{"id":21876,"date":"2020-05-11T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/?p=21876"},"modified":"2020-04-27T11:06:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T16:06:36","slug":"keno-cheater-got-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/keno-cheater-got-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Paul Wilson On: Why This Keno Cheater Got Busted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Imagine you had a system to predict the outcome\nin a seemingly impossible-to-beat casino game that offers enormous jackpots and,\nwith just a few wins over time, you and your confederates might all be\nmillionaires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sound good?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Worth the risk?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Think again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On January 14, 1995, a player at Bally\u2019s in\nAtlantic City bought $100 worth of Keno tickets at 10 bucks a piece with eight\nnumbers selected on each ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Buying Keno<\/a> tickets is not the hallmark of a professional gambler. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The game tends to target casual players, addicts\nand people tired of the rock and roll bingo lifestyle. So when Reid Errol\nMcNeal collected his receipts, no one was sweating the action upstairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A few minutes later, however, everyone with an\nounce of responsibility to protect Bally\u2019s games was taking a very keen\ninterest in Mr. McNeal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One of those tickets had hit all eight numbers\nagainst odds of 230,000 to 1, with a less than generous (based on those odds)\n$100,000 jackpot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nobody was more surprised than McNeal, suddenly\na deer in the headlights of casino security who had some serious questions\nbefore they would hand \u201cLucky Errol\u201d his cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Several aspects just didn\u2019t look right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n McNeal wasn\u2019t exactly over the moon about his\nsudden windfall, he had no identification, and refused to take a cheque. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But the loudest alarm bell for the casino was\nthis: no one had ever won so much at Keno in the history of Atlantic City! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Understandably, this player deserved a little\ninvestigation before handing him the Benjamins so, to make sure he was on the\nlevel, State Troopers were called and asked to verify McNeal\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When they got to his hotel room upstairs, things\nquickly began to unravel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Errol\u2019s room was a second gentleman, by the name of Ronald Harris<\/a>, who immediately seemed odd and evasive to the gaming investigators and law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSecurity Was On To Them<\/h2>\n\n\n\n