Throughout the nineties, this was one of the hotel casinos that Richard and the other two members of his team, ripped off for hundreds of thousands of dollars on a regular basis. It’s 2am and we’re in his room on the 22nnd floor of the MGM Grand, the biggest hotel in Vegas and, in fact, the world. Tonight FHM is in the presence of greatness - Richard Marcus is indisputably the greatest casino cheat of all time. Richard made his money by cheating casinos – playing blackjack, roulette, craps and baccarat, he and his team travelled the world conning casinos out of vast amounts of cash and living like kings as they did so. His “career” as he calls it was by no means conventional. “Fifteen million dollars give or take a million.” It’s the answer to a question that FHM has been itching to ask all day: how much money did you make in your career? The man sitting opposite us playing with a pile of casino chips is Richard Marcus, a young looking fifty year old New Yorker who speaks like he’s straight out of Goodfellas but is in fact straight out of Casino.
