Cheating Vegas

Cons by casino employees are spotlighted in the series premiere of this show, which explores the scams of modern gaming employed by people who try stacking the odds in their favor at Las Vegas casinos. Also: A basketball star tries to fix college games.

Security teams try to keep up with innovative cheaters; investigators use creative devices; robberies by gang members lead to security changes in the cash cages.

Two men make phony poker chips; scammers reprogram slot machines to alter payouts; and an armed thief on a motorcycle seizes chips from a casino.