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Good Bet: Riveting Glimpse of Cheaters in Vegas1 March 2005LAS VEGAS -- As reported by the Miami Herald: "With television debuting a new show on the glories of Las Vegas casinos approximately every four hours these days, it might be wise to consider the words of Richard Marcus in tonight's premiere of the History Channel's Breaking Vegas: 'The only `sure thing' in gambling is cheating.' "Marcus, like the other featured players in Breaking Vegas, is a career cheater. This fascinating documentary series uses interviews, old news footage and recreated scenes to tell the stories of gamblers who use everything from cutting-edge silicon chips to old-fashioned nimble fingers to gain an edge on the casinos. "High- and low-tech cheaters both get their props in tonight's special two-hour debut. (Future episodes of Breaking Vegas will be only an hour.) But champions of traditional values will note with satisfaction that it's the old-school guys who got away with millions of bucks, while the computer whiz kids went to jail..." |