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I've probably played around 10k hours of poker.

On the one hand, crazy shit happens all the time, and folks win by sucking out or by insane bluffs.

On the other hand, it's not considered honorable to win by mistake. Winning by catching a 3% is luck - but just screwing up isn't cool.

So, even though $130k (or whatever it was) seems like a lot of money - there is honor among (some/most) poker players, so it seems totally honorable to me that she gave him the money, as she doesn't feel she deserves it.

I don't know how she would have cheated. Maybe she did but it doesn't seem to me like she did.

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The honor thing doesn't play - she doesn't claim that she won by mistake. She claimed that

1) she thought he had ace high (still doesn't make sense to call with j high)

2) she thought she had a 3 (that's when she changed her story after the game)

> I don't know how she would have cheated.

It's a streamed game, there's an RFID system that reads everyone's cards. You don't need magic to cheat, you just need an inside person.

At the time of calling the all-in, she was more likely to lose. So she would also need to know the next cards to be played. It seems even less likely the house or dealer are in on it. How would RFID know the top cards yet to come? They are still in the deck.

> At the time of calling the all-in, she was more likely to lose.

This is based on the equity shown on the stream which takes into account the dead cards, if you only know the board and their hole cards, she has 54.55% equity. Either way she should call because she needs 40.3% equity to break even (109/(109+161)), any equity more than that is a call and she doesn't need to know what cards will come for that call to be profitable.

True - but what a hero call if right!

The RFID only works at a few millimeters distance. It's useless when trying to read a deck of cards since you'd get multiple responses and would be unable to determine the order of cards.

The inside person doesn't bear scrutiny either. What would this inside person do to pull this off exactly?

> On the other hand, it's not considered honorable to win by mistake. Winning by catching a 3% is luck - but just screwing up isn't cool.

It's poker there is no honor in poker. Bluffing is part of the game.

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