An old adage in the gaming industry is that your house always wins, but these days, they don’t constantly win without a battle. As the Asian casino market continues to skyrocket and as new-fangled, almost imperceptible technology becomes much easier for the everyday player to get their hands on trying to keep in front of casino cheats all around the globe has become big business anywhere you go.

More Sophisticated Scams Now Possible

While cheating casinos is obviously nothing new, the capacity to do so nearly undetected is becoming more commonplace, and properties that are still using old analog technology from just what now seems like the rock Age technology that used actual VHS tapes rather than the far more practical and compact digital variation are struggling to keep up-to-date with customers who may be one step ahead of these, technology-wise.

Not all the scams are brand-new, but some are becoming more sophisticated as products become less visually noticeable to the naked attention. And apparently the newest and oldest casinos would be the many vulnerable; the old ones for the aforementioned antiquated systems and the brand new ones for systems that, ironically, might be so new-fangled and complex that it will take also seasoned operators awhile to totally get the hang of them.

Inside Jobs

And sometimes those supposedly in control of security turn into part of the scammers themselves. One such session at Melbourne’s Crown Casino earlier in the day this present year netted the perpetrators $32 million, and in fact, turned out to be an inside job. And it’s really more proof of how intricate the technology is with this stuff. While Crown never made the whole story public knowledge, we do know that a security person got info to a VIP baccarat player with a wireless radio device; the security himself got the insider info by putting a micro-cam into the shoe that is card-shuffling. And these scams have been repeated throughout Asia as well, and nowhere could be the surveillance business booming more rapidly compared to Macau, where both rollers that are high newer casinos serve to lure scammers from all over the world, hoping to make their move.

Macau presently has some 100,000 video security cameras among its numerous casino properties, and another 50,000 are anticipated to join their ranks as the Cotai Strip the Las Vegas equivalent in Macau continues to grow. In fact, it may possibly be the true number 1 market for surveillance gear on earth soon. But it addittionally has the absolute most needs that are sizable performance-wise.

‚It’s probably the most environment that is demanding a movie surveillance system anywhere in the world,‘ claims Craig Graham, general manager for Asia at German-Australian security firm Dallmeier International, which now holds a 20 percent market share of the casinos in Macau.

You might think, after spending so much time and money to get the perps, that casinos would like to manage to get thier cash straight back, or at rake that is least said scammers over the coals. However, apparently, which is not how it always plays out. When it comes to that infamous Crowne Melbourne heist, word is that all that happened was that the VIP kingpin associated with the deal ended up being just summarily kicked out of his comped high-roller suite in the wee, wee hours of the morning and sent on their merry way. And, supposedly, other than losing a job, neither did the within surveillance guy get meted out any punishment that is further.

Or, maybe, Crown simply wanted the story to quietly die so they could look after business the way that is old-fashioned. We will probably never know, but never bet on a casino shrugging off a $32 million steal so cavalierly.