Cheating at charity event
Anyway, he started with 500 chips and went to 6,000 in 1 hour - call it 120 hands tops? Could someone please help me back into the odds of this? 6 deck shoe, 3 splits, double down, dealer peeks, not sure what else you gurus need, but it's your typical charity blackjack game rules.
Thanks!
Past posting is one of the most basic forms of casino cheating. How someone could get away with it, even in a charity situation...
Quote: jeff057Anyway, he started with 500 chips and went to 6,000 in 1 hour - call it 120 hands tops? Could someone please help me back into the odds of this? 6 deck shoe, 3 splits, double down, dealer peeks, not sure what else you gurus need, but it's your typical charity blackjack game rules.
Thanks!
That's pretty despicable behavior if true.
Anyhow, assuming his starting bankroll of 500 wasn't replenishable, then his probability of reaching 6000 was just short of 500/6000 or 8.33%
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Quote: jeff057I recently attended a fundraiser where prizes were handed out based on chips accumulated in 1.5 hrs. I saw a coworker cheating at this event and called him on it at the time, but nothing was done. Simple cheat of adding to his bet when he would win. He walked away with the first place prize of $500 and it isn't sitting right with me at all.
Anyway, he started with 500 chips and went to 6,000 in 1 hour - call it 120 hands tops? Could someone please help me back into the odds of this? 6 deck shoe, 3 splits, double down, dealer peeks, not sure what else you gurus need, but it's your typical charity blackjack game rules.
Thanks!
If you reported him at the time, and nothing was done about it, there is nothing productive to be done regarding the event now. However, in the future, if a similar event is held, boycott it, and encourage your other co-workers to do likewise.
I would also examine my financial dealings with the cheater, and consider separating myself and the company's assets from those under his control as much as possible. If someone is willing to cheat co-workers at a charity event, there are probably other shenanigans going on.
I would think intentionally cheating in a home poker game is against the law too, right?
If he cheated, then he stole. The ultimate victim isn't relevant. There was one, maybe a benevolent winner who'd have just donated back to the charity. I've no doubt such cheating, if it occurred, was against criminal law in just about every jurisdiction.Quote: FinsRuleI’m not a lawyer, but I’m thinking intentionally cheating would probably be against the law, even if the charity didn’t lose money.
I would think intentionally cheating in a home poker game is against the law too, right?
Quote: FinsRuleI’m not a lawyer, but I’m thinking intentionally cheating would probably be against the law, even if the charity didn’t lose money.
I would think intentionally cheating in a home poker game is against the law too, right?
I can only imagine the reaction of the cop who responds to such a 911 call. If cheating at a home poker game is illegal, is cheating at Monopoly? Risk? Pac Man?
Yeah, I think it would be some kind of fraud... or defacing a charity (pulling from the prizes they offer non-cheating donors).Quote: FinsRuleI’m not a lawyer, but I’m thinking intentionally cheating would probably be against the law, even if the charity didn’t lose money.
I would think intentionally cheating in a home poker game is against the law too, right?
As an aside the rules in the UK used to be fairly tight so I'm not exactly sure what's allowed these days.
Quote: billryanI can only imagine the reaction of the cop who responds to such a 911 call. If cheating at a home poker game is illegal, is cheating at Monopoly? Risk? Pac Man?
If there is a risk tournament and there’s significant money on the line and there’s evidence, then sure.
The college students running the game did NOT know how to play the game, so I had to teach them just about every hand, but I was just a random player on the scene. They didn't know if I was telling them the truth or not, and none of the other players knew how to play the game either.
Quote: jeff057I recently attended a fundraiser where prizes were handed out based on chips accumulated in 1.5 hrs. I saw a coworker cheating at this event and called him on it at the time, but nothing was done. Simple cheat of adding to his bet when he would win. He walked away with the first place prize of $500 and it isn't sitting right with me at all.
Anyway, he started with 500 chips and went to 6,000 in 1 hour - call it 120 hands tops? Could someone please help me back into the odds of this? 6 deck shoe, 3 splits, double down, dealer peeks, not sure what else you gurus need, but it's your typical charity blackjack game rules.
Thanks!
This kind of thing happens all the time at charity events. I've dealt them and I've supervised them. You've got players that don't know how to play games, drunk participants, a relaxed atmosphere, usually event dealers (not casino dealers).
If you are there to play serious, you are at the wrong place.
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The one I go to for a holiday party each year gives you $1k in chips to play with, and then you can trade your chips in for raffle tickets. It’s not a charity event.
They deal BJ shoes down to the last card, the allowable spread is infinite. And if you engage the bored-at-work dealers they will clue you into the hole card or just straight up give you free chips.
There are around 15 raffle items in separate drawings that you can drop your tickets in. My strategy is to drop all my tickets into a single prize. I crinkle and bend the tickets a bit before entering them. I don’t know if that actually helps or not, but I’ve always done it superstitiously.
I won an iPad last year and an Xbox One X this year.
Quote: billryanI can only imagine the reaction of the cop who responds to such a 911 call. If cheating at a home poker game is illegal, is cheating at Monopoly? Risk? Pac Man?
Here in Central Florida, people kill each other over XBoxes and other gaming contests. At least 3 times in recent years. So it's not beyond imagining the cops do have to respond to some serious disagreements based on games elsewhere.
it absolutely works.Quote: gamerfreakI crinkle and bend the tickets a bit before entering them. I don’t know if that actually helps or not, but I’ve always done it superstitiously.
Many casinos are convinced it works as well (of course they thought DI worked too)
They have made rules about bent tickets.
