[00:08] goes there not only in an optimistic mood but with the complete confidence that luck will smile on him and he will become a winner, while completely ignoring the fact that the outcome of the game is predetermined in advance and not in his favor.
[00:22] But there have always been, are and will be people who not only understand well how the casino works but dare to challenge and win in the gambling business, how, with the help of intelligence, experience, simple luck or outright deception. They are all different,
[00:36] but they have one thing in common - they know how to beat the casino. Today you will learn about the most famous scammers in the gambling business. In January 1995, a man
[00:48] named Reid & Roll McNeill won a jackpot of 100 thousand dollars at the Atlantic City casino in New Jersey. He aroused the suspicion of casino employees with a complete lack of emotion and also he did not have an ID card and
[01:00] he asked for the entire winnings in cash. According to the laws of the state of New Jersey, every jackpot winner on  An amount of over $35,000 is being investigated by the Gaming Commission. During a conversation with McNeill, it was revealed
[01:13] that his friend Ron Harris, a computer technician working for the Nevada State Gaming Commission, was in his room. McNeill's room, Harris had already disappeared, leaving behind books and detailed notes on how to
[01:27] cheat a random number generator. It was then that it was discovered that Harris's job was actually to check and test newly developed chips for slot machines. Without using a chip,
[01:39] Harris could not only set up the slot machine but also know the result in advance, which he then reported to his friend. The fraudster was caught and arrested, and the casino did not have to pay out the winnings, proving the fact of fraud.
[01:58] was initially involved in record production, but things were not going well, as a result, directed all his energy to his favorite where he became the first person in the world to earn millions on this.
[02:10] own theory, according to which a roulette wheel, due to its same numbers, he visited all the casinos in Spain, conducted thousands of experiments with roulette and recorded the results in detail, then, using a
[02:25] computer program, verified the correctness of his theory and found that same numbers are repeated in fifteen percent of cases. Naturally, on different roulettes, the numbers are different. Therefore, before finding this out, it was
[02:37] necessary to spend a lot of money recording the statistics of the numbers that appear. When all the calculations were done and approximate results for the more probable numbers that appeared were obtained, Garcia Pila went to the casino to spin the roulette
[02:49] until he was remembered and banned from local casinos. He managed to earn one and a half million dollars. Moreover, Garcia Pila won a lawsuit when they tried to ban him and his relatives from visiting the
[03:01] relatives from visiting the largest casino in Spain. Dominic Larry Joe, or the man with the golden hand. Dominic Larry Joe, a recognized master of dice, rolls them in such a way that the desired results appear,
[03:13] having become familiar with the rules of the game during his student years.  In dice, Dominic Larry John decided that there had to be a system that would allow him to regularly roll the desired several years, Larry practiced throwing. He
[03:27] changed his tactics, including hand tilt, throwing force, and other parameters, and then studied the resulting combination. Gradually, he was able to understand how to roll the dice in order to achieve the desired result. He developed the so-called
[03:40] controlled throw combination and taught it to his friend Frank Skoblite. Together, they break the bank. Having won large sums several times at prohibited list of gambling establishments, despite the fact that he did not use
[03:55] fraudulent methods. Casino employees could not decipher the secret of his player. Larry Joe did not want to prove his case, so he decided to spend this time playing in other casinos.
[04:07] Then, the hero went on a journey through America's largest casinos. In just a non grata at the vast majority of gambling houses. the vast majority of gambling houses.
[04:20] Man with the Golden Hand. He often appears on television, talks in detail about his theory of controlled throwing, and in his free time, coaches in this area. Of all the people in today's
[04:32] top ranks, he is the only one who is not a cheater in the literal sense of the word. The is his skill, sleight of hand, and no cheating.
