Filed under: Yarns | Tags: advantage, four, jacks, kind, mishap, quads, stacking
Relatively amusing story.
In a game a few nights ago I stacked a set of hooks for my mate. By sheer fluke, the 4th Jack also hit the flop. In other words, I accidentally gave him an overly strong hand. Now we all know that advantage play should be subtle, not overly ballsy.
He didn’t play the hand very well. (Though to be fair, who the hell knows how to play quads?)
Sad part is, in the end we only won the blinds. Which is obscene. Slow playing to the MAX. And to add stupidity to misfortune my mate didn’t muck his hand when the last player folded to his ridiculous 5x pot raise on the river so everyone KNEW he had quads meaning the heat was on and I couldn’t stack another hand for him for a while.
What a night.
–Arthur–
Filed under: Peculiarities | Tags: ambitious, force, Magic, riser, unnecessary
Yep. Me and that ambitious riser. We get on like a house on fire.
In this case, its a force. Now I am aware that the ambitious topper is both a force and a control, but then being a move monkey I think another method of accomplishing a force sounds like a good idea.
In this case, you want to injog the card you want to force about 2/3 of the way down the deck. Now riffle with the thumb from the top and ask for the call to stop. At this point, break the deck in two and point to the top card of the bottom packet calling it out to be the chosen card. Now with the fingers of the right hand, (holding the top packet in biddle grip) feign pushing that top card forward an inch, whilst simultaneously rising the injogged card in the traditional manner. Now plonk the top packet back ontop and hold the deck so the outjogged card can be see.
Its just as angly as the ambitious topper, but not in the same way.
Either way, it seemed worth mentioning.
–Arthur–
OK more Hold’em. I’m sorry. I play hold’em. That’s all I play. Little bit of Omaha – but the cheating still applies in similar ways.
Its fairly well known that knowing the position of one card in the deck gives a 2% advantage. I’ve been exploring the ways of gaining that teeny edge just incase one day it saves me.
Easiest way of course is to peek the bottom card using one of many methods in Erdnase. If you aren’t shuffling then you can still often attain this advantage by watching a shuffle.
This is all rather dull though. Why not challenge yourself with a bit of shuffle tracking? When you fold your Ace-Junk hand, watch where the ace goes on the deck. Somewhere near the bottom usually. Now if the dealer now shuffles the cards in the riffley way (the riffliest of ways) then its RELATIVELY easy to keep track ROUGHLY of where the card is in the deck. Watch as the cards are dealt – does it look like it could be one of your opponents hole cards? It might be a little lower and hit the flop, turn or river. In which case, if your holding out for an ace, you might want to hang on a little longer. Or if your pocket kings look the best, betting anyone holding out for an ace out of the game before it hits the board seems a good idea as well.
Its all so easy and so helpful. Do that, and peek the bottom card. 4% advantage?!?!? Un-bloody-stoppable, my friends.
I know a well known Steve is very adept at shuffle tracking – although its more commonly used at blackjack tables. Who cares? There are no rules with deception.
–Arthur–
Filed under: Shuffle Work | Tags: easy, flush, hand, hold'em, texas, winning
A lot of my time messing around with cheating at hold’em goes into ideas for EASY to cull hands that are guaranteed winners. Also easy stacking is always ideal.
Naturally, thats difficult to achieve but recently I’ve been using this little ruse which works about 1/3 of the time (what with being an automatic flush draw). But unlike a normal flush draw, you will know if you have hit your flush by the flop.
It needs to be 4 handed hold’em. On the discards cull 4 of the same suit. You ideally need the ace of king of this suit to be one of the top 2 cards of the slug – but it doesn’t really matter (just makes sure you have the nut flush). Get the slug on top of the deck. Easy enough.
Now do 2 perfect in-faros. And deal.
You will receive 2 in the pocket, and (remembering to burn cards) the 3rd card of the flop will be the 3rd of your slug. The fourth will hit the river. This means that if either the 1st or 2nd card of the flop is of the same suit as your slug, you have hit a flush.
Bet accordingly.
Of course it would be strange to bet loads on a flush draw. So play it accordingly and hopefully you will get some callers.
–Arthur–
PS don’t cheat and all that.
… is in a lot of pain.
When you try and use it to push out cards for a centre deal with a deck which is sticky, it becomes a hell of a lot harder than I ever thought possible.
That said, I am very optimistic about how the deal is coming along. As with many middle deals, a stud style turnover aids in the deceptiveness of the whole affair, whilst a normal deal is a little harder.
The matter of bowing the bottom half of the deck – so as to eliminate the need for a break – is a bit hit and miss at the moment. The real problem will come with trying to establish a way of getting that bow in just that half of the deck when someone ELSE is cutting the deck. One way is to bow the deck after “shuffling” and then when completing the cut, bow the other half the other way.
The problem comes when you realise that the easiest combinations (convex on the bottom, concave on the top) means the break is visible anyway so it HAS to be the difficult way around. Then again, who ever said a centre deal was easy.
I’ll get a preliminary video up soon of what I’ve got so far.
Regards,
Arthur
If you can do a greek deal, do it but instead of holding back one card on the bottom, hold back as many as you can.
Thus, an easy centre deal is born.
Granted it would only work when the cutter cuts very shallow – but people tend to cut in the same place every time so if you pick your person carefully, then you have a nice way of dealing from the middle.
Hooray.
Its a helluva lot easier than real centre deals…
–Arthur–
