Poker Tournament
It has been 10 day's since my last post, so I'd like to enjoy you all with a new fresh one.
I've been to a poker tournament last week and it was really nice. About 70 people came from all over the country and they all had a great time.
I was there for fun and to see if I could cheat at this game of poker. Texas Hold'em was the game we were about to play for the evening. I knew in advance that we were about to play with the Bicycle-Playing-Cards.php#top>Bicycle brand so that was also a good thing
There were two decks at every table. One blue and one red backed Bicycle-Playing-Cards.php#top>Bicycle deck. What surprised me was that every player got hold of one of the decks. If the dealer was dealing a round with the blue backed deck, another player would take the red backed deck and shuffle it in advance so that the dealer could deal the next round even faster. I found this was toTally unnessesary and risky.
I've tried different techniques while I was at that table:
Stacking:
-milk build shuffle
Because everyone could shuffle a deck at a particular time of the game it was not hard to stack the deck with the "milk build shuffle". Overhand shuffling is very common here in the Netherlands, that is why I also used that method for stacking. And to be honest, riffle shuffle stacking is still, for me, almost impossible to do unnoticed. I'd rather keep it easy while I can. The dealer did re-shuffle my deck casually after I stacked it, but I also noticed that most of the time he didn't re-shuflle the decks at all. So stacking is not 100% sure. But there is a great chance that the dealer just starts out dealing a stacked deck.
Palming / lapping
-Gambler's cop
Again, when you get hand of the deck it's a good opportunity for a card cheat to palm a card. At a particular moment, I had palmed two Queens while another one appeared at the flop with an eight of diamonds. I also had an eight spot in the pocket so a Full House was made. Palming is great for this and your chances of winning a hand are much better than that of the other players. I've also had bad luck. At another event I palmed two aces and I just couldn't make a hand better than one pair. Even after four rounds (which is a long time to keep palming aces) nothing came.
Marking:
-Daub
-Crimping
The daub I used to mark the aces. I have two different colors of daub: blue and red.
I did need to switch between those colors when the other deck came in play. At the end, I've marked three red backed aces, and two blue backed aces. The markings , I found clearly vivisble and I had no problems spotting an marked ace in the hands of another player.
I also crimped some kings, but I encoutered a little problem and that was that eventually all the cards got crimps because of the moist and dust. Cards look pretty bad after a long game of poker.
Other possibility's:
-Deckswitching
Maybe the most powerfull thing to do at the card table. If you had a marked deck to switch in, the game would became pretty easy for you to win. I must admit that doing a deckswitch at such moment, it takes some nerve. I didn't do it, simply because I didn't feel like doing it. I found it too risky to try. If someone would be playing with a partner, this becomes very interesting. One can distract the other players while the other one can switch in the marked deck.
I would advice the people who have organised this whole evenening a few things:
-Do not let the dealers drink alcohol (too much)
-Do not let the other players touch the deck. It a good thing to teach the dealers how to riffle shuffle the deck. (maybe dealing shoe's)
-Hand above the table, and don't let the cards leave the surface of the table.
I'm not a master in card cheating and it will take a long, long time before I master anything but it was not that hard to cheat at that game. Maybe the people that were there that evening are not so called "fast company" but I can imagine that if these tournaments become interesting for more people in the near future cheating will have a chance. With money prizes it is always interesing too cheat.
The winner got 500,- Euro's
2nd 300,- Euro
3the 175,- Euro
ands so on.
The last 10 players got prizes.
I just entered this tournament to see what is possible for me to do in a poker game. Sometimes I overdone it a bit, like palming more cards than usual, but I got away with it.
It concerns me a bit that someone can come to these tournaments and just win money by cheating.
I must say that when I had a good hand by cheating, I folded, or mostly I switced in cards that weren't that good. I did not rank to the top 10 of course, still, I had a vey nice evening.
I do not encourage other people to cheat in poker games by posting this. If this is a problem, I will of course remove this blog.
