Casino Poker Cheater Caught at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut
The days of cheating at a card game in a live casino have just about passed with all the technology that casinos have to detect cheats, but one man in Connecticut was getting away with it for a while before he was finally caught on Thursday.
Sholem Weisner, 26, was caught in his hotel room on Thursday with apparently $55,000 in money that he won by cheating at the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut.
Apparently authorities caught on to him after dealers at the casino started picking up on marked cards, they reported the problem, and surveillance cameras were used to find the culprit to be Weisner.
This is not the first time that Weisner has been caught cheating at the casino as he was thrown out and banned from Mohegan Sun back in 2006, according to Sgt. William Griffin.
Weisner used a friends social security and players rewards card to gain entry into the casino.
The charges that Weisner was hit with was first degree larceny, cheating, and criminal trespassing, which was a result of his previously being banned from the casino. He was released on $5,000 bond.
Casinos in Atlantic City and Foxwoods in Connecticut were also told of the mans name to stop any further cheating that he might attempt in the Northeast.
