Someone told me that people who claim to make a living gambling (the ones who actually seem to make money) are just laundering dirty money from other sources (drugs, hits, extortion, whatever). It seems to me that it might work, but then again casino’s do report large earnings and extensivly monitor customers. It would look strange if someone went up the the reulette table and plopped down some lage bills on a number, and when they win taking the chips and dropping some more large bills (instead of the chips).
Yes, although it’s harder now. They didn’t used to keep track of customers nearly as closely, so somebody could buy a large bunch of chips with cash, gamble on the safest bets to establish that they were in there gambling, and cash out, getting a large check from the casino. They would then claim that they won most of it, turning it into “clean” money.
Any business which does a lot of cash transactions is a good business for a laundering operation.