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On Monday we received yet another negative story regarding poker players, this time having nothing to do with online poker sites, Black Friday, or even poker itself. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Team PokerStars Pro Leo Fernandez, and former Team PokerStars Pro Veronica Dabul were arrested and are being sued by the Wynn Casino for cheating at the craps tables.

According to the report the pair won some $700,000 at the Wynn craps pits, money the Wynn is alleging was won illegally as the duo allegedly were employing the tactic of “sliding” to tip the odds in their favor.

“Sliding” involves throwing the dice in a way that keeps one of the dice from tumbling, thus maintaining the point count the player wants. So instead of having to fight against the odds of two separate dice, a player manipulating one of the dice to always come up a certain number is only fighting against the 6-to-1 randomness of the other dice.

According to the report (remember this is but one side of the story) the pair, possibly working with other players at the craps pit, would distract the boxman at the precise moment the dice are supposed to hit against the back wall thereby insuring their randomness. To implement the “sliding” tactic a player must keep one of the dice from hitting the back wall –something against the rules of the game, but commonly overlooked by boxmen as a beginners error.

In this heightened era of publicity to anything poker, especially cheating, it will be interesting how PokerStars, and the major tournaments around the world handle the pair.