A baccarat cheater who was captured on camera attempting to scam the Mohegan casino in Wilkes-Barre is being hunted by Pennsylvania authorities.

Chinese national Jianchu Liu, 47, was seen by the eye in the sky when he was trying to record the order of card decks on his cell phone, according to state police. Liu is thought to be a member of a professional cheating gang that has previously targeted the Imperial Palace and Golden Nugget casinos in Biloxi, Mississippi, and was identified via his casino rewards card.

Operandi Modus

The team's method is to fan out the deck with a sliced card for a brief moment so that a recording device may record the card order. Police did not elaborate, but it is likely that the image was then sent to an accomplice who would examine the deck and use a covert earpiece to tell Lui when to place the best bet.

Betting on the hand with the highest value, which is nine, is the aim of baccarat. Aces are worth one, tens and face cards are worth zero, and every other card is worth its face value.

However, Liu's method quickly raised suspicions about casino security because it seemed awkward, at least according to the police report.

After security noted that Liu was acting strangely and cutting the deck in a "unusual manner," troopers opened an investigation into him.

Angles of the Camera

After reviewing the security footage, investigators discovered that Liu was seated at a baccarat table on Saturday, February 24, at approximately 1:35 a.m., when he launched an app on his phone. According to cops, he blacked the screen so that security couldn't see what he was doing.

Then he put the phone beneath a pile of scorecards for baccarat. The lawsuit claims that the player moved the dealer's hands about to "dictate how [the dealer] should be holding the deck" after the dealer had shuffled and let Liu cut the deck. As a result, Liu and the dealer had a "verbal exchange."

Then, on Sunday at approximately 6:50 p.m., Liu put his phone under a pile of scorecards once more. According to the complaint, Liu rotated the deck and tried to violently fan it out while cutting it with both hands on the deck and the dealer's palm.

Liu is wanted on two misdemeanor counts of winning by deception or fraud, according to the arrest warrant issued by state police.