How This Device illegally Won $44.9 Million From Las Vegas
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A TV Repairman, Considered the greatest Cheater in Las Vegas History, he conspired with an elite group of thieves to steal an estimated $44 Million from Casinos around the world. For twenty years, he invented dozens of cheat devices to rig jackpots from slot machines, always staying one step ahead of casino security. But then it all fell apart, when an old friend came back in the picture.
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Guy's name Ray Ming. Put pictures of a white guy.
skipped right passed the ad
When u say buddy, u mean boyfriend.... It's all g
Cool 20% off a slot machine cheating device👍
What’s really funny is casinos are cheat themself when you use them they make it so you barely make money and you’re wasting money in casino
Hard to feel bad for casinos losing money
It’s not that you feel bad for the casino, it’s that that screws over the other players whose comps, benefits, etc. slashed as a result of artificially lower profits.
@@indifferentadvocate1737 No because gambling is always a losing game anyway. You know the machines are programmed to steal your money, right?
I doubt they're losing money. So many people are willing to spend money for the off chance they win a little more that they come up bigh time by facilitating them.
@@indifferentadvocate1737 if you go to a casino to gain money you already lost
Casinos don't lose money
This guy is not only an inventor, he is also a marketing expert. He knows how to come up with great names for his inventions.
THE TONGUE! I dont care what it does I want it.
@@cardenfoy "My wife is cheating, she has some magic 'light wand' and 'the tongue'."
Yep, sounds legit.
Funny thing is that, as school kids, we would develop procedures and devices to get free credits (free plays) on arcade machines. Just arcade machines, nothing for profit....not slots...even though one guy did buy a used slot machine to analyze it. He quickly found out that the best way to extract money from these machines was to own and operate them yourself, either in a backroom, or in a region where the legislation allows them in pubs and arcades.
But thinking that I could have made a living out of naming and selling cheat devices like the 'woody penetrator' (yep, that pretty much describes one of the devices) -- that's a thought which had not occurred to me before.
And thinking that I could, today, be watching a RUclips video about myself...from the safety of a prison...that just blows my mind.
@@klausstock8020 so cringe
@@klausstock8020I put gum in a gum machine where the quarters go
@@klausstock8020Jesse What the Fuck Are You talking about
5 years for cheating $35 out of a Dennys casino is WILD. I’ve lived here my entire life, yet the “justice” system in the US never ceases to blow my mind
if someone tries to rob a bank, but fails and leaves empty handed, should they be let off?
Yeah we even arrest shoplifters here, crazy..
@@SuperM789For a bank it's usually violent, meaning putting people in danger and distress.
This is more like trying to steal the quarters off a change machine
@@SuperM789 Yeah like the other guy said your example here doesn't really fit.
@@SuperM789if a guy walks in and tries to snatch 50 bucks from behind the counter? Sure, slap on tbe wrist. Guy comes in with a gun and starts pointing it at people? Jail.
The FBI wasting resources to catch casino cheaters is the saddest part of this whole story.
Yep, defending legalized scammers...
totally
Our tax dollars (taken at gunpoint) at work! :)
justice for the rich, not for the people
This. Maybe go catch some criminals in suits instead of spending millions playing pretend mafia for the casino industry.
this guy is as good at naming his gadgets as he is at making them
Thought the same thing 😆
No weird ass numbers or hieroglyphics, straight to the point and clever. A wire that sticks in and flexes like a mini hand to trigger the jackpot? Monkey Paw. A protruding plastic/glass casing and shines a light? Lightwand. Microcontroller with a flapping module? The Tongue.
Ingenious.
Very clever
😂
@@FVBmovies USB 4.1 Gen 2A 3x2 V2.2c
steal money from 4,000,000 poor people? you're a business man! steal $35 from a rich man? boy that's a lifetime sentence
Never heard it put better
Ones consensual the other is not
@jojoprocess well, when your choice is participate in the rigged system or starve in the woods, it doesn't feel so "consensual".. I'd say coercive is a better word.
It's just the illusion of being consensual.
@@r-pupz7032 im14andthisisdeep
Capitalism
Imagine stealing millions of dollars from a company and then selling them the solution to a problem he invented.
Dude should’ve been a politician
I remember my parents telling me about a locksmith they hired who admitted he was a former burglar
He is smarter than probably 99.9% of the politicians
No dummy! Politicians only create more problems.
It's a VERY common tale. The best cheats know how to find and exploit fthe tiniest holes in security. So who could be better to hire to help fortify your systems against the people who cheat try to exploit them? That's right, a first class cheater. There are a few famous cases. For example Kevin Mitnick became a very successful computer security consultant after he was released from prison.
