Australian Casino Loses $32 Million Dollars in 8 Hands of Cards!

Take a few minutes to save your casino thousands, maybe millions.

Google: “Crown Casino Heist” or “Crown Casino Barron Stringfellow”

We hear all too often: “We can’t afford training”…We hear all too often: “We don’t need training”…We hear all too often: “We never thought it would happen here”

So what REALLY Happened?

Things to consider:

High Roller Room and a Whale

Casino hadn’t disclosed the game played, just that “$32 million dollars was taken in 8 hands”

It’s a Card Game that much is clear.  So is it Baccarat?  Blackjack?  Poker?  Pontoon? We just don’t know!

We do know that the Casino chose to handle the issue “internally” and that, somehow, word got out to the media.  Since the casino refused to work with the media, an external source was sought out, based on their experience with the Australian Regulatory Agency.

Possibilities:

1.       Game play was fine, player actually won the money at the high limits table fair and square.

2.      Play utilized covert equipment and casinos own surveillance system against them.  (This is what the news reports seemed to suggest)

3.      A “Tran” style scam took place, and the casino hasn’t correctly assessed the event.

4.      Any other number of schemes took place; we really do not have enough details to make a pat determination!

We have trained regularly in Australia, but have never had the Casinos choose to come to our training, even though they were invited.

We hear all the time about Surveillance or Gaming investigations performed by attorneys or “private investigators” not knowledgeable in the Casino, let alone specialty areas of gaming they’ve been engaged to “evaluate”…

We hear all the time that Assessments for Title 31 have been performed in a “less than acceptable” fashion, or without the knowledge of the industry to guide them…

A friend of ours in the industry (who HAS attended our training!) just e-mailed me; and he said “Barron, when will casinos learn?”

I have to laugh!  When WILL casinos learn?