2014 Casino Turkey-Cheat of the Year Goes to....

yours truly!

Yes, that's right, Richard Marcus, perhaps the greatest casino-cheat of all tine, is this year`s casino turkey-cheat...or casino cheat-turkey, however you want to look at it.

Why me?

Because....I tried like hell to select a casino turkey-cheat among all those idiots who hatched hairbrained casino and poker-cheat scams that got busted and busted again, and there were so many during the year that I couldn´t select one that stood out above the rest. They were all so utterly stupid and ridiculous.

But then I had a revelation! The biggest idiot of them all is me!

Why?

Because I`m the one writing about this flock of idiots!!! LOL

Poker-Collusion Down at World Series Events?

Actually, it is. The reason for this is due to the sheer huge numbers of participants in the events, especially the main-event championship. Back in the day when there were only a few hundred, or even a few thousand in the main event, it paid off for the poker-colluding tournament cheat-syndicates to team up against the rest of the field. This was extremely prevalent during the `90s when many of the same players were ending up at far too many final tables to be believed naturally. But today, even with perfect colluding, it is very difficult to get a player to a final table, no matter how many chip-dumps his colluding-team can manage

If you go back and take a look at the results in the early and mid ´90s, you will see what I mean. There were often two-time and three-time event-winners a few years running. Even though you might chalk this up to the much lesser amount of entrants in the events, I assure you that these happenings defied probability to the very core of its definition. 

I wrote about this extensively in my book "Dirty Poker." I changed the names of the tournaments and did not name the top players who I felt were involved in the collusion, but if you read in between the lines and the facts I laid out, you can figured out which players I intimated were involved in the WSOP collusion-cheating syndicates, most of whom are still very active in the WSOP today.

Casino Cheats wearing Halloween Masks Storm thru Vegas Casinos!

Find me!

And they made a killing while none were apprehended! This is because Halloween night is a special event on the casino and poker cheats´ calender. It is the only time of the year when they get to work the casinos and poker rooms with either no identity or various identities. What I mean is simply that they can hide behind their masks when they do their cheat moves, and then take them off afterwards. This is key when a cheat is taking heat in the casino. Imagine a guy wearing a Frankenstein mask cheats the blackjack table and the casino gets on to him. Then the cheat gets up, hurries around a bank of slot machines and then takes off his mask. He then has the option of putting on another mask that he has crunched in his jacket pocket, or simply continue his escape wearing his real face.

I´d take his odds of successfully escaping the casino on Halloween night any day!!!