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If I hadn’t been confident the device existed, I would have assumed it was a scam. The problem with all the sellers I found was that the price was very steep ($5000!) and there was very little description whatsoever of how the device operates. I was able to find a few potential online sellers, including the one depicted in the screenshot above. Poker cheating device demo Acquiring the deviceįinding a few more posts on English forums convinced me that those devices were real and gave me clue of what I was looking for. Note that I did a fair shuffle and drew the cards at random.

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The last post will be about how to detect and potentially counter cheating device while playing poker.īefore delving into the inner workings of the device, here is a short demo of it in action to show you how fast and accurate it is at remotely reading cards. The next post, look at how the device accessories work.

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You can watch the recording of our talk below and grab the slides here:Ĭheating at poker James Bond style Defcon talk recordingĭue to the complexity and length of the subject, the analysis of the device is split into three blog posts: This post covers how the device works including an overview of it, its software interface, a teardown of the hardware and a look at card markings. Without spoiling too much of the rest of this post, let’s just say that the high-end cheating device that I was able to get my hands on far exceeded my expectations and it really is an outstanding piece of technology.Īs a matter of fact, it is so advanced and cool that with Celine and Jean-Michel, my co-conspirators, we decided to do a Defcon talk about how it works. Intrigued, I decided to follow the trail of this fabled device to see if people were indeed cheating at poker using devices that would fit naturally into a James Bond movie. From what I understood at that time, the post being in Chinese, the device was able to remotely read card markings to inform the cheater who will win the next hand. In 2015, I stumbled upon a post in an underground forum, discussing how someone was ripped off at a poker table by a very advanced poker cheating device. This post exposes how real-world highly advanced poker cheating devices work.

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