How do you get away with cheating?

[yogurt_21]

watch the spade emblem, only cheats whent he emblems on your character.

[kaylin]

Originally Posted by yogurt_21

watch the spade emblem, only cheats whent he emblems on your character.

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!

[Gingerkitty]

I sometimes try, but I never get caught. Lucky me... for once.

[Pirate Rose]

So I've tried this cheating thing a few times now. Most of the time it fails, I guess because someone else already has the card in their hand? But the few times it has been successful, I've stood up after winning the hand. Haven't been caught yet.... looks for wood to knock on...

[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....

[GraspingClaw]

If you plan on sneaking some cards in, my advice is to make sure you get up from the table once in a while, especially after winning a big hand. If you get up and sit back down, and then get caught cheating, they can only take the money from the last time you sat down. This should eliminate the possibility of the dealer confiscating a soul-crushing amount of money from you.

[OutlawZ]

The "tells" seem to appear for live players too.

I believe using a cheat card that is already in play (same suit)
almost surely guarantees you will be "caught"

other than that, it seems pretty random that some swaps fail or succeed
and sometimes the dealer checks the deck.
You will notice a pause at the end of gameplay, when the dealer "checks"...
leave the table at that point, before the cheat announcement is made.
then just sit back down again.
(seems to work for me)

[Carnage]

What Cards??? How Do I Swap??? Were Do I Get Them??

[OutlawZ]

LOL where have you been? LOL

There are a couple of minor "missions" where your "prize" will be a playing card.
Not to mention the cards you will "find" when defeating various undead throughout the game.

The cards are kept in your collection of "found" items and can be played in card games.
If you play Poker for example, you may notice the option to "swap 1st" or "2nd card" when checking, betting or folding.
This is how you get the chance to "play" a cheat card, if you have some.

Pay attention to the trinkets and "prizes" you find and earn during the game.
And to see all your cheat cards, at any one time, you will have to get into a card game, and use the "swap" card option to look through them.

[Plunderin Mom]

Originally Posted by yogurt_21

watch the spade emblem, only cheats whent he emblems on your character.

Wow, it worked!!!! Woo hoo!

I have collected 43 cheat cards, because up to this point, every time I had tried to cheat I was thrown in jail. I gave up trying. I sat down, just to test your theory tonight, used a cheat card to win the hand, and then tensed up, waiting to be told the cards had been inspected...

I could not believe it said I had won X amount of gold and the dealer started redealing cards! I grabbed my kids hand (who was standing next to me) and yelled, "I won!... I can't believe it... I cheated and got away with it!" LOL.

So, maybe I got away with it because I was the dealer? I dont know. I did cheat again, next hand when I was not the dealer, and managed to get away with it again. I was just as surprised that time. I didnt stand up to leave the table after a win either time. Nor did I swap seats. Don't know if I just had a lucky seat or what...

Anyway, was fun to finally be able to use a couple of the cheat cards and get away with it.

[Captain Squid]

Be aware too... The count shown of the # of cards you have does not = the number of cards you have!!!

At the moment, I have 39 cheat cards. When I go to use them, I can count each suit.... 4+6+7+0=17 (not 39!!)

What gives?!? No SPADES!!! lol, also when you use 1 obviously the listed card cound goes down... I wonder how that will show up.... 12 cards left? and none in the game? maybe a bug.

[Requiem]

The reason that the counts are incorrect is that you can have multiples of the same cards. I can assure you that in my collection of well over 52, I still haven't collected a 'full deck'. It is unfortunate that there is no way to look at your collection of cards and quantities at this time.