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!