The Vegas Motorbike Thief That Stole $1.5 Million At Gun Point | Cheating Vegas S1 EP3 | Wonder

Vegas is a world built on fantasy, but there is a dark reality just beneath the surface where the good guys and the bad guys fight every day against cat and mouse. Just what we do all the time. Generally the good guys win, but there are cheaters who are very skilled at what they do. They get away with

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s These are their exclusive stories told by the guys who took a walk in Las Vegas and landed in the Cheaters Hall of Fame At the gaming tables in the Las Vegas casinos there are colored chips of All denominations only a handful of companies make them and the manufacturing processes are kept top secret, so when two devious cheesemakers successfully counterfeited chips, it catapulted them straight into the Cheaters Hall of Fame.

Chips are cash and casinos and would be similar to dollar bills or $20 bills Henderson Nevada just 13 miles from Las Vegas Gaming Control Board agents bust a counterfeiting ring that operated out of a garage. The raid itself was the first of its kind, not only in Las Vegas, but Gaming Control agents say it was the first of its kind in the country. They had never seen an operation like that. This before, in an improvised workshop, agents find chips that are in the process of being converted from low denominations to high denominations. These are all for $100 Queen inserts, that's what you stick in the middle of a $1 chip with a little paint and you have $100 Chip, now you have a one dollar investment and a $99 profit.

I mean, it literally took some paint, some glitter, and a hair dryer, and one good idea behind the scam is an unlikely pairing of two former construction workers. The mastermind is Eric Morikawa, 40 years old. In an exclusive interview, Morikawa reveals how he created chips that looked so real they fooled experts. It wasn't that easy, but once it occurred to us and we figured out a way, it was quick. The story begins in the late 1990s. Construction in Las Vegas is booming. New casinos are being built all over the city and older casinos are being extensively renovated to remain competitive in 2000.

Small-time contractor Eric Morikawa from Southern California moves to Las Vegas to find work soon Morikawa has more work than he can handle and hires additional help, including 20- year-old Jeremy Lewis Jeremy, I met him at a bar or pool hall and he was out of work and I did my job, but the Morikawa snoo employee has a checkered past. Jeremy Lewis was the known bad guy, he had some outstanding drug and forgery warrants in California and had also had multiple arrests here in the Las Vegas area, but Jeremy was a good worker for a few years.

Business is good. Then in 2004, the economy collapsed, the construction industry collapsed, and the jobs were no longer there. We were all in the same situation, money started to run out and we needed to take care of our families. Morikawa and his team begin to do jobs further and further away, but on one of their return trips, Morikawa sees something on the side of the road that makes him think he slipped the boat. on the billboard and I asked them how difficult it would be to make the chip and we all agreed that it wouldn't be that difficult.

At that moment, Morikawa and his team decide to do what no one else has done successfully: counterfeit the Las Vegas casino chip currency. We went to Las Vegas and took the chip from the table. We took it to my garage and tore it up. We cut it in half. We tried to see what was inside the card. Casino chips are made of clay, sand and others. earth and metals that are heated to extreme temperatures and pressed into shape. Morikawa and his team begin trying to replicate them. We were trying to make our own chips from scratch from different clays, injecting metals and trying to get them out so far that it was difficult to get them.

Passing fake chips should have the same weighty feel and hollow sound as real chips when dropped. The team does its own sound checks. This is the real chip and this is the impostor. They would be the chips we made from scratch. a thud and then we knew what was going to happen, the team has not yet created a working chip, discouraged, several members of the team leave, now it's just Morikawa and Luis, but they are not ready to give up together, they spend hours studying the Green Valley Ranch casino chips each denomination has its own colors the one hundred dollar chip is black and gray and the one dollar chip is gray and teal Morikawa suddenly realizes that it would be easier to modify a chip than to create one from zero, that's huge progress, so I grabbed a Sharpie pen and said, well, we just need to paint black.

