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This guy's ridiculously underrated and somehow still on his come-up with such incredible video quality, animations and story telling. This man really deserves his flowers for the efforts he puts into these vids.
i have to agree! one of the best channels i have randomely stumbled upon this year, amazing video quality, and the way he structures the stories keep them exciting! Keep smashing it bro you'll blow up one day
I worked in Cincinnati form 1975-1985. There were Hustlers (Larry Flynt) and Playboy clubs in the city. Cincinnati was known as a very conservative city then. The Hustlers club was soon closed down. When the city closed down about 1 AM there were a lot of cars crossing the bridge headed towards Newport, Kentucky. lol I have been to Newport several time back in the old days. The mobs in Chicago moved and built a lot of the casinos in Vegas. Frank Rosenthal was one of the famous mobsters from Chicago who operated in Las Vegas. I grew up in Southern Illinois where there was lots of bootleg joints and gangsters back in the old days. The Shelton and Birger gangs were the most famous! I was born in 1940 so I have seen a lot! Enjoyed your story and video.
@@chadm6981 Search 'Last person hung in Illinois' and read 'The Southern' articles! Born and raised in Jefferson County! Was a programmer/systems analyst for 40 years starting with BAL (Basic Assembler Language) at Bell Labs in 1970 in Naperville, IL. Nice hearing from you!
She was inducted into the Blackjack Hall of Famestress and was featured on the last episode of a show on the History Channel called Breaking Vegas which chronicled the escapades of some of the most famous casino cheats. Ida’s brazen cheat scheme is practically impossible today due to all the high-tech surveillance but even back then it was an audacious move that few would have dared to attempt.
Meh you might not be able to do all the same things but less advanced slight of hand like past posting is still possible at least in small card rooms. The ROI is pretty low since you can’t slide the big bets in every time you’d like but still some pretty sketchy cheating can still go down as long as you aren’t at a big Vegas casino.
I know from experience that, now days, you can't take even $2k from the table without getting a lot of attention from the pit boss and probably the shoe swapped out or even a new dealer.
@@TILT223 loved the fact it wasn’t the general rub of the mill generic white dude. To see that that she had a way out and decided on greed… such a shame. I wonder whatever happened to her kids after all that?
@@mordsythe // People who had a way out, but willfully chose what temporarily satisfies instead, is going to happen on a massive scale one day: "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done, whether good or bad" [2 Cor 5v10]
@ blah blah blah. When you bring religion in to the conversation (WAY more corrupt than any casino) you invalidate everything after. Religion is for the weak and people who lack self belief. It should be left in the past where it belongs. Do you also believe in Santa and the tooth fairy?
So this story really fascinated me and I did a little further research ( such as I could, fairly limited but consistent info) cuz u wanted to know what became of her. Turns out no one knows, she apparently never turned up in Nevada casinos again ( and you know that’s accurate because they would have certainly spotted her) and there are several throrurs that, with her identity exposed, the mob got a hold of her and offed her for her cheats. Considering this was 1980-81 that is very plausible.
A surprising amount of restraint from this crew considering they were able to keep it up for so long without getting sloppy. Only real thing they seemed to suffer from was letting too many people in on the scheme from outside with the shady dealers.
The writing (story telling) is amazing, the narration (love that voice), the editing... it's TV production quality. I hope you end up with the millions of subs you deserve.
I often check names to see if these stories are real. Yes this one is. Her name Ida Sommers. A misdemeanour and a $2,000 fine is nuts. Maybe they did not know how much she scamed. I have read that often bank robbers pee their pants. Luckily she did not too. Guess the kids had all money could buy after this.
@@warriormanmaxx8991 Stop trying to excuse something that just doesn't make sense. Facts matter. If this is just entertainment, why doesn't this channel just make up stories about gambling and label them as fiction?
@PaulRoos-p3o - I agree. The way this video describes the cheating it just can't be accurate. There's no way he could steal an ace, hide it, and then wait until his removed ace creates an advantage for HER, and then signal HER to bet large. This just doesn't make sense, and it's factually inaccurate.
Were the casinos not using decks of cards with their logo on it back then? All the casinos these days have cards that are specifically printed with their logos (and can't be easily faked), they keep tight control over the cards (so no-one can get at them) and when the deck is no longer used, its either marked somehow in a way that's immediately obvious (e.g. punched with a hole through the middle) and resold/given away or its completely destroyed/shredded.
There's a reason casinos do every little thing they do these days and most of it is learned from cheaters almost every procedure we do is to prevent either cheating or collusion
Cheating the casino is a victimless crime cheating at the game of family monopoly is worse than what she did at all the other people you have on this channel. Thank you for the videos really enjoyed them paul
It used to happen... imagine knowing how to count cards and use various strategies that are common now, but back then, when the casino had not worked it out.
@@TILT223 Imagine using the infamous *End Play* method, at single deck to gain a 9% advantage! In those days top counters knew exactly how many cards were remaining to be played from the deck of 52 cards. Suppose heaps of "good" cards were left to be dealt, and only 15 cards are left to be dealt. BUT, you know the dealer will shuffle after next round. Only you at the table. What do you do? :) Lol. That's right, you place bets on three spots (i.e., playing three separate blackjack hands at once) and get ALL those high cards. :) Imagine that. :)
@@TILT223 Hell, I played single deck 3:2 at the El Cortez just last year. And there are still probably a dozen Vegas casinos that offer single deck 6:5.
