How do you get away with cheating?

[Killer Caine]

Originally Posted by kaylin

what does the spade emblem mean anyway? I always wonder when I play.

I have been thrown into jail for cheating a time or two... Don't ever swap for a card that is already on the table, the dealer will inspect your cards and find that there are two in the game and you've been caught. Oops.

I don't know a lot about poker anyway, so I just bid and hope for the best!

The marker shows the 'virtual' dealer. Although the house does the actual dealing (to prevent *cough* cheating), you are not actually delaing the cards if the animation and tradition are to be beleived.

I only wish that when you 'swap' cards you would actually change the deck from that point onward and pocket the card you swapped out.

Instead you lose the card and only 'skew' the deck for that hand.

Too bad. I would like to take all those blackjack cheat cards (low numbers) and swap them out for face card and aces for high stakes poker. Oh well, guess they have to limit cheating somehow....

BTW, is it my imagination, or do you get the 'unable to swap' message more often when there is a live player in the opposition?

Also, as far as 'cheating' hve you noticed that some computer players have tells when they bet? I hope these do not apply for live player's avatars. Or at least, the tells go away once you are experienced (like the 'arrrrr' weans out of your chat once you get experienced.) That would be cool if your avatar gave away the goods but the chance of a tell gets cut in half everytime you win XXX gold. Eventually it would round down to zero, but until then....