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.”
Detection & prevention
The paid halfHow a monitoring room catches dealer collusion (payout errors), 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.