My name is sal piazzante, i'm an expert on casino cheating, casinos all over the world, hiring me to help protect their assets. Today, we're going to be reviewing some clips from tv shows and movies on casino cheating. This scene is from rain man. Oh, i love romano.

What's your secret guys, i'm sure he was joking there, but a lot of people do think card counting is illegal and it's cheating, it is not crowd. Counting is not cheating. Well he's not catching the whole card. He's not past posting this.

I don't see him using a computer surveillance made some good observations, he's not catching a dealer's hold card, which means when the dealer takes his card. You're not seeing the card underneath he's not pass posting, which means he's not adding to his bet and he's not using computers. Now what are they talking about? I know this guy's. The expert here chat, but card counting, isn't, okay, he doesn't yo you're allowed to do it, but if you change your bets based on your analysis, then you'll get kicked out 100 using computers.

These are just some of the things they could be. Referring to. You always bet the same amount, always be the same amount. I mean it doesn't matter, but it's whenever you change your bets, based based on your countering that's when you're going, for example, look at these shoes right here.

This shoe is the only shoe i have was cut away, so you can actually see the switches inside it. But these computers are called perfect strategy computers. They keep track of every card, that's being dealt and know exactly what's left once the computer decides on how to play your hand, it vibrates on this little jesus right here through a series of morse code, dots and dashes and tells you how to play your hand. These computers right here could play blackjack better than the brain could possibly imagine what he was doing was doing what these computers could do, but he was doing it in his head.

He was able to keep track of how many cards were left if somebody is actually playing like that and they're winning and surveillance can't figure out, what's going on sooner or later, they're just going to label him as a card counter they're going to back off that Player and say, sir, your play is too good for us: you're allowed to play any game here, except blackjack something's, not right, you know, there's no one in the world can counter this six-deck shoot. That's obviously a false statement, because counting down with regular conventional card counting is very easy to do on a six-deck shoe just as easy to do as a single deck. All you're doing is keeping track of the ratio of high cards versus low cards when a deck becomes really rich in high cards. It favors the player for three reasons: you're gon na get more blackjacks you're gon na get more 20s number two.

You don't have to hit your 12 to 16s. The dealer must and then three you have additional options. The dealer, don't you could hit, ensure split surrender, double double after split and no matter what card counting system they are all designed to do. One thing to let you know when a deck becomes rich and tense.

This scene was from rounders. So what are you guys playing? Says? 340 stud, that's and i think i'm gon na die. They get the rest of the cards face up and then the last card is dealt face down and you got to play the best five out of the seven. What that was a real false shuffle.

This is the shuffle that worm used and these cards look like they're being shuffled, and this is exactly what he did and you can see they're not being shuffled at all. He did a bookmark, he actually stepped back that top card and then he shuffled and then he just put those cards right back on top also the way worm held the deck. This is called a mechanic's grip. A mechanic is another name for a person who cheats, because a mechanic could fix things, and this guy could fix games with the deck being held in this position.

I could do so many cheating moves. I can peek the bottom card right now when i square the deck up. I can look right at it now. I know it's an ace of hearts as i'm squaring the deck up in my hand like this, i'm looking right at it.

I'm buckling that card, but it's all hidden right here i can peek the top card. My thumb comes to the other corner and pushes it forward so that card buckles, what's called a buckle or a bubble peek. I could pick the top card by bringing up on my heel. I could do the bottom deal, i could deal seconds and in many of the old books they say if you ever see anyone hold a deck like this stay away, but the truth of the matter is, if you go to any casino.

This is how dealers are taught to hold the deck. It's a very secure grip, so just because someone does hold a deck like this doesn't mean they are cheating. Well, i like what i have bet is 20.. I know that look people might not realize why mike mcdermott folded, three kings well, cheating isn't about the moves, it's about judgment and he knew that getting three kings was gon na, be too strong and that's why he folded that that hand so mike mcdermott in that Scene used proper judgment and that's why he got out all right here we go hold on there.

We go this son of a is base dealing caught, a hanger sarge. What is a hanger? Let's suppose i want to deal the second card instead of the top. Well, when i come out that might happen, that's called the hanger. You can see.

