Poker player caught cheating in German casino
 

Last night a well-known player was caught cheating in a German casino located in Bad Zwischenahn. This player has had an incredible run for the past two years and now it's finally been discovered why.

Every time he would come to play, he would only play in Seat 1. If seat 1 was not available, he would not play. He was known for saying things like "I'll call anything up to 100 euros preflop" and he actually did this nearly every hand. Players were amazed time and time again when he would show up with the winner when it came to showdown.

His trick: During hands, he would remove cards from play and put them up his sleeve (no joke). Then he would have one or two cards in his sleeve that he would exchange with his hole cards to build himself a winner. He was never discovered because German casinos only count the deck twice a night and no shuffle machines are used to automatically count the deck after each hand.

He was finally caught last night after an unannounced deck count by the casino. Fearing he would get caught, he franticly tried to get the cards out of his sleeve and into the deck but his move was observed by the other players and caught on camera as well.

He has been playing the larger games in Hamburg for quite some time now and rumored to have won a high six-figure amount during that time.

The full story in German: Poker-Skandal in deutschem Casino!

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lol "Bad Zwischenahn."

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seriously?

and duplicate cards were never discovered before?

this seems really hard to pull off since at the table your constantly beng observed.

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all that time no one ever showed down two of the same card after he was continually switching them? I doubt that very much

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seriously?

and duplicate cards were never discovered before?

this seems really hard to pull off since at the table your constantly beng observed.

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Why would there be duplicate cards? He was removing cards from play and putting them up his sleeve, then putting them into play at opportune moments. Still seems very hard to pull off however, he must have been really good with his hands.

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He's been doing this for two years undetected? He deserves every penny he got. Seriously though, that's amazing nobody caught him before.

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all that time no one ever showed down two of the same card after he was continually switching them? I doubt that very much

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You're misreading the OP as well. It says he took cards out of play, adn then put them back into play. This would not cause duplicates. So the deck was perpetually short however many cards he had up his sleeve, and since there were no automatic shufflers which count the deck, this wasn't discovered.

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But to make his hand he needed to add his own cards. If he adds an ace of spades for example what is to stop one of the other players he is HU with having the original one?

If I'm missing something then my bad. But its hard to tell as the article is in german

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He's also taken a ton of money of from German 2+2ers, maybe they'll chime in here as well.

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He would only be able to put cards in play after he took them out of play. He wasn't duplicating cards, he was swapping his cards for cards he had taken off the table.

That's really f'ing ninja