My 19 year old son and I stopped in to check out the casino and were greeted at the door with a young lady offering $20.00 in chips to play a game called powerball roulette. The game works on a progressive point total based on a score that is received by rolling 8 balls into a random number board. The short version of the story is that we racked up a lot of points early and with a jackpot of 40 times the bet we decided to continue with our own money. The closer we got to the 50 point jackpot the more double ups we hit. Double ups both double the cost of the bet and double the jackpot. We got to 49 points and a jackpot of 800,000.00 and ran out of credit on my credit cards. I am a little embarrassed to tell this story as the game cost meover $40,000.00 but what shocked me even more was the similar stories I heard (not as much money) over the remaining days of my visit. Not only did everyone else rack up a lot of points early but the statements used such as this never happens, you have a very good chance of winning this game and the only way you can lose now is to walk away were used similarly with everyone I talked to.

I am convinced now that the so called dealer that counts the 8 balls really fast is counting to whichever number he wants to until you are watching his every move closely. Based on the way the game works the person playing is focused on the table that shows them what their particular score gets them. I asked to review the video of my game so as to verify the counts and they said that they only video the money transactions. (Highly doubtfull) A quick search on google shows warnings from people who traveled as far back as January 03. I am convinced that thousands and if not 10's of thousands of people have been scammed the same way over at least the last10 years.

Slightly different variations of the game seem to goonin differentcasinos around the Dominican. Some use 10 balls to achieve 100 points others 8 balls to achieve 50 points. All of the games cheat you the same way. A sweet talkingAmericanborn dealer ganes your trust while explaining the game and playing with free money. In every case, the dealers"spots" the victum multiple points very early in order to give them the perception that they are extremely close to victory.Once the victum exhausts their cash they goto their credit card since victory is almost certain!With a few questions the dealer establishes your credit limit and proceeds to suck every penny from your credit card by multiple "double up" rolls of the balls untill you haveno credit to proceed and have to walk away.