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@JackAceDotCom
October 10, 2025 at 5:30 pm
Why would you need to signal “Call”? Seems like you’d just need “Raise” or “Fold”.
@mr.rubicon1193
October 10, 2025 at 5:34 pm
A skilled player would be very suspicious of this. Howerver a skilled player using this might be able to stay less obvious.
@mammouth9793
October 10, 2025 at 5:46 pm
The dealer always cuts the deck when it comes out of the shuffler.
@peterdelessio9274
October 10, 2025 at 5:49 pm
Yep time to go back to Dealers Shuffling Cards ! 😉
@roscoemuttley
October 10, 2025 at 5:55 pm
How about the casino fixing the machines? Move the UTH hands based on who is playing?
@antoniog9814
October 10, 2025 at 5:55 pm
Nothing is perfect.
1912 “Titanic is unsinkable!” *Mother Nature:* Hold my beer.
5:58 “This shuffler is unhackable!” *Joseph:* Hold my beer.
@xliquidflames
October 10, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Yeah, it’s not that simple. Just like that suspicious televised hand, the way he was playing while cheating would have raised a ton of eyebrows with pro players. Doubling the pot on every card with nothing but a straight draw probably would have been the final straw. Nobody does that, especially when they’re getting called every time. Maybe you bluff on the flop with 100k but when the player behind you calls that and then bets into you in the turn? I’m not even a pro and the betting pattern and play style was highly suspicious. It looked like someone who knew nothing about poker but was getting help somehow. Maybe I only say that because I went into it knowing he was cheating but I think if you could run this same experiment with some real players, they’ll sniff it out quickly.
@rugbychampion1
October 10, 2025 at 6:24 pm
This doesn’t really mean anything. A solved deck for 4 handed poker? Nice except poker is almost never played 4 handed and then using the camera will be nullified by the cut again.
@MrBeatboxmasta
October 10, 2025 at 6:28 pm
Pro players after a while will call just to see what you have. If you keep winning with marginal hands, they will play very aggressively vs you. If you keep calling and winning with the marginal hands and someone never lose at showdown, they will know something is up.
Therefore, to balance it, the signaler should signal based on the likelihood of the opponents folding the best hand and calling with worse…..not based on who has the best hand. That way, when the pros do what I mentioned above, you will sometimes lose at showdown. The pros will simply think you’re a maniac as opposed to being a cheater. Nobody always wins, so you need to lose once in a while. Just make sure your loses are smaller than your wins.
@Andre-sz8ti
October 10, 2025 at 6:28 pm
unrealistic video. made for people with no IQ
@garrettadelsteinpoker
October 10, 2025 at 6:32 pm
Great video! But Robbi didn’t allegedly cheat through a rigged deckmate 1 (HCL used a deckmate 1, not 2). She was allegedly signaled through a couple other methods.
@EricGranata
October 10, 2025 at 6:49 pm
This was fun.
@Cory703
October 10, 2025 at 7:03 pm
A lot of casinos have gone back to the first Deckmate version so that this can’t happen
@chadroggs
October 10, 2025 at 7:11 pm
Very interesting. I’d like to see you play against at least 4 other REAL poker players. Any decent player could carve Fernando’s 10 high anytime. Without cheating. It’d be nice to really put it to test against good players.
@jfbeam
October 10, 2025 at 7:14 pm
The minute he said there’s a camera in the thing… Game. Over. That’s the dumbest thing a shuffle company could ever do. When the machine can tell what each card is, and grab a single card, it’s only a matter of seconds before someone rigs the damned thing. While Sal _says_ he hasn’t heard of it, I’m 100% positive it’s being done. Remember, there was the guy working for the NV Gaming Commission who rigged the very machines he was supposed to be ensuring were _NOT_ rigged. You’d never know if a _dealer_ was rigging their table. In this case, the cheating and signalling is subtle but still very noticeable – every time the deck is shuffled, he folds the first hand and then goes to his phone. (good security would spot the 1-2-3 chip signal as well. it’s a very recognizable pattern, esp. when one guy is cleaning out the table.)
@sreilly910
October 10, 2025 at 7:17 pm
can you hack the Continuous CSM plz?
