Download or read book Casino Crimes and Scams written by Ralph J. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the crimes and scams committed in casinos as seen through the eyes of an experienced General Manager.

Download or read book Casino Crime written by Frances J. Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casino Crime : Heists, Scams, Cheats & The Mob These are the true stories of the scammers, con artists, cheats and gangsters that have tried, and sometimes succeeded, to walk away with the casino's money.Some of the first proprietors of casinos were backed by mafia families. They saw a great opportunity to make large amounts of money legally, and filter their large amounts of illegal money. The skills of the mafia helped to create the shiny Las Vegas Strip that we know today.These casinos create and use very large sums of cash each and every day. Everyone wants a piece of the pie. There are some, just like in the movies, who have hatched elaborate schemes to try and get their hands on some of the cash casinos use. Some of succeeded, and many have failed, but they all leave a great story to tell.The house in a casino makes a lot of money off of the way the odds are placed on each and every bet. Gambling is a sport in which the casino is going to win most every time. Still, many people choose to play, hoping that they will walk out with the positive odds. However, there are many who have been known to play dirty. From hacking slot machines to counting cards, scams have made a lot of people really great money, and landed many others in prison.

Download or read book Casino and Gaming Resort Investigations written by Derk J. Boss and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casino and Gaming Resort Investigations addresses the continued and growing need for gaming security professionals to properly and successfully investigate the increasing and unique types of crime they will face in their careers. As the gaming industry has grown, so has the need for competent and highly skilled investigators who must be prepared to manage a case of employee theft one day to a sophisticated sports book scam the next. This book provides the reader with the fundamental knowledge needed to understand how each gaming and non-gaming department functions and interacts within the overall gaming resort, allowing the investigator to determine and focus on the important elements of any investigation in any area. Each chapter delivers a background of a department or type of crime normally seen in the gaming environment, and then discusses what should be considered important or even critical for the investigator to know or determine in the course of the investigation. Likely scenarios, case histories, and tips, as well as cautions for investigators to be aware of, are used throughout the book. This book was written for and directed at gaming security and surveillance professionals, including gaming regulators, and tribal gaming authorities, who are almost daily confronted by the ingenious and the most common scams, theft, and frauds that are perpetrated in the gaming world.

Download or read book Casino Security and Gaming Surveillance written by Derk J. Boss and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost all incidences of cheating, theft, fraud, or loss can be detected through the surveillance of critical transactions, audit observations, and reviews of key metrics. Providing proven-techniques for detecting and mitigating the ever-evolving threats to casino security, this book covers the core skills, knowledge, and techniques needed to protect casino assets, guests, and employees. Drawing on the authors six decades of combined experience in the industry, Casino Security and Gaming Surveillance identifies the most common threats to casino security and provides specific solutions for addressing these threats. From physical security and security management to table and gaming surveillance, it details numerous best practice techniques, strategies, and tactics, in addition to the metrics required to effectively monitor operations. The authors highlight valuable investigation tools, including interview techniques and evidence gathering. They also cover IOU patrol, tri-shot coverage, surveillance audits, threat analysis, card counting, game protection techniques, players club theft and fraud, surveillance standard operating procedures, nightclub and bar security, as well as surveillance training. Complete with a glossary of gaming terms and a resource-rich appendix that includes helpful forms, this book covers everything surveillance and security professionals need to know to avoid high-profile incidents, costly compliance violations and damage to property and revenue. It‘s professionals like Al and Derk who personify the professionalism that is crucial when establishing and operating modern casino security and surveillance departments. This book will quickly become the Bible for any security and surveillance officer.

Download or read book The World s Greatest Gambling Scams written by Richard Marcus and published by D&B Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Richard Marcus, this book details the best scams ever pulled off in the adrenaline-fuelled gambling world. They range from those relying on basic sleight-of-hand manoeuvres to those that utilise gadgets based on the very latest high-tech wizardry.

Download or read book Great Gambling Scams written by and published by Metro Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigel Goldman was born in London in 1957 and educated at Carmel College, Oxon. He is single and now lives in Spain where he runs his bookmaking business, and also writes, acts, and appears regularly on the radio and TV and in the better magazines.

