I just read that Four New York residents were arrested Saturday morning after police said they used a cheating device at a baccarat table at Mohegan Sun.

State police casino unit detectives said the gamblers were at a mini baccarat table using a cheating device to determine the order of the cards in the deck before they were dealt. Surveillance spotted the group acting suspiciously after 5 a.m.

The group now face charges of cheating while lawfully gambling, possession of a cheating device, first-degree larceny and first-degree criminal trespass. I didn't think this still happened in today's high-security casinos!

The following people were arrested and each held on $10,000 bond pending arraignment Monday in Norwich Superior Court: Yuan Chen, 50, of 749 57th St., Brooklyn, N.Y.; Dong Zhong, 45, of 1925 W. Sixth St., Brooklyn, N.Y.; Jim Tong, 41, of 500 E. Houston St., N.Y., N.Y.; and Yu Feng, 37, of 1225 White Plains Road, Bronx, N.Y.

Here are some reports I've read on the internet about this baccarat cheating scandal:

I've not seen any specific statements about the 'suspicious behavior' but I would expect that four males without any females is going to alert surveillance even if the four males are losing. If you have four males without any wives/girlfriends present and those four males are winning, clearly its going to alert surveillance.

Ofcourse its even worse if its 5:00am. Four males gambling alone in the wee hours of the morning... what on earth were they thinking? That they were invisible?? They should have hired some sort of female companionship for the evening and they should have had a fifth male who did the animated drunken friend routine on their behalf.

Now as to the cheating device. I would assume they were using a computer to predict cards based upon the discard sequence and a non-collusive but not optimal shuffle. Well, I'd sure like to see that algorithm!
I wonder why they brought the computer to the table though. It would have been much better to do the computation elsewhere and relay the data. They were fools. I guess most criminals are.

I've not learned anything additional concerning this incident. It does seem the four who were arrested were incredibly stupid and naive in the ways of casino surveillance procedures.

Sure would like to learn about that algorithm though. !!!

Count me in as well as one that would like to learn the algorithm!

But it is silly they just went in there guns blazing without any thought to how to make themselves seem less conspicuous.

Did you know there was also a baccarat cheating scandal last year in Macau as well?

I found an article on what happened then in 2007: