Inside Asian Gaming

Oct 2007 | INSIDE ASIAN GAMING 47 cal in sequence to the bottom five chips in Dawn’s mix-up stack that is still hidden from the dealer and any other casino personnel who might happen onto the game. Now number 32 wins and the dealer marks it with the dolly. Because of the ac- tions of my checkbettors, the dealer takes his eyes off the layout for a split-second. In a well-practiced two-handed movement, I lift the dolly, remove the five brown roulette chips Dawn had bet there and replace them with the “juiced” stack of five chips I’d had palmed in my hand.When it’s done there are still five chips underneath the dolly, but now they are: a brown roulette chip on the bot- tom, a black $100 chip atop that, then anoth- er brown, another black and another brown. Instead of $5 on the winning number, there is now $203, two black $100 chips and three brown $1 roulette chips. Psychology takes over Once Dawn sees that I have successfully switched the chips without being caught, she swings into action and the psychology takes over. The first thing she does is lift the mix-up stack from the back of her chip re- serve and place it on top of the front stack closest to the dealer, so that the dealer can now clearly see the mixed-up chips. Then she lets out a scream and goes into a false panic. “I’m missing two of my black chips!” she cries, jumping out of her chair to add to the histrionics.“I’m missing two of my black chips! Where are they!” Now Dawn gets on her hands and knees and pretends to search for the missing chips on the floor. The dealer naturally looks at her as though she’s a goner. Dawn stands up and begins going through her pockets like a frenzied tailor, then rifles through her handbag. “Where are my two black chips?” she repeats frantically. While all this is going on, the dealer’s eyes are eventually drawn to Dawn’s stacks of brown roulette chips and of course he sees the mix-up stack plainly on top. He sees the four black $100 casino chips mixed in with the brown roulette chips. At that moment Dawn, recognizing that the dealer has seen the mix-up stack, changes her tune from agonized panic to sheer joy. “Oh, my God!” she cries. “There they are! On number 32! I bet them! I bet my two black chips accidentally and they won! I just won $7,000… by accident!” Then she lets out an assortment of oohing and aahing sounds,of- fering her hand to other players at the table who gladly shake it in congratulations. When the dealer sees Dawn’s pastposted bet, two black $100 chips sandwiched be- tween three brown $1 roulette chips, he im- mediately notices that the mix-up sequence is exactly the same as the chips now stand-