Tommy Carmichael

Tommy Carmichael is a master slot cheat, who has been
convicted twice in Las Vegas and once in Atlantic City on
accounts of slot cheating. He also admits to have cheated at
hundreds of other casinos before ever being caught.

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Carmichael was the mastermind behind a cheating slot machine
group that managed to steal millions of dollars from casinos
worldwide. Carmichael produced a myriad of cheat tools including
the monkey paw and the light wand which enabled him to
successfully rig slot machines for nearly two decades.

World’s Biggest Slot Machine Scam

In 1980, Carmichael was working at a television repair shop
when his old friend, Ray Ming, showed him something that would
change his life forever. In his car trunk, Ming had a miniature
slot machine and a top-bottom joint: a rare but effective
cheating tool for that time period.

Carmichael was instantly hooked and spontaneously decided to
leave everything he knew behind and head to Las Vegas to try
this top-bottom joint out. He first tried it out on a five-cent
machine at a Las Vegas Strip casino, and managed to collect more
than $35 dollars worth of nickels. He spent the entire weekend
using this tool on various slot machines, feeling unstoppable,
and winning a significant amount of money.

Carmichael stopped at a nearby Denny’s for a mid-afternoon
coffee break when all of a sudden, several police officers
trampled through the restaurant in search of him. When they
search his pockets, they found the top-bottom joint, which he
claimed was a tool he used to start his car. Due to Carmichael’s
track record of drugs and misdemeanors, he was sentenced to five
years for this cheating scandal.

Behind bars, Carmichael met Mike Balsamo, who would help him
form a small group of expertise game cheats. They agreed to find
each other after they were done serving their time. Although
they were able to locate each other, there were many more
obstacles the pair would have to face in the months to come,
particularly advancements in slot machine technology that would
throw their old cheating methods out the window.

Released From Prison, Round Two

While Carmichael was in prison, Bally and International Game
Technology released a video poker slot machine that operated on
microprocessors and random number generators. It would now be
impossible to cheat using his old methods, so Carmichael had to
go back to the drawing board.

After he saved up enough money through working a couple part
time jobs, Carmichael returned to Las Vegas and bought a video
poker machine. He spent nearly half a year developing and
producing a device that would later be known as, The
Monkey Paw.

This device, which was made out of spring steel and guitar
wire could be placed through the payout chute, tripping the
micro switch, and causing the bucket full of quarters to pay out
approximately a $1,000 an hour. Unfortunately for Carmichael,
slot machine technology kept improving and soon the monkey claw
wouldn’t be as effective either.

He went to the Las Vegas showroom, pretending to be a
customer that wanted inspected the inside of a machine in order
to see if he could still rig them. Carmichael bought one of the
machines and in a matter of days invented the tool know was
The Light Wand. The light would shine
up the payout chute so brightly that the sensor would be blinded
and cause the machine to spill out the coins.

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By about 1992, the device was successfully cheating slot
machines everywhere and Carmichael was soon making thousands by
selling it to other slot machine cheats in the industry.
Carmichael, himself, played almost every-day, spending most of
his time in Atlantic City and Las Vegas. He didn’t limit himself
to the United States though. In 1995, Carmichael and Balsamo
took seven Caribbean cruises in the span of six months, earning
thousands a day from the casinos on board.

Balsamo later introduced Carmichael to Ramon David Pereira to
form a tight knit group of cheating professionals. They scouted
out several other cheats that had already been active in the
industry for years and it wasn’t long before they were making
millions of dollars on a daily basis.

Getting Caught and Convicted

In fall of 1996, Carmichael sat in front of a slot machine
inside the Circus Circus hotel-casino but little did he know
that surveillance cameras were focusing on his every move. As
soon as his cheating was confirmed, security guards were sent to
take him into custody.

He was later charged on accounts of possessing a cheating
device and manufacturing a cheating device. The charges were
later dropped, but less than a year later Carmichael was
arrested again in another part of Nevada for similar charges.

In 2000, Carmichael was federally convicted as principal
member of a nation-wide cheating operation. Carmichael was
sentenced to serve 326 days in jail, three years of probation,
and a court ordered ruling to stay out of all casinos until his
probation was over.

