Vegas Casino Boss Rates 7 Casino Heists In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

I've never heard of a cattle prod. There are stories of back rooms without cameras where the kids are mistreated a bit. Today, we don't need to do that. Hello everyone. My name is Brian Stanton. I am a

casino

executive in Las Vegas for Station Casinos. I have been in the board game business for 20 years observing and analyzing game security. Today we will look at scenes from

casino

heist

movies

and judge how

real

they are. Oh! You are a winner! In the workplace, collusion is something that worries us and that we investigate. There have been numerous stories of dealers setting up bets that don't exist or paying out bets that don't exist, because they are in cahoots with a player.

The things they are doing stand out. So when I walk around the room, if I see distributors turn their heads and look at where I am or where their supervisor is, they want to know where we are because something is going on. Security measures. When the system detects a threat, it shuts down and restarts. Well, for how long? Man: Three minutes and 20 seconds. I have been to some older properties where something will happen with a power transformer. The power goes out in the city. If we lose surveillance coverage, we stop playing. If we don't have camera coverage for the games, we simply lift the covers, lock the games, and wait.

We would not run games or operate without surveillance coverage. The system is locked. All calls in and out of this room are secure. Again, sir, it's closed. It's a very Hollywood scene that is completely un

real

istic for a multitude of reasons. First of all, their surveillance room looks like an NSA SCIF. It's the nicest room I've ever seen, and no surveillance room I've ever been in is as nice. They are not controlled by computers, where you could be locked out and unable to make a phone call. I don't think there is a scenario where we are trapped in a room.

I hope there is some government agency like OSHA that protects us from being locked in a room. As a business practice, we would have a landline in each office and surveillance could always use it. Obviously, if the power goes out, that can go with it, and then we would have to use the old method of finding the person and telling them what's going on. Oh! Bringing dice has happened. I haven't seen it in my career, but I've heard stories in that time period about what happened. And they wouldn't be magnetic. They would be loaded, where you would add some weight to one side or the other, or shave some corners.

This is very Hollywood. The whole lighter and watching it spin so slowly from side to side. I would expect my supervisors to notice this immediately if possible. And they wouldn't get away with a lot of money, because it's pretty obvious. By getting that amount of bets for the numbers they had over everyone's heads, there is apparently no maximum on the table in any of these games, which is also unrealistic. I think I saw a $100,000 bet on snake eyes, which I think $500 is the highest limit I've seen for that. Each bet on each table has a maximum bet amount.

All very, very improbable and comical. As far as casino accuracy goes, I rate it a 2. I'd love to know if a mathematician has ever looked at any of those equations and figured out if it's anything. Card counting is not some fancy trigonometry problem. It's just a basic count. Secondly, you can't really learn to count cards in a day by reading a book. Having the general public know about it has probably been a blessing for us, because people think they can go out and do it, but they really can't. If you were counting cards, you probably wouldn't attract as much attention.

You have the character in the background turning off the cameras, creating a lot of energy around him and drawing attention to himself. Dividing five. Notice that they are doing things, again. He split five, something you would never do, even if you were a card counter. Maybe you'd have to know what the next three or four cards that came out of the shoe were for that to make sense. He can't lose! He can't lose! The floor supervisor and the room manager talking. We wouldn't need to cover our mouths with a clipboard. They are not going to read our lips.

It would be, "Hey, something's going on there. We're seeing it on camera. Let's make a plan about what we're going to do about it." Making a distraction to escape makes no sense, because they still have to remove the tiles. Counting cards is not illegal, unless you are using some device to give yourself an advantage. A smart watch or a computer in your shoe or on your thigh, that would make cheating a game. But if you keep track in your head and know how many big cards and how many small cards there are, you can get an advantage, so it's frowned upon.

If someone is counting cards in a Las Vegas casino, we just say, "Hey, you can't play blackjack anymore. Your action is too good for us." This scene, not very realistic in that sense. 1 to learn the accuracy of how we do things in a casino or represent how card counters would act. Ace: Cash flows from the tables to our tills, through the cage and into the most sacred room in the casino, the counting room. It is not realistic for a modern casino in terms of how to enter, how it is designed or how actions are carried out.

You see the no entry sign and then they enter. Nowadays we wouldn't allow anyone to come in with a briefcase. The workers who enter do so with transparent wallets, in any case. The counting room is the most secure room in the building. There are procedures in place for who can enter, how they can enter, and what they can do when they are there. Probably in part because these things happened when they were run by individuals or the mafia, compared to publicly traded companies now. Nicky: They're counting money. Who wants to bother? And the best part was that upstairs, the board of directors didn't know what the fuck was going on.