[04:56] who devoted 30 years of his life to developing electronic devices with which one could beat the casino. In 1970, he and his son created the first blackjack computer for counting cards, which was attached to a belt. This
[05:10] far from perfect. It turned out to be quite cumbersome. It was controlled by four switches located in specially modified shoes. The player would type the code of the removed card with his toes. This information was transmitted to the computer,
[05:24] which gave advice on how to play further. You do not see a sequence of flashes in specially designed glasses. Later, in 1976, the device was improved and was named David.  David brought his owners 40 thousand
[05:38] dollars in the first week, father and son did not stop there, they put the computer on stream and sold them for 10 thousand dollars to anyone who wanted it. In 1977, released because no one could figure out how the
[05:52] device worked. Another invention of Keith from the car became an eye in the this is a mini camera mounted in a belt buckle that recorded the dealer's cards. In 1985, when a clause was added to the casino rules prohibiting any
[06:06] use of a computer in Nevada casinos was finally recognized as illegal and Keith stopped playing blackjack. Keith AVT was inducted into the Blackjack Hall of Fame in 2004. The brilliant programmer who dedicated his life to the mining gadget passed away
[06:20] in 2006. Ed Summers was born in the mid- America. At a very young age, the girl perfectly use it for a variety of purposes. Such a weapon almost always
[06:35] turned out to be reliable and opened up before Summers.  Many doors, having grown up, the girl realized that she did not want to work, she was interested in the world of gambling, where she decided to build her career. The heroine did not know how to play roulette or poker,
[06:48] attracting men. In the early sixties, the girl began playing blackjack, already at that time, she had numerous cheating methods in her arsenal that allowed her to always build excellent
[07:01] profitable combinations. Summers worked alone. To cheat the system, at the very beginning of the game, she hid one card in her palm, which subsequently helped her get the desired result for her behavior and amazing cunning. Before Summers
[07:14] received the nickname of the forest from Las Vegas, which fully corresponded to her essence. It is important to note that in addition to amazing beauty and a luxurious figure, Summers was an excellent psychologist. She managed to win people over in a matter of minutes,
[07:26] evoke their trust and the most positive emotions. She flirted not only with players and croupiers, but even with casino managers, representatives of gambling houses. Several years passed and already in the middle  In
[07:39] the sixties, the art itself became so refined that she decided to act together with a team of accomplices at the beginning of the forest and 2 sv gas simply replaced the shaft of the deck and in exchange for cards on the gaming table, she gave cards
[07:51] under various pretexts, the girl left the game and then the young lady's comrades-in -arms played out a pre-thought-out scenario and received a good prize. Summers worked and was so subtle
[08:04] and graceful that it was really very difficult to notice the catch. At that time, were in the hands of various gangs, so if Summers could find herself in a very unpleasant situation. But she never gave any
[08:18] reason to even think that she could play unfairly, so she did not have problems with the casino administration. unfairly, so she did not have problems with the casino administration. FSB, and representatives of the Nevada Gaming Commission also became interested in her activities,
[08:31] despite the fact that the intelligence officers were really sure that Summers was a fraudster, they sentenced her only to a suspended sentence. government agencies, the Las Vegas forest used all her
[08:44] charm. Mr. Carmichael, like Keith O.V.D., was a gifted man who created an unusually clever device to He was a slot genius. His motto was "give me a slot machine, I'll beat it,"
[08:58] and he wasn't kidding. His career as a con artist began in 1980 at the age of 30, when he used a special device called a slider for his own purposes. Over the course of five years, he managed to steal a ton of money from 25-cent
[09:12] slot machines, which by that time had begun to be replaced by more using a random number generator. Then he ended up in prison. After his release, he assembled a team of like-minded people and continued the work he had started. Tommy earned
[09:26] thousands of dollars daily, but it didn't last long. He was caught again and sent to prison. That's where Carmichael's story ends. Louise Lovecha, nicknamed activities in the early seventies. Last century, counterfeit
[09:41] Gucci belts. After 27 years in the business, he retired. However, the 50-year-old retiree was still full of strength and energy and soon found himself a new occupation. After a trip with a friend to an Atlantic City casino, Louis conceived the largest
[09:54] scam with counterfeit chips and began counterfeiting them. The fraudster made the chips and began visiting the casino twice a week, where he won millions of dollars with enviable regularity. Then he decided to slightly retrain and began making
[10:06] tokens for slot machines, which brought the fraudster even more money. Making tokens turned out to be a difficult task, since they have several security features and are manufactured by the US Mint. So, each
[10:19] casino used special tokens. Louis had to make more than 50 types of counterfeits, spending 1 million of his own money. The fraudster acted with great casino no more than two hundred thousand dollars. This continued for four years, but one day
[10:34] in 1998 in Atlantic City.  Lou Scala was finally exposed and Scala was finally exposed and arrested that evening. Richard Marcus is deservedly scammers in the gambling business. He first worked as a dealer in a
[10:48] casino, where he learned all the secrets and intricacies of playing roulette. The essence of his technique is that he makes a bet of several chips: three small- denomination chips are placed at the top of the tower, and large-denomination chips of $500
[11:01] are placed at the bottom. The main thing is that the dealer does not see the large bet chip. In the event of a win, Marcus begins to rejoice when he reveals the size of his bet. In the event of a loss, he discreetly removes the bottom large bet. How he managed this is not
[11:14] Marcus managed to deceive casinos for quite a long time, thus earning more than five million dollars. Now Richard himself claims that he has given up but casinos still fear his arrival.
[11:28] The team of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a blackjack genius, is one of the most famous professional teams of public jack, which appeared in  In the 1980s and became famous after the release of films about their activities in 2008.
[11:41] This team consisted of the best graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who are deservedly called geniuses of mathematics and analytics. This team could collect hundreds of
[11:53] thousands of dollars in just one weekend using statistics and a unique method of card counting, but their life was short-lived, since the security system of all casinos already knew their methodology and game plan. Edward Thorp is the father of the
[12:06] who had a master's degree in physics and a doctorate in mathematics, Cake clearly had an above- average intellect. He not only successfully used it in everyday life, but also invented an original system for
[12:19] winning at casinos. In the 60s, Thorp, already an adult, knew almost nothing Once finding himself in a casino in Las Vegas, he not only became interested in the game but also decided that there was a mathematical method that would help beat the casino. Edward
[12:34] Thorp developed a winning strategy for blackjack and successfully applied it to casinos. Today, his methods are used by stock market players.  The founder of this field, mathematics professor Edward Tort, also headed straight to the stock exchange,
[12:47] where he became a billionaire in just a few years. He wrote about his Thorp method in the book "Beat the Dealer," published in 1962. The book instantly became a bestseller; the circulation of 700,000 copies sold out in just a few weeks.
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