Casino Insight News: Slot Machine Cheat
♣ Slot machine cheat bilked casinos with ingenious gadgets
TULSA (AP)
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In the back of a strip mall workshop a slot machine sits on two green milk crates like a patient on an operating table, its electronic innards exposed. Standing in front of the machine is 53-year-old Tommy Glenn Carmichael, who boasts a unique and lucrative talent :-
:: Tommy Glenn Carmichael talks about his latest anti-cheating device for slot machines in his Tulsa workshop.
"Give me a slot machine and I'll beat it"
:: Carmichael is no two-bit slot cheat. Authorities have anointed him one of the best, a master inventor who conspired with an elite group of thieves to steal millions from casinos.
:. For almost two decades, Carmichael designed tools ? the kick stand, the monkey paw, the light wand ? that enabled him to bilk slot machines across the United States and Caribbean.
:. Along the way, he fooled casino security as easily as he duped the machines. He was as elusive as triple sevens.
"A legend," convicted slot cheat Jerry Criner calls Carmichael. "He's the greatest mind as far as developing cheating tools."
♣ ♣ Police don't dispute the superlative. ♣ ♣
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