Filed under: Yarns
Recently I’ve been getting into a bit of the old 7stud HiLo.
There is a LOT of dead money out there, begging to be taken on busted low draws.
I’m not sure how you’d get the usual hold’em junkies sucking at the teat of 7stud, but if you could it could be lucrative. Novice players who know a little bit seem to get obsessed with drawing to a low and taking half the pot instead of playing properly.
Keep a few kings and queens waved or trimmed and you’ve pretty much guaranteed yourself some pots off the back of a pair of sixes.
Discuss?
I know my deuces aren’t exactly gorgeous… but they fly when they need to.
Excuse the sounds of the cards hitting the microphone. I didn’t think muting would be right since its a false deal and sound is important.
Cool beans.
Filed under: Shuffle Work
Just a sort of… update.
Brief video showing a top standard top stock retention gleamed from various sources. Supposed to mimic a standard dextrous shuffler (although not strictly casino procedure – no weeding.)
Regards…
Filed under: Card Table Artifice | Tags: cards, handed, left, peek, peeking, peeks, satan, technique
Being a filthy left handed card man, (filthy filthy left hand – hand of satan, you know), I lack the ability to use standard peeks to ascertain the values of cards ontop, or on bottom.
Imagine that, A-Players out there! No longer can you use your trusty bubble peek.
I’m sure anyone in the same position as I am has tried to establish some sort of unique way of peeking cards. You CAN shift the top card over to the right a little, and turn your hand over. But that exposes the bottom of the deck, AND you turn your hand over – hardly a championship peek.
So what to do?
Try this.
Holding the deck in the right hand, in a standard mechanics, perform a magicians pinky count of the top card. Now if you push your ring finger in, it buckles said card. Now with just a little movement of the eyes, you can see the index.
Of course this technique works with peeking the 2nd, 3rd card etc. You can even use your ring finger to spread the cards that have been clasped, so you can peek multiple cards.
I would take some pictures, you its not an entirely difficult concept to grasp.
I have used this technique to great effect at the card table, peeking the top two cards before dealing the turn and river in hold’em.
PLEASE don’t think I am claiming I have invented this peek. I’m not that mentally inept to even begin to imagine I am the first to do this. But I’ve not seen it anywhere, so I thought it worth mentioning.
And PLEASE don’t comment on this saying that some magician claims this move to be their own either, because its a sodding peek and is universal.
Good.
Filed under: Shuffle Work | Tags: cheating, gambling, hold'em, idea, poker, protection, texas
OK this idea relies on bad poker players, or call-machines as they are sometimes referred to. The type of players who will play ace-rag far too strongly.
This isn’t a surefire method, but it SHOULD work more often than it fails. If it DOES fail, sometimes you’ll be able to bow out of the hand and watch some fireworks.
Its relatively move-heavy, but not entirely ridiculous.
Its your deal. Fantastic. Cull 3 aces. Or 4. 4 would be great, but its unnecessary work. If you happen to be able to, then this works even better.
Either way, get your 3 aces on top. Keep them there in any way you wish. Now when you deal, the first three players will receive (hopefully) ace-rag. If they get AK, AQ or AJ etc then you aren’t screwed. But you might be. Chortle.
Now you rely on lady luck to give you a relatively playable hand such as 10J, JQ, KQ, etc. Now if you can, you can peek the flop or something, or the top card and deal a second or something which can help you on the luck thing.
At any rate, I’m babbling. The basic idea here is that it is very unlikely that any of the 3 people with ace-rag will hit their ace; impossible if you managed 4 aces instead of 3. Bad players, however, will play their hand and call your raises simply because they hold an ace. But they’re dead to a pair. So get a raise in preflop and you SHOULD get 3 callers.
Now if you hit a pair, it is likely you will have the best hand because none of the suckers will hit their ace. If they hit their rag then they are in more trouble because that ace will keep them fishing with their single crappy pair.
You don’t want much aggressive betting, but you do need to keep putting money in the pot. You’ll get more callers than you deserve and you SHOULD win the hand with a pair or queens or something. The reason why the win will be good is because you can count on getting lots more callers than you usually would, so your small bets get paid off massively. Lots of small amounts add up quite quickly.
It seemed a pretty subtle method for building a stack, and so I thought I’d post it.
