Suddenly, the man sweeps one hand up along a lapel of his jacket. Sometimes they cover the cards in front of him at other times they rest on the side of the table.
He focuses on a young Asian man in a white suit who keeps his hands curiously positioned. Nothing looks unusual until he stops at a baccarat game in the high-limit room, where betting minimums start at $100 per hand.
Tom is a table-games specialist, so he starts by scrutinizing a few poker hands, then sweeps over medium-stakes blackjack and watches a busy craps table. Using a joystick, keypad and three desktop screens, he surveys video from some of the 1000 ceiling cameras. A surveillance worker we'll call Tom logs in and starts the graveyard shift, taking an overhead tour of the 100,000-square-foot casino. It is 2 AM inside the bunker-like surveillance room at the Mirage Resort in Las Vegas, but 28 wall monitors show there's still plenty of action down on the floor.
