[what do you do when you find a cheater in your game?]

Heh, the dvd idea was good. In response to about half of you...I can't beat his ass because he's only 16 years old and would do serious time or have to pay some big fines. He's not a friend of mine, but he's "friends" with alot of people at the game. If it happened at my house he woulda been kicked to the gutter, but since it was at someone else's game...I just told him what i know and let him take it from there.-Efridge

[what do you do when you find a cheater in your game?]

I was playing in a weekly low buyin mixed game at a friend's house Friday night having a good time and talking to friends about current events, movies, the oscars, etc... To my right was a kid that never wins and is constantly rebuying in and losing it. Well tonight he had more chips than anyone at the table. I didn't think anything of it because anyone can have a lucky streak, no matter how bad you are. However, later in the evening i was looking down scratching the back of my head and I notice that he deals himself a card from the bottom of the deck (like in the movie 'Rounders'). I had just assumed that I had just made a mistake, but I decided to keep watching...and sure enough, the last card he dealt himself came off the bottom of the deck. The hand/game in question was pot limit omaha hi/lo split. I take a look at my garbage hand and muck and watch the rest of the hand. There is a little betting before the flop and it comes AAQo. Two people check and someone from middle position bets and the kid to my right re-raised the pot. The other guy folded and I asked to see his hand. Sure enough it read A2Q3 and the 2 cards he dealt himself from the bottom was the a2. He then got real nervous and cashed out his chips and left. What do you do in that situation? Where you think you found someone cheat, but you have no way to prove it? I told the guy that ran the game what I had seen in private, but I didn't want to make the information public because a) if I was wrong, I wouldn't want it to come back on me and B) it was already public knowlege that I didn't like the kid and I didn't want people to think I'm just trying to start drama.What would you do?-Efridge

[nl holdem books.]

the NLHE section is ss1 is the best literature that i've read for CASH GAMES, but it doesn't work for tournies...so don't even try. mike caro's book on poker tells is amazing for hold em cash games too. just my 2cents.

[josh arieh (not a negative post)]

the reason he makes a bet of that nature is that when there is a player inbetween them and they just call, and the player with the short stack moves all his chips in, they both just call and the middle player doesn't have a shot at a reraise. if josh would bet half or less than the short stack's chips and the short stack moved in, josh would have to worry about calling that bet and maybe calling a reraise from the middle player. now that's he's bet that odd amount, the middle player has to raise before the other player decides if they want to move in or not, so josh holds as much of an advantage his poor position would allow. just my 2cents.