The second card is coming out, but it didn't make it. I left that second card hanging out so catching a hanger does indicate cheating. What are you saying? I don't even know what you're saying you're saying you're dealing off the bottom of the deck bottom dealing means that ace, i'm not going to deal it from the top, i'm going to deal it from the bottom. So if i was dealing when i get to myself i'll take it from the bottom, obviously the most important part is getting the card you want on the bottom.

So when i go for the shuffle, if you watch the shuffle i peeked down right there, i just saw an ace. Now i got an ace on the bottom, so i want to keep this ace on the bottom for the deal when worm is dealing the person on his right, the officer was always looking down at his hand. There were probably some strong hands that woke him up or alerted him worm. Wasn't that observant? He was just going for the money.

This next scene is from the sting stack me. A cooler flight come on we'll be in the station in another hour. The other guys are the big losers. You're still, okay fix me back crazy, nines i'll cut it in on clayton's deal.

The term cooler means that you're gon na cool someone out give him four threes. Give me four nines, which is two really good hands for any poker player recently. Well, that's bad they're gon na go all in his partner, is gon na, take a deck of cards same back, design same brand and he's gon na set him up he's gon na pre-arrange them. So when he comes out, this deck goes on top of that deck and then the blue deck gets switched in and comes out like that, and then this deck gets dropped into a handkerchief.

So there's four people in the game: everyone's gon na get four good hands. Paul newman's gon na get a great hand, but lonerman is about to get one better. Four, nine damn. Oh four jacks.

Oh he used right there, oh okay, but that would have been a vest switch. He would be before what is the mathematical probability that three players get four of a kind here. So if i was going to play this hand right here, it's like in the quadrillions dude, you can see, they just got switched and his partner just knew paul newman received four threes, but when paul newman turned over the four jacks he double-crossed them, he was the Better cheat like that that you could only see with the either a red lens on for luminous readers or with contact lenses, but normally it's just done with series of dots. What i'm about to show you right now is a deck of cards that they call a juice deck.

This deck does have a juice that, if your eye is not trained to see this visible and fluid or juice. If you look at this card right here on the table, it appears to be a regular card, but when i look at it, there is one part of the card right here that is slightly darker. That indicates a king there's a little dot dead center. That means it's a four here.

There are two dots right here diagonal. That means that's going to be a seven. So once you just memorize that pattern, that's how you know what the card is to train your eye to see it. First, the deck is made very, very, very, very strong where anybody could see it and then, after a while, it's made lighter and lighter and lighter we're pretty soon you're, the only one that can read it.

She's. Looking for you, sir, the three for you. One major flaw that i've noticed in this clip is the way they were dealing. Everyone in blackjack gets two cards when they showed austin power's hand.

He had a three just all by itself, and then the dealer dealt with his second card. Yeah should have had those two cards dealt in front of him. This next clip is from casino. Now, here's this guy reading the dealer's whole card and signaling his body at this table.

The device he used is a real device. It's called a thumper. These are the ace bandages where it gets strapped onto your body, and this is the whole device right here. This goes behind your back, and this goes on your thigh.

The thigh is the most sensitive part of the body, one of the most sensitive parts, and then this is a toe switch. This goes on your toe, or this goes in your pocket either way you want to do it. This device right here is made for signaling anywhere. You want to get information from point a to point b.

This could be used and when you press down with your toe, you can definitely feel this thing when this thing is vibrating you'll feel it if it's poker. I can tell you would handle that well, yeah, no problem like that check. I can tell you to raise if it's blackjack, i can tell you the whole card, silently greatest gambling movie made. In my opinion, it was it's so real world.

This next scene is from ocean's 13. everything all right. I've never seen surveillance rooms that were that secure. Usually you get in with a passcode again, sir, it's in lockdown as far as getting locked into a surveillance, room and system's going down.

I'm telling you right now: that's not good! I have never heard i've never seen anything like that. You'll always be able to get out of a surveillance room. Should the systems go down snake eyes, all of it. What okay, dude dice acted very, very suspiciously.

