The names of the devices are as colorful as the people who used them. Monkey paw. Kickstand. Yo-yo. These are some of the cheating devices criminals brought to Nevada casinos to trick slot machines ...

CARSON CITY -- A convicted slot cheat from Las Vegas will stay in prison, but 15 of more than three dozen of her convictions have been tossed out. The Nevada Supreme Court threw out the convictions of ...

Sentencing has been postponed for two casino cheats listed in Nevada's Black Book and a woman who was their accomplice in a 2006 slot machine-cheating scheme used at several Las Vegas-area casinos. In ...

The ElectroMagnetic Pulse (EMP) devices, which are prohibited by the Federal Communication Commission, are used to "jam" the inner workings of a slot machine. EMP generators create electromagnetic ...

Slot machines at a St. Louis-area casino are shown in this file photo. ST. LOUIS • Federal prosecutors on Wednesday said that a grand jury indicted three Russian nationals and a man of Russian ...

For every security feature built into slot machines over the years, there has always been a “genius” gambler who has found a way to cheat the technology and rip off the house. This was underlined ...

Four Russian nationals have been indicted by the federal government for allegedly traveling to the United States to cheat at slot machines in Missouri, California and Illionis. According to KSDK, the ...

The Gaming Control Board took less than 10 minutes Thursday to nominate a convicted slot machine cheat for membership as the 36th name on the state's List of Excluded Persons, commonly referred to as ...

For some, it’s about the survival of horse racetracks locally and throughout the state. For others, it’s about stopping the spread of casino-style gambling across Texas. Either way, the next step in ...

Natasha Dow Schüll is an associate professor in the program in science, technology and society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of "Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in ...