London, Jan 16 (ANI): Poker cheats used James Bond style spy equipment to pocket an estimated 250,000 pounds from casinos in London.
However, they soon ran out of luck and were caught after staff became suspicious of their extraordinary run of luck.

Yau Yiu Lam and his two partners in crime repeatedly preyed on London casinos using miniature "up-the-sleeve" cameras and virtually invisible earpieces to chalk up a string of spectacular wins.

The system worked something like this.

Lam filmed cards being dealt by the croupier. The footage was beamed to an accomplice in a van equipped with video recorders and monitors. The secretly shot images were played in slow motion so the cards could be identified as they were laid face down on the table. Then the vital information was relayed to the hidden microphone worn by the third gang member, Bit Chai Wong, a seasoned player, sitting at the poker table.

Police believe the gang targeted six of London's 25 casinos, raking in 38,000 pounds in one week alone.

In the early hours of one morning in September 2005, staff at the Mint Casino in Kensington became suspicious about Wong's extraordinary run of luck.

Out of 44 "plays", she lost only ten - well above statistical odds - and the casino administration called in the police.

Lam, 45, Wong, 39, and Fan Leung Tsang, 41, were arrested. During investigations, they told officers of the scam, how they identified whether the cards the croupier dealt himself constituted a better hand than those given to the player.

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What game were they playing? Did I miss them mentioning it ?

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Sorry about that. They were playing poker, from what I remember reading.

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