These are magnetic dice right here, so these will always get ones if i've reversed the polarity now you're gon na get sixes on those dice when he had the lighter in his hand, that's what was controlling the magnet when he hit the lighter or hit the switch. That's what activated the magnet to control the dice? That's the hardest part about using magnetic dice is to make him appear natural. You hit that magnet at the wrong time. You're, just gon na see a die flip over when it shouldn't one of the biggest flaws on that scene.

Remember, the casino does not have to cash out those chips. If they think something happened, the casinos can refuse to cash those chips out until they do a review. This next clip is from the cooler, oh my god. Oh my god, i can feel a kick.

The dice do not drop out of the sleeve into the hand. They're, usually in the hand before then, just to show you how dice can be introduced into a game. Let's suppose i want to switch these blue dice for these red dice watch the red ones, let's wish for blue, and if i want to bring them back, i bring them back see. How is dice switch works like this.

The dice are in the palm already and when you reach down to pick them up, these dice drop from the palm. At the same time, these dice trap peas up one of those. This guy's pretty good, actually is. When you see a shooter, throw the dice.

Always look for a clean hand to see if someone is switching dice. The way dice is spotted opposite sides total seven. So if i have a six on top on the opposite side of that six, there will be a one when misspotted dice are really used. Here's what they look like, okay, they're, called tops or teas.

These dice only have the numbers, four five, six on them. These dice right here are the most preferred method of cheating by professional dice, cheats, their percentage dice. They win the money fast and you can't lose with magnetic dice. Some people will see their faces on them, though.

Thanks don't hit the magnetic field, things can happen, loaded dice. These are guaranteed and the only reason why they work is because the human eye can only see three sides of any cube. If i put this die on that table right now, you can only see a four five six, i'm assuming that the person sitting across from me is looking right now at a 4-1-2, but guess what i'm looking at four five wait, that sixes sense actually cheetahs will Make their money switch in the house dice and keep playing till they lose and then when they lose so they would only know if they talk to each other and said yo. What did you see, but who does that? The streak is over walk away and that's the end of the scam.

This scene is from runner runner. If he doesn't know this seven and crap out. This is gon na cost. You a hundred grand house, kids, sweat the money, hey shooter, the stick person never passes the dice out with a seven showing that's taboo yeah.

Oh yeah, that's better than something you'll, never see how about this i'll fade. Your action fade. The action means i'm gon na book, the bet, whoever whoever wants to bet i'll, take it don't roll. If a stick person thinks something happened, they have the right to say no roll.

That means this don't count. Shooter can't slide the dice, no raw. That is a real cheating move. Yeah he hasn't touched a crocodile whatever the the other die is thrown with it.

So watch the six get slid and watch the other die go with it. But when you see this on a full 12-foot craps table and that die is being spun rapidly, it never tumbles it's being spun, it's a really good illusion that both dice are being thrown legitimately on the back wall. They have this rubber that has like this and the crocodile shape we call the alligator and also the wall has a lip a 45 degree angle. So if the dice just touch it or hit those alligator part, they're going to tumble to ensure a player cannot slide the dice shot, jesse james at 45..

If you look at that dice on this clip, you see the two and the five are next to each other, but remember the two and the five have to be on opposite sides, because opposite sides of the dikes always total seven on a legitimate pair of dice. This scene is some one six, i don't think it's an accident that bob keeps two five you're talking about, that. I want your number three four gwen circles, the table with appetizers constantly eyeing bob, and then he lays down a big fat bet and wins. Signaling is very, very dangerous.

It's probably the number one scam that goes on the casinos every day, undetected when two people get involved with collusion, and will you signal to a partner? You could do it right in front of you everywhere interesting to demonstrate signaling. I want to bring in my wife dee, so if we're playing poker, you want remember, my wife is sitting across from me. With this hand, i call if everybody else stays in dee. What do i have straight? My wife said i have a straight.

Is she right? She is h2345, so in a case like this, i'm sitting there with a straight i just called now she'll raise me. She has nothing but she's going to raise me when it gets to me i'm going to re-raise her if everybody falls now when it gets to her she'll, look at her hand and she'll she'll, say, take it and now she'll fold and look how much money i Just won she knew i had a straight by the way i held my fingers on the back of the cards, because i had my finger down here that told her. I had a straight okay. This is a fine hand.

