Despite 14 arrests for cheating at a couple dozen Las Vegas casinos, the Nevada Gaming Control Board never saw fit to nominate hall-of-fame cardshap Jubreal Chahine for inclusion in the Black Book, not even after it publicly characterized him as “a frequent cheater.” Chahine must have thought he had some guardian angel looking out for him. His favored forms of trickery involve jiggery-pokery with chips, like past-posting, where you slip a bet onto the felt after the cards have been dealt or the dice have stopped rolling. (Doesn’t that douchey look just scream “suspicious”?)
“It doesn’t take a whole lot of sleight-of-hand ability. But it does take guts,” Worldwide Gaming Consulting President George Joseph told the New York Times. Whether because he bet small or Continue reading
