A group of gamblers risk big after pocketing over €300,000 at the baccarat tables

A case of cheating at the baccarat tables has apparently come to light at Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands Casino, where the equivalent of more than €300,000 was stolen (S$433,730). The group used telephones to access face-down card values and bet accordingly.

A system to help you win at baccarat

Tan Kian Yi was arrested for pocketing large sums of money at Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands casino in December 2022.

For this illicit operation, a woman called “The Sorcerer” played 7 Up Baccarat wearing an earpiece linked to her smartphone. She passed on certain card information to Tan Kian Yi and other members of the group, who would then tell her how to bet after consulting an Excel document.

This document contained some sort of formula to help a bettor play optimally, but the precise way to recognize these cards was not revealed.

In addition to Tan KIan Yi, other members were accused of belonging to the organization. One of them, Hung Jung-Hao, was arrested after casino surveillance cameras saw suspicious behavior. He and other associates fled to Malaysia. leaving the equivalent of almost €750,000 in chips.. They were subsequently arrested in Malaysia and deported to Singapore.

Tan’s lawyer emphasized that there was no evidence that their system involved fraud or any form of cheating. According to him, it is ” impossible “to prove that something was set up to alter the baccarat odds in order to win. Tan said he had been told – by a couple of players also charged – that a system had been found to help him win, but he didn’t know how it worked.

However, Singapore’s casino gambling laws (Singapore’s Casino Control Act) states that using a device to count or record cards while playing at a casino can result in up to seven years’ imprisonment and a S$150,000 fine.