Download or read book Mr Lucky written by James Swain and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Valentine made his living and his name as a cop in Atlantic City–and is now known worldwide for his ability to spot the kinds of scams, grifts, and rip-offs that cost casinos billions every year. A man with a biting wit who drives a ’92 Honda, Tony is low-profile, old-school, and has seen it all–until he meets the luckiest man on earth. Ricky Smith was once a small-town loser. Then he went to Las Vegas, jumped out the window of a burning hotel, lived to tell the tale, and tore up the Strip on an incredible winning streak. Ricky didn’t just win at one slot machine or table game. He won at blackjack, roulette, and craps, and then beat the pants off the world’s greatest poker player. Tony knows that goofy, loudmouthed Ricky Smith–or anyone else, for that matter–couldn’t possibly be that fortunate. But when “Mr. Lucky” returns home to the little town of Slippery Rock, North Carolina, he keeps on winning everything from a horse race to a $50,000 lottery. Hired by a desperate casino, Tony starts to pry into Ricky’s past, his friends, and the strange little town that is benefiting from Ricky’s fame and fortune. Unfortunately for Tony, his cover is blown when he is forced to reveal a trick he has up his own sleeve: a pocket Glock he can shoot with laser-like precision. Suddenly, two men are dead, the cops are on Tony’s tail, and the investigation explodes in violence–putting the lives of Tony’s son and his young family in danger. For years, Tony’s son Gerry has dueled with his own criminal impulses. Now, the Ricky Smith case has lured Gerry through the gates of temptation and into a murderous confrontation with the Dixie Mafia. With Tony stuck on the slippery slope of Slippery Rock and Gerry fighting for his life, the Valentines are finding out just how bad good luck can get. Against a neon-tinted backdrop of adrenaline rushes, hard crashes, big money, and high-wire tension, the inimitable James Swain has set his best Tony Valentine novel yet: a funny, furious ride with an astounding array of crooks, marks, and one killer scam.

Download or read book The Cheaters written by Edward Curley and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In present-day Las Vegas, a trio of hustlers—“cheaters” in gambling parlance—join forces to take a renowned casino for $25 million. Eddie, 35, withdrawn and highly intelligent, is the accomplished card sharp and casino defrauder who masterminds the complex scam. Marla, the beautiful young woman who becomes Eddie's lover, is a novice at cheating but, under Eddie's tutelage, proves to be a quick study. Clay, Eddie's mentor, is a veteran scam artist, former casino boss, and now Eddie and Marla's partner-in-crime.Each has committed his share of sins but, despite the heady rush that goes along with the cheating lifestyle, each swears that this unprecedented score will be his last. Cheaters charts the formation of the scheme, its step-by-step implementation, and the many twists that threaten to blow it apart. To pull off their coup, Eddie Marla, and Clay must descend into a world of mobsters, crooked cops, compulsive gamblers, murderous casino insiders, and ingenious scammers. Their bag of tricks—computer chips, ultrasonic sound transmission, and good old sleight-of-hand—provide the reader with a virtual education in the larcenous ways of today's professional cheats.Cheaters taps into America's vast and growing interest in casino culture. Witness the proliferation of televised high-stakes poker, as well as recent books like Ben Mezrich's Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions. Moreover, Cheaters is the first contemporary novel about high-end casino scammers written by a consummate insider. As a former general manager of a casino in Aruba and manager of the surveillance room at a Las Vegas outfit, I am aware of the endless varieties of casino scams. As a 21 “mechanic” for blackjack back in the1960s and '70s, I cheated players for the casino. And as a gambler, I learned not only how to cheat at 21, but also how to manipulate slot machines, cheat the roulette games, and rake in the rewards.

Download or read book Ultimate Gambling written by Michael Don Romolo and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life time of Analyzing and Studying 100's of 1000's of hands day in and day out, Led up to the gamblers ultimate Epiphany. Defining How & When these Scams were happening. Set Up's put into place with Amazing Timing & Precision... Unimaginable Illusions... All being used against us... Money that was made as well as being lost was never guaranteed. It was always up to the Casino's when the inevitable would come. There was no way the average person could ever Fathom how they could orchestrate such precise scheme's to take every dollar you would risk to wager... So they thought. Understanding how these Casino's were Staging these Set Up's gave me the JUSTICE I needed to walk away from ever wanting to gamble again.