@@fuzzzoneyeah as long as they keep the house edge above what you can get from counting then it's fine to let the game be played. But if you're paying out at the wrong rate, it's very dangerous to allow a game like that to be played at your casino. 😂
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The fact that nobody talks about strategies from the banned book called Forbidden Gambling Methods speaks volumes about how people are stuck in a trance
Amazing that scammers leave these botted comments on so many different video genres. It's always about a "banned book" that doesn't actually exist, and if you search for the book with any search engine, the only results you'll find are the recent comments promoting it and the scammers site selling it.
At 1:56 the news-article on the cell-phone isn't about any Kennedy-era clampdown that caused a lot of casinos outside of Nevada to close. (This measure was either sincerely motivated by a desire to defund mobsters, OR was bought-and-paid-for by other mobsters, (the ones who ran everything in Nevada) to ensure that anyone who wanted to gamble without any risk of getting caught had to go to Nevada.) The article on the cell-phone at 1:56 is about law-enforcement efforts to clarify the status of gambling that takes place not in a physical location but only over the internet. When the internet got going, existing laws didn't clearly address the idea of gambling over the internet, because lawmakers hadn't thought of it before.
I must be missing something. You are going to take a card off the table in Blackjack? Won't the dealer immediately see, everybody has 2 cards, and you have one?
It absolutely blows me away that they were able to get away (for awhile) with switching in a cooler in a shoe game. Even with a dealer collaborating, I wouldn't have thought it would be possible, even before they had cameras everywhere.
so you're saying that someone like yourself who has zero experience as a security officer was able to be fooled by a professional cheat?!?!! No way!!! Thank you so much for posting everyone came her just to find out if this surprisees you in aany way
The main problem with those people is GREED - and as a wise man once said, You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run...
Holy shit, Ida may have been caught but this is like best case scenario. Caught by the FBI, not the mob who probably would have killed her, and effectively just given a slap on the wrist. Basically given an out and allowed to keep the majority of her winnings.
Its a bit hard to follow how the cheating was done as the details are missing as to how the cards were switched and how the whole shoe with cards was also switched.. I have been to vegas in the late 90s when the new Belagio and the Wynn were just opened.. lots of incredible good cheap buffets and cirque du Soleil shows with incredibly cheap hotel and flight packages.. Now we have almost no buffets , and the ones there are $100+ /person, hotels charge extra to use the pool and large sections of the hotels are shut down.. The shows are still expensive but lower end. Vegas has lost its charm and glitz.. , there are still package deals but lots of hidden charges.. Its kind of a sleazy place to go..
Said right outside of Cincinnati, my ears perked up, then you said Newport KY and I spit my drink out thinking what’re the odds lol. It’s never where I’m at where these videos happen. Didn’t even think Newport had a casino till that new one but realized this is back in the day lol.
Have you noticed that none of the cheats and scammers ever use their winnings to set themselves up for life? It seems they always waste it on superficial things like watches cars, and fine dining meaning they are left with nothing- or maybe we never hear about those who pulled off the scam and then retired
It's usually because they don't care about the money so much as the thrill of cheating and getting away with it. It's that thrill that makes them keep doing it until they are caught.
@davidtydeman1434 -- I think you nailed it at the end. Those who got away with it and were never caught, and who weren't in it for the thrill, but simply as a way to make money, left gambling life and set up other businesses which they ran until they were ready to retire. Who would suspect the owner of a franchise pizza place or sandwich place or burger joint of having ripped off the casinos for tons of money?
I think a lot of them run into the trap that your winnings don't get you as far as you'd think, especially when you're not working a 9-5 normal job because you spend all day every day practicing at card counting or dreaming up new ways to swap cards or whatever.
There is no need for a casino to cheat a customer. mathematically, if there is no cheating on either side, the casino wins more often. When Trump had his casinos, he would throw out high rollers when they won - he was too stupid to realise that a high roller winning, is just a fish taking a worm on a hook.
It's actually not legal for them to cheat you. If you AGREE to play a game with shit odds, they're not cheating you when math averages you out into being a loser. ☺️ But yeah, it's fucking crazy that they're allowed to offer games with such shitty odds. Blackjack and baccarat are obviously not too bad but slot machines have INSANE odds, if they actually showed you what your chances to get anything are, no one would play them!!!
@@since1876 By that reasoning, they should also know they AGREE to have players with advantages win, not go and call authorities when they are losing to the players.
If she stole from casinos then more power to her- casinos have been robbing the poor forever. By they way, if you care, I have never gone to a casino nor do I plan on it.
Truth is on slot machines is ,the more money you take to gamble with, the better your odds are, on hitting a jackpot. No one has the numbers," fiqured out". Its just," LUCK". PERIOD
Great point, I didn't even think of that! She definately ratted on everyone to save herself a harsher sentence, but perhaps she was just scared of finally getting caught
Something doesn't add up Casino cards are made specifically For each individual casino.you can't go to some store and buy a deck of cards that are exactly like those at the casino. Even back in the day, all decks had marking on them that you can't see.all the casino had to do was have some inferred light that would show immediately if the deck was theres or not. it's almost impossible to believe they got away changing decks on a constant basis. Once or twice maybe but over a long period of time no way!