It looks like they can take $1 chips and turn them into $100 chips with a little effort. First they must remove the $1 inlay from the center. We try to warm up. When lifting it to remove it, heating it would bend the chip, so we would put it in boiling water and it would penetrate the scale. The 212 degree water leaves the shipment unscathed but softens the scale, allowing them to remove it easily. The next step is to duplicate. the black and gray shades of the $100 chip we would get our paints at an art supply store and we would sit there and just mix the colors that you know and then we would put them on the actual chip and then we would wait for it to dry and we would both look at it under the light outside, you know different types of light and then we make sure the color matches perfectly, it was very, very, very close, then it's in the paint, they start with a gray color of the decorative stripes known as pips using a airbrush cover the entire chip it had to be a light spray an airbrush spray is very light once the paint dries they block the pips with painter's tape and then airbrush everything else black when the tape is removed the colors of the fake boat mirror, the real Eric Morikawa and Jeremy Lewis really did a good job of matching the colors and that's not easy to do because the colors are always unique, it can't be done perfectly, they didn't do it to perfection, but they got it.

They place them very close once the colors are in place, the next step is to create the fake $100 graphic inlay. They scan a real one into a computer, then print it on clear plastic to give it a glossy look, and then the plastic is glued onto a white backing made of bumper sticker. The paper you would place the inlays with would work as a dough roller and the new end would fit perfectly inside the chip. The chip is ready, except for one crucial detail. If you were to run this chip under the backlight, you will see a glowing top hat and a cane and that is one of its safety features.

I went out and got the same color ink in pen form and we would color the top hat and the cane in there and we had a backlight setup to verify that you know their position. They're random, so we just put it there and Mazda showed something under the backlight. Good pass, after a month of work, they finally have three counterfeit $100 chips. Morikawa and Lewis had 10 minutes from Las Vegas to the Green Valley Ranch casino in Henderson, Nevada. to see if they can trick the casino. I don't lie very well, so I can't walk into the casino and keep a straight face and go to the cashier's counter and collect the chips.

I feel guilty. Jeremy Lewis takes the lead. sitting on the show while he's trying to cash in these chips at the casino. I hope everything is going well now, nothing is going to happen moments later, Lewis reappears, ran to the truck, got in and said, you know, we drive, we drive, I thought security was chasing them and looking over their shoulders but there's no no one behind them and when Morikawa looks over Luis has three $100 bills in his hand the fake shifts work we were very excited we ran back to the house and made some more they were able to go down to the garage and within five In minutes you could have a new chip, it was that incredibly simple.

Morikawa and Lewis are able to counterfeit 20 chips per day. They plan to carry out their scam throughout the city to match the various chips they stock. There are different colors in the chips. A lot of it had glitter in it, so we took the glitter pens and applied the glitter on there and gave it that metallic look. They passed fraudulent chips at eight different casino properties, including Caesars Palace and Mandalay Bay. These guys were all over the city, they're well informed. their way to the Cheaters Hall of Fame, but they realized that sooner or later, cashing in chips without playing a single casino game would surely arouse suspicion to avoid getting caught, they needed to change their game, we had to find a way that be kind of foolproof where they couldn't figure it out right away to make the scam look legitimate, they start playing at the gaming tables buying real chips from the dealers, we had won $2,000 at the table, they give us the chips and the camera overhead sees that.

So we used that to our advantage and then we would trade them in the bathroom or in the parking lot and we would get the fake ones and we would have the real ones if you went up in a cage and cashed them in and they caught it. You can always refer back to "Hey, that table gave them later, when they got the real ones back, they wouldn't question it because they were real." Morikawa and Lewis start spending more and more time in casinos the moment we graduate from the hundred-dollar chips. up to 500, even the thousand dollar chips and the money was coming, the lifestyle was changing, we ate a lot in nice restaurants and being on the Strip, Morikawa keeps the source of his new wealth a secret from everyone, including his wife.

At first she asked but then she said I don't want to know and she was buying new bags, clothes, at one

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she counted 100 pairs of shoes in boxes in a closet so yeah she was benefiting from it too for three months. Eric and his wife enjoy their extravagant new lifestyle, but his partner Jeremy Lewis takes a very different path. I found him in an $800 overnight suite at the Riviera, the place was bigger than my entire house and he was there with a group of girls he hadn't met. I had slept some I was on Lewis's lifestyle soon becomes a responsibility one day I was talking to one of the girls on the phone and I could hear it because it was so loud so I said, hey, hand me the phone I want, I want . to talk to her, so he gave me the phone and she said, I know everything you guys do and I looked down and thought, why would you tell him?

