Podcast – guest Michael Sall

Interesting interview. I thought Gin Rummy was only a two player game that people played heads up against one another, and Rummy was a multi player game played with 4 or so players all competing against each other with no team play aspect to the game.
I like how Sall talked about cheating in the game, some aspects of which I understood and some of which I didn’t. I can understand if playing in a country club setting that players would take turns with the deal and that’s where I believe an edge can be attained. A player could also get a pretty good feel on how a particular game may go if their opponent deals and if their shuffle can be picked apart and if they are attempting to cheat by pinning a sequence of cards near the bottom of the deck by studying how they handle the deck and if the cards are washed before they shuffle, and which type of shuffle are they using. I would have to figure that many of the players in the country club may have money, but they are lazy and have weak shuffles that can be picked apart with ease. I view those people as being snobby since that class of player enjoys being catered to and they are used to it, they don’t seem like the type of players who would take a game seriously other than the amount of cash being wagered on each game and that could be a weakness.