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The cheating is a special form of fraud.

Cheating is probably as old as the gambling money. Already in ancient Egyptian tombs of 3500 BC manipulated cubes were found. There is no known gambling, was not practiced in the manipulation or at least tried. The methods are extremely diverse, sophisticated and mechanically sometimes very expensive.

Common techniques

The cheating is common in dice or card games, and all games in which chance and incomplete information play a role.

Very common methods are:

  • Swapping cubes prepared with cubes, which by virtue of a different centroid asymmetry or other odds
  • Back marked ( " pronged " ) Playing Cards
  • Inconspicuous mirror ( " shiner " )
  • Kibitz
  • Swapping of entire card with specially arranged games ( " cooler" )
  • Incorrect mixing ( seemingly authentic, but controlled mixing )
  • Misdeal
  • Signals under secretly allied players

Professional cheaters contact such tricks only very sparingly, but enough for most games already the occasional cheating in order to improve the probability of winning considerably: think, for example, only to the immense benefit of a player of backgammon, the one grants the right to determine at a desired time during a game, the number of eyes on just a cube itself.

Pure scam Games

Some counterfeit games exist solely as a fraud and games can not be played honestly in reality.

  • Caraway leaves (three card monte ): Three cards are quickly interchanged and the player gets the impression that he could track the winning card.
  • Shell game (three shell game ): The same with three walnut shells, etc. and a ball.

In these games, it is not about gambling in the strict sense, since not happiness, but the apparent opportunity to observe the player prompted to set. If the player had actually a chance the game makers would immediately bankrupt. Both feats are also part of the standard repertoire serious magician.

Countermeasures

The methods of cheaters are so numerous and sophisticated that you can only advise a lump sum to play with strangers for money.

Known cheaters

  • John Kepplinger
  • Milton Franklin Andrews
  • George McManus
  • "Titanic Thompson "
  • "The Hiker "
  • " Con Baker " ( Conrad Baker)

Known cheating experts

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