Cheating in any game refers to the use of unfair means to gain an advantage on the fellow opponents and it is the case with Poker too. A person can cheat the fellow players by many methods. Just to name a few out of them will be collusion, sleight of hand or using a few objects like marked cards or holdout devices.

A person can also trick others by using his cards, known as card cheating. In this category, a person might have an expertise in the sleight of hand. There might also be a bottom dealer (or base dealer) or a paper player.

One of the cheats, collusion involves two or more players playing together as a team without others at the table getting to know this. They can indulge in soft-play: not raising a bet that will be beneficial because it will cost your partner. They can also raise and re-raise the bets to a big amount to lock in the other players: whipsawing.

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He talks about the WPT final table he played. He was playing young poker genius Jonathan Little – and Barry Greenstein even walks us through his tought processes.

I had a great session yesterday at my local casino. A friend and I both went into the €2/€2 No Limit Hold’em game with €150 with about 2 hours time before we had to get on the plane – and we both had good sessions. My friend ended up winning over €100, but I really, really steamrolled.

At our table, two people were playing for at least ten hours and had huge chip stacks. Obviously me buying in short, I was just hoping they would call me with relatively weak draws — and in the first couple minutes they both did just that. I more than doubled up in the first hand holding . I raised to €12 after having to post a blind in late position. I got 3 callers, and when the flop came , I re-raised big when UTG bet out. He shoved, I called, and showed , perfect for my hand. I rivered the flush – making it a great start.

I mucked the next couple hands, and picked up in early position. Decided to limp/re-raise and that worked out like a charm. One of the big stacks shoved after my re-raise and showed . I flopped a set and doubled up yet again. Ahh pocket aces!

I circled around €1000 for over half an hour when I picked up on the button. I raised it after everyone mucked, and got a call in the big blind (stack €700). I flopped the nuts with and when the BB bet right out, I decided not to slowplay and make it 2.5x his bet. He just called. On the turn the beautiful hit and all the money went in. BB showed . Awesomeness!

Everything just went right. In the last couple minutes I won an additional €600 when some sort of idiot pushed his pre-flop when I raised it with . No ace on the flop, and I scooped yet another big one.

Life is great in poker!

Hendon Mob players Barny Boatman, Joe Beevers and Rocky Boatman
get taken by Poker Hustlers.

I like it.

Fiftyyyyy!

FITTYYYYY!

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