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A high-roller and hacker accomplices made off with about $33 million after they gamed a casino in Australia by hacking its surveillance cameras and gaining an advantage in several rounds of high-stakes card games.

The Ocean’s Eleven-style heist played out over eight hands of cards before the gambler was caught, though not before the money was gone, according to the Herald Sun.

The gambler, described only as a foreigner, was a known “whale” — a high-roller who regularly bet and lost large amounts of money.

He was staying with his family in an opulent villa at the Crown Towers in Melbourne, Australia a few weeks ago, when the scam occurred.

According to authorities, accomplices gained remote access to the casino’s state-of-the-art, high-resolution cameras to spy on card hands being played by the house and other guests in the casino’s VIP high-roller’s room, and fed the gambler signals based on the cards his opponents held.

The gambler was still staying in the villa when the casino discovered the fraud and sent security to his abode to boot him from the premises during the night. He’s banned from ever returning.

U.S. gambling expert Barron Stringfellow told ABC Melbourne that accessing a casino’s internal video monitoring system is “not as hard as you would think.”

“It’s very easy to intercept a signal from many casinos that don’t take precautions,” he said.

A casino spokesman said it had hopes of recovering “a significant portion” of the money.