Part IV: Financial Fraud · Internal Collusion & Employee Fraud

Scam #13: Pit Boss Overriding Game Procedures for Collusion

How it works

A corrupt pit boss or floor supervisor has significant authority to facilitate cheating. They can override normal procedures, ignore mispays, approve unusual payouts, look the other way during false shuffles, and direct surveillance attention away from colluding tables. In the Dakota Sioux Casino case, a pit boss oversaw a blackjack dealer who was intentionally overpaying an accomplice, knew about the cheat, and allowed it to proceed throughout the New Year’s Eve shift. The pit boss’s authority makes detection especially difficult because they are normally the first line of defense against dealer cheating. In more sophisticated schemes, a corrupt pit boss can direct which dealers work which tables, ensuring that colluding dealers are assigned when accomplices are present.

Where it appears

All table games

On the record

In August 2017, Lito Banbilla Bolocon (pit boss), Jeremy Kris Brown (dealer), Jordon Anthony Rondell (player), and Fern Freya Gill (dealer) pleaded guilty to conspiracy at the Dakota Sioux Casino in South Dakota. The pit boss supervised the dealer who overpaid the accomplice, who cashed out approximately $10,000 in illegitimate winnings.

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.