This guy is not a criminal he is a hero
Its like looting a walmart it may be illegal but it is very cool
@@YOSSARIAN313very different scenarios
@@daimsaeed both are very based
@@YOSSARIAN313based
He's robin hood steals from rich
imagine how inteligent this guy was without any documents to find on the internet. a true inventor because of a life of cheating a cheating system. such a legend
documents?!
he had to BUY a slot machine to figure out how to cheat it
he didnt just make these tools out of his head
@@kenwittlief255 well he still had to reverse engineer the machines. Most regular people couldn't do that
@@kenwittlief255 you still have to reverse engineer a tool, I suppose being a television repair man helps as he understood circuits and stuff
Different skill than what required today.
Would also need to buy a machine and probably reverse engineer the firmware which is quite an impressive skill. Then somehow exploit it with USB. More or less like hacking an ATM.
Back in the day it was more or less a full hardware hack - at least this one.
@@TomTom-gx1sm you wouldnt use a usb and much less likely a usb without being caught.... a RFID/mag-stripe encoder for player cards or disrupting on-board circuitry via some other external method would be more applicable. BTW, no one spends time hacking ATMs LOL its cheaper, faster, and easier to break the thing open. Go back to playing GTA V, you sound stupid on the internet
the fact the casinos have such a grip on law makers that they can make "cheating devices" illegal outside of said casino property is absolutely disgusting. I can think of valid reasons for owning said devices such as doing what tommy did, showing the casino the exploit, how he did it, the device used, and selling them the security fix. but no just POSSESSING such a thing in your own home is illegal? land of the free my ass. hopefully more exploits come in the future to run these places dry, cant feel bad for a casino.
So you have never heard of tax revenue before.
@@bobbygetsbanned6049 Casinos barely pay any tax compared to other revenue streams (eg personal income tax). They have control over politicians because they are generous political donors.
@@bobbygetsbanned6049 Rtard
Well the casinos now are owned by their own states, so of course the government wouldn't like it if someone cheats them
@@kushine_ I think you’re confusing casinos and the lottery. They make a lot of tax money from the casinos but they are not owned by the states
I was looking at the coin counting roller being prodded and thought... nah... So I opened one of my old Bally slots, put up the smallest win and then held that roller in... It just paid out continuously - would have trigger the protection timer if I'd kept holding it in. But it does make the solenoid in the payout counter quite warm being held in all the time. So the monkey-paw worked - but the art of finding the correct location in the machine would be complicated. You'd also need to get a win (any value) to start emptying the machine.
But slot machines are rigged (duh everyone says) the machines at the time would start paying out when they were approaching a certain value. I think that's the basis of the second heist in Ocean's 13?
@bigclivedotcom - Suppose it shouldn't surprise me Big Clive would have an interest in slots & also own a vintage Bally's slot! We actually share a similar interest, as I've also had an obsession with coin operated things as far back as I can remember. Good to see you "out in the wild" on youtube... happy holidays, Merry Christmas & all the best to you & your family in 2024 B.C.
@@smalltime0 Nah ain't no way you took a movie as evidence
@@user-bx9ri2qv3y no, its a throwaway joke in the film. The machines are legally rigged, the joke in the film is that in the end they set the guy they screwed over up for life.
@@smalltime0 by using an exploit in the software, not by the machine “having to pay out at a certain value”
11:31 the way his tools are evolving, I’m fully expecting a Lightsaber is the final iteration
The fact they didn't get caught with that huge device is shocking to me but then I remember what decade it was
Nowadays if you win more than the casino would like they'll just trespass you. Whether you cheated or not. They follow all the wins from everything. Slots, cards, roulette, dice.
Counting cards is legal, but you can be sure to get permanently banned from any casino that catches you doing it. Playing in casinos nowadays really is a sucker's game.
@@rykehuss3435 I did not know counting cards was legal and that makes perfect sense to me. What do they expect you to do just lose by not trying?
And I'm not a gambler, but the times I have gambled, I always win more than casino because if I make ANYTHING I leave.
@@blue_anemone Yes they expect you to lose in the long run. Thats literally how they make money. Theyre a private business on private property, so they have a right to choose their customers. And customers who cause them to lose money instead of bringing it in, well you can imagine how welcome they are.
Though there are exceptions. Like if some famous poker star is playing there and beating the house on the blackjack table, they'll allow it because his presence makes everyone else play more
@@blue_anemone Lol thats not how it works. The more you play at a casino the more you lose. Sure you can make it out with a profit, but if you keep playing you will not stay profitable its mathematically impossible.
The only exception are the poker tables where youre not playing against the house, but good luck winning at those.
This man was a hero really. The casino cheat people all the times.
Couldn't agree more. he lived the life of a King, Robbing Vile, Disgusting Low Lifes. and then Invented a "Fix" and Sold it to the Dirtbags! HAHAHAHA!!
