One of the “probably not cheating” thoughts was that it was such an unbelievably stupid spot to pick. But based on everybody’s conduct over the last week, it doesn’t have to be anything more than him/them just being dumb as everloving fuck.
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Probably don’t even need QR codes. It can’t be that hard to have software that can be able to detect the cards the cameras sees.
I still think this is some of the best evidence against cheating. Seems so bizarre to pick this hand if you have full access to all cards.
I just realized you are talking about normal straddle but for me it always means button straddle as that’s what we use here.
Not button straddling seems insane to me as best player and biggest winner.
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My point was that I don’t think the software allows you to dictate what cards are in a virtual deck. It sounds like in order to register cards you need to register a proper 52 card deck, although you can register as many decks as you like and all of the cards are interchangeable at any time. You almost surely cannot register the same card twice. Whether you can map a card to an incorrect value is unknown.
In the stream, it appears that the runner brings the new cards and the dealer inserts them into the deck immediately. That would strongly imply the cards have been registered in advance and are already known to be their correct rank and suit in the PokerGFX database. In that case, it’s tough to imagine how an operator (e.g., Bryan) could possibly confuse them–they are already registered and display the correct value right away.
From an outside attacker’s perspective, both of these cards (4h, 6c) would be novel, and (s)he would not know their values if perpetrating a MitM attack. In fact, it’s easy to imagine a person doing it that way could easily confuse the novel cards. I just think this method seems extremely unlikely.
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Probably an obvious point, but the market for production technology for live poker streams is pretty…niche. Really tough to get an ultra high quality and secure product developed when it has zero shot of any kind of commercial viability.
To me this implies a low tech solution is ideal otherwise you’re going to have these home brew janky platforms that are full of bugs and vulnerable to abuse.
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That argument only makes sense if you demonstrate them passing up better spots.
Not button straddling would make sense in a game where you are concerned that will break the game of you make it to large and break too many players in the pool.
I think button straddles are bad for the game so I try to avoid encouraging them unless unless the lineup is clueless about that and doesn’t adjust.
But I think you mostly play PLO so that may be different.
All the reasons for button straddling being bad for the game are true in PLO, but PLO players are slower to make the correct adjustment of folding more preflop.
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Last night it was a 100/200 game and in one hand the straddle went 400 → 800 → 1600 → 3200 → 6400 → 12800. Just fwiw
Yeah, and I don’t think they’d be using the attack for their own cards. They’d need to be getting an RFID reader within whatever distance - I’m guessing it’s closer to 12 to 24 inches than the 1 inch they claim, I’m thinking the table interferes and the RFID reader is underneath and that’s why it’s 1 inch… But I’m guessing on that.
Anyway it would be pretty silly to be using a proximity reader on their own cards.
I guess you could hypothesize about either the infrared barcode method, but I find that extremely unlikely. You’d need a device on the table aligned with the deck when it’s being cut, and you’d almost certainly need a dealer in on it… And you wouldn’t need Bryan at all, unless the data was running through him and he was signalling.
I’ve seen that many straddles, but starting much lower. I once saw 1/3/6/15/30/60/120/240 But only like four people were straddling in that hand. You could re-straddle your own straddle.
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They are only bad for games populated by Bruce’s and pros. 
I avoid those game like the plague already.
I’d say a few times a session we have 1/2/5/10/20/40 in my plo game.
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I’m not at all convinced that she’s actually going to press charges.
She’s going to play Doug Polk heads up! And Shaun Deeb! And take multiple lie detector tests! And press charges!
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Don’t forget her match with Garrett!
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In fairness, she didn’t say she was going to press charges, but instead she’s going to prosecute. I assume she’ll be studying for her prosecutor’s license over the next couple days.
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