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Sure, lying about your action might win you an extra bet here and there. While the dealer and pit bosses are none the wiser, you can see through the cards like Superman, scanning them as they hit the felt face-down to see where the 10s and aces are at. My hope for this page is to provide a glimpse into the murky underbelly of the gambling industry while letting readers decide for themselves how to proceed. This additional information can be used in multiple ways to gain an unfair edge on the house. A three-person card marking team who attempted to bilk the Delaware Park Casino was arrested and charged with multiple felony counts in These charges are no laughing matter, either. While many paranoid blackjack enthusiasts suspect the dealer might be cheating to help the house, cases like that are practically nonexistent. Karas is far from alone in the ranks of blackjack card markers who were caught, arrested, and prosecuted for their crimes. After another dealer noticed him peeking at the deck, before signaling players to hit or stand, Singer was caught on camera acting as an accomplice in a regular cheating ring. But as DeNiro showed in his inimitable style, all it takes is a sharp pit boss with experience and a keen eye to quickly deduce when the signaling scam is afoot. With so many working parts in play, all it takes is one mistake or even loose lips when one of you gets cold feet to sink the entire conspiratorial ship. Pit bosses and dealers are also trained to watch for warning signs. This includes a player taking too much time to stare at card backs before making their play or deviating from basic strategy in ways that always seem to work out. These are just a couple of the most common ways cheaters attempt to exploit the system when playing the game of blackjack. Many cheats know this to be true. A much safer approach involves lightly scratching a small defect in the back of value cards using your fingernail. At that point, you stand and hope to see the dealer go low-high to bust, but they turn over another 10 to make 20 for the winner. I understand why others might be inclined to lean in the other direction, though. They might show a strong 7, for example, which ordinarily compel players to hit on most holdings against what rates to be a 17 in the end. The scams they run are often elaborate enough to go undetected — at first anyway.

Tracking exposed cards as they come and using that knowledge to ascertain your current edge is definitely frowned upon by casino operators. With that said, the lengths cheaters go to, and the sheer creativity involved in their cons will always inspire grudging admiration from the gambling public at large.

Cheating at the casino should always be condemned as the crime it is, plain and simple. But as you just saw, whenever a dealer is inadvertently exposing their hole card, by flashing it too high or for too long, somebody looking from the right angle at another table gains invaluable information.

Imagine playing blackjack with those special X-ray specs sold by mail-order magazines back in the day. Players that prey on vulnerability will always be able to ensnare dealers into their cheating plans.

Gamblers desperate enough to resort to cheating are nothing if not creative. Skip to content Search for: Search Close menu. Instead, the Sin City skyline is a product of a steady stream of losing players who barely know a stand from a split.

In reality, dealer cheats typically cooperate caught cheating at blackjack dealer unscrupulous players to put the house at a disadvantage using any number of methods.

Cheaters use caught cheating at blackjack dealer variety of methods to mark the cards, including the invisible ink and special glasses Karas see more. The basic premise of marking cards is extremely easy to grasp.

But as is always the case caught cheating at blackjack dealer it comes to caught cheating at blackjack dealer gambling, cheats who try to past post are inevitably discovered.

As a result, dealers and pit bosses will often defer to the player whenever errors occur.

Cameras are obviously the biggest threat. The overhead surveillance cameras are designed to zoom in and detect suspicious behavior like scratching, bending, or wiping the cards.