Doc,Jan 26 2006, 02:32 PM Wrote:Gambling is merely hedging your bets to your own advantage. Rigging the odds. Sorry, but I will never see that as outright cheating. You lay your money down. It's your responsibility to get it back, one means or another. Honest gambling is an oxymoron of sorts. You lie. It's all layed with dishonesty. Bluffing is just another form of cheating. You are intentionally and actively lying to increase the odds in your favour. Keeping track of somebody's tells... That's just another form of cheating. Rigging the odds in your favour. If you bluff or tally tells, you may as well stoop a little lower, because you are guilty of cheating no matter how you try to weasel out of it.
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"Smart" gambling, hedging your bets, playing the odds, etc, isn't cheating.
Bluffing is not cheating, it is a legal play. A bluff is a bet to win. You bet the other guy will lay down instead of calling. It may be a lie or simply playing on people's perceptions, but it is not cheating. Playing with amateurs is dangerous, they will play anything and they don't know the difference between a bad bet and a bluff.
Watching for tells is not cheating either. You are using all your senses to try and predict what the other gambler is doing.
Marking cards, swapping decks, skimming the pot, those are cheats. Covering the spread, bluffing, and just simply paying attention are not.
Card counting isn't cheating either, but try it in Vegas... :P
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