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    Scam on the craps table

    https://www.reviewjournal.com/busine...h-1668477/amp/

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    Thursday’s meeting also will include the Control Board’s nomination of Mark Branco to become the 36th person added to the state’s List of Excluded Persons — the so-called “black book” of people who are not permitted to enter Nevada casinos.
    Branco, a former craps dealer at Bellagio, was the ringleader of a group of four men who cheated the Strip casino out of an estimated $1.2 million. Accomplices Anthony Grant Granito, James Russell Cooper and Jeffrey Martin were placed on the excluded list late last year after commission hearings.
    Branco has not indicated to Commission Chairman Tony Alamo whether he intends to appear to fight the complaint.
    Granito, Cooper, Martin and Branco teamed up between August 2012 and July 2014 to cheat the casino. The scheme was discovered in 2014 when casino authorities noticed a series of winning wagers that defied 452 billion-to-1 odds. The foursome was convicted of theft and cheating at gambling in 2016 in Clark County District Court and sentenced to prison.
    Branco was incarcerated the longest and recently was released.
    Cooper cooperated with authorities and explained before a grand jury how the scam worked.
    Cooper and Branco would have to be working the same table, according to Cooper’s grand jury testimony. As a shooter tossed the die, Granito or Martin would mumble something that sounded like a hop bet — a wager that specific numbers would come up on the next roll — and one of the dealers would pay out as if they had correctly wagered on whatever fell.

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    Happened in 2012.

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