Some of these companies make crooked equipment to sell to crossroaders who try to cheat the house.”Ĭommercial Hotel’s Monte Carlo casino token State Agency Weighs InĮdward “Ed” Olsen, chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB), the state’s gambling investigative arm, publicly made four points.ġ) This happened before (which was true) and, thus, there is no cause for alarm.Ģ) History shows that such cheating paraphernalia is not for Nevada casinos to swindle their customers with but, instead, it’s for individual career cheaters, or crossroaders, to use to cheat the gambling housesģ) To err on the side of caution, though, the NGCB will look into whether or not any of the state’s casinos ordered rigged equipment, but sending gaming agents to Tulsa isn’t necessary.Ĥ) The Golden Bank Club, the El Bo Room and Crumley Hotel, the logos of which were on some of the found dice, no longer offer gambling or are out of business (this was true). However, he continued, “This happens lots of times.
This comes to me out of the clear blue sky,” said James Lloyd, president of Riverside Hotel Inc. They never ordered gambling equipment from Kress Manufacturing, they said. Officials from the Riviera, Stardust, Louisiana Club, Riverside, Dunes and the Commercial Hotel all publicly denied using any kind of cheating device. Casinos Deny WrongdoingĪs soon as the news of the search and seizure went public, proponents of Nevada gambling reacted. Recipients included the Stardust and Riviera hotel-casinos in Las Vegas and the Citizens Club in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The search also turned up Kress invoices that showed the Tulsa gaming equipment manufacturer shipped its products to establishments throughout the U.S. Among them were metal filings and discs used to weight dice arm mirror manipulators and glasses used to read marked cards holdout devices to secret away a desirable card for later use magnets and magnetic coils used to control dice when rolled and switches and relays used in rigging equipment like roulette wheels.
They included the:Ĭal-Neva Lodge – Crystal Bay (Lake Tahoe)Īgents also confiscated various other implements used to cheat at gambling.
The latter contained stamped logos of various major casinos in Las Vegas, Reno, Lake Tahoe and Elko along with smaller clubs throughout The Silver State. The haul included “hundreds of decks of marked cards and hundreds of pounds of crooked dice” (Nevada State Journal, July 27, 1966). in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents seized a treasure trove of crooked gambling equipment that seemed headed to various Nevada casinos. 1965-1969: In its July 1966 raid of Kress Manufacturing Co.
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