Top 5 of the most profitable casino scams
5th place: 2,95 million US dollars
This story sounds like a Hollywood screenplay, but it really happened: The couple Heather Tallchief und Robert Solis stole a money transporter in Las Vegas with almost three million dollars in it. But Solis didn’t want to share: He left his girlfriend 1,000 US dollars and made off. Twelve years later Tallchief handed herself in, but Solis still didn’t get caught.
4th place: 7 million US dollars
It needs a really good team to cheat on 25 different casinos in six years – Phuong Quoc Truong had such a team. His “The Tran Organization” had 30 members, including casino employees. From 2002 till 2007, the bought staff shuffled the cards in favor of the disguised players. This is how they made seven million US dollars! But Phuong Quoc Truong started to get greedy and paid his people less. So the cheating card dealers started to work with the FBI and Truong got sentenced for almost six years.
3rd place: 19,8 million US dollars
Phil Ivey Junior is one of the best poker players worldwide – he owns ten of the coveted World Series of Poker bracelets. He of all people has been on trial because of cheating: He was accused of making almost 20 million US dollars in London and Atlantic City by using the technique of “edge sorting”. This helped him to identify beneficial cards from the patterns on their backs. It isn’t exactly cheating, but Ivey changed actively cards by himself. That’s why the court decided, he has to pay his winnings back.
2nd place: 33 million US dollars
The casino scam in the Crown Casino in Melbourne in March 2013 is a really impressive case – especially because the police still doesn’t know anything about it. They can’t explain, how the surveillance system got hacked and how many people were involved. They only have a theory: It must have been at least two people – one person, who got into the security system and another one sitting at the poker table, who got advices about the cards of other players. With this strategy they got away with at least 33 million US dollars.
1st place: More than 37 million US dollars
Between 1995 and 2000 a criminal gang named “Roselli Brothers” scammed the record sum of 37 million US dollars. How did they do it? Well, they hacked credit institutions and stole identities from creditworthy people. That’s how they got loans from casinos. They often played against each other to avoid getting attention. The gang still didn’t get caught. It’s not even sure, that they were really brothers.
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