Colluding the Neocheating Way
Neocheating is a concept -- a concept of safe and easy cheating . Actually, any cheating technique including any traditional or classical technique that is safe and
easy is Neocheating. Even collusion cheating becomes Neocheating when it delivers safe and easy advantages. In fact, one of the ultimate Neocheating ploys involves collusion. [ 27 1
That collusion ploy is one of the subtlest and most potent of all cheating techniques. The anecdotes in the first chapter show two examples in which John Finn encounters collusion Neocheating in stud and hold 'em poker in public casinos. Even with all his poker expertise, John cannot beat that kind of cheating.
Such collusion Neocheating involves a dealer who casually remembers the sequence of gathered cards. He then blind shuffles and false riffles those cards. Thus after dealing, he knows everyone's hole cards and proceeds to signal the appropriate moves (bets, raises, folds, calls) to his partner. With those instructions from an all-knowing dealer, the partner gains natural-appearing but unbeatable advantages. ... The dealer in effect makes his partner function as a super good player who plays flawlessly by "reading every hand perfectly". Moreover, by being totally indifferent to the fall of the cards, the Neocheating partner cannot be read. To beat that kind of collusion Neocheating, a player would have to know what the dealer knows (i.e., everyone's hole cards) through perfect reading of all opponents. But unfortunately, perfect reading of all opponents is not possible.
Collusion Neocheating flourishes in casino poker because the house dealer totally controls the cards and deals every hand -- no player ever touches or cuts the deck. (Ironically, one reason casinos employ poker dealers is to prevent cheating.)
Recently, a similar form of potent Neocheating has begun penetrating private games. In private games, however, the Neocheater does not need a partner. He simply learns (by methods described in previous chapters) and remembers all opponents' hole cards during his deal. While unlike the casino dealer and his partner who have their collusion advantages available for every hand, the Neocheater's advantages in private poker are available only once every round --during his deal. Still, that advantage is sufficient to generate unbeatable long-range advantages in most games. And most importantly, that Neocheater cannot be caught because he not only never needs to use tell-tale devices or gaffs, but he never even needs to stack the cards. In fact, no direct evidence is ever available for accusing him of cheating.
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