The basics of cheating at casino

Casino cheating is considered to be the actions that are prohibited by the casinos' rules. Cheating is illegal anyway, but the security measures may vary and deviate depending on the casinos jurisdiction. For example, in Nevada State the casino cheating is considered to be the felony under the law sanctions of Nevada. However, under many other jurisdictions the specific status may not exist at all, but casino cheating may be treated more likely like the fraud and dealt appropriately by the casino authorities.

Land casino cheating methods are applied by the skillful cheaters, despite all the prohibitions either of the law or of the particular casino. The most widely used cheating methods are: Past posting, hand mucking, card marking, second dealing, top hatting, electronic shuffling machines, collusion, etc.

However, to avoid the casino cheating both online and offline gambling establishments resort to various cheating combat devices targeted at the cheating prevention and detection of the cheaters.

Land casino

  • Proper dealing

    Usually the casinos resort to cheating combat with the help of particular procedures such as particular standardized ways of cards shuffling, dealing them, keeping, storing, retrieving from the decks and opening the new decks of the playing cards.

  • Cameras

    In addition, each player should remember that the gambling establishments of the new generation have got the "eyes in the sky" that is an extensive array of various cameras and motion recorders which can easily monitor the cheaters in a cheating process and record all the actions in a casino.

  • Special soft

    Some casinos even can use software for facial recognition that enables the casino to recognize the person even being effectively disguised to detect already well-known cheats or card counters and advantage different players as soon as they enter the casino.

Online casino

The other actions of the gambling establishments, especially online casinos in fight against the cheating may include such aspects as:

  1. The underage customers are not allowed to enter the casinos. In online casinos software filtering must be applied in checking the customers, alongside the trained supervisors.
  2. In the problem gaming case, the players are excluded from the gambling.
  3. The information about the limits, casino prevention of cheating, problem gamers and help available must be made available on the page or any other login area of the casino site.
  4. In addition, odds, house edge, rules of the games, percentages for the payouts must be clearly shown on the sites for gambling. The operators should be required to put the information in public eye, alongside the complaints including external as well as internal independent elements, etc.