@Ishbikes I spent a lot of time in Vegas working not in the casino itself but as a vendor. I was able to know many of those who worked in the hotels .I can tell you that changing a complete black jack shoe with multiple decks of cards is vertully impossible . when that woman was Caught she received a nothing sentence. Cheaters in Vegas are often given harsh sentences of years in prison. This leads me to believe she did nothing of the scale of what was shown in this video. I don't know for that for sure, but It sure seems that way.
@@Jeff-p5i2w What you are saying makes a lot of sense. I want to add that if someone from the "inside" had access to fresh packs of cards, THAT is the most likely way, on shift, the stacked deck would be introduced, but the idea of openly switching an entire deck of cards with another deck that is right on the table under the dealer's nose, seems very far-fetched. Very Hollywood-ish.
Not even the government, it could have been anyone. If people just help people instead of doing everything they can to avoid it then the world gets better. I'm not talking socialism or anything, I'm just saying go out of your way to help even just a few people get work and help them learn to stand on their own feet and you can save lives! Can't help people that don't want help but there's plenty that just don't know how to do things and those are the ones you can definitely help! ☺️
@@since1876 "Not even the government, it could have been anyone." Yeah but let's not kid ourselves, no one but a government with a mandate is actually going to just do it voluntarily at a large enough scale to help most people trapped in poverty. Feel-good tokens make for nice news stories, but we need real social safety nets that catch everyone, not a few tokens to relieve our collective guilt and make it even easier to ignore the real problem.
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7:48 as you can see here, while doing my job in the 60s, as a spotter, I wasn't so freaked out about seeing men walking the catwalks up above the pit, however, I was actually a bit more freaked out and surprised at seeing that the men walking the catwalks up above had no genitals!! After that, I actually decided instead to become a waiter at the Mint Hotel in downtown Las Vegas Nevada, which ended up being only slightly less freakish… :-)
The money doesn't last as long as you'd think when you don't have a real 9-5 job to pay your bills and expenses with. That's the trap of professional gamblers thinking they're going to "strike it rich." Even if they're good and they can make a living at gambling, they're practicing or dreaming up new schemes all day every day instead of working, so whatever they win just becomes living expense money and they're stuck gambling again for more in a never-ending cycle. It becomes the grind they do to get by, instead of the life-changing jackpot they were hoping for.
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She did not get a $2000 fine after being charged as the figurehead behind everything this video implies she was up to, not unless the casino dropped most of the major charges in exchange for her huge stash of jewelry, which she might have purchased from company-town jewelry stores in the first place, so they might have already gotten half of her winnings back again on their fat retail margins. Plus she likely paid almost nothing in taxes, so what she retained to buy herself out of a shallow grave might have been fairly substantial. Probably most of her booze and her fancy dinners also went back to the overlords of the company town, just like all the rest. Whatever happened, it seems the precise details are now lost to history.
#Tilt Some polite advice if I may. The video you made is slick and must have taken a lot of work. What lets it down is your enunciation. It would sound much better if for example you started to pronounce the letter "t". I am not hating on you I am honestly trying to make your product better.
5:16 - The way this video describes the cheating it just can't be accurate. There's no way he could steal an ace, hide it, and then wait until his removed ace creates an advantage for HER, and then signal HER to bet large. This just doesn't make sense, and it's factually inaccurate. Switching cards like this could help HIM win by getting to 21, but this video doesn't explain why SHE gets 21 because of what HE does. If she's making a side-bet not with the house but with a bystander that her accomplice has a 21, well, okay, but then state that in the video. Also, such a side-bet would call attention from the dealer, more attention than if the guy with the slipped-in ace makes the dough by winning with 21.
Gambling is a cheating game. Every players will try to outsmart the dealer and the casino also try to cheat the money out of the players setting out the rules of the game to their own advantages. The smartest will win. There's no such thing as fair game in gambling. For the players, no risk means no gain. The elements of luck doesn't apply. Your really have to be a very good cheat when gambling, by whatever means.
Fantastic content, but any chance you can speak 10% slower (or give a breath on a comma). I live in a non English speaking country, I can understand this but I can’t relax to it as I need to be alert as it’s quick. My Spanish friends wouldn’t have a clue trying to relax and translate in real time. As before the content is brilliant
Why doesn't the casino just have the dealer shuffle the shoe after the first could hands? Or couldnt they have one guy just observe the shoe and just the shoe? Or like, lock the shoe so that, even if someone manages to get the key, it would take a while and make more noise. Or just replace shoes with the ones they make in china for walmart which btw good luck wiggling those cards into it.
7:00 ??? How does this cheat actually work? Cards are dealt face up and there's no way to swap an ace out with another card because they are all exposed when dealt to the player. I guess I'm an idiot because I can't figure this out.
When they started in the '60's, the games would have been handheld single deck games. The narrator also mentions that they were allowed to touch the cards with both hands then, which would have made it easier. There are still a few handheld double deck games around, but casinos are very strict about players only using one hand on the cards, no doubt in order to keep people from doing exactly this. To explain, in a handheld or "pitch" blackjack game, the players' first two cards are dealt face down, and the players pick them up. If you have a blackjack, or want to split or double, you put your cards on the table face up, and play proceeds as it would in a face up game. If you want a hit, you scratch your cards on the table. If you want to stand, you tuck your first two cards under your chips. If you bust, you toss your first to cards on the table. The audacity of switching in a cooler in a shoe game, as they did later, even with the dealer "in on it", is what amazes me. No way you could get away with that now, considering that the casinos have very good cameras everywhere.