Yeah fuck the casinos, casinos are mathematically high taxation on the poor. Anyone who feels sympathy for casinos are either the ones running them or absolute imbeciles.
I mean besides getting kicked out for card counting (which isnt illegal but they wont allow it and will kick you out and not give you your money) how are the casinos “cheating” anyone? The gambler knows exactly how the game is played, their odds of winning, all the rules and decide to make that bet and the casino accepts that bet and follows all the rules exactly how they told the gambler the game is played. So how tf are they cheating people? Thats like saying you signed a contract and now you claim you’re getting cheated for absolutely no reason even if who you signed the contract with followed exactly what the contract said, and did everything the contract said. How tf are you being cheated? You literally signed the contract and knew exactly what was happening, exactly all the rules, exactly all the stipulations, exactly everything. You just sound more butthurt and you must have lost a bunch if not all your money at a casino. You’re the stupid person who decided to make that bet and gamble all your money away. What did the casinos do to cheat you? You knew all the rules and how the game is played and everything and you decided to make that bet so please tell me how they cheated you? So you think you should have better odds than the casinos? That you should have 50/50 odds with the casinos? Ummm guess what buddy, then there wouldnt be any casinos because they need to make a profit. Just like LITERALLY every single business in the world needs to make a profit in order to stay in business. Just like the grocery store doesnt sell you milk for the same price they bought it for because that defeats the whole point of being in business anyway. Just like you made the decision to buy the milk at the grocery store for a certain amount of money, people at casinos make that decision to bet a certain amount of money on a game. Wheres the cheating? You sound like a 2 year old who lost a game to another kid and you cant handle it so you wrongfully accuse them of cheating. Take responsibility for your own actions. You perfectly sum up everyone’s mentality nowadays. _“Nothings my fault, i can never take responsibility for my own actions, its always someones elses fault, blame everyone else but myself”_
Funny when a gambler hit the jackpot the casino would try to screw the gambler by claiming that the slot machine malfunction. A slot machine only malfunction when a gambler win a jackpot but when a gambler lose well the slot machine working fine. Screw the casino.
they willingly go into a casino and bet all their money away, who's fault is that?
I personally think cheating the casino should be entirely legal (their problem not ours). Shouldn't waste tax dollars on convicting people.
Lol imagine thinking this 🎉😂
Your profile picture is of your brain; STRETCHED OUT
Yeah should just result in a ban from the casino
Casino's must pay pretty good amounts of tax, so it's in the government's financial interests to protect them.
Not really. The social problems caused by gambling addiction far outweigh the tax revenue.@@pinealdreams1064
His story went full circle from creating other cheaters to taking them down.. 😅
"worst of the worst criminals, the ones who cheated the casinos"
Good for him, the Casinos extort people every day.
I know. Why just the other day I was sitting in my house watching TV, when two armed employees of a casino abducted me at gunpoint, forced me to drive my car 60 miles to a casino, and then tied me to a chair at a slot machine and forced me to play until all my money was gone. I demand justice.
@@gregoryschmidt1233 I know right. I scammed 50 old women out of their lives saving and everyone got mad. But I didn't force them to do anything so what makes it so bad? Nothing can be unethical if it's not physical violence. That's why selling meth should be legal.
@Jamie Last Nope
@Jamie Last Cringeworthy lack of empathy
most wouldn’t walk right in if they weren’t desperate
@Jamie Last Most people think that the machines aren't rigged and there's an actual chance for them to win each time. In reality it is a scam, where jackpots come once every 1000 rolls
Tommy is a freaking genius in my book. He built inventions to beat slot machines that are DESIGNED to cheat the player. He is a hero. A legend. I wanna be as smart as him
he went to jail, you sure about that?
@@thomasslone1964 that doesn’t take away from the fact that he’s smart, bro is a genius
@@thomasslone1964i think you missed his entire point, besides the system is broken and hundreds of innocenct ppl are incarcerated
Right? They’re allowed to cheat but we aren’t loo
@@thomasslone1964
lol…he maybe should aim to be just that little extra bit smarter
Fun fact: its not illegal to count cards at a casino
its not illegal, but they will ban you, and you must have fallen over to get those bruises
Just like it is not illegal to data scrape on Facebook, it's just against their TOS, and they reserve the right to kick you out
@@davidewhite69you're not goña get beaten up for card counting nowadays. They'll back you off....some nicely,some aggressively but not with violence
spot the virgin... kiddo you have no life@@ProfAzimov touch grass.
This might be the savest way to make money at a casino. Everybody has a camera in their pocket, get yourself escorted out, for card counting, make a bit a ruckus, to get attention and the cameras pointed at you and then fall unfortunately because "the big guy pushed" you. @@davidewhite69
I'm getting the feeling that I'm supposed to feel bad for the casinos and consider the cheaters evil. I'm failing hard at both.
