Daniel Negreanu

So they have somebody in a truck telling them you're going to win this hand.

You're going to lose this hand.

Like that happened in a private game.

You know, and the guy, what's often funny about some of these people who cheat is they're so greedy and blatantly obvious that they get caught.

Where if they use this tool in a more subtle way, they could probably continue to get away with it.

But again, that's not something I worry about in a casino environment, you know, in these tournaments and things like that.

But if I was playing in private games, like if I came down to Texas and some guy, I got cheated in a game by a guy named Blackie Blackburn and techs.

I was at the Chimo Hotel.

I was a teenager and they saw me playing, you know, I was making good money as a teenager.

I had like a $13,000 bankroll, you know, and I went and played in this game with them in a private hotel room and found out later that the guy was a card mechanic.

You know, he was dealing and he could, you know, deal you the hands and he knew what you had and stuff like that.

So yeah, I remember, you know, I lost a big number in that game and it was a good learning lesson in terms of, you know, being wary of who you trust.

That's part of the reason that they cut.

So you'll see there's a burn card because what would happen maybe in the old days is if you're sitting in the one seat, I could lift the card and you could see it, the next card coming.

So what they do is they have a card on top of it that you burn that isn't the card, and then the next card is the one that comes face up.

What happened with Phil Ivey in that whole case is it's a catastrophe, really.

Yeah.

It is such a horrible precedent because here's what he did.

Phil Ivey shows up at the casino, says, I want to play this game.

They say, okay.