Just curious, TILT are you or were you a gambler? I supported myself while I was in school by playing blackjack. I just needed to win $100 for the week. This is back in 1996.
Your explanation of the cheating move makes no sense and shows you don’t know what you’re talking about. Knowing “when to bet big” only matters for future hands, not the one just dealt.
I wouldn't advise betting bugs... it's important to know when to bet big in line with the future cards coming up - see the video for the details how they did it :)
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What was the movie with the woman with short hair
I think you put a lot of work in this. Probably you do it with scripts. And that pays off.
@@E.A.00 the last casino , its like the movie 21 but it's the canadian version
This guy's ridiculously underrated and somehow still on his come-up
with such incredible video quality, animations and story telling.
This man really deserves his flowers for the efforts he puts into these vids.
lmao, 100% ai generated but definitely underrated.
Thank you so much, we try so hard :)
i have to agree! one of the best channels i have randomely stumbled upon this year, amazing video quality, and the way he structures the stories keep them exciting! Keep smashing it bro you'll blow up one day
its my favorite gambling channel. I love the tales.
it's an extremely well funded private equity venture, there's a lot of these popping up lately (fern etc)
I worked in Cincinnati form 1975-1985. There were Hustlers (Larry Flynt) and Playboy clubs in the city. Cincinnati was known as a very conservative city then. The Hustlers club was soon closed down. When the city closed down about 1 AM there were a lot of cars crossing the bridge headed towards Newport, Kentucky. lol I have been to Newport several time back in the old days. The mobs in Chicago moved and built a lot of the casinos in Vegas. Frank Rosenthal was one of the famous mobsters from Chicago who operated in Las Vegas. I grew up in Southern Illinois where there was lots of bootleg joints and gangsters back in the old days. The Shelton and Birger gangs were the most famous! I was born in 1940 so I have seen a lot! Enjoyed your story and video.
Really tech savvy for being 84. Southern IL huh, I grew up close to there and have never heard of either of those gangs.
@@chadm6981 Search 'Last person hung in Illinois' and read 'The Southern' articles! Born and raised in Jefferson County! Was a programmer/systems analyst for 40 years starting with BAL (Basic Assembler Language) at Bell Labs in 1970 in Naperville, IL. Nice hearing from you!
She was inducted into the Blackjack Hall of Famestress and was featured on the last episode of a show on the History Channel called Breaking Vegas which chronicled the escapades of some of the most famous casino cheats. Ida’s brazen cheat scheme is practically impossible today due to all the high-tech surveillance but even back then it was an audacious move that few would have dared to attempt.
Meh you might not be able to do all the same things but less advanced slight of hand like past posting is still possible at least in small card rooms. The ROI is pretty low since you can’t slide the big bets in every time you’d like but still some pretty sketchy cheating can still go down as long as you aren’t at a big Vegas casino.
I know from experience that, now days, you can't take even $2k from the table without getting a lot of attention from the pit boss and probably the shoe swapped out or even a new dealer.
Oohh. New video.
Happy days :)
Thanks for your work and quality of your videos/
I for one appreciate it.
Thank you, what did you think of this one in particular?
@@TILT223 loved the fact it wasn’t the general rub of the mill generic white dude.
To see that that she had a way out and decided on greed… such a shame.
I wonder whatever happened to her kids after all that?
@@mordsythe // People who had a way out, but willfully chose what temporarily satisfies instead, is going to happen on a massive scale one day:
"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done, whether good or bad" [2 Cor 5v10]
@ blah blah blah.
When you bring religion in to the conversation (WAY more corrupt than any casino) you invalidate everything after.
Religion is for the weak and people who lack self belief.
It should be left in the past where it belongs.
Do you also believe in Santa and the tooth fairy?
Yeah, I love how the casinos are known to be run by criminals but the FBI helps them to crack down on cheaters. 😂
So this story really fascinated me and I did a little further research ( such as I could, fairly limited but consistent info) cuz u wanted to know what became of her. Turns out no one knows, she apparently never turned up in Nevada casinos again ( and you know that’s accurate because they would have certainly spotted her) and there are several throrurs that, with her identity exposed, the mob got a hold of her and offed her for her cheats. Considering this was 1980-81 that is very plausible.
Your content and presentation is so good! Great job, and thank you!
Thanks so much! Best content is what we want, come again :)
A surprising amount of restraint from this crew considering they were able to keep it up for so long without getting sloppy. Only real thing they seemed to suffer from was letting too many people in on the scheme from outside with the shady dealers.
Hell yea been waiting for u to drop again can’t believe ur still under 100k keep on goin 💪🏼
Look forward to each new video, hope you branch into all kinds of different heists and not just gambling, could be cool.
Cheers great stuff
this channel is mind blowing.i'm surprised it it has less than few milliom subscribers
The writing (story telling) is amazing, the narration (love that voice), the editing... it's TV production quality. I hope you end up with the millions of subs you deserve.