5 years for stealing $35 dollars from a slot machine, huh?
No doubt in my mind who the bad guys are in this story.
Yeah but he was very close to bankrupt them all
@@monkofdarktimes average daily revenue of a single casino in vegas is ~$1.8 million. They weren't even close to getting bankrupt.
With a light wand you could make ~10.000$ a day. For a casino to not make any profit, they'd need 180 people cheating in the same casino at the same time for hours.
@@deusexmachina5769 I'm talking about the tounge
@@monkofdarktimes The tongue was newer. He got 5 years for cheating $35 years before!
Casinos used to run Nevada. They were basically the mob.
This guy is no criminal, he is a Hero. Fuck the Casinos.
Nobody forces you to go into a casino ,you little bitch
Right he was an intelligent man .He sure knew how to get the money . And obviously the casinos don’t want you to be winning constantly . Good for him. Stupid casinos they only steal .
i dont get it. they just offer games to people. there will always be idiots who are bad with money. should we feel sorry that people walked into a building and spent money on things they wanted to spend money on? thats why gambling is called "stupid people tax"
How is he a hero all he did was cheat? I'm not defending casinos but he did was cheat at casino.
@@tykamen5588 teaching garbage a lesson is good bro, not that complicated.
This is a perfect example of how crime is a social construct - casinos take billions of dollars from people every year, who get nothing in return and some even lose their homes over it. That's legal. Someone taking all the money out of a casino, which is a definitively negative influence on society, becomes a criminal, even if he's only selling tools for others to do it and doesn't steal any himself. In a sane society, this guy wouldn't just be free, he would be a hero.
Fun fact. He isnt on the blacklist and hasnt been since 2013 . He works for MGM now and helps catch cheaters .
Bruh
He became the evil he once fought
It's like how the casinos say counting cards is cheating. If someone can sit their and keep track of every card in their head, that's not cheating. That's being good at math and paying attention to what is going on.
Casinos don't consider it cheating though
@@joedartonthefenderbass, Yes they do. If they did not consider it cheating casinos would not ban people caught counting cards.
I don't understand what it means by counting card cuz you need them photographic memory to memorize the card plus it hard for casino to track you counting cards tho
@@oachilis, See if you can find a film "21".
Card counting is where they draw the line bc its too hard to prove and make illegal, they can just ban you but can't bring any charges against
Bilked them out of nearly $45 million?!? And with all the security they had? Man is a genius.
Thanks for the upload... looking forward to another gem from you & automatic thumb's up cuz you never disappoint!! Hope all is well on your end!
$45 mil in direct money.
All of the indirect money spent to try and catch cheaters probably makes it way more Hahaa.
Best channel on YT
You’re content is top tier! Keep up the good work man. Love to see it.
Shows you how corrupt the justice system is if this guy got five years for unrigging a slot machine out of 35 dollars.. Meanwhile they can do almost anything to cheat the customers out of money
5 years over $35 is the biggest crime in this whole video
Exactly, all this to this day, the whole world is hating on farmers etc in countries that just want to be left alone, yet make them out to be criminal masterminds and go in and decimate peoples homes. Who REALLY is the good guy and bad guys in the world today? Bizzare!
best part? Once he was rich he got 11 months xD
@@ForeverHobbit paid them that's why, corrupt as hell...literally!
but second time was only 11 months even though it was millions lost
so they went alot easier on him later even tho it was way more lost
I worked in casinos in Reno Nevada while I was in high school in the early 1970's. I remember going into the slot machine repair room and watching the slot technician's position magnets into the machines to alter the odds of the slot machines in favor of the casino. One way or another casino's are crooked and deserve to be beaten by enterprising individual's.
I did at times work 16 hour double shifts and I would see people on the same machines for 16 hours plus with their right hand black from pulling the slot machine handle. Little did they know they stood no chance of winning.
you can make some money off the modern rng ones if you have good timing/fortune, and some states require a specific minimum win rate like Indiana does. The casinos make most of their money in those states from people who do high bets, dumping $100 bills at a time, betting $5+per pull on penny slots or equivalent bets on higher denomination slots. people who do minimum bet can play a lot longer on the same amount of money regardless of whether they win or lose.
Also, don't keep playing on a machine if you lose multiple pulls in a row or get a decent win, go to another machine. If you keep playing on a machine that you lose on your money will run out quick, and you are not likely to get multiple decent wins in a short timespan on a single machine.
@@stigrabbid589 lmao either way you're playing at the same disavantage. switching machines doesn't change that but people who think it does are suckers the casinos love.
This is why sports betting is the better gambling method. You can control who you think wins which is sometimes all a person needs to do well. I have no sense of control of whether I win or not I n slots or black jack or any of those other games. My knowledge of sports combined my knowledge of how Vegas make their lines at least makes me feel I can make money out of it.
