{"id":12537,"date":"2017-11-27T08:08:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T14:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/?p=12537"},"modified":"2024-05-15T06:12:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T11:12:52","slug":"6-ways-casinos-stop-dice-cheats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/6-ways-casinos-stop-dice-cheats\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Ways Casinos Stop Dice Cheats"},"content":{"rendered":"

In most casino games, there are strategies players can use to at least slightly reduce the house’s edge. Sometimes however, these tactics stray from advantage play into straight up cheating.<\/p>\n

\"waysThis is especially true in dice games, where players have a physical hand (literally) on the outcome. The methods cheaters try and use to influence the roll of the dice have in turn made casinos start using some tricky tactics of their own.<\/p>\n

1. Sliding Dice<\/h2>\n

How It Works: <\/strong>What it sounds like, this is essentially an artform that takes away a usual dice tumble’s randomness by sliding it, so that a desired number comes up.<\/p>\n

How Casinos Stop It: <\/strong>People can throw dice in strange ways, and a dice sliding on the felt instead of tumbling now and again isn’t uncommon. But when it happens frequently from the same player and <\/em>results in frequent big wins, casinos are quick to catch on.<\/p>\n

President of Universal Game Protection Sal Piacente recently told <\/a>Maxim<\/a> that sliding dice, \u201ctakes just two weeks to learn how to do. Then you can make a lot of money\u2014until you get caught.\u201d<\/p>\n

Case in point, the two Cleveland men that were caught sliding in 2015 and convicted of felony cheating at gambling charges:<\/p>\n