Turning Things Around

Carmichael now spends his time developing new gadgets in his
nearby workshop. One of them is called The Protector:
an anti-cheating device that Carmichael is hoping will right his
past mistakes. This device was design to withstand all known
cheating devices, but authorities are being very cautious.

“They cannot stand the thought of me righting a
wrong and possibly making a little money off it,” –Carmichael exclaims in an interview with USA Today.

The Nevada Gaming Commission debated whether Carmichael
should be listed in the state’s Black Book of people banned from
casinos. After long consideration and despite his efforts to
make things right, they believed it would be in their best
interest to do so.

Thomas Carmichael (October 12, 1830 – October 13, 1902) was an Irish-Americanlumberman and politician from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, who spent four discontinuous terms as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.^[1]

Background[edit]

Carmichael was born in Kings County, Ireland on Oct. 12,1830 and was educated in the Irish National Schools. He emigrated to the United States in 1851, becoming a lumberman and settling for some time in Unadilla, New York, before moving in 1857 to Wisconsin, and eventually settling in Eau Claire.

Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, he helped fund a company for the 17th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, but they were not organized in time to enlist in the 17th. He and the 35 men he had enlisted left for St. Louis, where they joined the 10th Wisconsin Light Artillery Battery,^[2] with Carmichael becoming a private. He took part in sieges and battles at Corinth, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and several minor battles in which the Army of the Cumberland was involved up to the surrender of Chattanooga. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant in the newly-organized 37th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and served on recruiting and other detached service until he was discharged in October 1864, due to an illness (unspecified) from which he never fully recovered.

Public office[edit]

Upon the 1872 organization of the City of Eau Claire, Carmichael became alderman for his Ward; he also served on the Eau Claire CountyBoard of Supervisors. He was a delegate to the 1873 Democratic state convention, and was elected that year to the Assembly's Eau Claire County seat as a member of the Liberal Reform Party (a short-lived coalition of Democrats, reform and LiberalRepublicans, and Grangers which secured the election of one Governor of Wisconsin, as well as electing a number of state legislators), defeating Republican William P. Bartlett with 1,065 votes to 851 for Bartlett. He was assigned to the standing committees on lumber and manufactures; and on the militia.^[3] He did not run for re-election, and was replaced the next year by Republican Jonathan G. Callahan.

In 1876 he was once again elected to the Assembly, this time as a Democrat, with 2,101 votes to 1,905 for Republican C. C. Miller (Republican incumbent Hobart Stocking was not a candidate). He was assigned to the standing committee on state affairs.^[4] He was not a candidate for re-election in 1877, and was succeeded by Republican Julius Ingram.

In 1880 he was the Democratic candidate for his old seat, losing to Republican incumbent Ira B. Bradford with 1725 votes to Bradford's 2,263.^[5] In 1881, Bradford was not a candidate, and Carmichael, the Democratic nominee, reclaimed his old seat with 1872 votes to 1,147 for Republican N. C. Foster. He was assigned to the committee on privileges and elections.^[6] In 1882 he was re-elected, not as a Democrat but as an anti-monopoly candidate, with 1,165 votes, to 1062 for Republican John Hunner, 795 for the Democratic nominee L. R. Larson, and 446 for Prohibitionist C. R. Kellerman. He chose to join the Democrats in the Assembly, and was not only assigned once more to the committee lumber and manufactures but assigned as its chairman.^[7] He was not a candidate for re-election in 1883, and was succeeded by Republican John Edward Williams.

After his last term[edit]

Carmichael was selected a delegate to the 1884 state Democratic convention.^[8] He remained active as a lumberman (the legislature being very much a part-time occupation in that era);^[9] but was also much in demand as a speaker at pro-labor events.^[10][11] and was considered a spokesman for the 'workingmen' faction within the Democratic Party (who did not, in his stated opinion, need or want to run a third party at this time)^[12][13] and for the labor movement.^[14]

As of 1890 he had apparently given up on the Democratic Party;^[15] in that year, he ran for the Eau Claire Assembly seat again, as a Union Labor candidate, coming in third in a four-way race.^[16] In 1892, with Eau Claire having been divided into two districts, he ran in the first district as a Populist, coming in fourth in another four-way race.^[17]

