Is Jamie Gold a bigger thief than me?

We've all heard by now that 2006 grand WSOP champion Jamie Gold has been sued for half his $12 million prize money, but I just saw him playing on TV for the first time, and this guy is OBNOXIOUS! Did you see all that trash talk and the psycho games he was playing on that final table? Man, I don't know the guy from Adam, but I'd bet my last wooden nickel that he's as guilty as the guy sueing him says he is, and that's just from looking at him. If it is indeed true and he gets away with it, then he will have pulled off the greatest con in poker history, better than anything I wrote about in Dirty Poker. So my advice to all you poker players getting involved in these pre-tournament deals that Dirty Poker cast in such a negative light is to get ALL of these arrangements in WRITING! If not, your GOLD could turn to CRAP! Pardon the pun.

I am busy these days working on my new book THE WORLD's GREATEST GAMBLING SCAMS, which should be out in the early spring, 2007. This book should highly entertain you as it will detail the top 10 greatest scams of all time. You will meet the people who pulled them off and see exactly how they did it, those with electronic gizmos and those with nothing more than wit and balls.

On the world cheating front, for some reason there seems to be a lot going on in Australia these past few weeks. I've heard that a new Italian roulette-pastposting team is on the loose Down Under. I'm wondering if they're descendants of the Italian wheelmasters I knew over the years. They have a really great sliding-chip move that is one of the best I've ever seen. I've also gotten word from surveillance people that my lovely Savannah (roulette move) waltzed through the same casinos. Again, she beat the pants off the wheels and those lucky guys escorting her had no problems. They were using $1,000 Aussie chips, not the $5,000 American chocolates I used, but certainly worth the trip.

Stay cool, and I'll be back with an update soon.

Cheating at 2006 WSOP, Identity Theft, Inc., World's Greatest Gambling Scams

Has anyone heard about the chip-cheating incident just two tables from the final table at the championship event? I hadn't until a reader e-mailed me about it. I researched it, and apparently it was true, but I didn't get all the details. During a count of the chips it was found that there were several chips too many in play, but I don't know if particular players were accused. What I do know is that the WSOP chip-cheating I wrote about in Dirty Poker is going on all over. And with the WSOP, this makes two consecutive years chip-cheating was discovered. In 2005, it happened twice! If anyone has more details on this, I'd appreciate your letting me know.

My new book Identity Theft, Inc. should be in the stores this week. It's already available online for less.

I am also working on what will be my fourth book called "The World's Greatest Gambling Scams." You bet, it will be about exactly what the title says! The inside stories of the best ten gambling scams of all time.

Hope everyone had a great summer!

Identity Theft, Inc. My new book!

Hey, everyone, hope you've all had a great summer! I've been busy preparing for the release of my new book, "Identity Theft, Inc." It's available on Amazon now, and you will love the stories in it how I helped rip off casinos for big-time cash through identity theft. And there's a helluva lot more than casino rip-offs in this book! More about it soon.

How a Simple Fart ruined a Million-Dollar Scam! You Gotta Love This!

THE POWER OF A FART

Can a fart spoil a million-dollar scam? Just ask Mumbles and Wheels, two elderly casino grifters who’d been grinding it out for fifty years in Vegas’s dingy downtown gambling joints before discovering the power of a fart. Mumbles had lost his voice to throat cancer and Wheels his legs to shrapnel in the Great War supposed to end all wars. But this did not hinder their old-age ingenuity. They came up with the greatest dice-switching scam in the history of craps, a perfect plan with each minutia examined the way the allies must have studied coordinates for Operation Overlord before their D-Day landing on Omaha Beach. At the precise moment, with all the diversions and distractions in place, the legitimate dice were switched out of play and replaced by their “tumblers.” But one distraction they didn’t count on during Mumbles’ first fateful throw of their crooked dice, on which they’d bet their entire bankroll, was that Wheels would blow a silent but deadly fart from his wheelchair at the crucial moment of release. Mumbles, overcome by the smell, threw the crooked dice too hard and they skidded over the table’s wall and out of play on the floor beyond. Amazingly enough, the dice retrieved by a craps shooter at the opposite end of the table from the two old-timers were not the ones Mumbles had tossed but his own crooked dice that worked on an entirely different principle from those of Mumbles and Wheels. He, too, was a professional dice-switcher and had capitalized on Mumbles’ errant throw to sneak his own crooked cubes into the game. Unfortunately for Mumbles and Wheels they did not notice this, and when Mumbles rolled the other guy’s crooked dice, expecting a seven, they came up “snake-eyes,” causing them to crap out and lose their entire bankroll on that very first roll of their scam. All because of a fart. Had Wheels been able to restrain himself they probably would have become millionaires instead of going to the grave broke.

