Richard Marcus, author of the recent book on casino cheating, American Roulette, has started a blog. While much of it is straight marketing for his book, he has written some interesting tidbits that have at least piqued my interest in his book.

An Italian roulette cheating team that I first met over two decades ago when my team and theirs literally bumped into one another while cheating at the same roulette table in Lake Tahoe (see page 122 in my book AMERICAN ROULETTE) was out in force all over the Vegas Strip. One of my surveillance informants who works at a Strip casino themed after one of the more popular major cities in the world, recognized one of the Italians, who was dressed up as a goblin, by a tattoo on the back of his hand. I'm told the tattooed hand was sliding a stack of roulette chips from a losing number to the winning number before the dealer got his marker straight up on the layout.

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One of the things I dislike about general media coverage and fictional portrayals of poker and other casino-related activities is how much of them tend to focus on cheats and hustlers, to the point of making that seem like that's all there is out there.

That said, those stories are often more exciting and have a lot more conflict and intrigue than a straight "Johnny won at poker" story.

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Posted by: coversmy on September 10, 2005 06:52 PM

I used to feel the same way that you do. Not anymore though. Narrating these "cheats" is not exactly to glorify them, it is simply to make the world of gambling a more colorful one. I must admit though, from what I have gathered these past weeks, the roulette cheating groups are having the time of their lives. Casino security should start cracking down on them more harshly.

Anyway, nice reading your article.

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