Cheating Vegas casino “Insiders” sections

The Tran Clan who worked with casino staff who cross over to the “dark side” to cheat the casino. 30% of all cheats in casinos involve the staff including the dealers and pit personnel. As an example the dealers “fix the deck” in mini baccarat, this involves a false shuffle to manipulate the outcome of the dealt cards in a game to the benefit of the player.

Sports betting points spread fixing in basketball is a very lucrative business with what is called a “points shaving” system involving the players.

Card marking is a common cheat in casinos by either bending the card, pressing the card with chip “banging the paints”, dice switching where players switch out the casinos dice for their own special “cannot lose” dice, sliding the dice instead of throwing, “hand mucking” where players introduce their own cards to the game, “bet pressing” “bet posting” adding more bets when the game has already been decided.