Steve Forte's GPS DVD set - Gambling Protection Series

The original GPS was a series of 4 videotapes produced by Steve Forte and Paul Donnelly in the mid-1980s. The series exposed dozens of cheating techniques that were used in private games (and to a lesser-extent, casinos) and methods of protection from those techniques. The series was never intended to teach people how to cheat, but rather to protect them from cheaters. Steve is widely considered to be the foremost authority/consultant in the world on casino game protection.

Although retired from the consulting business for over 10 years now, he is still sought-after by casinos and private firms for his expertise and knowledge. Steve authored two of the best books in the business on cheating: Casino Game Protection and Poker Protection. Both books are considered the standards by which all other game protection books are measured. Other books and projects are in various stages of development. The moves are not 'taught' in the conventional sense. There are no "put this finger there and that finger there" instructions.

However, the goal of the original series was to understand the techniques in order to be able to spot them, and almost every technique is shown from angles that facilitate learning the core move. Put another way, if you were a serious golfer, do you think you could learn anything from watching almost 6 hours of Tiger Woods swinging his driver from a dozen different angles? When it's all said and done, there is a massive amount of technique, rhythm and handling touches to be learned from this series.

Besides the original material, there's some fantastic bonus material. Gambling's Invisible Thieves is a 1-hour television show that was shot just after the original G.P.S was completed in the late 1980s. On the show, Steve demonstrates several cheating techniques in a real blackjack scenario, a real craps scenario, a poker scenario and a slot-cheating scenario. The Hidden Secrets of Magic clip is Steve's performance of false shuffling, card location work, second, bottom and center dealing. This clip has fooled (and continues to fool) some of the best cardmen in the world.

The Museum Tour is a walk-through of Steve's private gambling museum in his home. This virtual tour is given in almost the exact same manner that Steve uses in person. You begin with chips, work your way around to the mini-craps table, and if you're lucky, you get a peek into the back room and wind up sitting at the center table with him. It's the closest many people will ever come to a tour like this.

Lastly we have '52.' This segment represents 52 moves that were culled from footage Steve had shot but never planned to release. The footage was his "video outline" of moves he's collected over the years. 3 DVD set