Gambling is big business, and a casino's revenue will make the highest of high-stakes bets on the floor look like peanuts. Therefore, casinos implement rigorous procedures and processes, to make sure there is no cheating by customers. However, compared with computers, some security researchers reckon gambling regulations and security technologies are "a bit out of date." and this leads to interested parties fabricating its own proof of concept tools, using the Raspberry Pi Zero.
Last September there was a particularly controversial Los Angeles Hustler Live Casino game streamed on YouTube. To cut a long story short, a relative novice bluffed a veteran, and Wired reports that "thousands of outraged poker players," cried foul play, implying the novice had cheated in some way.
