The concept of the big player or BP is not something that is just confined to blackjack. A big player in blackjack is usually a non counting team member who is signalled in at highly positive counts.
But there are numerous players inside all casinos who are known as big hitters. These players will be well known to the casinos and will have already have lost large amounts of money over very considerable lengths of time. So these people will be above suspicion and when they start winning, their winnings above those of anybody else will be far readily accepted by the casino.
But yet these players are often approached by crooks who want to cheat for substantial amounts of money and use someone else as cover. The scam is simple, the big player will give his usual action and let us say that he is playing in $100 chips on roulette.
Unknown to anyone, he secretly passed five of these chips to an accomplice who is betting nothing more than table minimums. If the game is busy (which they will deliberately select) then this will be easy to do. Now the accomplice has $500 in chips to slip onto the number. The big player has never been seen with this person before and obviously does not communicate with them at the table and to all intents and purposes they are total strangers.
But the accomplice manages to place two bets of $200 and $300 onto the winning numbers that are under his own chips. He places them as a late bet but the croupier removes his colour chips but did not spot the hundred dollar chips underneath as the big player never made a move towards that number. These two payoffs amount to a total of $17,500.
Even when you account for the other losing bets, this is more than enough to offset the house edge.
