R. Paul Wilson On: How To Cheat At Roulette With Past Posting – Casino.Org News

When I first met crooked-gambling expert Darwin Ortiz at a lecture for magicians in Glasgow, I was eager to pick his brains.

Until that point, I was a voracious collector of cheating methods with cards, but I was beginning to take an interest in casino games and roulette in particular.

In Glasgows famous Tam Shepherds Trick Shop, agathering place for local conjurors, I remember asking Darwin how cheaterscould beat the game of roulette.

Despite answering a question with a question,his answer was quite direct:

Do you think a cheater could win if they wereable to bet after the ball had landed?

Past posting is a simple idea.

After the ball lands in a number, a cheater (orteam of cheaters) attempts to add a high value bet to the layout without thedealer noticing the discrepancy.

To the average player, this might seem like anexcellent way to get caught and enjoy the hospitality of a casinos back room.

In fact, it is a bold and risky strategy but canbe effective if the cheater has the skill, timing and awareness to pull it off.

Dealers often balk at the idea that these movescould slide at their table but in the heat of a long shift and with countlessdistractions around every spin, even the most alert croupier might bevulnerable to the simplest of past-posting techniques.

Professional past-posters limit their activityto occasional shots taken at the right moment under appropriate misdirection.

The simplest and easiest targets to hit on thelayout are the red and black bets.

With an experienced cheater sitting close tothose options, a check can appear as if by magic after the ball lands.

The classic technique is to rest ones hand onthe layout with a chip hidden underneath.

With an imperceptible snap of the thumb, thatchip slides quickly and quietly across the baize to settle on the red or blackpainted markings.

It takes practice to know how hard to push a chip and to do so without any motion of the hand to betray the action but timingis also essential.

As a ball drops into the rotor, players mightlean over the table to get a better look and if a partner is trained to do sonaturally, he or she might cover the move from the eye in the sky while theslider watches the dealers to make sure theres no heat when he kicks thecheck.

A more sophisticated approach is to reachforward and slide a chip under the forearm and there are many strategies toexcuse this action.

One method is to buy into the game for moremoney and to reach forward with some cash.

Another is to apparently begin making bets forthe next round, only to be dismissed by the dealer who would instruct theplayer to wait until the table is cleared.

Both of these methods might be used sinceneither should be repeated with the same dealer or at the same table, but pastposting is rarely a repeatable strategy since each shot you take risks wakingup casino staff.

Theres a Walter Mitty shot that supposedlyallowed teams of players to repeatedly place a stack of chips with a ledge overthe bottom chip to disguise the lowermost check, which is a high value bet.

Supposedly, the dealer would not notice thisoff-colour check and if the bet lost, the player would switch out the big betfor one of the cheaper checks under some pretext.

I have every confidence this could be successfulonce or twice but the claim that it could be repeated constantly is purefantasy (in my opinion) unless the dealers, the bosses and the security teamupstairs are all in on it.

By passing off high-value to checks to secretpartners around a table, cheaters can place a high-stakes player next to thewheel then use lower-stake bets to cover past-posted bets.

Imagine youre that high-stakes player with astack of purple checks, each valued at $500 and you arrange these to concealthe fact that youve palmed away five chips and passed them to a partner whosits at the opposite end of the table.

That partner can now drop your chips onto thelayout while you watch the wheel and sip your free watered-down drinks!

With the slide technique described above, anexpert might be able to place your purple check across a nearby number when itcomes up.

And if the team is bold and well-practiced inmisdirection, you might speak to the dealer at the instant the ball drops todistract him or her from the appearing chip on (or across) that winning number.

By passing chips this way, another cheater canapproach the table and buy in for a small amount of cash but use that money tocover the drop of a check onto the layout just as the ball lands!

An even bolder (but effective) approach is toslide a late stack of chips onto the layout, so the dealer is caused to returnthat stack to the errant player. At the bottom of the stack is one or twohigh-valued purple chips that are off-set to look as if the late stack wasplaced onto those chips, which were supposedly already there.

Having tried this last strategy for The Takedown, theres a perverse pleasure in watching the dealer correct a player by removing their late stack while leaving behind the big bets that were never there before the move was attempted.

Each of these techniques can work in the rightplace and at the right time but if theres the least suspicion on the move,then a rewind of camera footage will quickly betray the deception.

What makes these methods successful is a senseof when and where to attempt them, either by profiling weak dealers ormanipulating each situation so that a discrepancy might go unnoticed.

Playing the turn (distracting the dealer) inthese situations can be an art in its own right and expert scammers can playentire teams of dealers and their bosses like an orchestra whether by charm orharm so that the appearance of a big bet is the least concern to whoever ismanaging the game.

The real danger for past-posters is that modernsecurity systems can potentially track all bets on a layout and detect ifanything is added after the dealer calls no more bets.

So, if youre ever tempted to kick a checkacross the baize, be ready to say hello to the backroom boys.

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