@@stigrabbid589 You can make some money off the modern PNRG ones if you own and operate them. Which is legal in some legislations, like in Germany, where for example a pub is allowed to operate three slot machines. Some pubs make more revenue with just two slot machines than they do with their beer and liquor drinking customers.
I saw a long version video of this same story. But you did an excellent job of condensing it and providing good visuals. Good job. Really enjoyed hearing this story for a second time. :)
what was the longer version ?
@@azenten I saw some longer film on RUclips about cheaters or something in Las vegas. I'm sorry I can't tell you which one it was. But just search for cheaters in Vegas and a longer video.
Discovered your channel today, binging it. Keep up the great work dude, great stuff!
I wish he had kept screwing over the casinos for every dollar and never got caught. Casinos are awful and they prey on the most desperate of people.
"They prey on the most desperate of people."
Sweetcakes, a lot of people have cash they like to gamble with, period.
@@loveforeignaccents Go to any casino in Vegas and you’ll see desperate people chasing their losses and accumulating more and more debt. The whole industry preys on psychology and addiction
@@loveforeignaccents And all those people that throw their money away with gambling are trashy, witless rubes. I guess you are among their ranks. By all means, go give your money to the casino like a fool.
@@boobgoogler Haven't been there in over a decade, but when I used to go, the gamblers, by no means, appeared to be desperate people; only those with money to blow and fun to be had probably for their yearly vacation, just like mine.
@@loveforeignaccents this dude deadass defending casinos rn
Absolutely insane, cant blame him. Definitely want to know if there is some hidden exploit in the machines today that people are taking advantage of.
If you want to know please message me back
So you can get in on it? LOL.
@@tu1469 I want to know
Found the casino operator
@@tu1469 I dont know if youre trolling but Im intrigued given most "richer" machines are programmed now
I am a crime junky and I have heard many talk about it and even this guy. I love how you do your videos homie.short to the point and you even make it entertaining with the graphics and editing. Great job man!!! You should do the guy that was a forger that was working out a billion dollar deal with the Catholic Church.
Talented story teller! Great job, enjoyed lots
I'd just like to point out how many state and federal resources were deployed to protect these gambling dens, but we can't afford to stop strong armed robbery today.
we also apparently can't drive to the right houses for raids
It's just like how the FBI devotes so much time to protecting the fine art market even though the whole thing is just an open secret tax dodge for the ultra-wealthy...
the system is full of shit, accept it or die fighting it... im on the last part till my last day
Literally. HUNDREDS of first responders (majority federal) did NOTHING and REFUSED to enter the Elementary School in Uvalde. The police chief lied so many times, and for hundreds of assholes on taxpayer payroll to watch children get murdered because they're pussy was gut-wrenching
its a system that protects the capital not the people
This is a “Catch Me If You Can” type story where the criminal ends up working with and earning money from the people he used to cheat. I’d love to see this made into a Hollywood movie. Great video btw.
reminds me of a song the rock artist "deuce" made with that same phrase, pretty good song.
It would make a banging movie.
For awesome catch me if you can stories look up Matt Cox
Just an fyi the catch me if you can guy was proven he made up the whole story.
@@Netlogic. what is the proof of that
this video was incredible! vince is a natural storyteller. i need more videos like this asap
I just recently found this channel out and I completely agree. Dude is absolutely great at telling a story
Been binging your videos mate and they are amazing! keep up the good work
Listening to you tell these dope stories is like listening to a slightly older, wiser coworker tell stories on a cigarette break near the dumpster behind the restaurant where you work. Love it. Dope tale.
Cool analogy. Like your thought process!
@@loveforeignaccents aha thanks. Reminded me of my younger years being like 15 or 16 listening to a “world savvy” 19-20 year old whom I thought had it all figured out. Funny times. Def don’t mean this in a negative way for sure, as odd as it sounds
I quit ages ago, but I may still have to title my book "Cigarette Stories". It sounds a little cooler than "Dumpster Tales". Thanks for the inspiration and nostalgia.
Masterminds the series did a much better documentary on this case, with real interviews with Tommy.
@@RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr This.
Damn I kinda wish he had never gotten caught, I don't feel bad one bit that the casinos were the ones losing for once tbh
After while, crocodile.
And not even losing, just making less profit.
@Jamie Last uh no...
@Jamie Last If you're not making more than you are now, you're losing money.
@@muuubiee You're literally admitting they're losing.
All your vids are so well done and enthralling great stuff
came from the colton story.. this is so cool love it man keep it up.
There's no justice in the world. This guy should have been given an award, not jail time.
true
11 months was the award.
@@phoebeaurum7113 And a fancy headshot for a fancy book.