Download or read book Gambling Crime and Society written by James Banks and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the manifold actual, possible and probable interconnections between gambling and crime in the context of the increased availability of wagering activities across many regions of the world. It examines the impact of the proliferation and propinquity of land-based betting establishments on crime, the role of organised crime in the provision of both licit and illicit forms of gambling, as well as problem gambling, crime and the administration of criminal justice. It also assesses the links between gambling, sport and corruption and the dimensions of crime that takes place in and around internet gambling sites. A thought-provoking study, this will be of particular interest to scholars in the fields of sociology, criminology and social policy.

Download or read book For Queen and Currency written by Michael Gillard and published by Bloomsbury Reader. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on thousands of leaked documents and police sources, Gillard tells the inside story of a group of Royalty Protection officers who entertained a life of high-risk gambling, brown envelopes of cash and striking gangster poses on the throne of England while guarding the royal family and their secrets from terrorism and press intrusion. Paul Page, a young royal protection officer turned degenerate gambler, ran a hedge fund for police officers during the credit and property booms. His Currency Club bet millions on movement in sterling and gold and paid investors returns beyond the dreams of avarice and financial logic. As word spread to other royal palaces, more protection officers and their friends piled in with savings and cheap loans from banks, many of which were running their own Ponzi scam. Page was hiding huge gambling losses and when the returns dried up a hit man threatened his family, sending the royal police officer over the edge and on the rampage with a gun. Scotland Yard tried to spin the scandal to divert attention from its own regulatory failures. But Page refused to go quietly. His sensational trial became an arena to expose the elite royalty protection squad and the private life of a senior royal. “The Queen is going to be mightily pissed off,” he warned. “[There was] an agreed understanding that what happened at Royalty stayed at Royalty.” Not any more.

Download or read book Ticket in Ticket Out written by Edmond Bismarck and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Online Gambling and Crime written by James Banks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering the first empirically driven assessment of the development, marketisation, regulation and use of online gambling organisations and their products, this book explores the relationship between online gambling and crime. It draws upon quantitative and qualitative data, including textual and visual analyses of e-gambling advertising and the records of player-protection and standards organisations, together with a virtual ethnography of online gambling subcultures, to examine the ways in which gambling and crime have been approached in practice by gamers, regulatory agencies and online gambling organisations. Building upon contemporary criminological theory, it develops an understanding of online gambling as an arena in which risks and rewards are carefully constructed and through which players navigate, employing their own agency to engage with the very real possibility of victimisation. With attention to the manner in which online gambling can be a source of criminal activity, not only on the part of players, but also criminal entrepreneurs and legitimate gambling businesses, Online Gambling and Crime discusses developments in criminal law and regulatory frameworks, evaluating past and present policy on online gambling. A rich examination of the prevalence, incidence and experience of a range of criminal activities linked to gambling on the Internet, this book will appeal to scholars and policy makers in the fields of sociology and criminology, law, the study of culture and subculture, risk, health studies and social policy.

Download or read book Casino Security and Gaming Surveillance written by Derk J. Boss and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost all incidences of cheating, theft, fraud, or loss can be detected through the surveillance of critical transactions, audit observations, and reviews of key metrics. Providing proven-techniques for detecting and mitigating the ever-evolving threats to casino security, this book covers the core skills, knowledge, and techniques needed to prote

Download or read book The Impact of Legalized Casino Gambling on Crime written by Mark W. Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the impact of legalized casino gambling, including Indian casinos, on crime. Using county-level data between 1994 and 2009, the impact that casino legalization had on crime is examined. Our results show an increase in crime associated with casinos in some circumstances, but not others. Crime impact results are quite sensitive to data, sample periods and econometric specifications. In addition to known Part 1 offenses (assault, burglary, larceny, robbery, rape, and auto theft), we also examine various arrest classifications, including driving under the influence (DUI), fraud, and prostitution. Again, casinos are associated with a statistically significant increase in some circumstances but not in others, with results depending on econometric specification. In no circumstances, however, are casinos and crime significantly negatively correlated.

Download or read book Anatomy of a Scam a Case Study of a Planned Bankru p tcy by Organized Crime written by Edward John De Franco and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Boss Always Sits in the Back written by Jon D'Amore and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspenseful, exciting and entertaining account of one of the greatest scams to hit Las Vegas in the 1970s, a scam that changed history and gambling laws across America. This fictionalized account details the demise of the mobsters who ran northern New Jersey.