I often check names to see if these stories are real. Yes this one is. Her name Ida Sommers. A misdemeanour and a $2,000 fine is nuts. Maybe they did not know how much she scamed. I have read that often bank robbers pee their pants. Luckily she did not too. Guess the kids had all money could buy after this.
I thought winning 25k at Tropicana was big, this is even bigger!
well i'm confused, at 5:25 he removes an ace, gives her the nod, she plays and SHE hits blackjack? what am i missing !?
... missing nothing ... enjoy the story for entertainment.
@@warriormanmaxx8991 Stop trying to excuse something that just doesn't make sense. Facts matter. If this is just entertainment, why doesn't this channel just make up stories about gambling and label them as fiction?
@PaulRoos-p3o - I agree. The way this video describes the cheating it just can't be accurate. There's no way he could steal an ace, hide it, and then wait until his removed ace creates an advantage for HER, and then signal HER to bet large. This just doesn't make sense, and it's factually inaccurate.
Lots of smooth brained people
@ What does "smooth-brained" mean? I've never heard it (or read it) before now.
Were the casinos not using decks of cards with their logo on it back then? All the casinos these days have cards that are specifically printed with their logos (and can't be easily faked), they keep tight control over the cards (so no-one can get at them) and when the deck is no longer used, its either marked somehow in a way that's immediately obvious (e.g. punched with a hole through the middle) and resold/given away or its completely destroyed/shredded.
There's a reason casinos do every little thing they do these days and most of it is learned from cheaters almost every procedure we do is to prevent either cheating or collusion
Where there's a will, there's a way.
@@David-0100 You must to eat a lot of Chinese.
Cheating the casino is a victimless crime cheating at the game of family monopoly is worse than what she did at all the other people you have on this channel. Thank you for the videos really enjoyed them paul
Imagine playing blackjack at a casino with a single deck of cards
It used to happen... imagine knowing how to count cards and use various strategies that are common now, but back then, when the casino had not worked it out.
@@TILT223 Imagine using the infamous *End Play* method, at single deck to gain a 9% advantage!
In those days top counters knew exactly how many cards were remaining to be played from the deck of 52 cards. Suppose heaps of "good" cards were left to be dealt, and only 15 cards are left to be dealt. BUT, you know the dealer will shuffle after next round. Only you at the table. What do you do? :) Lol. That's right, you place bets on three spots (i.e., playing three separate blackjack hands at once) and get ALL those high cards. :) Imagine that. :)
@@TILT223 Hell, I played single deck 3:2 at the El Cortez just last year. And there are still probably a dozen Vegas casinos that offer single deck 6:5.
Still out there. Usually max bet is $500.
@@fuzzzoneyeah as long as they keep the house edge above what you can get from counting then it's fine to let the game be played. But if you're paying out at the wrong rate, it's very dangerous to allow a game like that to be played at your casino. 😂
I was born in the wrong time. Take me back to when slot machines could be beaten with a little flashlight and blackjack didnt even have cameras.
You can make much more money posting videos on RUclips. The time is always right of you have skills.
Love your vids. Greetings from Germany
Glad you like them! Thanks a lot. We're doubling down on the time and effort put into creating these - what would you like to see more of? appreciate the comment and sub :)
@@TILT223I am also from Germany and I am especially interested in legal tricks. But please don't repeat card counting over and over again.
@@TILT223how about videos on scams, loopholes, etc.
Greetings from Chicago, Illinois.
Love your videos!
New subscriber here. Great job man!
The fact that nobody talks about strategies from the banned book called Forbidden Gambling Methods speaks volumes about how people are stuck in a trance
Amazing that scammers leave these botted comments on so many different video genres. It's always about a "banned book" that doesn't actually exist, and if you search for the book with any search engine, the only results you'll find are the recent comments promoting it and the scammers site selling it.
@@Jwareness right, the best are the "thanks mr. whoever' for the advice that made me money with 30 cringe bot comments
@@edwardtheenigmalmao mostly with trading and crypto, first time seeing it with gambling haha
for real man, its the biggest piece of dogshit that book
I immediately knew this was bs, precisely because I've gambled A LOT.
Swindling Casinos getting fleeced like this is epic poetic justice.
Subscribe if you haven't already! This channel has some of the best quality out there and deserves it!
She made hundreds of thousands (or maybe millions) of dollars, and she only got a $2000 fine? Holy shit.
I know, you guys asked to hear one where they didn't get caught too soon haha. This is it :)
I'm glad since she's just stealing from casinos. Victimless crime
Now that's lucky! Time to bow out gracefully instead of beaten in the alley.
That's not fair. She isnt a multinatinal corporation donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to politicians
Put 2 and 2 together. You'll get it.
At 1:56 the news-article on the cell-phone isn't about any Kennedy-era clampdown that caused a lot of casinos outside of Nevada to close. (This measure was either sincerely motivated by a desire to defund mobsters, OR was bought-and-paid-for by other mobsters, (the ones who ran everything in Nevada) to ensure that anyone who wanted to gamble without any risk of getting caught had to go to Nevada.) The article on the cell-phone at 1:56 is about law-enforcement efforts to clarify the status of gambling that takes place not in a physical location but only over the internet. When the internet got going, existing laws didn't clearly address the idea of gambling over the internet, because lawmakers hadn't thought of it before.
