Ways to Trick a Slot Machine to Win #143
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A ‘slug’ is slang for any counterfeit coin, or object, used in place of genuine coinage.
If you’re looking to find out how to cheat a slot machine to win, you should note that that coin-operated machines are very rare in casinos today.
In addition, the technology is highly efficient at spotting fakes and forgeries. This has made ‘slugging’ somewhat redundant.
Colavecchio, who claimed to be the "World's Greatest Counterfeiter," used hardened steel to create near-perfect replicas of slot machine tokens. The replicas were so good, the Atlantic City casinos realized something was amiss only when management noticed a surplus of coins on the gaming floor.
In 1996, Colavecchio was sentenced to two years in federal prison for being found to be carrying 800 pounds of counterfeit tokens. Although banned from every casino in the country, on his release, Colavecchio wore wigs and disguises and continued to play.
In 1998, he received another seven-year sentence; this time for counterfeiting, cultivating marijuana, larceny, obtaining money under false pretences, and stealing $100,000 from his 92-year-old aunt.
He was finally caught in 2019 counterfeiting $100 bills. His 15-month sentence was cut short on compassionate grounds. Colavecchio died in 2020.
An eight-man gang stole as many as 1,500 jackpots, some of which were worth as much as $10 million, from slot machine payouts in Atlantic City, Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, and Reno before the New Jersey State Police caught them on camera. The gang, led by John Vaccaro, would surround a slot, gently pry open the front, and insert piano wires. These would be used to manipulate the reels into a winning combination.
The gang was well organized, with defined roles: mechanics, recruiters, blockers, and collectors.
In the end, a tip off ended the gang’s winning run at Caesars Boardwalk Regency, in Atlantic City. On video, the attempted robbery was caught on camera. In a cheating career that lasted more than two decades, McAndrew swizzled $16 million rigging slot machines. That’s a lot of jackpots.
McAndrew was an extraordinarily talented locksmith, living in Chicago. He started off rigging mechanical slots. Got caught and served five years of a 15-year sentence.
Dennis planned his next heist while incarcerated. Mechanical slots had gone the way of the dinosaur. The new gambling kids in town were electrical slots.
McAndrew bought a pair of slot machines and dismantled them in his garage. He managed to decipher the information on the game’s computer chips. Check out Dora55.
He then sent an accomplice to purchase a chip from slot machine manufacturer IGT. The chip was programmed to pay the jackpot. Next, working with accomplices, McAndrew would pick a machine, tucked away from security cameras. His crew would shield him from view and he would swap out the chip.
The final member of the team would casually wander up to the machine, spin it, and win the jackpot.