15 Casino workers arrested in U.S.-Canada ring
 

Anybody have any more on this? I've only been able to find Canadian reports which don't mention which US casinos were involved:

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Fifteen people have been arrested in Ontario in connection with a ring that allegedly scammed millions of dollars from casinos across North America by bribing dealers and rigging card games.


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Investigators said it is the largest sting in memory. At least 18 casinos were involved, U.S. officials say. Casino Rama is the only Canadian casino that was targeted.



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U.S. authorities have said the scheme targeted 18 gaming locations in Canada, California, Nevada, Mississippi, Louisiana, Washington state, Indiana and Connecticut. It allegedly pulled in US$3.3 million from American casinos, according to U.S. indictments unsealed Thursday and cited in the Toronto Star reports.


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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/stor...inos-scam.html
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/st...?hub=TopStories

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One of the pit bosses indicted was Seattle Mayor Greg Nickel's son

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Reports from Seattle:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/..._casino25.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/..._casino25.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...o_charges.html

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online poker is rigged!! ummm...i mean live poker is rigged!! i'm so confused [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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This article says Sycuan and Barona were two of the casinos. Apparently, several members of the gang worked at Sycuan.

http://www.fox6.com/news/local/story...1-173843a7707f

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At the Nooksack Casino in Deming WA that worked with dealers to play mimi-bac with an unshuffled deck. They were turned in by suspicious co-workers.

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California now out paces Nevada and New Jersey in gaming revenues. Being the number one gaming state in the nation makes some casino's here a bigger target.

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WTF?

RESORTS, INDIANA LOST 868k in less than two hours !!!
 

Those "Robin Hoods" clipped Resorts Casino, East Chicago, Indiana: "The scheme netted the ring $868,000 in less than two hours at Resorts on Oct. 22, 2005." [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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California now out paces Nevada and New Jersey in gaming revenues. Being the number one gaming state in the nation makes some casino's here a bigger target.

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I haven't read all the articles so I might be repeating info.

apparently it was a Mississippi gaming agent who was finally able to crack the case.

The team of '20 asians' hit casinos in Tunica and Biloxi but the article wouldn't say which ones.

One article says it wasn't just false-shuffles.

"Those cheating the casinos used computer technology and people in vans to count cards. Eventually, though, they made a mistake."

"their largest haul was $868,000 in a span of 90 minutes. They scammed 18 casinos, 10 of them owned by Indian tribes."

http://www.topix.net/city/tunica-ms

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One article says it wasn't just false-shuffles.

"Those cheating the casinos used computer technology and people in vans to count cards. Eventually, though, they made a mistake."

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That's not saying it wasn't false shuffles. My understanding from other articles is that they simply sat down and played the game through one deck/shoe. The players at the table were passing the info about each and every card that was dealt to their comrades with the computers and recording the order the cards were going into the discard pile. Then the dealer would false shuffle the entire discard pile, so when he started dealing from a newly "shuffled" deck it was in exactly the order it had played prior. Plus or minus minor errors. It becomes a trivial matter to then match the first few cards coming off the shuffled deck to the history and find out where the cut happened, and from there forward you know what's coming next. So basically they play one legitimate deck/shoe to learn the order of the cards, and from then on it's rigged.