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Originally Posted by 85chickasaw
sorry to start a conspiracy theory...
but has anyone else noticed guys with phones on the table ledge that they aren't using for regular phone stuff (never see them pick it up to text, call, skip a song, etc) all angled so the top is pointing at the center of the table... and they always have big stacks? i've run into 3 of these guys that i've noticed so far. none of them are getting wildly out of line nor being obvious (so maybe i'm just being paranoid) but i watched them all build big stacks by calling down bluffs with mid/weak hands in heads up pots... and way too consistently... like hands where a guy who's playing tight all night will often get into a bloated pot with a low pocket pair and call or a bottom pair.
i'm suspicious of something on these large clunky phones.
i've only noticed it at wind creek. i don't play here often (i play wherever i'm traveling too.. i live in florida).
let me know if anyone else observes some consistently suspicious play with a large cell phone pointed towards dealer.
I have seen this kind of thing before that I strongly suspected cheating. No crazy out of line play but always wins at showdown in weird spots. But also playing tight. Also the action was super weird, the flow of play was... off, and the players' mannerisms while playing was weird. Like they weren't engaged and thinking. No furrowed brows or eye movements or any other little human thing that indicated they were engaged in thinking about a poker game. This went on for three days and on the 4th day I went in with the intent to be pretty brazen about trying to figure out how it was happening but they had moved on. One of the first things I was going to look for was phone shenanigans.
I think this kind of thing is definitely out there and people should be on the lookout.