Unshuffled cards a costly headache for AC casinos
Posted: Aug 20, 2012 11:18 AM CDT Updated: Aug 20, 2012 10:08 PM CDT
By WAYNE PARRY
Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – At first, it seemed like a coincidence, the kind of thing that happens from time to time at a casino, where the same number or same sequence of cards happens twice in a row.
But when the players at an April game of mini-baccarat at the Golden Nugget Atlantic City kept seeing the same sequence of cards dealt, over and over and over again, their eyes grew wide and their bets grew bigger, zooming from $10 a hand to $5,000.
Forty-one consecutive winning hands later, the 14 players had racked up more than $1.5 million in winnings – surrounded by casino security convinced they had cheated but unable to prove how.
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