Tech Tuesday: A Device That Helps Casinos Defeat Cheaters

Young Terry Roses, the Magician.

Whether it’s dice, slots, roulette or poker, everyone is hoping they can find a way to put the odds in their favor in the gaming room. A simple Google search will bring you all kinds of advice from how to throw the dice in craps to how to distract a dealer at a blackjack table. Most of those tips being proffered are pretty harmless to the casinos, usually giving people a false hope that they’ve found an edge.

On the other hand, because of the stakes, there are many others who push boundaries and actively work up new ways to cheat and, if able to not get caught, to win. It is gamers of this latter type, the cheats, that surveillance teams are on the lookout for, because they can be a threat.

So begins an article recently published in Casino Life magazine titled Optical Warfare at the Gaming Table.

The article features insights from Terry Roses, a consultant in the gaming industry who trains surveillance professionals on how the cheaters cheat, and how they can protect the integrity of their gaming enterprises.

Years of research and extensive testing led Roses to develop his relatively low-cost Inspecta Card Scanner, which has been endorsed by leading game protection experts including Ted Whiting, VP of Corp Surveillance at MGM Resorts International.

At one time the K.C. Card Company of Chicago sold crooked dice and all kinds of crooked card decks that people could order by mail from the catalog known as The Blue Book. These shady characters were ultimately shut down, but marked cards and other methods for pilfering greenbacks from innocents' wallets continue to this day.

Inside the Roses laboratory.

I've been told that with all the high-tech laser inks and marked cards coming out of China, every casino or private game operator is in jeopardy. The new inks being used can't be discovered using ultra violet or a black light. It's anyone's guess where all this is leading. Having been inside Terry Roses secret lab, I've observed the lengths to which he has gone to develop tools to stay ahead of the game.

It's not hocus pocus. It's science. Terry Roses remains on the cutting edge.

The markings on this ace are invisible to the naked eye.

 There is a lot more going on than you will ever know.

Related Link
Optical Warfare at the Gaming Table
Terry Roses' Inspecta Card Scanner website
Introduction to Gaming Cheats from the Wild West to the 21st Century
Robert Asiel Shares Stories About the Old Days of Cheating Casinos

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