I mean, my wife doesn't even know why you would say all this to a stranger. You know and you know that now she wants money, now we have to pay her for a few days, they pay her money for her silence, but then she started wanting more and then she told us: "Hey, my man is in jail, we have to get him out." , threat. to reveal her scam to the police in an attempt to reduce her boyfriend's sentence so she can get paid again a few days later it seems like it's all over. Maura Cows' wife leaves the country to visit her mother as soon as she leaves.

Morikawa and Lewis. start planning a trip to Atlantic City to go to their casinos, they can break down a door, there's a guy at the door and he says, "Hey, my son threw a ball and in your backyard, can you go get it?" ball from the backyard, he grabs me, those, me on the ground, two other agents jump out of the bushes, they are fully armed and run towards the house, on top of me, they are agents from the Nevada Gaming Control Board, the blackmailer from Louis apparently We turned them over after all enough information was developed to obtain a search warrant and when the house was searched, every piece of evidence we were looking for was there, the entire setup was found, the chips are of such quality that some of those who have been approved and in the recent past may have gone undetected are still stunned Las Vegas authorities must now deal with the fact that two construction workers have compromised the security of Morikawa casino chips and Luis is in jail three days later, the couple is brought before a judge. they were given five

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dollar bail not for murdering someone not for raping someone for forging casino chips our state takes these things very seriously since neither of them can pay bail Morikawa and Luis are taken back to jail Inmates, when I went in there, a group of people said to me, "Oh wow, your bail is 5 million," they called another guy and said, " “Hey, you know he has a higher bail than you and that it was a Russian guy and not just any guy.” The man has ties to a Russian gang I met him and I sat down and talked to him and told him my story and he was interested, it's all about business and he said, "You know what we have to talk about once you get out, if you get out of a A few days later, Mora Cowl's lawyer gets him a new bail hearing and they reduced my bail from 5 million to I think it was like twelve thousand so I could get out after scamming the casinos out of tens of thousands of dollars Morikawa ends up complying. onlyten days Jeremy Lewis his accomplice is not so lucky his outstanding arrest warrants for drugs and forgery keep him behind bars Morikawa is free but deeply in debt I made the house payment I paid most of the bills doing what I was doing and now I have a case and I desperately need to pay my lawyers.

He calls the Russian who also just got out of jail. The Russian Morikawa once to teach him how to make counterfeit chips. He was very worried because he knew that if I got caught again I wouldn't do it. get out once again faced with overwhelming debts Morikawa seeks forgery as a way out, but this time he won't get his hands dirty for 25 percent of the profits agrees to train the Russians I would go by the wayside to meet them When the Russians are trained, Fake chips start passing around in Las Vegas casinos, an alert casino employee sees some of them, they looked a little different on the rack than the other chips and they turned out to be fake, so we had to back up a bit and try to find these people.

The investigation leads to the only two people who have ever made chips that can pass for real. Jeremy Lewis and Eric Morikawa. with Jeremy Lewis still in prison, which leaves Morikawa and the agents closing in. One day I was training with the Russian guys and someone knocks on the door, it's the police, we had all the chips and equipment lying around. I'm looking at the ceiling and trying to find a way out and there's no way, as soon as they came in I got on my knees and put my hands behind my head and I knew I was arrested.

I'm in jail and I didn't think I was going to get out until we went to court, Eric. Morikawa hires a shrewd defense attorney in Las Vegas. It's a move that pays off handsomely in 2006. Morikawa makes a deal and pleads guilty to six felonies. He faces five years of probation and community service. The most time he spent in jail was a week and a half when I was arrested for the first time, the second arrest. I was alone for those couple of days before I was released on bail. Still, Morikawa must make restitution for all the fraudulent tokens he approved.

