This substance hardened like varnish but was clear to the naked eye. What this meant was that the substance could be applied to certain numbers without it being visible. But the peculiar characteristics of this substance were such that it recorded drastically different bounce to the other non applied numbers.

So if you applied it to the red numbers and not the black numbers then it would be perfectly possible that the ball would stand a far greater chance of coming to rest in one or the other due to the differences in bounce. The only problem was in how to apply this substance to a roulette wheel undetected. This would almost certainly need to be done from the inside from someone who not only worked there but who worked after hours or who had access to not only the casino but also the CCTV cameras as well.

There are several people who work inside all casinos who have this sort of function from general managers to managers to security staff and receptionists. So it is possible to have an inside job done on a casino. If you can overcome these two factors of getting the substance and then someone working on the inside then a casino would be very vulnerable to being hit in this way.

A few years ago I was privy to inside information at the time about a team of Chinese cheats in London who were operating using hidden CCTV cameras. These people were eventually caught but the word on the inside was that these people took far more money than was revealed or that the casinos were aware of.

I feel that this is where the casinos are vulnerable; there is always a problem with regards the casinos coming face to face with highly intelligent and creative people. Casinos have gone more and more high-tech over the past few years and I feel that this has sort of protected them from the old time cheats of a few years ago. However it has also left them vulnerable to a whole new army of high-tech cheats who will be attracted to casinos like moths to a light because of the money that is on offer.

As always the really sophisticated cheats are one step ahead and always will be and the casinos are always playing catch up to these people. Only when they have been taken for a large amount of money do they then adjust and learn the new techniques.

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I expected to play some blackjack last night but the tables were full all night and I never fancied standing behind. So instead I went and watched roulette and I found a dealer who I thought that I had a very good read on. Actually this reminds me of a very good book called “Read The Dealer” but that book dealt with blackjack.

Dealers can be read in roulette in a similar way and any experienced gaming operative who is telling the truth will tell you. However it does require certain circumstances for this to happen. I struggle to read any dealer who reverse spins constantly and if that is company practice then I would never bother to even try.

But in this casino then the practice was to always spin in the conventional direction of clockwise on right handed tables and anti-clockwise on left handed tables. I didn’t play for high-stakes and only in £1 chips but I did win two consecutive £1 bets on the number. I passed some of my winnings back but ended up winning £75 which paid for our meal and the drinks for me and my partner and so I was very happy with the evening.

Your first port of call inside the casino will be the reception area where you will be greeted with a friendly face. In the UK then you will need to apply at least 24 hours before you will be accepted. This allows the casino time to check you out and to also give the customer a cooling off period. On your first visit the reception staff (in the UK) will take your picture so that they have visual identification of you for their records and also for security reasons as well.

But going to a casino is basically no different than going to any other night club in so much as the people that go have their own individual reasons for going. Some people who go to nightclubs do so for the after hours drinking, others go because of the dancing, while some may go for reasons to do with meeting the opposite sex or it could be a combination of the above.

It is exactly the same with casinos; you could go to have a drink from the bar after normal pub hours are over. Or you could go because you wanted a meal or to socialise with others. Many go of course for the gaming entertainment but the fact of the matter is that there are numerous reasons to go to a casino above and beyond mere gaming.

For instance, there is a world of difference between someone who finds a wallet and then keeps the money inside it without handing it in and someone like a pickpocket who actively goes out and steals one.

In one instance one person has the money by default and is still technically stealing while in the other, the individual has actively planned the act. In a similar way, it is like the act of murder and manslaughter. Both involve the taking of a human life but only one was deliberate.

It is the same with cheating inside casinos. I believe that at least 99% of any dishonest activity stems from opportunists. Maybe someone was paid a bet that they shouldn’t have been paid and said nothing but whatever the cause, very few players actively plan cheating moves in my opinion.

But that is taken from the total population of people who inhabit casinos and 1% of that population still accounts for an awful lot of people. The last casino that I worked at had around 22,000 members and 1% of that figure comes to 220.

While only around 5000 of that total were active core regulars, that is still 50 people who actively go out to look to cheat. So that is an awful lot of people and if those 50 people each cheat the casino out of £200 per week then that is an amazing £10,000 a week being lost to cheating.

