THE WORLD'S #1 POKER MANUAL - Card Games

Poker Book, Club Poker
Next Page | Contents | Feedback for Valuable/New Information | Previous Page
Footnotes:
[ 32 ] Professionals who get involved with establishments or cliques usually limit their potentials and
acquire rigid, stereo-typed characteristics that the good player can identify. Once he has identified the
stereotyped characteristics of those professionals, the good player can predict their actions and
consistently beat them--even when they cheat. The good player or superior professional, on the other
hand, usually remains independent and avoids stereotyped characteristics. And often his opponents
never realize that he is a good player who is winning all of their money.
[ 33 ] Most public-game professionals admire and respect the good poker player and readily accept him
into their establishment (especially in Gardena and Las Vegas). Their ready acceptance of the good
player seems contradictory to their best interests since such acceptance increases competition for the
losers' money. But those professionals both respect and fear the independent good player. He is a threat
to their system. They eliminate that threat by making him a part of their system. By contrast, the private
or non establishment good player tries to get rid of any competing player who is good enough to drain
money from the game.
[ 34 ] Classical cheating (e.g., stacking specific hands, second dealing, holding out cards) seldom occurs
in club or casino poker. Occasionally amateurs, strangers, or newcomers attempt classical cheating in
public poker. But since their techniques are almost always crude, they are usually caught and banished
from the game. Few professional cheaters today approve of or practice that kind of obsolete mechanical
cheating. New cheating methods (called Neocheating) are so much easier, more effective, and
essentially undetectable.
[ 35 ] Likewise, not all private-game professionals are independent loners or above cheating.
http://www.neo-tech.com/poker/part6b.html (14 of 15)9/17/2004 12:25:02 PM