Skanked in pub game.

[kinboshi]

Sofa showed us one trick.  Told me to pick any hand.  So I went for a full house, eights over sevens.  He pulls out the cards, places them in the pack at random positions, shuffles the cards, has others cut them, etc.

Then deals the cards to 5 of us, retrieves all the cards as a 'mis-deal' (I'm sure this is when it 'happens') and then after a quick shuffle deals them out again.  His hand?  88877.  Very clever.

I bet he wishes it was self-dealt at the weekend.  888KK v KKK88 was a nasty one - especially with the K coming on the river!

[Mango99]

Browsing the internet just now, I found a couple of pics of the very guys who sat at my table!!

Mateyboy1:


Mateyboy2:

[MAF]

So which pub was this?  I live fairly near Battersea.

[BigTomatoes]

Browsing the internet just now, I found a couple of pics of the very guys who sat at my table!!

Mateyboy1:


Mateyboy2:

 i was going to say it could have been the guys from The Real Hustle

 they done this trick with The Boatmans , Ross got AA , the hustler had QQ

 A Q 2 flop , money goes in , river Q

 but the key is , in that particular Hustle he ordered a drink , and as the girl gave him his drink she passed him the fiddled deck

 either you know who they are and your making this up , or the TV guys have been a bit naughty

[Mango99]

Browsing the internet just now, I found a couple of pics of the very guys who sat at my table!!

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 i was going to say it could have been the guys from The Real Hustle

 they done this trick with The Boatmans , Ross got AA , the hustler had QQ

 A Q 2 flop , money goes in , river Q

 but the key is , in that particular Hustle he ordered a drink , and as the girl gave him his drink she passed him the fiddled deck

 either you know who they are and your making this up , or the TV guys have been a bit naughty

No, it's neither of those...
The story above is a true story - though, not the whole story. I wanted to see what people thought of the hand distribution before I revealed 'The Prestige'... which is....

After Mateyboy stormed off, and we are sat discussing how we'd been skanked, a bloke comes up to us and says "Can you 4 come round the corner for a second?"

We walk round the corner, and find 3 TV cameras pointing at us. "You've just been on The Real Hustle" they say.

"Wooahhhh!" we say, "Awesome" etc. It's going to be shown on BBC3 in April apparently.

They did film 2 versions of the scam. One with another group directly before us. They apparently didn't accuse the shill of cheating and suspected nothing was amiss(!), whereas I did suspect and accuse. I'm not sure which version they will show - hopefully both, though they may edit out my cheating comment, so that it looks like we were unaware we were scammed.

Who knows? I did say in the interview at the end that I fell for the scam "hook, line and sinker". Not sure why I said that? Perhpas that fact it was filmed in a bar with a tab (that they ended up picking up) had something to do with it

[tikay]

Mango, you can come to my Home Game any time you want......Bring plenty of money, eh?

[Mango99]

Mango, you can come to my Home Game any time you want......Bring plenty of money, eh?

lol, thanks tikay

[Mango99]

To answer the earlier "what pub?" question. It was a pub called just off Battersea Bridge.

They don't normally host poker games there, as that would probably be a bit illegal

The whole thing was set up for the sake of The Real Hustle.

They showed us the location of the hidden cameras after the filming. 3 were in speakers around the edges of the room we were in, and one stuck to the ceiling next to the fan. The ceiling camera wasn't exactly subtle, though I didn't look at he ceiling at any point in the 5 hands. Sometimes when I'm thinking to call or fold, I look up to the heavens. Good job for them, I didn't this time

At the end of the game, the other two tables (that were full of players) stood up and did a round of applause. They were all actors hired for the occasion, as was the barmaid. Sneaky eh?

[boldie]

Browsing the internet just now, I found a couple of pics of the very guys who sat at my table!!

<images stripped>

 i was going to say it could have been the guys from The Real Hustle

 they done this trick with The Boatmans , Ross got AA , the hustler had QQ

 A Q 2 flop , money goes in , river Q

 but the key is , in that particular Hustle he ordered a drink , and as the girl gave him his drink she passed him the fiddled deck

 either you know who they are and your making this up , or the TV guys have been a bit naughty

Browsing the internet just now, I found a couple of pics of the very guys who sat at my table!!

Mateyboy1:


Mateyboy2:

 i was going to say it could have been the guys from The Real Hustle

 they done this trick with The Boatmans , Ross got AA , the hustler had QQ

 A Q 2 flop , money goes in , river Q

 but the key is , in that particular Hustle he ordered a drink , and as the girl gave him his drink she passed him the fiddled deck

 either you know who they are and your making this up , or the TV guys have been a bit naughty

No, it's neither of those...
The story above is a true story - though, not the whole story. I wanted to see what people thought of the hand distribution before I revealed 'The Prestige'... which is....

After Mateyboy stormed off, and we are sat discussing how we'd been skanked, a bloke comes up to us and says "Can you 4 come round the corner for a second?"

We walk round the corner, and find 3 TV cameras pointing at us. "You've just been on The Real Hustle" they say.

"Wooahhhh!" we say, "Awesome" etc. It's going to be shown on BBC3 in April apparently.

They did film 2 versions of the scam. One with another group directly before us. They apparently didn't accuse the shill of cheating and suspected nothing was amiss(!), whereas I did suspect and accuse. I'm not sure which version they will show - hopefully both, though they may edit out my cheating comment, so that it looks like we were unaware we were scammed.

Who knows? I did say in the interview at the end that I fell for the scam "hook, line and sinker". Not sure why I said that? Perhpas that fact it was filmed in a bar with a tab (that they ended up picking up) had something to do with it

hmmm a program like that?...they'll show the unsuspecting punter every time.

[KingPoker]

will get this in quick before the missus signs up- the bird off it has done some very "interesting" pictures in the past. Simply google Jessica Jane Clement.

[Mango99]

will get this in quick before the missus signs up- the bird off it has done some very "interesting" pictures in the past. Simply google Jessica Jane Clement.

Aye, I checked The Real Hustle website afterwards. American Playboy apparently

She wasn't at this scam unfortunately.

[boldie]

will get this in quick before the missus signs up- the bird off it has done some very "interesting" pictures in the past. Simply google Jessica Jane Clement.

never heard of her..she looks like your average page3 totty though.

[KingPoker]

will get this in quick before the missus signs up- the bird off it has done some very "interesting" pictures in the past. Simply google Jessica Jane Clement.

never heard of her..she looks like your average page3 totty though.

she's the eye candy distraction on the real hustle.

[stewart]

ive seen this done many times been involved in the games ( playing ) a few times, i went threw it once with one of the dealers they showed me how they did it and how to spot it,

the first trick is they ask for a change of cards with the button in the spot they require i.e there friend in the small blind, with the cards allready in order they bring them to the table shemmy them and cut them, of cause both times leaveing the top 20-25 cards in situ u have to watch carefully, and they get the table to cut them and cut them back again before they deal,

the 2nd one is well known nowadays the dealer deals the cards as normal, finds an ace and after that its easy the ace just gets put on the top or bottom of the pack and shemmy'd and shuffled and cut to the top,

there was 3-4 pepole in my local got life time bans after months of us telling the management what was going on how it was going on and who was doing it, but it still took them months to catch them

i.e if u ever play private games away from house delt games, the button should allways cut the cards, and the cards when changed should be display'd in order on the table before the game starts and watch the pack 1 trick is when they pick them up to they face towards or away from the dealer if they are towards they are normally sorting the top cards into an order

[BrumBilly]

Sounds like a hand from one of the following books (can't remember which one but I'd guess at the latter) 'Swimming with the Devilfish', 'Total Poker, David Spanier'.