In 1896 he was among the members of the Wisconsin unit of the Silver Party who supported the endorsement of the Democratic/Populist electoral fusion strategy and nomination of William Jennings Bryant.^[18]

Death and aftermath[edit]

Carmichael died on the afternoon of October 13, 1902 in Eau Claire.^[19] He left an extensive estate, including land in nine Wisconsin counties, the city of Eau Claire, Itasca County, Minnesota, and Brown County, South Dakota, valued at US $60,000. Some time in 1902, three former business associates of Carmichael's discovered that he had left a single living relative, an elderly sister living in Edenderry, Ireland. One of them, John A. Jacobs, travelled to Ireland and purchased the sister's rights in the estate for £2,620. The information was cabled to the United States, and the trio obtained court orders blocking any sale of lands in the Carmichael estate. The subsequent lawsuits would be tied up in courts through 1909.^[20][21][22]

References[edit]

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1. ^'Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999 State of Wisconsin Legislative Bureau. Information Bulletin 99-1, September 1999. p. 35Archived 2006-12-09 at the Wayback Machine
2. ^Kelly, Bill. 'One Third of Adult Males in This Area in Service During 1861; Chippewa River Main Artery to Outside World' Daily Telegram March 3, 1862; p. 11, col. 1
3. ^Turner, A. J., ed. The legislative manual of the state of Wisconsin: comprising the constitutions of the United States and of the state of Wisconsin, Jefferson's manual, forms and laws for the regulation of business; also, lists and tables for reference, etc. Thirteenth Annual Edition. Madison: Atwood and Culver, Printers and Stereotypers, 1874; pp. 350, 459, 474, 479
4. ^Bashford, R. M., ed. The legislative manual of the state of Wisconsin: comprising the constitutions of the United States and of the state of Wisconsin, Jefferson's manual, forms and laws for the regulation of business; also, lists and tables for reference, etc. Sixteenth Annual Edition. Madison: E. B. Bolens, State Printer, 1877; pp. 208, 297, 460, 481, 487
5. ^Heg, J. E., ed. The blue book of the state of Wisconsin 1881 Madison, 1881; p. 509
6. ^Heg, J. E., ed. The blue book of the state of Wisconsin 1882 Madison, 1881; pp. 545-46, 572
7. ^Heg, J. E., ed. The blue book of the state of Wisconsin 1883 Madison, 1883; pp. 490, 516
8. ^'Eau Claire' St. Paul Globe September 11, 1884; p. 2, col. 7
9. ^'Tax-Title Decision' St. Paul Globe June 3, 1885; p. 4, col. 7
10. ^'Eau Claire: Political Enthusiasm' St. Paul Globe April 10, 1886; p. 4, col. 7
11. ^'Eau Claire: Knights of Labor Picnic' St. Paul Globe April 20, 1886; p. 5, col. 2
12. ^'Eau Claire' St. Paul Globe July 5, 1886; p. 5, col. 2
13. ^'Eau Claire' St. Paul Globe August 18, 1886; p. 5, col. 2
14. ^'Labor and Capital Consult' St. Paul Globe August 13, 1886; p. 5, col. 1
15. ^Badger Political Notes' Weekly Wisconsin October 11, 1890; p. 1, col. 5
16. ^Cunningham, Thomas J., ed. The blue book of the state of Wisconsin 1891 Madison, 1891; p. 590
17. ^Cunningham, Thomas J., ed. The blue book of the state of Wisconsin 1893 Madison, 1893; p. 640
18. ^'Wisconsin Silver Men; Resolutions Adopted at Their Convention in Milwaukee' Logansport Reporter July 16, 1896; p. 1, col. 3
19. ^'State Notes' Janesville Daily Gazette October 14, 1902; p. 1, col. 5
20. ^'Almost Like Romance: John A. Jacob Travels to Ireland in Interests of Carmichael Estate: Restraining Order Issued to Prevent Sale of Lands' Eau Claire Leader December 14, 1904; p. 5, col. 1
21. ^'County Court Matters' Eau Claire Leader July 4, 1905; p. 3, col. 2
22. ^'The City' Eau Claire Leader August 3, 1909; p. 8, col. 2

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