I must be missing something. You are going to take a card off the table in Blackjack? Won't the dealer immediately see, everybody has 2 cards, and you have one?
There are a lot of holes in the desert and a lot of problems are buried in those holes.
It absolutely blows me away that they were able to get away (for awhile) with switching in a cooler in a shoe game. Even with a dealer collaborating, I wouldn't have thought it would be possible, even before they had cameras everywhere.
so you're saying that someone like yourself who has zero experience as a security officer was able to be fooled by a professional cheat?!?!! No way!!! Thank you so much for posting everyone came her just to find out if this surprisees you in aany way
The main problem with those people is GREED - and as a wise man once said, You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run...
This is very true.
I guess I'm used to playing now. The idea you could palm a card or swap a deck seems insane to me especially if the dealer wasnt in on it.
Holy shit, Ida may have been caught but this is like best case scenario. Caught by the FBI, not the mob who probably would have killed her, and effectively just given a slap on the wrist. Basically given an out and allowed to keep the majority of her winnings.
The mob hasn't been involved in Vegas casinos for decades now.
@@2011blueman It hasn't, but this wasn't done in the modern day
Its a bit hard to follow how the cheating was done as the details are missing as to how the cards were switched and how the whole shoe with cards was also switched.. I have been to vegas in the late 90s when the new Belagio and the Wynn were just opened.. lots of incredible good cheap buffets and cirque du Soleil shows with incredibly cheap hotel and flight packages.. Now we have almost no buffets , and the ones there are $100+ /person, hotels charge extra to use the pool and large sections of the hotels are shut down.. The shows are still expensive but lower end. Vegas has lost its charm and glitz.. , there are still package deals but lots of hidden charges.. Its kind of a sleazy place to go..
Said right outside of Cincinnati, my ears perked up, then you said Newport KY and I spit my drink out thinking what’re the odds lol. It’s never where I’m at where these videos happen. Didn’t even think Newport had a casino till that new one but realized this is back in the day lol.
Have you noticed that none of the cheats and scammers ever use their winnings to set themselves up for life? It seems they always waste it on superficial things like watches cars, and fine dining meaning they are left with nothing- or maybe we never hear about those who pulled off the scam and then retired
It's usually because they don't care about the money so much as the thrill of cheating and getting away with it. It's that thrill that makes them keep doing it until they are caught.
@davidtydeman1434 -- I think you nailed it at the end. Those who got away with it and were never caught, and who weren't in it for the thrill, but simply as a way to make money, left gambling life and set up other businesses which they ran until they were ready to retire. Who would suspect the owner of a franchise pizza place or sandwich place or burger joint of having ripped off the casinos for tons of money?
I think a lot of them run into the trap that your winnings don't get you as far as you'd think, especially when you're not working a 9-5 normal job because you spend all day every day practicing at card counting or dreaming up new ways to swap cards or whatever.
I wonder if a movie has been made about this
No but it certainly should be a movie, it's a great story that really happened!
It is illegal to cheat the casino's. However, it's totally legal for casino's to cheat you.
Always this!! Its so true.
There is no need for a casino to cheat a customer. mathematically, if there is no cheating on either side, the casino wins more often. When Trump had his casinos, he would throw out high rollers when they won - he was too stupid to realise that a high roller winning, is just a fish taking a worm on a hook.
It's actually not legal for them to cheat you. If you AGREE to play a game with shit odds, they're not cheating you when math averages you out into being a loser. ☺️ But yeah, it's fucking crazy that they're allowed to offer games with such shitty odds. Blackjack and baccarat are obviously not too bad but slot machines have INSANE odds, if they actually showed you what your chances to get anything are, no one would play them!!!
@@since1876 WELL ACKSHUALLY
@@since1876 By that reasoning, they should also know they AGREE to have players with advantages win, not go and call authorities when they are losing to the players.
The fact that in the last nine days three Indian sounding names with exactly the same wording about the Forbidden Black Book tells you everything 😂😂😂😂
Great content as always Caan. Never heard of this one before.
If she stole from casinos then more power to her- casinos have been robbing the poor forever. By they way, if you care, I have never gone to a casino nor do I plan on it.
I have no idea how she swapped out that deck.
Truth is on slot machines is ,the more money you take to gamble with, the better your odds are, on hitting a jackpot. No one has the numbers," fiqured out". Its just," LUCK". PERIOD
So, in the end, she became a snitch. She revealed everything and snitched on the dodgy dealer. What a world.
Great point, I didn't even think of that! She definately ratted on everyone to save herself a harsher sentence, but perhaps she was just scared of finally getting caught
The streets are filled with parked vans in 3 inches of standing water. Horrifying.
Come again?
@@TILT223 The streets are filled with parked vans in 3 inches of standing water. Horrifying.
Over.
May I ask where you got the footage you used at 0:15?
First r reasons
Great use of the movie The Last Resort, a great Canadian film filmed before the American version 21.
:14
Something doesn't add up
Casino cards are made specifically
For each individual casino.you can't go to some store and buy a deck of cards that are exactly like those at the casino. Even back in the day, all decks had marking on them that you can't see.all the casino had to do was have some inferred light that would show immediately if the deck was theres or not. it's almost impossible to believe they got away changing decks on a constant basis. Once or twice maybe but over a long period of time no way!
You don’t think they would’ve thought of that? I’m sure they did..
