I feel like every couple years a story like this pops up. It’s a pretty full proof plan until greed gets in the way.
A former blackjack dealer at a Connecticut casino has been charged with conspiring with two gamblers to cheat the casino out of more than $60,000.
The Day reports that 49-year-old David C. Peters, of New London, is charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny, first-degree larceny and cheating in connection with the alleged cheating last fall at the Mohegan Sun casino.
Tribal police say Peters allowed the players to increase wagers after the time to do so had passed. He also allegedly paid them when they had tied or lost, or diverted cards that would break their hands.
A couple of guys had an in with a blackjack dealer. He was letting them increase bets on a winning hand and even paying them on a losing hand. How great is that? If you keep it simple and small this could really work out. You probably do it once or twice, take the casino for a couple hundred. You and the blackjack dealer meet up for beers after, split the money – goes for the most part unnoticed.
Then, you have these morons who felt the need to take it to a whole new level and take the casino for $60,000. That’s not going to go unnoticed, and as expected, it did not.
To really throw some salt in this gambling scheme wound, this takes place at Mohegan Sun in CT. That is on an Indian reservation. If you catch in the article, “tribal police” made the arrest. I’m VERY certain normal rules don’t apply to the tribe. I’m pretty sure they still believe in the “eye for an eye” method of a judicial system. God only knows what is going to happen to these guys.
Most likely a public stoning, some old school lashings, who knows? I like to imagine it as the scene from Ace Ventura when he has to fight the little guy that jumps out of the sack.
This is how I’m picturing David C. Peters right now:
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