I mean, to them, everything seemed to be going well. But when you pay at the cage, we count by hand. And they did a good job on what their hand movements were like and how they arranged the bills. At each table, there is a paddle to the dealer's right, and they take the cash, put it in a slot, and it goes into what's called a mailbox. And they are collected daily and are secured with double locks. And security would come and take them out, take them to the counting room, where it opens and the money is just dropped on a clean table.

And then the money is counted, sorted and assigned to that table. Nicky: The guys who were inside the counting room were put in there to dry the joint. They made short counts, lost payment receipts, and even took cash directly from mailboxes. It's in a period of time, in the past, where you hear stories about these things happening. A fill sheet is just an order form when a board game needs more chips. Throughout the day, when people get up, leave and withdraw money, we have to replenish those chips. And you ask for a cage refill to bring more chips to the table.

And that's how you calculate how much a table wins or loses on a given day. Nicky: And it was up to this guy, right here, facing about $2 million, to get the cash out without anyone noticing, not the IRS or anyone else. Apparently the robbery was a real thing that the mafia was doing in the casinos. Casinos are big business, so it takes a lot of employees to keep in mind the cash coming in and the accounting paperwork that comes with it. It's a very busy room, there are a lot of people working, but not enough for us not to notice someone coming in with a briefcase and leaving with cash.

You need key access and nowadays there are also cameras everywhere. Ace: You can spot these jerks by watching the way they bet. Like this guy. He is betting lavender chips at $500 each with just one small problem. He has always been right. When things stand out, you look at them closer. So they did a great job on how the dealers move, how they pay, how they put the cards on the tables, how the supervisors stand in the pit and even how De Niro's character came in and started watching. things. Ace: I saw that the dealer was weak, but he wasn't involved.

He just wasn't protecting his hand. He was raising his hole card too much. The first thing he noticed was that the boy was always right. He leans over to tie his shoe so he can see what's going on and where those angles are coming from and realizes there's a cheater on the other side. Ace: Pointing to his friend. They navigate from casino to casino looking for weak dealers the same way lions look for weak antelopes. Using a cheating device, at least in the state of Nevada, is a crime, so it's not seen as often. Things like this used to happen when computer technology took hold.

If it weren't for the device, they wouldn't be doing anything wrong, just taking advantage of a weak distributor. That was the way we used to check the hole card, was to cover it and look for it. Nowadays we have something called a viewing device, which is a two-way mirror that they slide the cards into so there is no longer any risk of exposing them. Ace: Turns out this guy and his fucking friends were destroying this place for years. I have heard many stories. I've never heard of a cattle prod. There are stories of back rooms without cameras where the kids are mistreated a bit.

Today, we don't need to do that. We have the Nevada Gaming Control Board, we have security, where we would just notify and do everything through a legal process. It was once they put that device into play. And we'd notify the gaming commission and say, "Hey, we've got someone we suspect of cheating." And we would deliver it directly to them. I think the film was made incredibly well from a technical standpoint. Everything out of the question. That reduces the clip to about 7½. Charlene: Oh my God, I can feel a kick! Shelly: Damn fans. This is a more realistic thing that could happen and has happened.

It's changing the dice. Fake dice, incredibly rare. Alec Baldwin's character who appears as the casino

boss

, someone with the experience to be able to see, hey, the way he cups his hand when he raises it, or the way he lets it go when his fingers curl to try to hide something. . We have policies for that too. When a shooter fires, the supervisor looks for his hand to be open to make sure he is not hiding dice there. Cheating with dice can be common because a lot of things happen. There are many players, there is a lot of distraction.

The biggest cheating scam that occurs is what is called dice sliding, where you place a die on a number and then when you go to roll it, instead of the dice falling and becoming a random result, they can control one or both. dice and know what the result is and bet for or against. It takes a team of people. Someone to distract the dealer, someone to fold it, another to make a big bet. So a couple of times a year you hear about a casino being attacked by a crapsliding team. Again, we have policies and procedures that protect us from that.

They always have serial numbers. We make sure they match and are our dice. There is some built-in security. Yeah, he's won $18,000 since I came to the table. I'm sorry, Shelly. I'm a bit hit and miss these days. In the scene, we see William Macy acting as a chiller, someone who is so unlucky that they put him on the table and then, hopefully, his bad luck rubs off on everyone else. Unfortunately, it's a thing. I haven't seen him in a long, long time. Managers would throw salt under the table or pennies under the table, because somehow that equated to bad luck.

