Inspecting the few screenshots of the device available on resellers websites, allowed me to figure out who was the manufacturer of the device: a factory located in China. 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. 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. 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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