A poker player who conned casinos out of vast sums of money has been jailed after being found guilty of setting up elaborate sting operations. 

Yau Yiv Lam, a 45-year-old chef, made roughly £250,000 from his schemes in London casinos thanks to a vast array of spy equipment. 

Secret cameras, microphones and surveillance vans were all employed in the operation to defraud the six London casinos, it was revealed. 

Lam used a camera hidden up his sleeve to film cards being dealt, with footage then being played back in slow motion by accomplice Fan Leung Tsang, located outside the venue in a surveillance van. Another accomplice, Bit Chai Wong, was then informed of card details via a hidden microphone. 

Wong’s continued good fortune soon meant that staff at the London venues were uncertain of her methods, eventually culminating in her arrest. 

Lam was jailed for nine months, with Tsang and Wong receiving suspended sentences of a similar length as well as community service orders. 

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