Originally Posted by
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Ironically I have taken up cheating. I am trying to sneak chips on the table over the buyin cap. I think one dealer was suspicous. I kept greens in my pocket and would reload. Then after some $$ moved around and a new dealer I put a few more greens.The cap is $300 but everyone else is a scrub and doesn't ask for greens when it speeds up the game a lot. So the greens stick out but they fit in your pocket and are easy to add. The reds would blend in but you have to add half a stack at a time. Maybe get a table change and do it in route? I did it the last time so I'm working on my approach. I play it off dumb and they'll give me a warning. Not that they would care that much but i don't want to ever be caught if I wish to keep doing it.
Well, I may be wrong (cough, cough), but I did watch the series TILT in 2005, which (truth be told) was based on real people and real events. The Michael Madsen character, for example, was pretty assuredly "based on" Doyle Brunson, in case anyone is interested.
As far as poker cheating, I mean c'mon, you can riffle chips like Morse code if you practice a little. I don't even want to consider what I'd come up with to bolster a stable if stablemates were at the same table. With people having pieces of each other and side bets that dwarf the early payouts, you'd have to be a, pardon the Bugs Bunny
to think this stuff isn't ubiquitous. I've played in little local feeder tournaments to little WSOP events in Mississippi, and you had husband-and-wife collusion aplenty. I knew a couple who took cruises just to play poker with the rubes. So to think that actual poker players playing for big money, with serious side bets, don't exercise their God-given right to communicate under the radar, okay, you have much more faith in the common man than me. Maybe not as much experience. But much more faith.