Bob and Richard visit with poker player Tony in the first of two back-to-back interviews. We speak about how he got started, his WSOP bracelet, and his experience playing in Macau, among other topics.
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Show Notes
[00:35] Tony’s first poker BR and rebooting
[04:30] Live poker and underage gambling
[09:39] Limit Hold ‘em bots
[14:59] WSoP event where Tony won the bracelet
[17:56] The Macau gold rush and money exchange
[21:48] Differences between Limit and No Limit
[23:35] Tournament v.s. Cash games & Tony’s take on mixed games
[32:15] Cases and how to handle cheating in poker for both online and offline games
[45:31] Online tells
[48:41] What are the big mistakes that online poker players make?
[51:57] Poker resources
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Those poker bot slot machines were great, it’s funny that most people thought they were unbeatable. The fact that Sklansky was playing them hard should have been a clue. I guess a lot of people think Sklansky doesn’t know how to play poker, but they would be dead wrong. There are still a few left here and there but the ones I’ve found are set at optimum play (no more “mistakes”) and zero or very little comp. Plus by now they are old machines and suffer from display problems and so on. The original design was kinda screwy, perhaps on purpose, the bot’s hands are set back to give a bit of 3D effect but once the display starts acting up they become difficult to see and cause eye strain. The bot always shows its hand at the end of the game, this should be a player advantage, but once it’s playing GTO with no mistakes, it doesn’t matter. It can cause you to go on tilt however as bluffing a high percentage is GTO for heads up.
Tony, you mentioned that people who cheat should be arrested and snitched on at 44:30 into the podcast as you go on to elaborate on casino cheating. Is that how you felt when you cheated that old man out of $100K when he was on to you about being underage? That old man had you dead to rights and the lazy ass casino employees were to goddamn lazy to do their jobs. Richard, that old man wasn’t an asshole, he had a legitimate gripe.
You contradicted yourself Tony. You should have gotten your ass hemmed up and tossed out on the street. I bet you enjoyed doing that, don’t lie. I know and you know that you enjoyed it as you got away with it.
Once a cheater, always a cheater.
Look at it this way Tony. That old man made you. You would not be where you are today if you did not cheat that old man out of $100K in a game of poker. I bet your so much of a DEGENERATE that you haven’t even paid him back!
When Tony talked about the poker cheating phone & app I thought that could only be used in home games with a special deck of cards that was designed specifically to be used with the poker cheating phone. I have heard about this but I’m not sure if such devices are being used in the casino.
I would imagine that there are poker dealers that are in collusion with players who seek to destroy bankrolls and table mates alike. As far as a cooler goes they way he described a poker dealer doing it, if a dealer has a deck of cards up their sleeve or underneath them it’s not going to help out their longevity in the business or their health for that matter if they get caught. That seems like an amateurish way of going about it.
Now good poker dealers who are cheats are good enough to cheat unsuspecting prey right in front of them. That’s the best way to do it. Do it right in front of their faces and they won’t even pick up on it, or the eye in the sky for that matter. Total schmucks! If I seen a dealer take a deck out of his sleeve it’s hammer time!!! I would want to break his/her fingers! Poker techies who have to resort to this type of low down degenerate play really are not good poker players or cheats if they have to use technology to do it. They are not a good enough cheats to take down a table by themselves or with a team. These types of players suck. They rely on technology to much when the mind, paying attention, and card handling ability to create an illusion are the real weapons to a mechanic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGhD3lFhcTc Unwrapping the poker cheating device – poker analyzer