About card cheaters

The sharers appeared along with playing cards. All the manipulations with the cards they brought to us are classics. It is already difficult to improve them, and it is practically impossible to invent new methods. To date, these tricks have come with technical tricks where electronics are increasingly present: in gambling houses under green cloth scanners are laid, video systems are mounted in the walls, thin metal strings and inclusions are encountered in the cards, to which a special device responds from one of the players and Etc. But classical techniques can not be replaced, and they are indispensable where access to technical devices is limited. Therefore, true sharpshooters sharpen their skills in prisons and colonies.
For the first time I got acquainted with sharers in the distant 1989, when I flew from Magadan to Domodedovo airport with a friend. We were 19 years old. A friend flew to enter one of the universities of Moscow, I flew on their own business. Right at the exit from the airport we took a taxi, another passenger boarded us and we went to Moscow. I sat in the front seat, and my friend on the back. On the way, they got into a conversation and a passenger in the back seat offered to play a few games at the Fool. Several games were played just like that, after which an unknown passenger offered to play for interest by betting everything on the ruble. All the games played before this were for my friend. All this time I sat in the front seat and thought about my affairs. It was audible that money was put at stake in the amount of 100 rubles and more than once. Soon we arrived, got out of the taxi and went into the house. When they went up the stairs to the entrance, a friend told me that he had lost all the money, and that at that time was a very decent amount of 2000 rubles. I was shocked. I did not really hear or see the game. And the passenger of himself did not represent anything special. But the lesson is received, although not by me, but by me too. How, it happened, then we analyzed it. Obviously, several decks were prepared in advance, besides, they were probably sacked. The taxi driver apparently worked with a cheater in the pair. Since then, I never play with anyone for money and interest, I play no matter what. And it is necessary to play often when I go on vacation to the south in Loo (Sochi) to my friends. There, in the evening, a company usually gathers up to 6 people and plays for 2-3 hours at the Fool .

Basic

Currently, there are many types of sharpshooters, but mostly they boil down to two types of it's professionals and not professionals. Professionals are those who make money for a life by deception, accordingly not professionals, who are few of those who use their cheating skills for fun, playing, in company, maybe even for money, money in this case is an interest.
Professionals are divided into large and small. Large are those who play for money in large in special institutions or in specially equipped places for this. They play big, they have big bets. They play mostly with those who have a lot of money.
Major professionals are not great psychologists, but they have the skill of playing at the highest level. Given the technical progress today, these sharpers have all the possible modern tools for the game. Therefore, the equipment that they use for the game can cost more than one ten thousand dollars. For example, it can be special video cameras built in both glasses and clothing, it can be special wireless headphones, up to 3 mm in diameter, which are glued to a special tape inside the ear. Usually, these funds are used against rich suckers, since sharers often do not play with each other.
Small sharpshooters work mainly at stations, in trains and in places of a large congestion of people. Outwardly, they do not stand out among ordinary people. The stakes for small game sharers are not high, and basically they take small money, deceiving ordinary people. These sharpshooters are excellent psychologists, they can easily beat a person to the game and can easily take him to the skin. Usually it is important for them to force a person to play at least once. Next, people are given the chance to win several games in a row, luring winnings and at the last moment, when the stakes are high, the sharper takes all the money from the game by fraud. Among the techniques that use the sharper are techniques that card magicians use. This is false shuffles , and volts , and the substitution of cards or decks , etc. Small sharpshooters usually work as a brigade or a company in which each person is responsible for a situation. For example, if the game is on the train, then one person is responsible for the overall situation on the train, stands on the "shuher", the other seeks the victims, the third can be the accomplice of the main player-cheater, another can transfer the won money, that is, transfer them to other accomplices At passing stations, so that in the event that they are caught, it was impossible to take money from them from the police. Usually this method is used by Roma, for example, one of the gypsies takes money by fraud, then immediately sends them to their accomplices and the fact of the selection of money can not be confirmed. I want to add that the team of sharper is inherently an organizational criminal group, where the laws and foundations by which they live are not the laws of our state, and criminal laws - thieves (zonov). The behavior of the sharper is difficult to predict and they can just go for a crime, if for any reason they lose money, they can take them criminal way.

I want to recommend from myself - never play with strangers in cards, let alone money, and most importantly never play a debt.