The coloured chips help the dealer to work out whose chips are whose. At the roulette table, players are given different colour chips- when there is a big crowd at the table, it can become difficult for the dealer to keep track of individual bets. The used a method called the “colour-up or color-up” scam. The Horseshoe Casinos in Cleveland and Cincinnati were also targeted, as was the Hollywood Casino in Columbus. The scam was launched at the Hollywood Casino in Toledo. Gamblers from the Bronx and New Jersey have been arrested and were sentenced at a Cincinnati court. The methods they used were sophisticated enough to throw the casinos off their scent for many years, and it is thought that they may be part of a bigger group of some seventy individuals. The Ohio chapter of the ring was very organised.

It’s also alot smarter than this scheme in Bristol where 2 fraudsters literally lifted the lid on roulette and caught caught on CCTV.

This scam was on a bigger scale than many that we have come across, such as the Coral Island roulette scam in Blackpool, UK. The gang, consisting of around 13 members, had been scamming 4 casinos across Ohio State. They have since been linked to a whole series of roulette scams- all in Ohio State in the US. Back in 2013, a group of gamblers from New York were caught “mid roulette scam”.

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