Field guide

Dealer Collusion (Payout Errors)

How it works

Dealers intentionally making payout errors to benefit confederates—overpaying winning bets, paying losing hands, or failing to collect losing wagers. A dealer working with a player deliberately overpays a winning bet by adding extra chips, pays a losing hand as if it won, or pretends not to see a losing bet and doesn’t collect it. Requires the dealer to falsify the game’s natural resolution.

On the record

Dealer collusion is a persistent threat. One case involved a dealer who overpaid a confederate by $500 per hand over several shifts, splitting proceeds afterward. Caught on surveillance review of “payoff patterns.”

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.