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Originally Posted by ChicagoJoey
This type of cheating has occurred/is occuring at private home games.
Wiizwiig link explains it perfectly. It's incredibly easy to do
I'm skeptical of this theory for a lot of reasons.
The biggest is that as I understand it the camera is quite precise. When this device is used in a con, the camera must be pointed in a specific spot and the dealer must lay the deck flat on the table for a moment at the correct angle for the camera to read the markings. In other words, for this to be reliable, the dealer would have to be in on it. Given that dealers are rotated just as often as any other table, it doesn't make sense.
Also, his keys are on the rail, not the felt. It would be harder to get the correct angle from there.
It also wouldn't give much more of an advantage than knowing the hole cards.
I also haven't seen many hands that suggest he knows runouts. It seems that when one player in the hand has a big draw, he prefers to pot control and wait for turns and rivers. If he knew the runouts as well, it would make sense (and actually be less suspicious) to pile money in on the flop in made hand vs draw spots. But you've watched much more of his hands than me so please correct me if I'm wrong.
In summary it seems way too hard and way too much risk for such a little gain that he doesn't even seem to be taking advantage of anyway.
It's possible his key fob is doing *something* (maybe some kind of wireless receiver?) but I doubt very much that it's a camera.