23. Spill Grab.
If someone spills a drink at your table, don’t
just jump up to avoid the splash -- grab your chips
too! A common ploy for some criminals is to “accidently”
spill a drink, then in a frenzy to prevent it from
getting all over the table, they knock over everyone’s
chips, palming some in the process. If a drink spills,
grab first, jump up second.
24. Buckets
in Tray. When you play slot machines, if you are
the type of person who likes to keep a nice full
bucket of coins, keep it in the tray in front of
you. If someone should come up on your left or right
to talk to you immediately put your hand on your
bucket. The coin stealers generally work in pairs
this way: one talks, while the other walks away
with your bucket.
25. Trust No
One. The protagonist on X-Files, Fox Mulder, is
an FBI agent whose credo is to “Trust No One.”
In a casino that credo translates into great advice.
My Aunt Annie put a twenty-dollar in a bill changer
that rejected it. She didn’t know that the
bill had been rejected or that this particular machine
was rejecting bills left and right, because a woman
started to talk to her just as she placed the bill
into the receptacle. When she turned around to play
her “credits” there were no credits as
the machine had spit out the twenty-dollar bill.
Unfortunately, there also was no twenty-dollar bill
either as the woman she had been talking to -- or
an accomplice -- had taken the rejected twenty!
Trust no one. The friendly person who will watch
your credit-laden machine while you go to the bathroom;
the person who informs you that you dropped a couple
of quarters on the floor; the person who pardons
himself profusely after bumping you; the lady who
asks for the time -- are all occasions for concern.
Keep your hands on your wallet, and keep your eyes
on your bucket or chips.
Most casinos have excellent
security forces, but no security system in the world
is foolproof, and it is equally important that you
take some measure of responsibility for taking care
of yourself. While the chances that you will be
a victim are remote, always assume that you are
in a den of thieves. Be prepared. It’s tough
enough bucking the house edge on the table games
and on the one-armed bandits without having to buck
those two-legged bandits as well!
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