Ken Uston's Card Counting Team
Soon Ken Uston and his team were earning thousands upon thousands of dollars each night in the casinos. It seemed there was no limit to the amounts that they could win. At first the casinos loved their players, whom they perceived at first as money spending suckers who would lose all their money. However, in time, when the pit bosses began to notice that things were not right, Ken Uston and his team moved to Lake Tahoe, where came their ruination.
Uston sent his teams to the casinos armed with money, in order to make thousand dollar bets. All at once, the pit bosses came upon them, stripped them of their equipment and put them in jail. When the local police did not know what to make of the computers, they had them sent to the FBI. The FBI returned the machines and said that it was not indeed a cheating device at all. However, that did no help Ken Uston who received threats on his life, and died soon after from a mixture of drugs, alcohol and an unhealthy lifestyle.