The Woman Who Cheated Vegas Casinos for 19 Years

Cheating Vegas isn’t an easy task, but this documentary is about a woman who managed to do it for 19 years. She played the system, remaining undetected until one critical mistake nearly cost her everything. Discover how she got away with it for so long and what finally led to her downfall.

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[Qusin]

She was inducted into the Blackjack Hall of Famestress and was featured on the last episode of a show on the History Channel called Breaking Vegas which chronicled the escapades of some of the most famous casino cheats. Ida’s brazen cheat scheme is practically impossible today due to all the high-tech surveillance but even back then it was an audacious move that few would have dared to attempt.

[WPING-VIKNG]

This guy's ridiculously underrated and somehow still on his come-up
with such incredible video quality, animations and story telling.

This man really deserves his flowers for the efforts he puts into these vids.

[cjackfly]

Yeah, I love how the casinos are known to be run by criminals but the FBI helps them to crack down on cheaters. 😂

[jerryw]

I worked in Cincinnati form 1975-1985. There were Hustlers (Larry Flynt) and Playboy clubs in the city. Cincinnati was known as a very conservative city then. The Hustlers club was soon closed down. When the city closed down about 1 AM there were a lot of cars crossing the bridge headed towards Newport, Kentucky. lol I have been to Newport several time back in the old days. The mobs in Chicago moved and built a lot of the casinos in Vegas. Frank Rosenthal was one of the famous mobsters from Chicago who operated in Las Vegas. I grew up in Southern Illinois where there was lots of bootleg joints and gangsters back in the old days. The Shelton and Birger gangs were the most famous! I was born in 1940 so I have seen a lot! Enjoyed your story and video.

[bpark]

So this story really fascinated me and I did a little further research ( such as I could, fairly limited but consistent info) cuz u wanted to know what became of her. Turns out no one knows, she apparently never turned up in Nevada casinos again ( and you know that’s accurate because they would have certainly spotted her) and there are several throrurs that, with her identity exposed, the mob got a hold of her and offed her for her cheats. Considering this was 1980-81 that is very plausible.

[mordsythe]

Oohh. New video.
Happy days :)

Thanks for your work and quality of your videos/
I for one appreciate it.

[johnblyth]

I often check names to see if these stories are real. Yes this one is. Her name Ida Sommers. A misdemeanour and a $2, 000 fine is nuts. Maybe they did not know how much she scamed. I have read that often bank robbers pee their pants. Luckily she did not too. Guess the kids had all money could buy after this.

[jfrm]

Hell yea been waiting for u to drop again can’t believe ur still under 100k keep on goin 💪🏼

[gastonville]

Your content and presentation is so good! Great job, and thank you!

[Lithilic]

A surprising amount of restraint from this crew considering they were able to keep it up for so long without getting sloppy. Only real thing they seemed to suffer from was letting too many people in on the scheme from outside with the shady dealers.

[floorpizza]

The writing (story telling) is amazing, the narration (love that voice), the editing... it's TV production quality. I hope you end up with the millions of subs you deserve.

[ourrealestatejourney_original]

She made hundreds of thousands (or maybe millions) of dollars, and she only got a $2000 fine? Holy shit.

[jfwfreo]

Were the casinos not using decks of cards with their logo on it back then? All the casinos these days have cards that are specifically printed with their logos (and can't be easily faked), they keep tight control over the cards (so no-one can get at them) and when the deck is no longer used, its either marked somehow in a way that's immediately obvious (e.g. punched with a hole through the middle) and resold/given away or its completely destroyed/shredded.

[PaulRoos-po]

well i'm confused, at 5:25 he removes an ace, gives her the nod, she plays and SHE hits blackjack? what am i missing !?

[attoboi]

Look forward to each new video, hope you branch into all kinds of different heists and not just gambling, could be cool.

Cheers great stuff

[paulmeredith]

Cheating the casino is a victimless crime cheating at the game of family monopoly is worse than what she did at all the other people you have on this channel. Thank you for the videos really enjoyed them paul

[jackchandelier]

Like others have commented, this makes no sense. He takes an ace off the table (the dealer would notice) and then she has blackjack somehow? She is "doing all the work" and she is "placing bets for him"? What?! He is the one doing the cheating. And you don't place bets for other players in blackjack.

[johnz]

Imagine playing blackjack at a casino with a single deck of cards

[austinwinston]

I was born in the wrong time. Take me back to when slot machines could be beaten with a little flashlight and blackjack didnt even have cameras.