Part II: Table Game Cheating · Dice & Craps Cheating Methods

Team Distraction Techniques

How it works

A team of 3-6 players coordinates to create distractions at the craps table, enabling one member to execute a cheating move. Distractions include: spilling a drink, arguing loudly about a payout, creating a fake celebration, asking the dealer complex questions, feigning intoxication, or staging a medical issue. While attention is focused on the distraction, another team member executes past posting, pinching, dice sliding, or dice switching. The distraction is carefully timed to coincide with the critical cheating moment.

Where it appears

Casino Craps

On the record

Professional cheating teams like those run by Richard Marcus specialized in moves that could beat even the most skilled dealers and surveillance, using distractions as a core component of their methodology.

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.