WARNING SIGNS OF A CHEATING DEALER

ATWENTY-FIVE-DOLLAR-MINIMUM AND HUNDRED-DOLLAR-MINIMUM TABLES

The twenty-five-dollar-minimum and hundred-dollar-minimum tables are traps for the unwary player. These tables can contain cheating dealers an extremely high percentage of the time. Such tables are most often found on the Las Vegas Strip (the five-dollar tables in downtown Las Vegas are analogous to the higher-priced Strip tables).

It's much better to cheat at the higher-minimum tables, which attract the high rollers, because the net gain per cheating maneu-ver is so much more. It makes more sense (and is less risky) to cheat a high roller once for a hundred dollars than tourists twenty times for five dollars each.
In addition to signs from the casino table, closely observing the dealer can give further information about the honesty of the game.

TOUGH-LOOKING DEALERS

You will find a lot of ugly, tough-looking dealers in Nevada ca-sinos. It doesn't seem logical, yet I have found that tough-looking dealers are more difficult to win money from than attractive dealers. Correspondence from IBC members backs me up on this. A lot of the tougher ones look like the bad guys you see in an old cowboy movie. They look ugly and brutal and I'm sure they repel a lot of players.

Why don't casinos hire only good-looking dealers, like the Playboy Enterprises casinos or some of the Caribbean houses? I think it would be much better for their business. The answer is that these tough-looking dealers (and others not so tough-look-ing) may often be mobbed up. The former manager of a Nevada casino told me that his most difficult problem was trying to get mobbed-up dealers off his payroll. He said that they were very difficult to get rid of because they had juice (connections). His casino went bankrupt within a few months of its opening.

JEWELRY

A telltale sign of some cheating dealers is wearing expensive watches and rings. The rings are usually studded with diamonds, or have a ruby or other precious gems in the middle. While being a dealer won't exactly make you poor, in these inflationary times with diamond and gold prices soaring, expensive jewelry should not be particularly common to dealers as a group. The more os-tentatious and expensive the personal effects of the dealer, the more you should be wary of playing at his or her table. The dealer may have an "outside" source of income-you!

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