Of course, there ARE pitfalls. But as long as you UNDERSTAND that, it shouldn’t be a massive problem. If someone who you know to have an ace is betting out pre-flop, you can assume he’s got a nice kicker attached and you may just want to fold. If an ace does indeed hit the flop, just fold and watch all 3 players defend their pair of aces. If the board pairs, there’s a chance someone has trip rags, so fold. If you don’t hit a pair, folding could be wise. If 2,3,4,5 hits the board, just make sure you have a 6.
The beauty of this is that you don’t put much in the pot for the possibility of a large gain, so folding isn’t too painful. Nor is losing for the suckers.
That way, it won’t bring much heat, if any.
Clever, ey?
Perhaps partially.
Don’t cheat, guys and gals, just educate yourself.
–Arthur–
Filed under: Card Table Artifice, Yarns | Tags: card, cheat, hold'em, holding, muck, out, palm, palming, warning, wrong
Should that title read “where does one muck his discards?” or is that a different thing?
All this mechanic slang about slugs and mucks and stacks and lights and pegs and shade and juice and culls and overhand shuffles (the most complex of all) gets me both aroused and enraged. As with any language, new words are simply created from derivations or suitable syllables, and then repeated enough times for others to start using it. Thus, the infection spreads. We have Shakespeare to thank for many of the gorgeous intricacies the English language presents for us, so who do we thank for the interesting slang that emerges from the world of the card table? Somewhere in history, did a Jacobean fop learn to muck cards? I, for one, certainly hope so.
Anyway, from now on, I think I’ll make up words occasionally. Why not? (because.) Could be interesting to read (it won’t). They might stick (They won’t).
Main body of this post is a simple lesson.
Whilst playing a swift game of cards, I noticed one particular pesky player was playing heavy and holding out. The held out cards were stashed in the pocket of the jeans, crumpled and painfully obvious. When it came to his deal, he elevated the held out card onto the bottom of the deck for the shuffle. INGENIOUS!… wait… wait… no. Not ingenious. Bloody stupid.
I hear this fella is quite the poker champion on his pub circuit, and now we know why. Intoxicated people don’t notice someone holding their cards underneath the table and two pairs happening practically every single hand.
The irony is, if he had left the card palmed in his hand, I doubt I would have noticed. The added “security” of the pocket was ultimately a counter-productive measure.
So, kids, never hold out cards in your pockets. It will get you in hot water, as it got this fella in. A simple deck count is enough to get you sweating amusingly. And when you do miraculously find the card on the floor, six feet from the table, its crumpled state will be a precursor for your health.
–Arthur—
Play safe
Filed under: Yarns | Tags: cheat, cheater, cheating, friends, greek, other, sucker, Yarns
For the first time ever (and I am writing this both inebriated and fatigued) I have met a cheat at a table.
Playing poker tonight with (notice the inverted commas) ‘friends’ I noticed some foul play. A little bit of flop/turn/river peeking by way of a gin rummy peak. Very amateur, but very effective among friends all drinking and having fun.
Now… call me a hypocrite. But, I would like to think when I play an advantage it is the fault of the sucker playing someone he has never met.
Playing with friends is a wonderful time to sit back and see how good I am at cards when on the square.
How did I deal with this amateur (pukingly amateur and therefore, as an elitist I wish for him to die) cheater? Nothing. Creating bad blood among friends would not be wise. So, after informing just one close friend, I cordially left.
If he does it again however, I’ll go apeshit.
That is a technical term of course.
…Ahem…
Yours,
–Arthur–
Well, I filmed some deals just for the hell of it and as something to post on this thing whilst my brain attempts to think of something creative and worth mentioning. 
Wahey!
At any rate, this is just a video of two bottom deals, and two greek deals. The camera is low and thus, difficult to avoid finger flash. The sound is unedited (which, as you can hear, is rather a problem on the first greek deal demonstration.)
Its not perfect, but I think its worth showcasing as way of filling space and pretty much just showing everyone out there in internet land that I do practice these things and I’m not bullshitting
Wahey!!!
Here ’tis…
Bottoms and Greeks 5th December ‘08 from Arthur Pitt on Vimeo.
–Arthur–
Here’s a free tip for your home/local game. Don’t get bored with dealing and let someone deal every single hand. Especially when you have never met the guy before.
Unless you’re playing with me. In which case, carry on.
–Arthur–
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–