I mean, he got off easy and then was able to sell them a fix to defend against the threat of his own invention. He grifted the casinos coming and going. Hopefully he was able to squirrel away some of his profits before being arrested.
It's amazing to me how many similarities there are between slot cheating and computer hacking. Just like hacking, it's literally just a race between individuals and companies, the cheaters working to find new vulnerabilities, and the companies trying to cover those gaps as fast as possible, only to introduce new ones for cheaters to figure out and exploit
Computer hackers could probably make a lot by getting into cheats for casinos
@@TroubledTrooper getting banned from casinos irl speedrun
As machines get more computerised and gambling becomes more commonplace (there are electronic slot machines in convenience stores) , the two worlds will collide a lot. Makes for a great docuseries
It is literally machine hacking
@tinyky2598 I think they are already have most slot machines are kinda just a big computer you can even tap the screen to change settings
Vince, you are easily my favourite RUclipsr. Every time you upload, it makes my day.
Great story! Thank you for sharing
This story was very well written. You did a great job blending humor with information.
This man was a true hacker, a genius. The ability to take apart increasingly complex machines & find workarounds and then market them…wow. Also, eff casinos I’m glad this happened. Michael Balsamo should’ve got dealt with 😫 snitch asf
Snitch should get paid in lead
I want a movie on this so bad, this video was amazing! Love your channel
Hands down best slot machine history video to date
This was told in Breaking Vegas, a show from the 90's. One of the best stories are the guys that developed a roulette computer and recruited college students to use it and place bets in New Jersey casino's. They got caught because the computer was taped to the body and one of the students got so nervous that he sweated enough to short circuit the system, screaming and writhing in pain on the casino floor. The security guards thought he had some sort of medical condition and tried to help him only to discover the computer.
lol what
Really hard to feel bad for casinos. $45.000.000 sounds ridiculous to you and me, but for the entire industry across the whole of America, even with international casinos excluded, it is like a drop in the bucket.
It's actually more like a fart in a hurricane.
@@gehtdianschasau8372 Or a grain of sand stuck in your buttcheek.
This editing style is so good. Doesn’t waste time and only tells important stuff. Also good visuals
Just discovered this channel tonight. Have only watched the counterfeit video so far alongside this one, but I love how there's a change of heart somewhat at the end of both stories. Like how the forger leaned to paint and now has a famous art gallery, painting for celebs and such. And in this one, he invented the boss of all anti cheats to sell to the casino industry. No doubt to make some much needed funds, and to right the wrongs that he had done. Alls well that ends well, I guess
I applaud anyone who can scam casinos
I read somewhere about these guys who reverse-engineered the software in a slot machine and found a weakness in the random number generator. They wrote some software to run on a pocket computer where you could input the current state of the slot machine and the computer would determine the next millisecond to bet in order for the random numbers to align in such a way that you'd get a payout.
There were several parts to this. It involved a cell phone, a high powered computer at "HQ", and a person with great reflexes. The phone would send video to HQ, the high powered computer could figure out where in the RNG "field" the game was, and work out what to do to get a jackpot in the next spin(s). This usually involved very precise timing of button presses, or game starts, or "skill stops" to accomplish. "HQ" would then tell the person with the reflexes what to do. They'd do it, JACKPOT.
INGENIOUS! And, IMHO, shouldn't be considered illegal. You leave THAT big of a hole in your product, you deserve to get exploited.
@@frankrizzo890 True, it did use a computer running "at HQ" that they needed to contact via telephone. I just didn't want to complicate the story too much.
In some legislations (like in Germany), regulations about payouts (the minimum percentage of the money taken by the machine which must be returned as wins) are extremely strict. The PNRGs are therefore guaranteed to pay out this minimum percentage in the most exact way possible (in the long run). These PNRGs can be (mathematically) proven to meet the legal requirements. There is no random timing involved in these cases.
If you can reverse engineer the PNRG, and deduce it's current internal state from the machines behavior, you can predict the outcome of the next games.
But it's simpler than that. If you watch someone who just dumped 500€ into a German slot machine and won close to nothing, you know that the machine is "ripe" and that it will need to deliver a huge win in the next few hours to meet the minimum payout percentage. You may, occasionally, even see watchers jockeying for position to be the next one to play the "ripe" machine next. And "jockeying for position" might even include physical violence.
And sometimes the owner of the machines himself watches. If the machine is "ripe", he might take it offline, and then start playing himself. As the owner, he won't lose any money he throws in, but he can dump the "jackpot", thereby preventing guests from scoring on a "ripe" machine.
One thing however still holds true: the best way to win money with a slot machine is to own it.
