It started out as usual on this blustery cold fall evening at Greektown Casino in Detroit Michigan . The crowd was mingling in a robust manor in the high limit pit at the Greektown Casino in Detroit Michigan , the cocktails and shrimp cocktails where in full form being consumed by the high limit players which included a number of Chaldeans. As usual sports covered the big screen TV in the lounge as onlookers stuffed there faces with food from the buffet. Four of the six blackjack games and the Baccarat game in the lounge area where full with purple action and an endless flow of cash that never seemed to stop. Black Jack 59 (BJ59) was standing alone without a player facing the big screen TV when an ambient looking older man sat down in the second base position and pulled his cheques out of his pocket and politely said shuffle up.
The floor supervisor making eye contact with the player and welcomed the player to the game, the player politely handed the floor supervisor his identification to be a rated player. Already looking familiar to the floor supervisor he logged in the players information which read as follows:
Vincent Ransom
300 Westminster Blvd.
Blackwood , New Jersey 08012
DOB: 16 th March 1938
The dealer finished shuffling the six decks and neatly feed them into the shoe and Vincent Ransom was ready to play. After watching the game for a couple hands and watching the betting pattern and the amount of the bets the floor supervisor had nervous suspicions that made him nervously sweat with anticipation. The floor supervisor continued to count down the next shoe with Vincent Ransom and his bets where moving perfectly with the count, minimum bet with even to negative counts and pressing to multiple hands with larger bet amounts with a true plus 2. After watching about a shoe and ½ the floor supervisor pulled out his advantage player card out of his pocket and immediately recognized that he had just witnessed first hand the play of Richard “King” Hyland aka Vincent Ransom older brother of Thomas Hyland and the elder statesman of the infamous and powerful Hyland count team. Without hesitation and question the floor supervisor politely signaled the security supervisor and surveillance and instructed them that he was going to escort the “King” away from BJ 59 and off of the premises.
As security walked up to Richard Hyland and instructed him to pick up his cheques and follow them away from the table, the “King” looked over at the floor supervisor and asked “Friends of yours” (referring to the security guards). With a big grin and powerful posture the supervisor just shook his head yes as he new who he had just observed, caught and took the necessary precautions against and barred from the Greektown Casino in Detroit. The “King” walked away graciously and disappeared into the night as mysteriously as he appeared.
- Story by PGI friend and the supervisor who caught the “King ” |
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Hyland team boss caught at Greektown Casino Detroit Michigan using the Alias Vincent Ransom. 
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