@Ishbikes I spent a lot of time in Vegas working not in the casino itself but as a vendor. I was able to know many of those who worked in the hotels .I can tell you that changing a complete black jack shoe with multiple decks of cards is vertully impossible .
when that woman was
Caught she received a nothing sentence.
Cheaters in Vegas are often given harsh sentences of years in prison.
This leads me to believe she did nothing of the scale of what was shown in this video. I don't know for that for sure, but
It sure seems that way.
@@Jeff-p5i2w maybe it’s exaggerated, like the *Molly’s game* movie. She wasn’t the main part. It was Toby’s game & he had a dealer who was in on it.
@@Jeff-p5i2w What you are saying makes a lot of sense. I want to add that if someone from the "inside" had access to fresh packs of cards, THAT is the most likely way, on shift, the stacked deck would be introduced, but the idea of openly switching an entire deck of cards with another deck that is right on the table under the dealer's nose, seems very far-fetched. Very Hollywood-ish.
This isn't the 2000s, casinos *learned* from people like this to make their modern policies
She knows if she doesn’t get a job soon her chances of survival are slim (insert skull) 🤣
If the government helped out the 16 year old homeless girl, she wouldn't had to become a cheat.
Not even the government, it could have been anyone. If people just help people instead of doing everything they can to avoid it then the world gets better. I'm not talking socialism or anything, I'm just saying go out of your way to help even just a few people get work and help them learn to stand on their own feet and you can save lives! Can't help people that don't want help but there's plenty that just don't know how to do things and those are the ones you can definitely help! ☺️
@@since1876 "Not even the government, it could have been anyone."
Yeah but let's not kid ourselves, no one but a government with a mandate is actually going to just do it voluntarily at a large enough scale to help most people trapped in poverty.
Feel-good tokens make for nice news stories, but we need real social safety nets that catch everyone, not a few tokens to relieve our collective guilt and make it even easier to ignore the real problem.
I dont understand, how dealer didnt see that she swaped the card, cards are facing up, how can he forget what he gave to someone
With seeing the photo of Ida. I think Olga would be a more fitting name
If you're going to do a video about a blackjack player then don't use stock footage of poker players.
It gets tedious, doesn't it?!
😂😂
The quality always suprises me ngl
That means a lot, we really do try and create the very best quality videos we can. If you have suggestions on what you would like to see, what you like and what you think is a mistake we're always keen to learn and improve.
What was her name? Did I miss it?
Its about time casinos eliminate indoor smoking.
Yeah. Right now some casinos have a smoke-free zone, and some (like Park MGM in vegas) are completely smoke-free. But most are still smoking places.
So who's the girl in the thumbnail?
If there was no movie called Casino, the story and referencing would be different in this video.
7:48 as you can see here, while doing my job in the 60s, as a spotter, I wasn't so freaked out about seeing men walking the catwalks up above the pit, however, I was actually a bit more freaked out and surprised at seeing that the men walking the catwalks up above had no genitals!!
After that, I actually decided instead to become a waiter at the Mint Hotel in downtown Las Vegas Nevada, which ended up being only slightly less freakish… :-)
LOL
@voicetube explain they had no genitals
@@Jeff-p5i2w Go to the timestamp I give at the beginning of my comment and see (or I guess "testically," don't see) what I'm talking about 🙂
never explain how they switch the 5 decks
They just had another shoe
My question is always this. WHAT THE HELL DID THEY SPEND ALL THE MONEY ON? It makes no sense.
Expensive vegas luxury.
Their frequent trips to the toilet and regular sniffing makes no sense either.
They typically squander it. It isn't the money they like so much as the thrill of cheating and getting away with it.
The money doesn't last as long as you'd think when you don't have a real 9-5 job to pay your bills and expenses with.
That's the trap of professional gamblers thinking they're going to "strike it rich." Even if they're good and they can make a living at gambling, they're practicing or dreaming up new schemes all day every day instead of working, so whatever they win just becomes living expense money and they're stuck gambling again for more in a never-ending cycle.
It becomes the grind they do to get by, instead of the life-changing jackpot they were hoping for.
I sincerely hope she was stacking her loot and made some sound investments because she got mad lucky!
Cheating the criminals. OK with me.
You could never get away with this today. Too many camera's and eyes watching.
True, everything is traced now.
Man we need more videos
Noted, more in the pipeline! They take a little while to create though between all the research, writing and editing. Will try to get more out soon - don't forget to sub :)
How many do we need. I know someone who can help you, but it's not going to be cheap.
Wait, when did Atlantic City ever close down its casinos?
See the years!
"thousands of casinos shut down overnight".....??? LOL. We don't even. have 1,000 today. Maybe dozens closed?
Rule #1: Never talk to the Police
The only cheaters in Vegas are the casinos
No stock photos
Mate your channel is tv level. You should offer your shows to mainstream tv.
So kind thanks man, we do try :)
what did they used to use before long shoes? curious how she could "swap" a deck of cards on a table wtf
Was Sharon Stones character loosely based on this woman in Casino the movie?
No not at all, thats a different story altogether.
Like your content and your channel but you keep letting your voice drop, consequently I have to use subtitles while watching. 👍
Noted, will fix this. When you say drop, do you mean in terms of volume or pitch?