Tom.
.
It has been 10 day's since my last post, so I'd like to enjoy you all with a new fresh one.
I've been to a poker tournament last week and it was really nice. About 70 people came from all over the country and they all had a great time.
I was there for fun and to see if I could cheat at this game of poker. Texas Hold'em was the game we were about to play for the evening. I knew in advance that we were about to play with the Bicycle-Playing-Cards.php#top>Bicycle brand so that was also a good thing
There were two decks at every table. One blue and one red backed Bicycle-Playing-Cards.php#top>Bicycle deck. What surprised me was that every player got hold of one of the decks. If the dealer was dealing a round with the blue backed deck, another player would take the red backed deck and shuffle it in advance so that the dealer could deal the next round even faster. I found this was toTally unnessesary and risky.
I've tried different techniques while I was at that table:
Stacking:
-milk build shuffle
Because everyone could shuffle a deck at a particular time of the game it was not hard to stack the deck with the "milk build shuffle". Overhand shuffling is very common here in the Netherlands, that is why I also used that method for stacking. And to be honest, riffle shuffle stacking is still, for me, almost impossible to do unnoticed. I'd rather keep it easy while I can. The dealer did re-shuffle my deck casually after I stacked it, but I also noticed that most of the time he didn't re-shuflle the decks at all. So stacking is not 100% sure. But there is a great chance that the dealer just starts out dealing a stacked deck.
Palming / lapping
-Gambler's cop
Again, when you get hand of the deck it's a good opportunity for a card cheat to palm a card. At a particular moment, I had palmed two Queens while another one appeared at the flop with an eight of diamonds. I also had an eight spot in the pocket so a Full House was made. Palming is great for this and your chances of winning a hand are much better than that of the other players. I've also had bad luck. At another event I palmed two aces and I just couldn't make a hand better than one pair. Even after four rounds (which is a long time to keep palming aces) nothing came.
Marking:
-Daub
-Crimping
The daub I used to mark the aces. I have two different colors of daub: blue and red.
I did need to switch between those colors when the other deck came in play. At the end, I've marked three red backed aces, and two blue backed aces. The markings , I found clearly vivisble and I had no problems spotting an marked ace in the hands of another player.
I also crimped some kings, but I encoutered a little problem and that was that eventually all the cards got crimps because of the moist and dust. Cards look pretty bad after a long game of poker.
Other possibility's:
-Deckswitching
Maybe the most powerfull thing to do at the card table. If you had a marked deck to switch in, the game would became pretty easy for you to win. I must admit that doing a deckswitch at such moment, it takes some nerve. I didn't do it, simply because I didn't feel like doing it. I found it too risky to try. If someone would be playing with a partner, this becomes very interesting. One can distract the other players while the other one can switch in the marked deck.
I would advice the people who have organised this whole evenening a few things:
-Do not let the dealers drink alcohol (too much)
-Do not let the other players touch the deck. It a good thing to teach the dealers how to riffle shuffle the deck. (maybe dealing shoe's)
-Hand above the table, and don't let the cards leave the surface of the table.
I'm not a master in card cheating and it will take a long, long time before I master anything but it was not that hard to cheat at that game. Maybe the people that were there that evening are not so called "fast company" but I can imagine that if these tournaments become interesting for more people in the near future cheating will have a chance. With money prizes it is always interesing too cheat.
The winner got 500,- Euro's
2nd 300,- Euro
3the 175,- Euro
ands so on.
The last 10 players got prizes.
I just entered this tournament to see what is possible for me to do in a poker game. Sometimes I overdone it a bit, like palming more cards than usual, but I got away with it.
It concerns me a bit that someone can come to these tournaments and just win money by cheating.
I must say that when I had a good hand by cheating, I folded, or mostly I switced in cards that weren't that good. I did not rank to the top 10 of course, still, I had a vey nice evening.
I do not encourage other people to cheat in poker games by posting this. If this is a problem, I will of course remove this blog.
Tom.
.