The restitution is 36 thousand, that's what they could only find and I think we made the tokens for a million and they claim that they have a circulation price, they can't find them. I wouldn't cheat Las Vegas skin, it's quick and easy money, but it's not worth it, it's not worth giving up your livelihood and your family and not embarrassing your family more. A Cow Is A Fake Scam Is A Wake Up Call For Las Vegas Today many casinos protect their chips using a high-tech device called RFID, short for radio frequency identification, which has a small electronic chip embedded somewhere on the chip and They can keep track of what the chip is and how many of them are on the table.

It is an identifier. They use RFID scanners on both the gaming tables and in the cage, making it impossible for a low denomination boat to be confused with a high one. no matter the face of the chip reads while new technology keeps chips safe from tampering. Easy money is always a goal for the world-class Las Vegas cheater. One in particular stands out for both the simplicity and sheer audacity of his crime. Anthony Carly oh, one of the things about Anthony Carly Oh was that he seemed to have this need to be a larger than life figure, he had this sense of invincibility about him, he's not someone who lived the life of a criminal, I think he just had this downward spiral, the sudden outburst in an exclusive phone interview Carly Oh tells us in her own words how she became one of the most notorious criminals in Las Vegas with those losses mounting.

Carly Oh is desperate, she concocts a daring plan to capture a cash prize on her motorcycle. Carly Oh makes her way. Las Vegas traffic with ease, he pulls into the Suncoast casino. Suncoast is the western Las Vegas casino hotel that is generally frequented by locals leaving their engines running. Carlyle walks straight towards the cage dressed all in black with a motorcycle helmet from which he pulls out a gun. his waist told the cashier look in the drawer grab lots of cash put it in a bag no security guard tried to stop him it's better to let people have the money that's really the policy is to let that happen because guns are a responsibility you might have someone shot someone unfairly so in the end we'll just call the police and let them handle it that's their job that's what they do in just minutes it's over Carly Oh heads into the neon night with almost $20,000 Carly Oh hit so hard and fast Las Vegas is He was taken by surprise and since his bike helmet and visor make him unidentifiable, the police have no leads just five days later, once again, Carlisle gets on his bike and runs through the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, this time stopping at the opulent Bellagio Hotel and Casino Carly Oh runs into the casino, but the cage is too far away to reach quickly, so she heads to the high-end gaming tables .

My purse went straight for the high value casino chips, which were the cranberry colored ones, valued at $25,000. She also grabbed several. the targets that were valued at $5,000 this time the leo car takes off with over a million dollars worth of chips, although the chips are embedded with RFID identification devices, they can only be tracked inside the casino, outside the tracking devices stopped work, we're going 225 in our car Leo disappears into the night in response to robberies casinos across the city add undercover personnel to patrol gambling halls cages go on high alert eight days after second robbery authorities got their first break when a merchant at the Bellagio introduces himself anonymously, tells them he told them about a suspicious gambler who had been there the day before the robbery and began talking to him about the possibility of robbing the Bellagio.

He said I'd like to get my hands on some of these blueberries. The blueberries, of course, are worth 25,000 apiece. The shopkeeper listens patiently and makes the guy believe he can trust him. Finally, he gets the guy's name: Anthony Carl Ayo. When investigators look into Carl Aoes' background, they find an unlikely robber. Carl Ayo is the son of a Las Vegas judge, but grows up in Pueblo Colorado with his mother. After moving to Las Vegas in 2009, he enrolls at UNLV to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a doctor. He has no criminal record, but in his first semester at college Carl Ayo gravitates toward casinos when detectives review his bank records.

They discover no reportable income other than a $4,000 UNLV grant check from an informant. They also learned that, after a car accident earlier that year, Carlile had been prescribed the narcotic pain reliever oxycodone. Anthony Carly-o certainly fits the profile of someone desperate enough. steal, but the police do not have enough evidence to arrest him, but if it is him, it means that there is a player with a drug addiction and a gun who is looking to break even. He has an ace up his sleeve, the $25,000 chips, but cashing them in would be risky with so many

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n high-end boats on the street, the Bellagio takes action and suspends the $25,000 chips that Blasio has the authority to withdraw and refuses to accept those denomination tokens.

