The immense amount of cash flowing through casinos naturally attracts the world's most ambitious criminals.

These legendary stories read like Hollywood movie scripts, involving insider knowledge and incredible audacity.
The Legend of Bill Brennan
Unlike elaborate armed robberies, this heist involved a single man and a backpack.

Brennan simply packed half a million dollars into a bag and walked out the front door.
Bill Brennan vanished completelySecurity cameras missed the actual theftIt remains a classic unsolved mystery The Baccarat Card Sorting Scandal
Professional poker player Phil Ivey used a technique called "edge sorting" to beat the house.

Lengthy legal battles ensued, ultimately resulting in judges ruling that edge sorting constituted cheating.
The Ocean's Eleven Style Heist
In 2013, the Crown Casino in Melbourne was the victim of an incredibly high-tech heist.

Information was then secretly relayed to the player at the table via a wireless earpiece.
HeistYearAmount StolenStardust1992$500,000Crown Casino2013$32 Million
While physical heists are incredibly rare today, cyber-attacks remain a modern threat to gambling operators.