Those thieves are probably so straight-up and honest that they are paying their fare share in taxes and aren’t fleecing anyone out of anything else anywhere else!
This is a victory for the little guy against the big casino. Might be a loss for all the bettors spending their social security checks that didn’t bet higher than six on the slide rolls though.
But I am very confident these scam artists scam only casinos. Most U.S. citizens are not suffering because of their theft (until the buy something whose price has the cost of doing business built into it. And one cost of doing business is the cost of theft, cheating, losses, etc).
If your casino is an easy target, the appropriate response is to make it not an easy target. Any time resourceful gamblers found an exploit that allowed them to beat the system completely fair and square…card counting, timing the pull of the slot machine just right, that roulette wheel that favored certain numbers just a bit more than others…the industry’s response has been to simply fix it. If anything, having gamblers think you’re a mark after you’ve already fixed the problem can be a boon.
There is absolutely no way a couple cheats its way to $700,000 unless an employee, possibly several, ROYALLY screw up. We’re not taking sticking a bit of newspaper in a payout slot, the dice have to be thrown across the entire length of the table in full view of everyone around it. If there is solid evidence, all the casino needs to do is present it and deny the winnings. Otherwise, get more competent employees, or if it’s still completely inconclusive as to whether there was any cheating, take the loss and move on.
Absolutely do not see how they expect to gain in the long run with this lawsuit. I’ll be shocked if that happens.
If a dealers let a dice roller roll more than two slide rolls in a row, there is something wrong. On any crap table I have been on, the dealers tell the thrower to hit the back wall after they missed it twice in a row.
Nothing I read suggests they used consecutive rolls to perform their slides. Also, only one of the dice is slid, while the other tumbles normally. Finally, they apparently used accomplices to distract the dealers during the slide rolls. Even sliding only one time out of every ten rolls, with only 1 die, can give you a tremendous advantage if you can pull it off successfully, especially if you vary your bets so the big money is playing on those particular rolls.