The original "Ocean's 11" plus the Clooney/Pitt flicks are all available in this cool DVD collection from Amazon.
Hitting four aces or watching the reels stop on three fiery sevens aren’t the only ways to rack up some big cash at a casino. There are always other, shall we say, more creative ways to try and score as a recent news item showed: A former employee of the Desert Diamond Casino in Tucson was sentenced Thursday to 37 months in prison plus must pay restitution to the casino for printing and cashing more than HALF A MILLION bucks in bogus jackpot tickets. The “instant winner,” 31-year-old Adam Thomas Vega, must pay $644,422 in restitution to the Tohono O’odham Nation, owners of the casino where he worked as a slot floor person from 2001 until July 2007. Vega generated 585 phony slot tickets — all below the magic W-2-generating $1,200 amount — using passwords belonging to casino supervisors. Read more about the case here.
Casino heists and cheats make for great movies — think “Ocean’s 11″ and “21″ — but in real life the criminals such as the Desert Diamond employee rarely get away with the cash. Here are some examples of heists and cheats “gone bad” in the real world of casino crimes:
Luck ran out for these two Georgia men who tried to rip off both the Showboat Casino and Caesars in Atlantic City: Atlantic City casino heist
The Tucson man mentioned above merits a listing in this interesting article detailing the mistaken adventures of would-be casino “winners” in this post on this eclectic U.K. site, Destroy the Odds: 18 Casino Heists: The Strange, The Surgical, and The Stupid.
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