Big casino scam

An important gambling cheat has been revealed. The cheaters who used hidden cameras to run a complicated casino scam have been sentenced to prison.

Yau Yiv Lam and his partners in crime Fan Leung Tsang and Bit Chai Wong ripped off casinos out of thousands of pounds in a first detected major gambling scam in the UK.

The two men and a woman played together as a band, using ultra-modern surveillance apparatus to guarantee winnings in London's casinos. The trio was detained in a planned takedown by police and protection staff at the Mint Casino in South Kensington, London.

On the specific night in question, the two members of the gang wagered in a three-card poker game, one of them equipped with a micro camera veiled under his coat and pointing at the croupier.

The recording was transmitted, through a source attached to the man's waist, to a van closeby. There, a third person advised the two gamblers in the casino through hidden headsets on whether or not to bet