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Neat! But I feel like this also wasn't as obvious about the actual cheating part, because they were just dealing into a single pile. But I assume the point of the technique is that I'd be dealing out poker hands to each player, or some other card game, and if I had a memory trained for this kind of thing I'd be able to remember what each person had. Is that right?
It wouldn't be about choosing which cards go where, because that would make my dealing look really erratic, but instead just knowing what people have, so I can bet appropriately?
If you want to educate yourself, pretty much the entire plot of Casino Royale is a poker game. Other films include Maverick, The Cincinnati Kid, and my favorite A Big Hand For The Little Lady.
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Yup.
https://fictionhorizon.com/best-poker-movies-of-all-time-ranked/
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