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Re:A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World by jandrese on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:12PM (#21161463)
The article doesn't explain it at all. There's a lot of hand analysis proving that it is a statistical impossibility that he's not cheating, and a lot of speculation on possible methods, but nothing that explains how he actually did it.

The most likely method seems to be a RFID reader either in his keys or hat transmitting data to his phone, but from what I can tell nobody has nailed down his technique exactly.

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Re:A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World by jefftk on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:44PM (#21161726)
> There's a lot of hand analysis proving that it is a statistical impossibility that he's not cheating, and a lot of speculation on possible methods, but nothing that explains how he actually did it.

While it does sound like he's cheating I don't see how you can get there with just statistics. He could be incredibly good at reading his opponents.

(But it's super implausible that he doesn't play anything but these specific games, and then wins by such a large margin.)

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