CSP Casino & Gaming Surveillance 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A suspected advantage player team uses hand signals across a baccarat pit. Which surveillance technique is MOST effective for confirming coordinated team play?
- Audio surveillance of pit conversations
- Tracking individual bet patterns across multiple sessions and correlating with team member movements (Correct answer)
- Reviewing only the most recent session
- Interviewing the players directly
Correct answer: Tracking individual bet patterns across multiple sessions and correlating with team member movements
Cross-session bet correlation and movement mapping across multiple sessions is the most reliable method to identify and document coordinated team advantage play.
Question 2: Under typical Nevada MICS, how long must casino surveillance recordings be retained at a minimum for table game areas?
- 7 days
- 15 days (Correct answer)
- 6 months
- 1 year
Correct answer: 15 days
Nevada MICS typically require table game surveillance recordings to be retained for a minimum of 7 days, though some areas require longer retention.
Question 3: A chip cup scam involves:
- Stealing chips using a hollowed-out cup or tube device concealed on the body (Correct answer)
- Coloring up chips to higher denominations fraudulently
- Stacking cups on a roulette layout to distract dealers
- Using a suction cup to lift cards off the table
Correct answer: Stealing chips using a hollowed-out cup or tube device concealed on the body
A chip cup scam uses a hollow device to secretly remove chips from a gaming table by capping or scooping them into the concealed container.
Question 4: Which of the following best describes 'wonging' in blackjack?
- A cheating technique using marked cards
- Entering a game mid-shoe when the count is favorable and leaving when it becomes negative (Correct answer)
- A dealer error resulting in an overpayment
- Signaling hole card information to a confederate
Correct answer: Entering a game mid-shoe when the count is favorable and leaving when it becomes negative
Wonging, named after Stanford Wong, is the advantage play practice of back-counting a shoe and only sitting in when the true count is favorable.
Question 5: A surveillance operator observes a craps player repeatedly 'sliding' dice rather than tumbling them. This technique is used to:
- Speed up the game
- Control the dice outcome by keeping desired faces up (Correct answer)
- Signal bets to a dealer confederate
- Practice the proper throwing technique
Correct answer: Control the dice outcome by keeping desired faces up
Dice sliding or controlled shooting attempts to prevent the dice from tumbling to control or influence the final outcome.
Question 6: In a casino surveillance context, a 'fill' occurs when:
- A player fills out a W-2G tax form
- Chips are transported from the cage to a table game drop box
- Chips are added to a gaming table from the cage (Correct answer)
- A slot machine hopper is replenished with coins
Correct answer: Chips are added to a gaming table from the cage
A fill is the movement of chips from the casino cage to a table game to replenish the table's chip inventory.
Question 7: What does 'soft count' refer to in casino operations?
- Counting chips softly to avoid disturbing nearby games
- The counting of paper currency and tickets removed from gaming machine drop buckets (Correct answer)
- Counting chips with gloves to prevent contamination
- A preliminary chip count before the official count
Correct answer: The counting of paper currency and tickets removed from gaming machine drop buckets
Soft count refers to the count room process of counting paper currency, TITO tickets, and other paper items removed from gaming machines.
CSP Casino & Gaming Surveillance 3
A suspected advantage player team uses hand signals across a baccarat pit.
Which surveillance technique is MOST effective for confirming coordinated team play?