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The other clue players can use to detect cheating is your behaviour. They can notice that you are favouring the higher numbers. This is also what can catch peop

The other clue players can use to detect cheating is your behaviour. They can notice that you are favouring the higher numbers. This is also what can catch people in gambling games. The betting patterns of card counters are noticeable - and the eudaemonic folks who found how to predict tilted roulette tables bet on sectors of the wheel - which again is a distinctive pattern. So it's pretty much always those behavioural cues that other people will use to suspect cheating rather than the p-value.

toblender 9y ago
If I'm playing with someone that is making AK47's into utensils, I would think twice about raising my concerns regarding the loaded dice. Hmm the dice are behaving funny, but that's fine, everything is just fine... https://izbicki.me/blog/turning-an-ak-47-into-a-serving-ladle.html https://izbicki.me/blog/turning-an-ak-47-into-a-serving-ladl...
- logfromblammo 9y ago
  Ah yes, the "let the Wookiee win" strategy. You lose all the games, but you do get to keep playing with both your arms. I tried strategically throwing games a long time ago. It backfired after I conceded defeat, and rather than bask in victory, the "winning" player gave me a narrowed-eyes suspicious look and flipped over my hidden cards. They made it obvious that I would have won already if I had made the optimal play on my previous turn. She was pissed, because even though she won the game, she didn't beat me, because I wasn't even playing the same game as everyone else. We have some seriously competitive people in my family, and we had a good argument about whether one was required to make a guaranteed winning move if it was possible to do so.
xapata 9y ago
> betting patterns of card counters Large changes in bet-size are an obvious indicator, so card counters must work in teams. One is the counter, the other gambler is the whale who bets large when the count is favorable. Unfortunately, the casino has a simple defense: table limits. The whale must sit at the high-roller table, the counter must sit elsewhere. Count cards as much as you like, but you'll never make money at a modern casino ("you" being the aggregate of all card counters, not an individual).

toblender 9y ago

If I'm playing with someone that is making AK47's into utensils, I would think twice about raising my concerns regarding the loaded dice. Hmm the dice are behaving funny, but that's fine, everything is just fine... https://izbicki.me/blog/turning-an-ak-47-into-a-serving-ladle.html https://izbicki.me/blog/turning-an-ak-47-into-a-serving-ladl...

logfromblammo 9y ago
Ah yes, the "let the Wookiee win" strategy. You lose all the games, but you do get to keep playing with both your arms. I tried strategically throwing games a long time ago. It backfired after I conceded defeat, and rather than bask in victory, the "winning" player gave me a narrowed-eyes suspicious look and flipped over my hidden cards. They made it obvious that I would have won already if I had made the optimal play on my previous turn. She was pissed, because even though she won the game, she didn't beat me, because I wasn't even playing the same game as everyone else. We have some seriously competitive people in my family, and we had a good argument about whether one was required to make a guaranteed winning move if it was possible to do so.

xapata 9y ago

> betting patterns of card counters Large changes in bet-size are an obvious indicator, so card counters must work in teams. One is the counter, the other gambler is the whale who bets large when the count is favorable. Unfortunately, the casino has a simple defense: table limits. The whale must sit at the high-roller table, the counter must sit elsewhere. Count cards as much as you like, but you'll never make money at a modern casino ("you" being the aggregate of all card counters, not an individual).