Part II: Table Game Cheating · Dice & Craps Cheating Methods
Rail Moves / Handing Off
How it works
The dealer steals chips from the table bank or from other players’ bets and “hands them off” to the colluding player - either directly at the table or through a dead drop where the player retrieves them later. Rail moves involve the dealer manipulating chips in the rail (the groove where dealers keep house chips) to create shortages that are later covered. Handing off involves physically passing chips to the player during the normal course of dealing, concealed within the hand-to-hand contact of normal transactions.
Where it appears
Casino Craps
On the record
Often part of larger organized cheating rings where multiple dealers are compromised.
Detection & preventionADVISORY
The paid halfHow a monitoring room catches rail moves / handing off, and what stops it recurring, written for the desk, not the reader.
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Published as a detection reference for surveillance, compliance and gaming-operations professionals. Thresholds and tuning are set by the property. Nothing here is instruction: the method is described so it can be recognised.