Cheating in Home Games

There's an old saying in the cheating world, "If you can't cheat your friends, who can you cheat?" Your enemies aren't going to make it easy to cheat them, so who does this leave?

The following I've heard 1000 times, if I've heard it once. "Our game is too small to cheat, so we don't worry about it". Yes, it's too small to cheat for most, but not for all.

I've played in private games since the 60s. The one's that started off honest, were soon found by cheats who extracted all the money from them, or still kept them going to make a few dollars to supplement their income.

Road cheats make it a priority of looking for these games. Sloppy shuffling, sloppy dealing and other things may make some of these people look like 'suckers', but in the forty years I played in private games, I never found an honest one. It may have been honest initially, but I can guarantee it soon either went out of business or the cheats found it.

People playing for small stakes, rarely have any expertise on catching cheating. Even if you suspect it, how do you prove it?

Plain and simple, some people steal millions, while other steal dollars. Water seeks it's own level and if some can supplement their income with a few hundred a month, they're happy.

Just a few year ago, a friend of mine was being appointed head of a lodge, the Elks, if I'm not mistaken. They had a small 25 cent - 50 cent game that went two times a week. They used quarters and the big winner usually won about $40-$50. Knowing I played poker, he took me back to look at the game.

It took all of one minute for me to spot a 70 year old cheat dealing from the bottom. No one had a clue.

Get all the information available in my next book, 'World Class Cheating.'

 

Marked Cards

 

Most of the cheap marked cards come with some minor changes, such as a missing part of a pattern, an edge shaved so slightly, but enough to let a person see the card and know what is. Cards such as these are usually paper cards, but can be acquired as novelty decks in plastic.

However, when stakes get higher, a different type of marked card enters the picture. We are talking about games where many hundreds and thousands are won and lost.

Games with buy-ins of $100-$1,000 as a norm. Games with buy-in higher than these have marked cards that cost $1,000s to buy. Most need more equipment, such as contact lenses or camera's with certain type's of filters. Most of these marked cards are invisible to the naked eye. However, Blackline and Whiteflash are not.

Russ Georgiev is offering the following on his sites for the sum of $25. You will be sent four plastic cards, all of the same rank. One or two will be marked and easy to see. However, you won't be able to see any markings. If you can spot the markings within 7 days of delivery, you will receive a full refund. If you can't, I, Russ Georgiev will tell you where the markings are and how to see them. None of these cards are altered as stated above. However, they will be marked in a method that will amaze anyone but a top level cheat.

About 40 years ago, I paid the price of a brand new car for the secret of marking the cards in this fashion. Perhaps, a thousand or so people in the whole world can read cards marked in this manner.

$25 is a small price to pay to learn a secret for this information. If you wish to learn the methods that are used to mark cards in this manner, the price will be an addtional $100. This is for your own protection if you run a home game.

If interested transfer $ 25 to the paypalaccount connected with:sales@pokermafia.com

Alternatively you can contact Russ Georgiev at : newgca@aol.com

 

Russ Georgiev

Russ Georgiev is a world class professional poker player,who gives one-on-one poker lessons and just has written his first book on poker theory, called poker unchecked . He gives extensive information on poker and cheating on his website poker mafia .

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