Cheating in your home game? (3 Viewers)

[SetToBean]

Curious to the logic here. My dealers get tipped all night and usually by the big winners at the end of the night, too.

If someone came to my game and made a demand the first time, they'd be laughed off the premises. Maybe request is a better word, but not to get hung up on semantics... my real question is what if several players demand their own decks? How does the host know the requesting party isn't the cheater using these contacts?

There's also the issue that there are ways to unpack a deck of cards, mark them, and then reseal the deck such that it appears new. It's not actually entirely effective as an anti-cheating method.

 

[ekricket]

There's also the issue that there are ways to unpack a deck of cards, mark them, and then reseal the deck such that it appears new. It's not actually entirely effective as an anti-cheating method.

There is a story about a gambler that back around the turn of the previous century corrupted some workers at a card manufacturing plant for some casinos in Monaco. They printed marked cards from the factory, and he cleaned up for a while but was eventually caught. I think think he mainly targeted one casino.

 

[Jaxen]

We had a guy who'd inflate the figure in his stack at the end of a cash game. After a 3rd party counted down his stack and came up with the proper number he accused us of cheating him.
Now our general rule is the banker is someone other than the host, and the host counts down everyone's stack before getting paid out.

 

[chippitydoodah]

I heard a crazy story once where a cheater would plant marked sealed decks around the stores on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City and would send people out to go buy random decks of cards that would supposedly be unmarked but they were already resealed and marked. That story sounded incredibly impossible to me. I searched for it online recently and couldn't find it again to share.

 

[TheBigTater]

Nope, he started cheating after taking over dealing once our non playing dealer left for a card house in Houston.

He did not steal from the house, in fact he'd give you the shirt off his back. He sponsored all of my charity events, co hosted my meetups, and was very generous with his time and his money. Money wasn't the motivation - he's a director at a FAANG and his wife owns multiple rental houses.

He was a cheat because it satisfied the addict part of his brain, which was why everyone was so shocked.

Man that's sad indeed, he certainly went against type from what I knew/saw. Sorry to hear that.

It's a sad fact that when money is involved (no matter how small the amount) certain people will always find the temptation too hard to resist.

 

[dizzyChipper]

I heard a crazy story once where a cheater would plant marked sealed decks around the stores on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City and would send people out to go buy random decks of cards that would supposedly be unmarked but they were already resealed and marked. That story sounded incredibly impossible to me. I searched for it online recently and couldn't find it again to share.

It’s NYC and planted decks at the closest few bodegas.

 

[Jimulacrum]

Isn’t this thread titled cheating in your home game? When did I say anything about underground?

Can't speak for anyone else, but I addressed underground games only because of this sentence in the OP:

This is almost always discussed in negative light and the focus is typically on the unscrupulous characters, game politics, predatory rake and outright cheating.

 

[Jers28]

I get that. I was speaking directly to the person who acted as though I mentioned underground games. Although, my home game is in my basement. Fuck it. I run a highly suspect underground and steeply raked game full of cheats with rigged shufflers. I’ll say it!!!

*editors note - may not entirely accurate beyond the basement comment.