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Originally Posted by pokerfan655
My point is if you can see his cards you are losing money after the flop long term - surely people cheating understand basic math. It's incredible to think she's cheating - there's plenty of spots in poker where if you're cheating you can bluff/go thinner on value and make it look legitimate, so the logic that cheaters would use this spot that's not even profitable is laughable.
The pot odds she was getting justified the call.
Why is it incredible to think she is cheating? In view of the evidence piling up, it is incredible not to think she is cheating.
I think you are overlooking a possibility that we are talking dumb criminals here. The sensible thing to do would be to win on a hand like a Robbi KQ hand beating an AK hand, as that would be a common poker scenario so no one would question it. But they wouldn't realise J4 is such an unusual hand it would raise suspicions.
The suggestion is the card reader can tell all the forthcoming cards, so can predict that J4 will eventually win that hand. That being the case pot odds actually end up irrelevant to the decision if one KNOWS with certainty one is going to win the hand.
Don't forget, she said she knew she would beat him in the long run, and that confidence can come from knowing exactly when one is ahead.