Originally Posted by GCBiloxi
Why Technology is endangering Poker
If you've ever played live you've probably heard stories of cheating, marked cards, luminescent inks, contact lenses etc.
Well what about infared thinfilms & Radio Frequency Technology? There are literally hundreds of ways to cheat poker, most detectable, I recently had the opportunity of playing with a group of people in a $10 $25 $50 game in New Orleans who were using cards with manufactured infared wavelength thinfilms that could be viewed by only the cheaters. They were caught when a player stole cards from the game & had them put under infared.
Over the last few years we've seen major advances in technology, in particular in the field of nanotechnology. Nanotech brings a whole new perspective on how poker can be cheated. What if I told you that playing cards were being manufactured that could change from one card to another like a chameleon card. Before you deem this impossible you can spend about 10 minutes online googling nano optics, color tunable thinfilms etc before you realize the technology is there. There are actually several ways this can be done. What's even more bizarre is some of the most powerful companies in the gambling industry today have patents on playing cards that can do this.
Bally Technology - Articles & Methods to facilitate the delivery of Playing Cards. Patent # 11480345
I'll just post a piece from the patent here:
"In still other embodiments, the playing card media may take the form of existing playing cards, from which the playing card value markings will be erased, prior to being reformed or otherwise generated. In some embodiments, the playing card media may take the form of a fiber based media, for example card stock, vellum, or polymer based media. In some embodiments, the playing card media takes the form of an active media, for example a form of electronic or "e-paper", smart paper, and/or ink code, which allows the formation and erasure of markings via electrical, magnetic, or electromagnetic radiation.
Smart paper is a product developed by Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, of Palo Alto, Calif. The smart paper consists of a flexible polymer containing millions of small balls and electronic circuitry. Each ball has a portion of a first color and a portion of a second color, each portion having an opposite charge from the other portion. Applying a charge causes the balls to rotate within the polymer structure, to display either the first or the second color. Charges can be selectively applied to form different ones or groups of the balls to from the respective markings 154-160 on the playing cards 108. The markings 154-160 remain visible until another charge is applied. Alternatively, the playing card handling system 120c can be adapted to employ color-changing inks such as thermochromatic inks (e.g., liquid crystal, leucodyes) which change color in response to temperature fluctuations, and photochromatic inks that respond to variations in UV light"
A patent that uses a random number generator to deliver physical playing cards, HMMMM
What about this one from Cantor Gaming, A subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgeral:
Mobile Playing Card Devices: 12479968
This one also uses a random number generator to randomize the deck of physical playing cards, .02 inches thick, about the same as a normal playing card.
What about this article :
Precision Polymer Processors Gentex Corp. | Archbald, PA | Company ...Dec 14, 2010 ... a joint-venture company formed by Kem Plastic and Gentex Corp., of Carbondale, Pa. To make casino-grade...
And this patent from Gentex of Carbondale PA: Substrate mounting for Organic Dielectric Optical films. 6951681
Why would a playing card company team up with a company that makes Optical thinfilms of nanosize? Hmmm
Or what about Europes largest cardmaker Cartamundi teaming up with a company called Thin Film technologies, also a nanotech thinfilm Com. HMMM
Heres the headline: Thin Film Electr. : - Cartamundi and Thinfilm have agreed to extend Cartamundi's production and commercialization rights to Thinfilm's memory technology under the Patent and Know-How, License Agreement signed in 2007.
After spending a couple years of my life researching this technology, I finally got to see one of these cards in person, The card was an exact replica of a Casino KEM CARD. You couldn't tell the difference with the naked eye & the card was made of Cellulose Acetate just like casino cards. Cellulose Acetate is a crystallized polymer that can be used to create nanosized thin films & can be used to tune optical films to any color by changing the refractive index, or wavelength of light that it aborbs or reflects back to your eye.
Recent advances in metamaterials & photonic crystals have made it possible to change matter at the molecular level & color tune synthesized objects.
I bring this up only because I've seen these cards & I've been cheated by them. They can change in a nanosecond. I also have reason to believe that they are much more widespread than anyone can imagine because of the place where I discovered them.
Casinos most likely have plans to implement these cards in the future & claim in fine print they are controlled with a RNG when you in fact believe them to be random because of a shuffle, either by hand or shufflemachine. Otherwise why would the largest technology company in gaming have patents on the cards?
Gabe Costner