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....

[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.