Underworld Series of Poker

In just a few weeks, the 2006 WSOP kicks off, which of course means that its underbelly, the Underworld Series of Poker, begins right along with it. For those of you who've read "Dirty Poker," you know what I'm talking about and what to look for. For those of you who haven't, I suggest you get your copy now! You can read about all the professional tournament cheating syndicates that will be out there to rig the events in their favor. The same big names are right in the thick of it. If you're playing, be careful, and keep your eyes on the other players' stacks. Don't forget the phony chips that were found in players' stacks twice in last year's tournament, in the same event. Believe me, that was no coincidence, even though the tournament directors blew off both incidents as "accidents." Come on, gimme a break! In "Dirty Poker" I tell the true story about how the cheating syndicates use counterfeit chips to increase their dishonest edge.

Read all about it and good luck!

Breaking Vegas in Canada!

Hey, all you Canadian casino cheaters and casino detectives! The Discovery Channel is going to air the "Breaking Vegas" episode called "The Ultimate Cheat." We all know who he is, right? Check out the show on Thursday night, June 8th at 10 pm EST. It will be repeated four times in the days after that. You can see the schedule by going to the Discovery Channel Canada's website. The show was really well done and is quite enjoyable. It shows my history leading up to the development of my famed "Savannah" move. But please don't sneak out to the casino during a commercial to do her!!

New Savannah Move!

I very often get mail from readers of my books who want to know my opinion about some particular cheating move they've invented... "Will this work?" they ask, or "How dangerous is it?"... "Have you ever thought of anything similar???"

Well, never once has anyone proposed a new move that I thought would work and be worth it...Until now!

Yes, I have heard from a prospective casino cheater who has come up with a new move based on my famous Savannah move. He calls it the "Reverse Savannah Solo" and it is viable. Actually, it's such a good move I can't believe I never thought of it myself!

I have invited him to my seminars to show off his new move. He asked me if I wanted a percentage! I told him absolutely not. Anyone creative enough to come up with a viable casino cheating move has free sway at my seminars and owes me nothing even if I inspired him to develop a new cheating move!

More Bullshit on TV!

Is anybody out there getting sick of watching Mike The Mouth Matesow and Phil Hellmuth make believe they're gonna fly over the poker table and grab each other's throat? Okay, maybe they don't love each other, but let's not believe for a second that their little intense rivalry at the table is nothing more than a staged acting job to boost TV ratings. Come on, this stuff is a knockoff of the World Wrestling Federation. And I wouldn't believe anything Matesow says or does. After all, the guy's a convicted drug felon!

How 'bout Phil Ivey and the five other top pros supposedly putting up $10 mil each in that winner-take-all freezeout in Australia this July? Anybody out there believe that's for real? Sounds like another big hype job to me: poker/movie stars getting paid for their roles and getting more endorsements from it all...TV ratings skyrocketing. Does Phil Ivey have $10 million bucks? If he does, would he really risk it in a freezeout playing against five other players of roughly the same skill as he? Come on, we're not all idiots out here!!! Maybe Chris Ferguson can sell us a few beers from inside a refrigerator, but no one is selling me on that mega-bullshit tournament!

The other night, I saw a so-called huge-stakes "cash game" on the GSN channel with Ted Forrest, Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein and others with bricks of $100 bills totalling millions in cash on the table. Supposedly Forrest lost several hundred grand in one pot...REAL MONEY! Oh yeah, sure! How 'bout REAL BULLSHIT. Like any of these guys isn't playing on TV for the sole purpose of endorsements or to push their books and DVDs. Believe me, no one is losing a penny in these TV games.

It's all getting ridiculous, and to think there are people that think I'm crazy! No, I'm just a cheater, and I know when the public is being cheated!!!

First Month of Dirty Poker

My book "Dirty Poker" has been out a month now. It's doing quite well, and thank you for your support.

Of course with a controversial book like this, not everyone is going to like it, especially those affiliated with the online poker sites. In fact, there has been an active collusion between several of the major online poker rooms and the poker portal Poker777.com to squash my book, of which I have documented evidence. The book was reviewed by Poker777.com, and it was a stellar review, but mysteriously it never appeared on their site after "Rifka," the chief editor, stated that "Dirty Poker" would receive its own web page on their site...Funny, huh?

On Sunday, April 16, the New York Times published a major article on the poker craze in which they mentioned my book as well as an interesting tidbit on Doyle Brunson. Apparently the old legend of poker is under investigation by the SEC for manipulating the price of World Poker Tour Enterprises stock.

I tell ya, like I say in the book, there are a lot of crooks out there in the poker world!

I'm waiting for the UK newspaper the Mail On Sunday to release an article about Dirty Poker.

Dirty Poker released in US!

Get it now on www.amazon.com. It will be in the stores in the next two weeks. Hope you all enjoy reading this book as much as I did writing it.