What I like about this video is the history of slot cheats and the casino response to them. It's a good guide to start from if you want to cheat the casino lol. The machines basically had easy exploits and that means that the modern ones definitely have an exploit even if it's not easy. If your phone can be hacked and relieved of all of it's data, so can a slot.
probably true but keep in mine when he started all casinos didn't even have cameras yet, then for a while they were grainy cameras where today the cameras are of incredinly good quality.
i like ur videos man, i've seen this covered before, but i like the pace of your vid
The video quality was mind blowing. Probably so much hard work went into this
Organised gambling preys on addiction so I’m really happy to see them get ripped off, lol
You are morally obligated to cheat casinos
@Lurch7861 do you have some master plan to always win at blackjack?
@@jamesdeaton267 Nobody does anymore. With an 8 deck shoe, the best card counting system is -1.5% at blackjack. I think this is largely bc so many places pay less when you're dealt an immediate 21 (and so many decks). I also wonder if they're having auto-shufflers rig the decks against players. I've been told it *could* be happening now by people who know about modern tech.
Video is very informative and useful
thank you
bro your vids are such w’s im binge watching all of them while grinding madden
Always amazes me that people that work out these smart ways to cheat always get greedy.
If Tommy had of saved the majority of his winnings he would have easily had enough to retire a wealthy man and live a great life.
But instead he partied and blew it all.
Easy money is easily spent.
You only know about the fools that cheat. Only one exception, the MIT Team went public on their card counting scheme.
Greed the ethos of Capitalism.
To be fair, maybe there are tons of people who had smart ideas but did indeed stop at the right moment. We don't hear about them often because they would never be caught.
Those just never get caught and therefore there are just no stories about them.
It'd be really funny if it turned out the machine he patented had a secret that would give the user a ton of money, and the dude who made it is waiting for someone to take advantage of it.
Sounds like an anime plot tbh.
Lol
I wonder if he knows a potential flaw in his system but is keeping his mouth shut about it cause he's complying with the casinos now and the FBI (or casinos) is hawking his ass in case he does anything like this again. Also you don't want to make your own invention look bad, of course.
@@QuackZack he definitely does, theres probably multiple flaws. nothing is 100%, he could probably tell you how to cheat his own maching, but only he and a few others would have the knowledge and skill to pull it off
watching all ur vids rn intertaining af
The last line about odds was a very meaningful note
Tommy was driven. It’s pretty clear that at various times he could’ve taken his winnings, invested them legally, and retired. But like Sir Edmund Hillary who was asked why he climbed Mount Everest (“because it’s there”) Tommy just couldn’t stay away from the challenge.
This is a valuable lesson to video game companies who think DRM is the answer, to those who think they can just annoy legit customers from those of us who dont... YOURE OUT NUMBERED
Gamers will always find a way to get pass stuff like this. these companies are basically fighting a loosing battle. 😄😄😄😄
2:51 5 years that seams like a long time for stealing $35
Great Story mate Loved it Thanks
Amazing stuff man would absolutely love to see videos from you more often!!
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@@loveforeignaccents oh i was gonna subscribe , thanks for telling me he lazy
This was terrific. I am well aware what these guys did. I lived in Las Vegas for 25 years. Have seen documentaries on these guy but the way you presented it went into more detail on how the devices worked. I didn't know about the TITO device. Tommy Carmichael was so clever he could have become wealthy just being an inventor.
Excellent research!
What a genius, what a mastermind. So much respect.
Most astonishing thing , he apparently used a Raspberry Pi Zero in the 90’s - a device not invented until 2015. Inventing, master minding the conspiracy, and precisely executing the plan - all impressive. But, time traveling to acquire a single board computer from the future - that’s next level.
now you know the inception of raspberry pi was because of this.
Haha that was my first thought as well. How could a Pi Zero with a camera module zap a slot machine? 😂 But then I doubt the “light wand” device looked like a Star Wars light saber, too.
no one knows what the actual tongue cheat looked like, so vince used a pi zero for this
The fact that Tommy's storry didn't end on a tragic note is the best lol. Cheating can be a horrible thing, but against cassinos? Guess there is no honor to be had amongst thieves.
this was amazing really enjoyed it
This honestly needs to be a movie!
If I was a jurist, I would never render a guilty verdict against such people. Disgorging casinos is not a crime, it's an act of heroism.
Exactly. "Oh no this guy stole about an hour's worth of profits from a casino. Whatever will they do?! How will that poor multi-billionaire's children eat?!"
I get it, cheating is wrong. But also, casinos suck.
Make sure you explain that to them when you’re selected for jury duty.
@@MrCrazyeyes07 it's legal
@@bensmith3890 Casinos suck because people with free will make a choice to come and use them? Weird comments all over this video.
I disagree. Weak minded people frequent casinos - they would have been their own worst enemy one way or another. It's now well known that slot machines make up 70% of casino income, yet absolute dolts still flock to them? That isn't the casinos' faults.