@eaturfeet653
October 10, 2025 at 7:18 pm
What about video surveillance that can see his phone?
@youarewinston
October 10, 2025 at 7:44 pm
FYI they definitely went out and updated all the machines – they’re serviced regularly. This is more of a concern in private games where they definitely shouldn’t be trusted – but some private games are now better regulated than casinos (absolutely no electronics in the room)
@SvenCallsNL
October 10, 2025 at 8:13 pm
I see a bunch of anti-poker people in the comments, please watch the full video.
Online poker is very safe, the card distribution isn’t getting hacked online.
There are other concerns but not this, poker is extremely easy to beat the game long term because the standards are lower than ANY other game.
1/20000 chess players make money
1/10000 footballers make a living
1/20 poker players are profitable
@trollshavewings4572
October 10, 2025 at 8:17 pm
Would it not be much more effective to just be able to setup a random winning hand when a button is pressed and do it every now and then for crazy returns like you could have the button built into a watch or something it would be so subtle nearly impossible to notice if your keeping the amount of times you do it to a minimum
@avery465
October 10, 2025 at 8:22 pm
1. Not all types of poker does the winner have the best hand.
2. No casino is gonna let you charge your phone on the deckmate
@wayando
October 10, 2025 at 8:26 pm
That security analyst has super quick hands … Am scared of him!
@bradleylittle1469
October 10, 2025 at 8:45 pm
Mike postle program v3
@AlexDuvall
October 10, 2025 at 8:55 pm
Amazing video. Really makes you re-consider what happened at HCL 😬
@mcfly7
October 10, 2025 at 9:10 pm
11:58 they cut and edit lol
@dennisnichols7123
October 11, 2025 at 12:06 pm
I always had a feeling the casinos could manipulate the shuffler via the network. And this shows it’s possible therefore it does happen
@Interwebzzz
October 11, 2025 at 12:08 pm
Cool, now do vote tabulation machines please
@keetlecorn
October 11, 2025 at 12:15 pm
I don’t know much about about casinos but can’t you just ban the use of phones at the table or implement a metal detectors at the door?
@gweqqles
October 11, 2025 at 12:28 pm
I’m pretty sure there were pages that said DeckMate 2 was hackable way before 2 years ago.
@TGSM19
October 11, 2025 at 12:50 pm
Said it for yours and they called me a nutcase or conspiricy theoriest… but thats how casinos win.. when u sit at the table it feel like u being scammed big time.
@FreeTimeFeats
October 11, 2025 at 1:45 pm
This man just put a magnetic piece of metal in his ear and called it a wireless earpiece 😂 no wayyyy
@ClipKingsHQ
October 11, 2025 at 2:22 pm
Mikael here, Bsauce.
@Ravenpoe121
October 11, 2025 at 2:31 pm
If the purpose of that machine is to randomly shuffle cards, why is it even built to be able to read them? That just seems like bad engineering, it’s much more secure if it were ‘blind’
@TheVenominside
October 11, 2025 at 9:18 pm
Apparently you did not hear why the camera is in the shuffler
@jcompton3947
October 11, 2025 at 2:53 pm
Robbi 100% cheated
@urbanstrencan
October 11, 2025 at 3:10 pm
awesome video, casinos already getting new security on the floors 😅😅😅
@Nikkithedog-t6b
October 11, 2025 at 3:37 pm
Lifetime poker player, a lot of this is complete nonsense.
@MalakLopez1
October 11, 2025 at 3:38 pm
4 ways? Nobody is playing 4 ways for long, private or in a casino…
@davidcleeve9969
October 11, 2025 at 3:47 pm
can casino rig dealing machines in all types of games???
@VegasGoat702
October 11, 2025 at 4:06 pm
Well there u go apostle
@tobydickerson3671
October 11, 2025 at 4:27 pm
If a pit boss sees you looking at card orders on your phone in the middle of a hand you are getting kicked out
@Jmonney20
October 11, 2025 at 4:34 pm
CODE DOUG!!
@Essobee
October 11, 2025 at 4:39 pm
I”ve worked as casino surveillance. I’d be curious to see how quickly this would be spotted.