The Gaming Control Board will then conduct an investigation to determine whether or not. one person who is submitting those chips actually won them the day after the $25,000 chip withdrawal. Carlisle returns to the Bellagio this time without his gun to play poker and blackjack, the dealer who had reported him before is out of town for the holidays, so when Carlo uses the

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n lower denomination boats, he goes unnoticed on the eve New Year's Eve, the leo car uses the lower denomination shifts again, quickly loses $70,000 in mid-January, has lost over a hundred thousand stolen dollars at this

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, Carlisle has bet so much money that he is considered a high roller, a few days later He returns to the Bellagio and is offered a room and board when he charges more money than he earns.

Bellagio security staff suspects him of using the stolen boats. They notify the metropolitan police in Nevada. -or in their sights, but they have yet to connect him directly to the robberies they watch and wait for. Carlisle's losing streak continues, sooner or later he might make a play using one of the $25,000 Cranberries everyone is keeping an eye on to avoid getting caught in the car Leo attempts. to fence hot ships online, he posts several messages in poker game chat rooms, that was one of the crazy things he was doing, you know, these online poker players are trying to figure out how to get rid of him, although the behavior of Leo is bold.

Leo's behavior lacks the sophistication of a career criminal, he even posted a photo of a couple of blueberry chips and called himself the biker bandit, he was more or less saying it's me, come get me alright, the biker banner wasn't the sharpest tool in the box, that's for sure, cop. He receives an anonymous tip that Anthony Carl Ayo calls himself the Biker Bandit and is trying to sell his $25,000 blueberry chips for $10,000 cash. The police finally have what he needs to set him up. An undercover detective contacts Carl Ayo posing as the buyer of the stolen boat.

Just a few days later, the trap is set. Carl AO brought several chips, the undercover cop promised him $100,000 and then when the car came, Larry dropped off the chips, that was it for Mr. Carl AO The next day the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police announced the arrest of Carl Aoe to the media. We want to send a clear message to those who think they can come to Las Vegas, commit robbery with a gun and get away with it, they are sadly mistaken. Anthony Carl. AO pleads guilty to the casino robberies and is sentenced to serve 8 to 27 years in prison at Lovelock Prison in Nevada.

Anthony Carl, 30, AO reflects on his crimes. Most hall of fame cheaters are not as brazen as Anthony Carly. Oh, instead they make their mark by taking advantage of easy targets, he's a predator, he's a shark swimming through the anchovies, he's looking for the lazy person, he's trying to find that weak link we have and then he'll come in and take advantage. . of this and there is a sheet that reaches the Hall of Fame for not knowing when to leave the Hard Rock Casino a pit boss notices that a player is making big bets at a poker table and contacts security, that call arose because we have a high limit The player named Clifton Burnham when we entered the system to search for Clifton Burnham's story there was a noticeable pattern of wins and losses, he always won on a certain day of the week and the rest of the time it was obvious.

Losses His lucky day is Sunday and June 15, 2000 happens to be Sunday. They look back on the final hours of play. Burnham has had a winning streak in PI Gow pi GAO is an Asian poker game played against the dealer, but like all casinos. The dealers play for the cameras while the surveillance team watches Burnham. They see a problem, but it's with their own dealer. If I'm watching a game, the dealers have certain procedures they have to follow at certain times when they break that procedure, that's red. flag, then we have to look and see why they are violating the procedures and if they are violating the procedures with a certain person, could that person be in cahoots with the dealer?

The dealer has worked at the casino for five years. We really didn't have. He caused a lot of trouble, but at one point we realized that he was going to spray letters because there are many links in PI Gow. Dealer protocol is to spread the cards for the camera here. Burnham has lost the hand, but the dealer is doing what is called a quick spread, picking up the cards immediately making it look like a tie so the player doesn't lose money, so why is this dealer intentionally abandoning the game for the benefit of Burnham? An hour later, they have a possible answer when security has slipped in an anonymous letter. and what this anonymous letter said was that you have a client and a dealer who are in cahoots with your Pygar poker game and the name this client uses is Clifton Burnham, but his real name is James Shady and at that time I blurted out some expletives.