But yet there is no doubt that becoming a Croupier is something that is not only accessible for the ordinary person but it can also lead to a very exciting life. I have known several people personally who were fully trained up in the UK and got their experience there and then left and went to work on the cruise ships.

This was a life that attracted many people although most of them came back to the UK at some future point in time. Imagine sailing around the Mediterranean or the Caribbean seas and being paid to do so.

The downside to life on cruise ships is that the hours can be long and there is nowhere to go except on deck or to your cabin. So I can understand how the novelty would wear off after a few weeks or months of doing this.

But then again I have also spoken to people who have worked on cruise ships and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. So I suppose that this indicates that they do not suit everyone. If you do not like long hours or life on the sea then cruise ships are not going to be for you. But a certain type of person could find this life very rewarding and exciting.

The only badness if it can interpreted as that is from the people that frequent them and not from the owners themselves. Basically the casino is what it is……..it is a place of business where business people make money by providing entertainment for others. It is certain members of the public who have misconceptions regarding casinos that some people  see them in a totally different light.

This is why some people see them as cheats or as places where criminals and other various types of low life hang out. There is an element of truth to this but this just reflects life in general. The types of people that you may see in casinos will be the same types of people that you see in other areas so it is rather unfair to throw that label at casinos by inferring that they are only ever inhabited by crooks and low life.

Casinos are still one of the few places where a single woman would in all likelihood not be molested in any way shape or form. You really couldn’t say that about many of the bars and nightclubs in most major towns and cities. So casinos are forms of entertainment first and foremost and how much you want to pay for that entertainment is basically up to the individual.

At the time I thought that it wasn’t a great job but I was going through tough personal problems and working nights and being away from home was difficult. But for a single person who maybe has left school with few or no qualifications then it is a good way to build a career doing something that many people find glamorous.

Also the pay is far better in the casinos where I worked since I left and casinos do promote from within. So a croupier will not always stay a croupier and will usually be promoted to Inspector within two years providing that you work at a casino that has them.

The next step up after that is to “Pit Boss” and this is where you actually supervise the pit area and report to managers and the General Manager. I know many people personally who have gone all the way from Croupier to Pit Boss and to Manager. Also I am sure that had I still kept in touch with my past colleagues that there will also be one or two who are now General Managers of their own casino.

It is also a chance to see the world as well if you go on the cruise ships although doing so can harm your promotion chances if you are changing casinos too often.

The casino chain in question is Harrahs and this is a real shock seeing as this is one of the biggest casino companies in the USA. The gaming control board are interviewing witnesses who reportedly can back up the claim that Terence Watanabe was deliberately supplied with alcohol at Caesars Palace and the Rio.

It has been mentioned that Watanabe lost an estimated $112 million on the tables in 2007 alone. But the mystery of the case deepens when it also comes to light that Watanabe owes numerous millions in unpaid markers. But the rules of the Nevada gaming regulations state that any player who is in a visibly intoxicated state must not be permitted to continue.

So if these allegations are proven then allowing him to continue would not only be a violation of gaming regulations but by deliberately feeding a player alcohol is also more than likely breaking numerous laws. But some people are claiming that this claim by Watanabe is nothing more than a ploy to divert attention away from his own criminal practices.

All will be revealed in the coming weeks I am sure but that promises to be a very long and drawn out case indeed and one that is highly complex in nature once the full details are understood.

I also backed Hull to beat Burnley and they got beat 4-1……AT HOME! Then last night we had a casino trip and I was playing blackjack for about three hours inbetween watching the golf in the bar. I only intended to play for an hour but I committed the ultimate sin…….I played on to get my money back.

I didn’t play badly, blackjack isn’t like poker where a player can tilt. With blackjack then you simply do what needs to be done and the increased bets are necessary. You always know of course that the edge with a game like blackjack is so wafer thin that a loss on any one particular night is a strong likelihood.

I ended up losing about £300 which was six of my maximum bets. On top of that I had the misfortune to have not only an annoying dealer on my table who I felt like telling to shut up but also a really annoying punter. Both of them had backed the winner of the National (what a surprise) and both of them couldn’t believe that I hadn’t.

Sometimes I really hate the people who frequent live casinos and this has certainly not changed since the days when I used to work in them as a croupier and Inspector. Is it any wonder why I spend so much time on my computer. No annoying dealers, no tobacco smoke and no travelling……absolute bliss!