@ you drop your projection . That’s just my opinion. I do a lot of drama so I’m conscious of it. ❤️
Some might ask: Is cheating a casino a true crime?
Man I’m so weak, I see a pretty girl in the thumbnail and I click on the video
A LIE....NO CASINO WOULD OVERLOOK THIS guy pulling cards off the table.
Everytime I cheat I still lose
You're not doing it right then ;)
11:04 who the hell hits a 19 when dealer is showing an at best 19? I can't quite make out what the dealer has. But no face card for sure.
Ider is a talented lady
She did not get a $2000 fine after being charged as the figurehead behind everything this video implies she was up to, not unless the casino dropped most of the major charges in exchange for her huge stash of jewelry, which she might have purchased from company-town jewelry stores in the first place, so they might have already gotten half of her winnings back again on their fat retail margins.
Plus she likely paid almost nothing in taxes, so what she retained to buy herself out of a shallow grave might have been fairly substantial. Probably most of her booze and her fancy dinners also went back to the overlords of the company town, just like all the rest.
Whatever happened, it seems the precise details are now lost to history.
REALLY?
I think this is bogus.
Melena Tara
#Tilt Some polite advice if I may. The video you made is slick and must have taken a lot of work. What lets it down is your enunciation. It would sound much better if for example you started to pronounce the letter "t". I am not hating on you I am honestly trying to make your product better.
Noted thanks.
She definitely won in this. Full on admitted to cheating and just got a slap on the wrist lmao
Yes, one of the rarest winners...
5:16 - The way this video describes the cheating it just can't be accurate. There's no way he could steal an ace, hide it, and then wait until his removed ace creates an advantage for HER, and then signal HER to bet large. This just doesn't make sense, and it's factually inaccurate. Switching cards like this could help HIM win by getting to 21, but this video doesn't explain why SHE gets 21 because of what HE does. If she's making a side-bet not with the house but with a bystander that her accomplice has a 21, well, okay, but then state that in the video. Also, such a side-bet would call attention from the dealer, more attention than if the guy with the slipped-in ace makes the dough by winning with 21.
Its more like one night you have it all, the next your broke.
Gambling is a cheating game. Every players will try to outsmart the dealer and the casino also try to cheat the money out of the players setting out the rules of the game to their own advantages. The smartest will win. There's no such thing as fair game in gambling. For the players, no risk means no gain. The elements of luck doesn't apply. Your really have to be a very good cheat when gambling, by whatever means.
Fantastic content, but any chance you can speak 10% slower (or give a breath on a comma). I live in a non English speaking country, I can understand this but I can’t relax to it as I need to be alert as it’s quick. My Spanish friends wouldn’t have a clue trying to relax and translate in real time. As before the content is brilliant
Certainly! Thanks for the feedback - glad you enjoy the channel.
Hey 400$ a day aint bad flirting all day must be annoying tho
Why doesn't the casino just have the dealer shuffle the shoe after the first could hands? Or couldnt they have one guy just observe the shoe and just the shoe? Or like, lock the shoe so that, even if someone manages to get the key, it would take a while and make more noise. Or just replace shoes with the ones they make in china for walmart which btw good luck wiggling those cards into it.
Not criminal.. just Wall Street
Every story is same greed always gets them but there's loads out there who got out at right time made crazy money that's why we don't know them lol
The Chicago outfit was skimming off the top and she skimmed at even higher level.
Are you talking about the Stardust casino? haha
MY GOD, I would LOVE to know more about this Patriot who Government tried to vilify!!
MAGA ‘24!!!
7:00 ??? How does this cheat actually work? Cards are dealt face up and there's no way to swap an ace out with another card because they are all exposed when dealt to the player. I guess I'm an idiot because I can't figure this out.
When they started in the '60's, the games would have been handheld single deck games. The narrator also mentions that they were allowed to touch the cards with both hands then, which would have made it easier. There are still a few handheld double deck games around, but casinos are very strict about players only using one hand on the cards, no doubt in order to keep people from doing exactly this.
To explain, in a handheld or "pitch" blackjack game, the players' first two cards are dealt face down, and the players pick them up. If you have a blackjack, or want to split or double, you put your cards on the table face up, and play proceeds as it would in a face up game. If you want a hit, you scratch your cards on the table. If you want to stand, you tuck your first two cards under your chips. If you bust, you toss your first to cards on the table.
The audacity of switching in a cooler in a shoe game, as they did later, even with the dealer "in on it", is what amazes me. No way you could get away with that now, considering that the casinos have very good cameras everywhere.
@@russlehman2070 ok that makes sense then. Appreciate the information
The audio is correct, the video is deceiving. Black Jack used to be dealt face down, and the player would pick up the cards with one hand.
I more so wonder how can you swap decks? You would have to have the original. I just don't see how they would not notice different cards
Just curious, TILT are you or were you a gambler?
I supported myself while I was in school by playing blackjack. I just needed to win $100 for the week. This is back in 1996.
Your explanation of the cheating move makes no sense and shows you don’t know what you’re talking about. Knowing “when to bet big” only matters for future hands, not the one just dealt.
I wouldn't advise betting bugs... it's important to know when to bet big in line with the future cards coming up - see the video for the details how they did it :)
@ I did that. Your explanation makes no sense, so you’re either wrong or just can’t explain well.