What do they use, the price is right giant cards or something?

Card Sharks IMO.

http://www.gameshowmuseum.com/CardSharksPromo.bmp


Seriously though, I'm glad I live in an area that has a bunch of card rooms because if I had to deal with crap like the OP experienced I would be angry and would play elsewhere.

This part I can answer. Calling surveillance for pit games is general is a PITA and not a fast process. For pit games they rewind the tapes, have to do this and that, then call back down (and if it doesn't go the player's way they're never happy). With poker they're going to be less apt to check tape at all because most aspects of game protection are the player's responsibility.

And yes, there are people who are more than willing to cheat in casinos. Rubbernecking, looking from the rail, whatever they can get away with. If you're cards aren't protected well people are going to look and most won't say anything. It doesn't matter what card room you go to. If you have a problem with guys behind you or something, you need to address that BEFORE there's an issue like this, not after.

lol testingers

In my country (holland) there is only 1 legal casino and it belongs to the state. I have the same problem. You see, poker is not very interesting for casino's. It's def. not their main source of income so they dont care enough.
Since there are not yet really worldwide rules, they just screw around a little.

This situation on a scale of 1-10 is about a 3 comparing to the story's i can tell you on casino staff that simply don't have a clue or give a flying ***. I've seen so much worse...

In this case, he would have prob. called anyway. 'Live' not many people lay down 2 pair and i dont think the railers made him call, but that might be your opinion.
You could file a complaint about the railers, it's crazy that they allow this.
But i can't emphezise enough that most of casino staff (managers) always try to shush things with a warning etc. The problem is that universal poker rules are not powerfull enough yet to be applied to all casino's over the world. And even so, they might choose own regulations. Bad beat imo...

oh and never bluff a guy who has 2 purrr =)