The TITO cheat device is an intriguing idea, but I think that even if it worked, it would have had a very limited lifespan. Those tickets allow security to know exactly which machine spit them out and at precisely what time. It would be a simple matter to synch camera footage with the cash-out time, and bingo, you've got a picture of your thief. You then circulate the pics between all other casinos...
I've had a similar argument with casino patrons. They were afraid of using the club card because they could track your spendings and winnings then. Mind you, this is in a country where the state owns half the casino and entering it requires you to show your ID. You know, the same one with your photo and other biometric data on it. The patrons were flabberghasted when I told them they don't need your club card to track you, they got plenty of cameras, logs from slot machines and even more cameras at the table games. They'd only need to track at what time you sat down at a machine, read out the logfile of what went in at that time and what came out as soon as you stood up. I wouldn't put it past the casino if they keep a list of guests and how much money they won, lost and spent there, all automated.
@@Koowluh Casinos are a lot stupider (or perhaps lazier?) than you think based upon your last comment. As a person who's been playing casino games professionally for years, partially by exploiting how much they think I play, how much they think I've won, or even who they think is playing there when I am the one present, I've seen enough to know that their systems are in actual fact quite primitive.
@@Ohrami I would think it differs per country. Mind you, in this country you're not that intriguing as a casino patron as I would have let on, but I'd reckon the technology for it is present and working. So yeah, while I wouldn't call it lazy, I would call it apathic.
No doubt I don't think it would have lasted long unless you were extremely smart and super slow & low with the amounts in order to not raise suspicion.
I'm talking so slow & low it would barely be worth it and probably not worth the risk.
Either that or you go big time but it would be something you wouldn't be able to use often.
But this is before camera and security tech got really good. Back in those days he was using the light wand they didn't have a ton of cameras and the cameras they did have were in like negative 360p at best 😂
Now these days most casinos don't have a square inch that are out of camera view. They can damn near do that fake "enhance" crap you would see it movies and TV back in the day.
They spend a ton more in security technology and also in just paying & training people at using the tech as well.
The tech used back then or even that " Tongue" device wouldn't have worked long with how quickly security tech was advancing.
All my rambling is in absolutely no way to take away what this dude was capable of though by any means. Dude was a straight up genius and if it wasn't for his bad judgment and shat "friends" he very well could have gotten away with it albeit still living underground.
What he was able to accomplish was certainly admirable though
@@kennymorelandiii9406 Trust me, low amounts wouldn't be so low it's not worth it. You could easily make a few dozen tickets worth a few hundred in several minutes, then cash them out separately at different times. Nobody would ever know.
loved your content man.!
My dude was bugbounty hunting before computers went mainstream 😂
Tommy's a legend. Engineering at its finest, fuck them casinos
ANYONE Who can Steal from Those Goddamned Thieves who Prey on the Addictions of the Poor and Stupid, will always be a hero to me!
agreed
More like an anti-hero lol
I see nothing wrong with making money of dumb people who will willingly throw all their money down the drain.
Using the Rino 911 cops pics for this is priceless. Honestly it's what kept me watching. I need me some Lt. Dangle
He is an absolute hero in my book.
Your videos are so well narrated and edited! I appreciate your work Vince. One of my favorite RUclipsrs! Thanks!
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It’s nice to imagine that somewhere out there, there is a Tommy who invented his own “tongue” device, and never told a soul. He could be uber rich right now and did it right so we’d never hear about them unless they release their story before they die 🤔
the production value on this video is outstanding
your transition to the ad was great lol
Nice Internetajay reference there 8:43
Tommy is a hero and should have never sold the anti-cheat patent.
Plot twist: he could have sold it to a cheater. Casinos then cannot implement it without permission from the cheater.
Well done video. This easily could have been on a quality tv network.
You cannot steal money from a casino. It's an oxymoron like someone assaulting a person who attacked them first.
I mean there’s an argument to be made against gambling, but it’s hardly an assault because the casino isn’t forcing anyone to participate, it’s more like a prize fight I guess.
You stealing money from thieves
@@kylehankins5988 casinos are praying on the gullible based on emotional vulnerability.
@@squibbelsmcjohnson In spain we have a phrase that says that "quien roba a un ladron, cien años de perdon", translated it would be Whoever robs a thief, a hundred years of pardon should recieve"
It's only thievery if the wronged party doesn't consent. Since the casino patrons are fully aware of what they're risking, the casinos aren't thrives, the gamblers are just dumb, and it's well within their right to do something stupid. If someone wants to give a casino 10 or 20% of everything they bet, that's their stupid choice to make. People who rob the casinos are making the business more expensive to run and in a roundabout way, stealing money from the patrons themselves.
Incredible! This 100% needs to be made into a "Catch Me If You Can" type of movie.
Very nice and informative video thank you
Rewatching after your newest video. Hope you make it through this tough time 🙏