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Why Professionals Cheat
The canons of poker, as clearly understood and tacitly accepted by every player, allow unlimited
deception to win maximum money from ownerless pots. Therefore, everyone can and should freely use
unlimited deception in every poker game. But no one should use deception outside of poker. If a person
"plays poker" outside of a poker game, he becomes a dishonest person. Even in poker, however, a
person becomes dishonest if he violates the understood and accepted canons of poker by usurping
money through cheating. (Cheating is any manipulation of cards or any collusion that gives a player or
players advantages not available to other players.)
Many poker players, including most professionals, do not fully distinguish between what is honest and
what is dishonest, in and out of a poker game. For example, many professional players who day after
day lie and practice deceit in poker ironically do not grasp the rightness of their poker deception. To
them, lying and deception in poker become little different from cheating in poker. Their ethics become
hazy and ill-defined. They feel the only barrier to crossing the line from lying and deception to cheating
and stealing is the threat of being caught. By removing that threat (e.g., through undetectable
Neocheating techniques), they cross over the line and begin cheating.
The failure to understand the black-and-white moral differences between deception in poker and
cheating in poker is one reason why many players react so strongly (often violently, sometimes
murderously) against a cheater. They fear that without strong anticheating reactions, everyone would
easily cross over the line from deceiving them to cheating them. Sensing their own capacity to cheat,
they assume the same capacity resides in everyone. Thus, even if they never cheat others, they fear that
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