Beware of the poker cheats part three

Here we continue on from part two of this series on cheating in poker and I knew full well that he sometimes places passive “non players” into games so that he can change seats if he needs to get position on someone.

There is a lot of pot-limit Omaha played here where position is very crucial in that game. One of his classic moves is to “whipsaw” someone in between two team members and they do this in games like Texas Hold’em where the overlay of a powerful hand over a mediocre hand is greater than at Omaha.

He may limp in for instance under the gun with aces and get three other limpers, his partner on the button will raise with junk to get the others involved for more money against a premium hand. I have seen a six handed game here with four “wolf pack” members in it……slaughter!

Their signaling methods are very subtle and complex and are nearly always audible and not visual.This prevents other players from spotting anything untoward. At that precise moment a tall skinny kid with a Scottish accent walks past me shaking his head and talking to no one in particular, “a canna believe ma feckin luck”. I give him that sympathetic look but he has just come off the “Doctors” table so I doubt that he has lost due to bad luck.

The time is ticking and it is 2.00 am, I have been here for four hours and still no sign of my man yet. The poker game is failing to keep my attention and my mind starts to wander as I look around the card room. It suddenly dawns on me just how much utter low life and people of ill repute are situated in this tiny area at this one time, but what does that make me? But I would rather not self analyse myself that way because I don’t like the truth.I’ve just lost a pot where some knuckle head backdoors me which annoys me more than it really should, I guess I just want my grand back. I am tired so I leave the game and cash in still minus the money that I came here for in the first place and if I don’t get it soon, I might just name and shame this low life in my next article and I hope that he is reading this.As I walk out of the casino, I take a quick look back at the card room. The “wolf packs” are busy doing their thing and the “fish” really do not stand a chance……poor beggars. You may think that this article is fiction but think again. It is for this reason why I prefer online poker although there are just as many cheating methods in that form of poker.The bottom line is that people cheat through necessity. If they are poor players then they cheat because they need to in order to win. If they are good players then many still cheat because cheating makes them even more money.

Carl “The Dean” Sampson

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