So if i go like this right now dee, what do i have two pair two pair? If she signals to me, she has two pairs. Well, they're. Both you know. I want to tell her what i'm holding d.

What do i have eights and deuces eights and deuces, and that was done because of my wording. I said the word. Fine fine means h induces, so we have many different ways of signaling. This next clip is from now you see me too: go go sun, sol, you're, not telling a soul ninja.

When i put the deck down right there, i palmed the card, so i have a card in my hand. Then i cover the card with this hand, as i come out like this, like my wrist, but it's still covered now i come back so i'm nonchalantly want to show you both hands, as i conceal it, but as far as flipping this card behind my back and Flipping it 12 feet in the air. That's not happening this next scene is there's. No all right.

I'm doing this. You know the situation we uh. We need a third to take down some of the big pots. What they meant is they need someone else to help win the pot.

You can't always have the same person winning the money. It's a big one. What soft game, if they say it's a soft game that means pretty much you're playing with suckers that you can get away with anything with. So what's your manager, you play on the square during most of the game.

That means just playing honestly just play, as you normally would yeah. I like my hand, that's what's known as bass or bottom dealing, but i will vary it by stacking as well and dealing the punch whatever it takes. But you know, don't worry, you'll end up a winner. Every time all stacking to deck means is setting the cards up as you shuffle them.

Let's suppose it's just me and you in a game, and i want to set these cards up as i shuffle so now. If i deal these cards out i'll, give you a good hand, so you got me beat stealing the punches where they put a little bump in the car. That's a pinhole! So that way, when you're dealing you feel the bump, so all the queens and kings might have like a braille system on it and then, when you deal as soon as you feel that braille, that means you know a queen is coming up. Then you deal seconds so all you did right.

There was uh multiple shifts to control the aces and then a bunch of false shuffles. So here go to four aces when you put them into the deck right on my head, they look like they're going in. You. Could do a push through move, so they come out the other side and then from here yeah.

He just does a bunch of false shuffles, where this deck looks like they're being mixed, but honestly they're, not so anytime. I want to find those aces has many advantages over being a solo counter, for the simple reason is you're playing with more tables and then, when the count gets rich, they call in the big money. Also, you have better camouflage, because you're calling people in in the middle of a shoe is that guy card counting no yeah, they don't allow them. I love a shoe.

He can't be counting well guess what his teammate was when she leaned back and crossed her arms. That was the calling signal that means come over to the table. We have a good count here. Changing ten thousand sweet too sweet, that's a pneumonic aid to transfer the count.

So when she said sweet, she told him the count was plus 16.. Obviously they didn't want to get too technical for the viewers, but in card counting you have two counts, the running count and the true count. The running count tells you. The ratio of high cards versus low cards in all of the cards that remain the truth.

Count tells you the ratio of high cards versus low cards in each single deck that remain. How do you get that number? The true count you take the running count which in that case was sweet 16, and you definitely made that i thought they were all mixed together. Let's suppose, it's a six deck game, if there's one deck played already, that means there are five decks remaining. Five goes into 16 three times.

That means the true count would have been plus three everything in card counting works off the true count, eight split eights uh. Can i split those jack counts, plus fifteen plus 14. him splitting eights was the correct basic strategy, always split ace when you're playing blackjack the 16 is the worst hand you can have. So you always taught split eights when you have a high count going to do things, you normally wouldn't, for example, insurance.

That's a big tell when a dealer offers you an insurance dog, you never get that which means do you want to benefit? Have a blackjack. It's not the right thing to do, for the simple reason is: there are a lot more non-tens than tens and a single deck of cards, but no becomes advantageous and there are a lot more tens than non-tens. Then you do take insurance. Well, if i was in surveillance and i'm watching this play, the first thing - that's gon na tip me off is the money.

The first thing, you're taught in the casino, is always follow the money. So, if i'm watching the money - and this person obviously is counting but guess what he came in mid shoe, that tells me well guess what somebody on his table is with that person. Well, if you want to go to a cause, okay, that was actually good. I enjoyed the video.

Let's move on. Okay, i'm done eating chatting tonight.