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There was a British show called The Real Hustle where the cast basically performs real world scams on people filmed with hidden cameras. One year, they went to
by forgettableuser 10y ago
There was a British show called The Real Hustle where the cast basically performs real world scams on people filmed with hidden cameras. One year, they went to Vegas.
In one of their most brazen scams, they gathered a crew to swap the card shoe at a casino table. It's amazing how much damage nerves of steel, team work, and a split second distraction can lead to.
This particular scam starts at about 22 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixUvZjIK_Ms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixUvZjIK_Ms
The expert at the end does mention it is likely bribing dealers and camera operators would be the most likely scenario since the payout is large enough to make it affordable to do.
- dghughes 10y agoA manual shoe? I've never seen one of those in a while I guess some casino use them. Shufflemaster (Scientific Games) makes the One2Six shuffler that's common and it weighs about 30 pounds the bigger model iDeal has a camera to read the cards and it records each one in the order it's ejected. I have to laugh at all the card manipulation half the time the cards warp and bend due to humidity so they are replaced often. Dealers have so many eyes and cameras on them I can't see anyone trying this unless they were desperate.
- smcnally 10y agoBallsy and dangerous coördinating that many people to execute something like this. Cool show with the play-by-play shot well / from multiple angles to explain it all. Will check out more of it.
- orbat 10y ago_coördinating_ Completely, unabashedly unrelated, but I honestly can't remember the last time I saw dieresis in the wild. Is this a regional thing?
- cOgnaut 10y agoIt was probably a typo, meant to be a - and typed a diaresis instead. Lots of keyboard layouts have easily accessible diareses.
- asymmetric 10y agoThat's how It's spelled in The New Yorker, for example.
- smcnally 10y agoThe New Yorker is precisely where I saw & adopted the dieresis way back when. It's also simpler to type on vkeyboards than a hyphen -- click-and-hold vs switching layouts and back.
- nommm-nommm 10y agohttp://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-t...