He ran upstairs and by then he was gone James Shahade e's reputation is well known in Las Vegas Jimmy Shaheed was a criminal he is a professional Kruk is a trash I went back to last month's show to see if there was a correlation between his earnings and the dealer who was in the game and sure enough, there is a connection. Shahidi has been winning for four consecutive Sundays as Clifton Burnham. He always wants with this particular dealer, just the dealer that a former Hard Rock employee had racked up at high stakes. debts, the dealer in question owed himmoney from a sports guy, I had borrowed money from that guy and I couldn't pay that individual question, I owed him money to exchange it to Haiti, so what better way to pay it back than to give a

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dealer what? a friend, right, hey, I have a friend, a guy who owes me money, he's delivering at this place, you walk in and he leaves you the game.

We are all happy because the dealer never collects losing Sansha Haiti bets. Shahade e can play for hours making money on every hand he wins, basically he can never lose in this game so on every hand he will lose he will give the signal that he will do the quick deal, he throws the cards in the discard and says it was a push so every time he wins even when he doesn't win he still wins because he doesn't lose so they just take the money every time the dealer pays his dead he plans to stop

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but Shahade e doesn't he's willing to pass up the scam when you find something so good why would you hand it over to this guy he won't just let you walk away you just committed a serious crime you just did something that will ruin your life and I'm yours that's why the dealer was very scared Shahade, he was representing himself as a member of organized crime, he is telling the guy unless you do what I want, bad things are going to happen to you and the trafficker believed it and that is where June 15, 2000 comes into play.

Desperate and looking for a way out, the trafficker writes the anonymous letter to security before starting his shift two hours later. Security finds the letter at the same time. Surveillance sees a robbery procedure in front of evidence of a trap. Hard Rock calls the Control Board. Nevada Games came out they looked at the videotape and at that moment We waited the following week for Mr. It's suspicious to break in and he actually did it on the actual security tape. The dealer begins his turn moments later. James Shahade II sits down and the trap unfolds on camera.

After Shahade loses the hand, the dealer picks up the cards and makes another quick spread. if Shahade was really pushed, that's all the authorities need to see, at that time the gambling ages were lowered, the dealer was arrested and Shanee was arrested from the casino grounds after he was dragged away in handcuffs, the dealer confesses that he has been a part of the scam for over a year the dealer got into D, he owed the guy money and the next thing he knew he was leaving this game for 70 80 thousand dollars to testify against Shahade II, the dealer is fired Shaheed , is convicted and sentenced to between 12 and 48 months a year later.

His luck runs out one Friday night and he dies in prison at the age of 60. Shaheed's brazen hard-rock pusher earns him a place among the cheaters' Hall of Fame, but there's one trickster smarter and more successful than anyone who's come before or since he came to Las Vegas. Denis Nick Rash during his career steals a whopping 16 million dollars. Denis Nick Rash was a genius and Heather was one of his strengths. he really knew what it took to trick a machine and commit different types of criminal acts so that he would stop stealing boredom, it's a challenge for him, he has to do it to show the public that he can do it to show the game a job. or to show the industry Nicke Rash's path to infamy begins in Chicago Dennis Nick Rash started out as a locksmith and discovered that he was very skilled at breaking locks and ended up having some friends who were in organized crime and were linked to the Genovese crime family. but he began working with them by breaking into cars, jewelry stores and businesses until they finally caught him.

Dennis Nick Rash is serving a year in prison after his release in the 1970s. He sets his sights on him in Las Vegas using a tool called a slider. He breaks slot machines. He could slide the device through the crack in the door and activate the mechanism with the sliding vise and pay as the casinos lose money. Manufacturers redesign machines to make them harder to fool, but Nick Rash isn't intimidated by the changes. He buys a machine and does the same thing. He impossible manipulates the slot machine to create a jackpot on command, although his precise techniques remain a mystery.

The first battle is learning how to open a slot machine at a casino without being detected. He's a locksmith, so you can open it without setting off the alarm. The alarm is a warning alert programmed to sound five seconds after the door is opened, so Nick Rash must act quickly. He manually adjusts each of the reels to a jackpot setting, then activates the jackpot bells, closes the door and all you hear is the cheerful jingle. of another slot winner, Nik Rash, has the system beaten from 76 to 83, the cunning of him, that is, ten million dollars. The interesting thing about this is that when we discovered this was happening, we inspected known machines, machines that we knew had cheated. and there was no indication that the machines had been tricked, but in 1986 the law finally caught up with him.

