We invite you to discover a rather crazy story around the world of casinos with a scam over AU $ 400,000 at the Crown Casino in Melbourne and a rather unusual fact around the middle of the bet with a funny guy who bet his woman on a football match… and who loses her!

A scam over AU $ 400,000

The Crown Casino in Melbourne will long remember this case involving one of its Melbourne dealers, as well as three players. The little gang were arrested for cheating at the Crown Casino baccarat tables. But if this may seem trivial, it seems important to us to specify that the damage amounts however to more than 400,000 Australian dollars. If they have managed to divert so much, it is quite simply because they have managed to pocket gains over several sessions in a row. But they will manage to be spotted and arrested by security.

A dealer who helped players win

We all know it around here, and the number of stories we tell about it every month on Roulette.be proves it: cheating at the casino is far from easy.

But video cameras are not the only means that casino security uses to quickly spot abnormal winnings. Indeed, when a gaming table reports a series of large wins and quickly, red signals are sent to the management who will then have to decide whether these wins are the result of simple luck, as some players experience, or if, on the contrary, it is a more or less orchestrated cheat. And it is this second solution that was chosen for our little anecdote of the day revolving around this quartet of cheaters in Australia.

While not all of the details of the cheat technique are released to the media, it’s safe to say that the parade did look pretty crass though. So we were dealing here with a dealer, named Michael Huo, who simply operated with three players who are Ke Wang, Fiona Shum and Yixuan Cui. Their goal was to extract winnings with ease on the baccarat tables and they will succeed in the moment since it will not be less than AU $ 431,700 which will then be diverted from March 26 to May 1 of last year, and this in some 58 hours of play!

A simple cheat technique

And if we were telling you about a rather crude method, it is indeed because their modus operandi seemed rather simple on the whole. So simple that we are all to this day, within the editorial staff, wondering how they could have stolen so much without being caught. The croupier did everything he could to find the first cards of the deck he was going to use. It only remained for him then to inform the players of certain key cards, allowing them to be able to bet knowingly and of course to grab solid gains quite regularly.

According to the viewing of the recordings of the surveillance cameras, we could see a Michael Huo take a look at the first cards and this, at least twenty times, in order to allow his accomplices to bet on the good result. A fairly simple and judicious method since players can just as easily bet for the player, the bank or a split in baccarat. A sharing which in fact represents the most profitable result in terms of odds, being for its part the least statistically probable.

This case is not about to end, as the prosecution intends to convict the players as well as the dealer. Ke Wang is for her the only player in the group who could get by without serious prosecution, because according to the investigation she would only have participated in the scam to the tune of AU $ 1,900! But if this affair seems rather unusual to you, wait until you read our second news item which is even more astonishing and surprising

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Our first news item related to the world of casino and Canada this week tells you the little story of the police in the Leeds, Ontario area, who claim to have received a strange call this week. A woman indeed called 911, no less than twice, because she had simply lost all her precious money… at the casino.

It is then Saturday, April 14, 2018 and it is around 5 a.m., when the police claim to have received a strange call from a 21-year-old woman. Present at the Shorelines Thousand Islands casino, near Kingston, Ontario, the latter claimed to have lost all her money. She will add that she also needed help to get home.

The police said in a statement, published Monday April 16: “In order to make sure that she was well, the agents asked her to stay put and wait.”

According to the same police and while the agents were on their way, the young woman would have called the police switchboard to tell them that someone had given her 20 dollars and that she no longer needed the police and worse … that she was going to go back to the casino!

Following this rather unusual and disturbing event, the police officers wished to recall that 911 was a number exclusively reserved for emergencies: “An urgent situation is a situation where the safety of people or property is in danger and requires immediate help. Here are a few examples: an ongoing crime, a fire, or a medical emergency. “.

Windsor Caesars Casino workers are on strike

For our second unusual news item related to the world of gaming establishments, we find it interesting to tell you this story of people holding strike signs in front of a casino entrance. But this is not just any casino and these people are not anonymous. In fact, we are talking about the employees of the Caesars casino in Windsor who simply rejected the agreement in principle reached between the Unifor union and the management of the establishment.

We know that the employees have already started their demands since April 6, 2018, and that they intend to continue until management gives in. To this end, members of Local 444 of the Unifor union voted 59% last Thursday against the tentative agreement reached earlier this week by their union and casino management.

This union of strikers is made up mainly of employees. There are chambermaids as well as cooks and janitors. At least 2,300 people have decided to go on strike indefinitely, with the aim of demanding better working conditions; but also in order to obtain a salary increase.

If previously the negotiations were going well, with points of dispute concerning wages and job security, it now appears that the dialogue is no longer really happening between unions and management. Hence the vote mentioned above, which was carried out quickly and hence the decision to protest for an indefinite period.

The staff have asked all customers to leave the hotel and are announcing the closure of the establishment. Pressure is mounting between the two parties concerned, causing repercussions on the attendance rate of the places. Those in charge will have to make a decision quickly in order to find common ground and continue the activities. For the president of Local 444, James Stewart, this rejection shows the frustration of the employees towards the casino and he explains then: “A lot of complaints that we heard concerned problems of respect, but also a real need for it. ” have higher salaries. “.

As a result of this situation, the casino is forced to cancel all reservations until April 30, because it is temporarily closed. We are witnessing here a war that will necessarily lead to negative impacts on the financial and advertising plan, while fully benefiting the other operators of gaming establishments in the region who are not lacking and who are doing everything to attract visitors and players injured by the closure of their competitor.

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