X ray tables and hidden cameras OMG

I have been following the news surrounding the FBI gambling operation and underground poker games have apparently been scamming players with methods from a James Bond movie!

The part about card reading contact lenses is especially interesting to me.

I’ve always said that wherever there is money cheats and scammers will be close by and it’s just part of being a poker player, hopefully this is not widespread yet and can be contained.

Yup there is more I saw someone hack a shuffling machine in a way that you can arrange a deck in a way that you always win the hand, no matter where you cut the deck. I can link the video if you like, but ill need to look it up.

Probably impossible to do in a real casino, but in a private or homegame it's possible to pull off.

Everyone knows the movie

I saw this story last night and it felt like a movie I would totally watch....,

mobster and pro athletes scamming millionaires in private games with x-ray vision and who knows what else,

totally watching the eventual movie they make out of this 😎👍

Yup, this is a good story. Apparently the investigation has been going on for years. Im sure there's a lot of juicy details yet to come.

Much of this went down in NYC where there's no legal card room or casino that spreads poker within 80 miles. I think Parx is the closest. This is the inevitable consequence of banning or over regulating activities that the government has no business interfering with. Black markets and organized crime will always be there to fill the void.

I've been working in nyc for the past few months and have tried to get into a game at some of the private clubs. I might reconsider that now, even if they don't get shut down.

Fallenglory said:

I can link the video if you like, but ill need to look it up.

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If you get the time yes please!

machinm19 said:

If you get the time yes please!

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Found it, source is Wired on Youtube:

MK_ said:

I saw this story last night and it felt like a movie I would totally watch....,

mobster and pro athletes scamming millionaires in private games with x-ray vision and who knows what else,

totally watching the eventual movie they make out of this 😎👍

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With Johnny Depp bringing the Hookers & BLOW. (who will be starring as the Hookers?)

If there is money on the table then someone is looking for an angle or advantage to get it.

That's why unless its a serious regulated live table then you're at risk.

Online- black friday and all the scandals.

Live stuff, you don't need this recent cheating stuff but go back and read about the "stories" of Doyle B and the old timers playing "home games" in Texas worried about getting robbed or cheated.

Its always going on, be aware and not ignorant of whats going on.

Banned from poker to all those players who cheat, only that would stop it