they are watching all the time and if they choose not to watch thats on them. if i win in the process then so be it. the casino is responsible to enforce their rules. if someone were to steal someone elses chips off the rail thats a different situation. i would report a chip thief but not care about a slide of the dice the casino should be watching though.
As a table games dealer it is my job to ensure the rules of the game are followed. I understand there can be a lot of action on a craps table and each dealer has a specific job, but for this team of cheats to pull off what they did should have never happened. The stick man’s job is to never leave the sight of the dice, especially once handed off to the shooter. If bets are thrown out, then say ‘Bet’, leave the chip or chips where they lay while still watching the shooter. If the shooter slid the dice, no roll would have been called.