@sampersonguy5337
October 11, 2025 at 5:15 pm
I’m gonna be honest with you I’m much more concerned over the casinos them selves rigging the decks
@SeigneurAo
October 11, 2025 at 5:46 pm
Isn’t the fact that Joseph is folding and playing with his phone so often a big tell ?
@anthonymentalewicz5143
October 11, 2025 at 6:10 pm
People wonder why our fridges have wifi…
@MarcoRaffaele
October 11, 2025 at 6:17 pm
this is why black jack exists
if it wasn’t rigged it would be easier to beat the dealer making increasing betting
@TheSchizoDuckie
October 11, 2025 at 6:43 pm
This was really fkn cool.
props.
@delxinogaming6046
October 11, 2025 at 7:05 pm
If all you did was hack so you won once per round, you’d be the best poker player in history
@Logan8x
October 11, 2025 at 8:48 pm
This is exactly my point at every poker room I go too, I always say those shufflers can be hacked ha!
@planksunit
October 11, 2025 at 8:56 pm
id like to see this with strong players, and how they would handle one guy always folding
@matt_cah
October 12, 2025 at 10:51 am
Robi definitely cheated.
@ml.2770
October 12, 2025 at 10:55 am
So the solution is just have the dealer riffle shuffle once.
@snailssnails4386
October 12, 2025 at 3:44 pm
Or just cut the deck in half after its been shuffled… like they do all the time.
@ml.2770
October 12, 2025 at 4:20 pm
@@snailssnails4386 Did you even watch the video there Einstein? Their method easily defeats that and is covered.
@TheMagicRaVen
October 12, 2025 at 11:08 am
awesome video, brings a lot of questions though.
@IanBartleson
October 12, 2025 at 11:41 am
This is why Jesus said store up treasure in Heaven, not on earth where people can steal it.
@testman9541
October 12, 2025 at 11:45 am
Why on earth do you want to have a casino’s machine create your hand ? 😂 Bé sure you will loose even more 🎉
@TADYEAH
October 12, 2025 at 12:39 pm
The card machine should be mechanical and it should not be capable of doing non random shuffling.
@ianbaxter2208
October 12, 2025 at 12:48 pm
It’s only good for 4 players problem solved
@kovyjacob
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 pm
It would be cool if you try to replicate the test with also installing the Pi live.
@kaister2606
October 12, 2025 at 1:24 pm
kindergarten production. 20min wasted
@NatanielRajala
October 12, 2025 at 1:32 pm
WSOP hand shuffles buddy
@bryceyockey4071
October 12, 2025 at 1:34 pm
Is deck mate 1 safe?
@truckerjoe228
October 12, 2025 at 2:01 pm
Has Garrett Adelstein seen this video? Dollars to Donuts, he has.
@IYIarijuana
October 12, 2025 at 2:32 pm
Now I want casinos to use an analog mechanical crank shuffler.
@jackd6129
October 12, 2025 at 2:51 pm
Use code “CODE DOUG”
@thepain321
October 12, 2025 at 2:52 pm
There’s no reason a shuffle machine has to track the cards and have a camera. A shuffle machine can be pure mechanical and random. The camera is added just for nefarious intention.
@Dagoof2k7
October 12, 2025 at 3:08 pm
Who’s to say casinos aren’t rigging decks wirelessly?
@AlexGeek
October 12, 2025 at 4:23 pm
Surely it uses “military grade cryptography”
@jeffk862
October 12, 2025 at 5:21 pm
This must be what happens to me on Pokerstars
@senoto6067
October 12, 2025 at 5:39 pm
Free bad beat
@BigGameJ
October 12, 2025 at 7:01 pm
The crazy thing they could implement ai to tell you l through the ear speaker so you wouldn’t even need the other person at the table
@DR.64A9
October 12, 2025 at 7:12 pm
“A real high stakes game”
@2beJT
October 12, 2025 at 7:14 pm
Why not make one machine to check the deck, and another machine to shuffle?
@cvbncvbncvbn2
October 12, 2025 at 7:29 pm
no wonder why i lost to a straight flush on the river!
@jman1948
October 12, 2025 at 8:31 pm
Is there a github page for that pi zero w2 image?
