A key matter on the upcoming World Recreation Safety Convention shall be the usage of hidden cameras by cheaters throughout poker video games. [Image: Shutterstock.com]
The current unveiling of a rip-off that an organized crime group deployed at poker tables throughout Europe has left professionals nervous about future repeats of this sort of dishonest. The lads used well-hidden cameras of their telephones and shirts and a virtually undetectable earpiece to see the playing cards being dealt.
Skilled poker participant Maria Konnikova will talk about the matter on the World Recreation Safety Convention in March on the Rio Las Vegas.
believes casinos ought to prohibit the usage of all digital gadgets from desk video games
Konnikova has researched various types of dishonest throughout completely different video games and believes casinos ought to prohibit the usage of all digital gadgets at desk video games. One other potential approach to foil hidden cameras, she believes, is giving playing cards to gamers by means of a chute somewhat than having an actual vendor dish them out.
Casinos are largely immune to her issues as it’s a good type of advertising when individuals share photographs, movies, and livestreams of their in-person playing and tag the property. Some individuals even consider the casinos don’t care as a lot when the dishonest is throughout peer-to-peer poker video games because it doesn’t lose them cash.
Sure high-profile poker tournaments now prohibit electronics at tables and on the rail. The World Sequence of Poker, for example, fully banned digital gadgets on the desk at WSOP Paradise this previous December when down to a few tables.
