Ever catch yourself totally zoned out, thumb glued to your phone, scrolling through an endless parade of slot games? Same here. Some slots look like someone fed a disco ball to a fruit machine, and ...

The names of the devices are as colorful as the people who used them. Monkey paw. Kickstand. Yo-yo. These are some of the cheating devices criminals brought to Nevada casinos to trick slot machines ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. CARSON CITY -- A convicted slot cheat from Las Vegas will stay in prison, but 15 of more than three dozen of her convictions have been tossed out.

Sentencing has been postponed for two casino cheats listed in Nevada's Black Book and a woman who was their accomplice in a 2006 slot machine-cheating scheme used at several Las Vegas-area casinos.

Standing in front of the machine is 53-year-old Tommy Glenn Carmichael, who boasts a unique and lucrative talent: "Give me a slot machine and I'll beat it." Carmichael is no two-bit slot cheat.