For sure, the only issue would be building the game itself at those stakes.
I embrace being a nit, don’t care if people call me one, lean into it even, but even I don’t refuse to straddle in that sort of game.
I accept the need to have a human monitoring the cards in real time. It seems to me like the big vulnerability is having a single, unobserved person doing it. They should have at least two people in the room who can monitor each other.
only halfway through a thorough watch of last night’s stream, first thoughts is nick airball seems pretty credible and seems to be floating money to tons of players in this game and may have been scammed by these guys, and I’m not too sure about rip but he claims that he was not planning on playing that night and only was told 2 hours before. Kind of irrelevant either way.
Garret’s doc is a mess and doesn’t seem to prove much and it’s notable that all of his evidence he lists is AFTER the fact, and seems to just be collated data points from various people speculating about what happened. bit sus to me.
To clarify this, he said Garrett won’t straddle ‘unless’ everyone else is straddling. Still uncouth for the biggest winner who gets to dictate lineups, but not the same sin as refusing the same obligation as other players.
Not straddling 100% of the time as the best player and biggest winner in a game is completely unjustifiable.
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Does not appear you can put two 6c into the same deck. I mean maybe you can register a 6c physical card as a 4h or something, it doesn’t give that amount of detail, but I’m pretty cold on this playing a role because it doesn’t seem like the operator in the booth would fuck this up. More likely would be a man in the middle attack not knowing the raw RFID values of the new cards, but that method of cheating seems extremely unlikely to me, i.e., an unknown 3rd party intercepting raw RFID feed and then somehow knowing what the action is and signaling them in real time (also her hand would appear as Jc? in that case which wouldn’t make sense to send a JAM signal).
The only way I can make sense of the hand as intentional cheating is assuming the superuser thinks she has Jc6c but I’m not seeing any way to believe that happened. At first I thought people were saying the 4h and 6c were swapped, as in the 4h was reading as the 6c, but that’s not what happened. They just seem to have been reading intermittently (due to wear and tear) and were replaced.
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If I was designing I don’t use rfid. I don’t like that other readers can be in play.
Instead I would use hole card cameras, and put the delay in the cameras.
The video stream comes out of the camera 20 minutes later.
No indicators for failure to read. Just deal with the occasional mystery hand.
This is a secure system.
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I have at times said I will agree to straddle if everyone but one person agrees, to pick on the guy who absolutely refuses to straddle.
Hmm what if they weren’t mapped yet? It was only a few hands later. If they weren’t mapped yet, the superuser just knows she has a card that isn’t reading. If he doesn’t know which deck it is, he knows it’s either the 4h or 6c and why the fuck would she raise the turn with the 4h?
To be clear I have no idea how long they take to map them or whatever but this seems at least theoretically possible.
Same here. The hole card cam system is more expensive to operate from a production standpoint because you have to enter hands in, but that should just be the cost of doing business.
It has to know which deck is being used, as otherwise it wouldn’t know the other cards.
In a private game I agree. In an open casino game it varies. There are lineups I’ll straddle if at least half the table does, others if the whole table does, it in between. I’m never ever being the one to block it though.
Private game I’m basically always straddling and throwing in the occasional restraddle or blind raise and never turning down a blind hand for the table when the whale asks for up to like 10bb a piece. Giving 0EV action is the least a big winner should do in a private game.
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What I’m saying is if they haven’t mapped those two cards yet, the staff may not know which deck is in use and which card the unmapped card is. But I would guess they map them before putting them in.
I think it would just be the funniest explanation of how it all went awry on the J4 hand if Bryan knows she either has Jc6c or Jc4h and assumes from the turn raise it has to be the 6c, so he doesn’t realize he’s about to blow up their spot by telling her to call.
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Seems like you could use QR codes to skip that step.
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What do you mean if they weren’t mapped yet? They have to be mapped yet. It’s a requirement of the software. That’s why I linked the document.
My reading of the manual is that the software is deck agnostic.
An unlimited number of decks can be registered at the same time, and cards
from any deck can be used interchangeably in a game at any time.
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I’m not home yet, so I couldn’t read it. Just took your word for it being impossible to map the same card twice.
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