When a player is colluding with a member of staff then the number of cheating moves and scams increases dramatically. One such move is when a gaming inspector takes advantage of a trainee dealer who has just come from training school.
He can distract the dealer in all sorts of ways while an accomplice places late bets or removes losing bets. An experienced dealer would more than likely not fall for this as they would tend to notice what was on their layout but a trainee dealer would be so nervous and have so many things to concentrate on that an experienced dealer would do automatically.
This move is so good that even if the moves were detected on CCTV, it basically just looks nothing more than an Inspector who wasn’t doing their job properly. In reality however, if winnings were kept to a reasonable amount (about £100), then CCTV wouldn’t even get checked as this just falls within the range of “acceptable” winnings of small stakes winning punters.
But if this was compounded over a year then it can and does add up to very significant amounts of money. Another such move is the “wrong call bet”. Here the player makes a call bet and says a number that sounds like another and in the heat of the moment, the dealer is unlikely to remember.
This works on really busy games where the dealer has multiple tasks to perform and relies on the Inspectors help in mid-spin with call bets. It is for this and other reasons why many casinos do not allow call bets of any nature in mid spin.