He serves another five years once he gets out of prison. Back on the streets, things had changed dynamically due to electronics and surveillance coverage of cameras and the type of machines, video machines instead of real machines, computer chips and motherboards, and all of this is available Now, they're all Dennis' previous treatment devices, they're antiques, they're basically useless, but Nick Rash is more than up to the challenge he sets himself. to adapt his skills to the computer age, so when he returned to the Genovese crime family and connected with a computer expert and once Nick Rash got his hands on an updated slot machine, he came up with a way to beat The new technology. he was redesigning the computer and the code and figuring out how to corrupt that code, how to rewrite the code, and most importantly how to erase the code when the scam was done so they couldn't find out, they created a little device that they could sneak into. in a casino and this laptop would have to be inserted into the circuit board placed on top of the RAM where they would enter the winning combination.

Dennis was able to override the computer by placing a computer chip on top of two other computer chips inside the machine and set up the cat, there is just one last detail to avoid getting caught. He usually had a group of people with him, they're called jammers and his job was to block the cameras and prevent the security guards from seeing what he was doing next. They decided which sock machine which casino they would go to, set up surveillance cameras in his garage at a similar angle, and then he and his jammers would practice jamming the cameras and know exactly where they were supposed to stand.

In the fall of 1996, Nick Rash and his team arrived at the slimmest casinos. An accident installed his blockers in the casino. He would use his locksmith skills to open the door, then insert his laptop and install the winning combination once he completed which only took a few seconds, then he would walk out of the casino and the collector would sit down, press the button wheels to start rolling. , the blockers would move away and the cameras would show the winning combination rolling into place. The team's first shot is modest for Nick Rash. $30,000 but soon gets bolder eight months later Nick Rash and his team take Harris for 3.8 million dollars then cheat Rio and Luxor and other casinos for millions more Dennis Nick crash usually took about 70% and split 30 % among all your attendees. stole and stole stole: something is going to happen the cameras will be here at two o'clock around the corner to keep the trick working Nick Rash regularly replaces his team, he had to gather different people because you can't have the The same person at one casino when he won a three million dollar jackpot and then two days later he won another jackpot at a different casino, so he had to have collectors that he could go around.

The problem was having a large team of people working together, as someone would be unhappy. Someone's Going to Get in a Fight Someone's Going to Tell on You 1998 Nik Rash is planning his biggest heist yet, the $17 million mega jackpot. He has Las Vegas in the palm of his hand, but 300 miles away his plan begins to fall apart. One of his accomplices. he got in trouble with the FBI in Phoenix, Arizona, he started talking about Dennis Nick Rash and how he cheated while slot machines worked with the FBI. Nevada Gaming Control Board obtains search warrant for Nick Rash's home.

Detectives find two slot machines along with dozens of cheating devices in his safe deposit box. They discover the laptop he uses to cheat slot machines after a two-decade crime spree that netted him $16 million during the king's reign. slots finally ended Nick Rash is arrested for the last time Dennis Nick Rash is found guilty and prosecutors offer him a deal with a lighter sentence in exchange for revealing how his scams as a criminal work. Nick Rash is a consummate professional. He refuses. He later tells the interviewers. I have no desire to explain anything. Never anger the fool he is sentenced to. seven and a half years in prison he is released in 2004 and dies in 2010 and the secrets of his extraordinarily successful traps died with him, but in Las Vegas the legends live on and Dennis Nick Rash has secured his place in the Hall of Fame of Cheats Dennis Nick Rash. he is one of the biggest cheaters we have ever caught in Nevada history, there are a lot of cheaters out there and hopefully they are not as successful as Dennis Nick Rush was, only time will tell if there is another criminal mastermind out there right now . future hall of famer beat the casinos with a cheat that no one has ever done before the message I would give to someone thinking about cheating in Las Vegas is practice practice practice because we are good, we do this all the time, we do it we do every day. so you have to be good when you come to do it, you will probably end up in jail and that is permanent, you know you will get caught.