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    Default Meet Phil Ivey's female accomplice, 'The Baccarat Machine'

    Inherently interesting article from Cigar Aficionado, which sits down with Cheung Yin Sun, or "Kelly" as she is called. She and Phil Ivey joined forces to win millions of dollars at a London and Atlantic City casino using an "edge sorting" technique at the baccarat table. Both casinos ended up suing in a highly publicized lawsuit.

    This is the first interview "Kelly" has taken part in as she allows the writer into her Las Vegas residence and tells him her compelling story.

    A few snippets:

    Kelly is also an automatic teller machine—one that pulls money out of casinos and puts it in her own coffers. It's a life for which she seemed to not be remotely destined . . . By the age of 15, Kelly was putting up money to play a Chinese version of poker. She used a fake ID to go on gambling cruises out of Hong Kong and made her way to Macau while still underage and flush with family money.
    After a few test runs in the fall of 2011 — "Small money," she says, "we made $200,000 at Palms, $300,000 at MGM" — she put the big play into action inside the Salon Privé private gaming room at Aria. Kelly and three collaborators established themselves as losing players by dropping $100,000 playing the game straight and losing it all. The next day they came back, deposited $500,000 and asked to play "Macau style." The casino acquiesced. Four cards were dealt before Kelly and crew made their bets. They played through one shoe and lost $175,000 while having the dealer turn key cards—sixes, sevens, eights and nines—so that the short trims faced her.

    On the next shoe, Kelly was able to read the cards and know when it would be advantageous to bet player or banker. The game may as well have been dealt face-up.

    "Every hand, I bet $40,000," recounts Kelly, adding that she and her partners emptied the chip tray of all $5,000 and $25,000 chips. They got replenished; the game got destroyed. "The pit-boss and casino manager came over to watch. Before the shoe was finished, we had won a million dollars. I said, ‘Okay. Let's go.' We cashed out, left through the front door and drove to Caesars Palace. We already had a big suite there—no regular room for me—and put $300,000 on deposit."

    They repeated the play at Caesars and won $200,000. Next stop was Treasure Island for a take of $300,000. After that they flew to Connecticut and played Foxwoods. The wins were big and audacious and impossible to keep on the down-low.
    Here's a link to the story: http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfe...hine-19176/p/1
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