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big-name players have won up to $1 million in a single session against such wealthy but foolish
challengers. But some big-name professionals have also set themselves up for being cleaned out by
shrewd, unknown Advanced-Concept players posing as foolish challengers.
XXIX
Professional Cheating
Perhaps the most profound difference between private poker and public poker (club or casino) is the
collusion cheating practiced by many professional players in public poker. Few outsiders or victims
detect or even suspect professional cheating in public poker because such cheating is visually
undetectable. Public-game professionals execute their collusion so naturally and casually that upper
management of major casinos and card clubs generally remain unaware of their cheating, even when it
routinely occurs in their casinos and clubs. Many public-game professionals accept and practice
collusion cheating without qualms. They consider their cheating a natural and legitimate trade tool that
enables them to offset the draining effect of the house rake or collection.
The most important classical and modern professional cheating methods and devices are listed in Table
35.
TABLE 35
CHEATING METHODS AND DEVICES
Card Manipulations Card Treatments Other Devices
* blind shuffling * daubing (Golden Glow, nicotine stains,
soiling)
check
copping
* crimping corner flash cold deck
* culling denting and rounders * collusion
dealing seconds, luminous readers partners
dealing bottoms, marking * card flashing
dealing middles nailing (indexing) * crossfiring
* false cutting punching * signals
* false riffling sanding * spread
foiling the cut slicked-aced deck holdouts
palming stripping shiners
* peeking
* pull through
waving
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