I think all modern casinos have moved away from that and realized that it's all about math. Let's do it, let's do it! Oh. Guys, I thank you, my pregnant wife thanks you. When she felt like they were going to catch him, she said, okay, job's done, went back to the original dice and came up seven. Using her pregnant wife as a distraction, this is a much more realistic version of cheating than the "Ocean's Eleven" scene with the magnetic dice. Let the dice change, I think this is very accurate. I would give it an 8. I feel like you should have someone from the CIA or FBI here to evaluate this, rather than me, because to me it doesn't pass the smell test of how casinos work or anything that might happen. in a casino.

I think they say in the movie that it connects three casinos that are actually a mile apart. There is no secret bunker anywhere with an elevator. And then it turns out that the two security guards have their backs to the only elevator, facing a door for no reason. Rusty: As your manager is probably reporting to you now, you have a little over $160 million in your vault tonight. You may notice that we are only packing about half of it. It would depend on how often deposits are made to the bank or whatever, but we should be able to cover the winners and losers.

Now, does that mean we have to give it to him in cash? No. We simply write them a check for it. In modern casinos, we haveincreasingly become a cashless society and we have credit markers and bank transfers. And in? In previous clips, we saw where the counting room was. And then once the money is counted, it is placed in a safe place. You can call it a vault if you want. But being so far out of the way, it is protected, as if it had the nuclear codes. Benedict: Show the robbery tape. Installed on Tuesday.The footage we saw of those men robbing us was on tape.

Walsh: What? I feel safe in saying that no one has a vault like this, or we would spend the money to inlay marble, terrazzo or whatever with the casino's name on the vault. It seems like we could better spend that money somewhere else. I've worked in some extravagant and opulent places, but that's even a bit of a stretch. Our security directors, our security managers, were either former law enforcement officers or knew them, so they would know when these guys came in. The likelihood of a whole team of criminals impersonating Las Vegas Metro or SWAT or whoever and walking away with money, I had a hard time watching this movie the first time.

And I'm like, wow, I really have to suspend reality to enjoy this. A 1 for how things look, act or run in a real casino. The cameras are generally not at eye level where spray painting can occur. They are generally on the ceiling. Our first thought is that this is probably the most insecure counting room and vault in any casino. They look like normal office doors and the locks on my garage or back door, unlike the locks we would use. The layout of the casino is not very realistic. The counting room is usually quite far back from the house, where it would take a couple of layers, a couple of access points for someone to get to.

There would not necessarily be a need for a security guard inside or in front of that door. There is security everywhere at the access points to the back of the house that they would take to get to that hallway, to get to that door. I'm only going to say this once, okay? Who is listening? I am, yes. What we wore in the counting room were overalls without pockets, so no one could hide cash, chips or anything. You would wear that uniform in the room and you wouldn't bring any bags or anything with you, so you couldn't take anything out of the room.

Main cabin, fighting safety. Call the Las Vegas police. We need reinforcements. While surveillance noticed them after a few seconds in the counting room, they would have been noticed in the back of the house, on the way to the counting room, before that happened. There is always someone watching. Obviously, once they noticed them, they said to notify the subway, which is exactly what we would do. Freeze! Hold it right there! I would tell the security team, and I think they would say the same thing: we wouldn't confront each other in the casino and risk a shootout. It's not a good idea.

Let them have their way and we will use our cameras, we will use the subway and we will track them. Normally we can see the getaway car, see the license plate. There have been some big thefts throughout cage history. And they're usually low-tech

heists

. And I still haven't heard of anyone getting away with it. Armed robbery, that's more realistic than I've seen. But in general I would say it has a score of 5. Professionals always place their bets through the dealer. Croupier: Two, six, 13. Man: Two, six, 13. Croupier is a term we don't use in the states. It is a European term for a merchant.

He is obviously playing European or French roulette, depending on some of the bets that were made. No more bets, thank you. 34 red. No, sorry, sir, it's a late bet. The way the player cheated is a normal move. It's called past post. The dealer catches the post above, but it's interesting how he caught it, because he was staring at the wheel head, which is what we train them not to do. They should be looking at the design of those past posts and listening to the ball drop, and then looking inward. He would have had to have memorized every bet on the table to realize that this was a late bet.

Is there a problem? Yes, this croupier accuses me of cheating! I want to get paid! Pay the gentleman. In its whole. When he notices, the supervisor comes over, gets involved, and asks what's going on. The gentleman acts aggressively. We probably wouldn't pay that bet. We would use surveillance to see if there was a late bet. Let's get this guy away from the table. Let's go ahead and pay knowing that we still have to withdraw it, so that we still have the ability to recover those funds. It's quite realistic, from the terminology they use to the dealer's movements and how he dresses.

I give this an 8. My favorite casino heist movie is definitely "Casino." I think that, by far, "Casino" is the most realistic interpretation of what was done back then and how we have evolved to modern times. If you enjoyed this video, click to see another one.