@mateodiaz1947
October 12, 2025 at 8:33 pm
Sounds like a security issue with the card shuffler
@mypseudonym1
October 13, 2025 at 9:14 am
All the deck shuffler needs to be able to do is blindly mix the cards. Making it capable of anything else is an opening for cheating by the house or the player. Keep it simple and keep it fair.
@damien4197
October 13, 2025 at 9:59 am
Not going to lie, if the solved deck only works on the button, and you have 8+ people at a table… then you just need to make sure you reel in a loose player when you’re on button each time, with pure confidence, and if you win and lose some random small hands around that… should be fine.
@jeremym6813
October 13, 2025 at 10:27 am
Wow, you got Code Doug in this?! Big pull
@TARSMARKETING-w7l
October 13, 2025 at 10:48 am
Yeah they cooking blackjack. I lost 14 hands in a row playing perfect basic strategy at Golden Nugget in Atlantic City.
@daithi1966
October 13, 2025 at 11:03 am
Just give me the best hand every time. Just because I have the best hand doesn’t mean I need to play it. I can take a hand all the way to river, call a bet with the winning hand, and then muck after the other player reveals his hand. I can fold my hand on any street as well. There is no way anyone would know I had the best hand every time, and I only need to win enough to walk away a winner at the end of the night. Oh yeah, and Robbi didn’t cheat with the J4o, she just called with a hand that she should have folded because was extremely stupid and didn’t have a clue what she was doing..
@artbyderby
October 13, 2025 at 11:16 am
VSAUCE Lite
@edwinmanhand4022
October 13, 2025 at 11:28 am
We got Wired’s Vsauce before GTA 6.
@poker_
October 13, 2025 at 11:59 am
The real question is, how are casinos cheating people? 11:32 11:34
@FunDumb
October 13, 2025 at 12:10 pm
Id like to hack myself to not be such a nitiot.
@sinopulence
October 13, 2025 at 12:25 pm
“All of becomes vulnerable to surveillance and manipulation”… and UK is getting digital id.
@arthurfranklin9315
October 13, 2025 at 12:41 pm
Don’t worry, your votes are real, Trump will be the most popular president to ever win a 3rd term
@HammerStudioGames
October 13, 2025 at 12:54 pm
15:14 that was a great line lmao
@antonycostantine2457
October 13, 2025 at 1:09 pm
obviously everyone knew what was going on ,no one calls with T8o on 233 flop
@BigTomJeep
October 13, 2025 at 2:03 pm
One big miss is that the USB port should be in use at all times. There is a display that the dealer uses for information about the machine, such as if there is a card missing or upside down. Also gives the operator the ability to sort the deck and maintenance the machine. So in a casino environment you would have to use the ethernet port.
@angryparsnip9363
October 13, 2025 at 2:21 pm
Why on earth would you design a shuffler that is capable of knowing and controlling the position of every card?
@douchebagwearingrainbowpants
October 13, 2025 at 2:58 pm
I love that a solution was proposed at the end of the video. Just go analog. When our voting systems are more digital than ever, this is actually a very important topic.
@fjooyou
October 13, 2025 at 2:59 pm
Why give casinos ideas?
@Finkelthusiast
October 13, 2025 at 3:30 pm
Great video but I disagree with the conclusion about analog approaches. Earlier in the video we see analog card control as well. It is always about trust/regulation.
@MADmosche
October 13, 2025 at 4:09 pm
Why does this guy look like a clone of every other “explaining stuff” youtuber
@banks7714
October 13, 2025 at 4:39 pm
Mechanics can always be caught, watch every dealer in new environments, period.
@ashtona
October 13, 2025 at 5:04 pm
The two randoms did not know how to play poker
@CookieGamesHD
October 13, 2025 at 6:09 pm
🔥🔥🔥
@MixedByMonroe
October 13, 2025 at 7:36 pm
Wouldn’t it be in the casinos best interest for the card shuffler to deal out cooler hands so the pots are bigger therefore their rake is higher? Something to think about…
@68air
October 13, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Just like voting machines “can’t be hacked”.
@denovo09
October 13, 2025 at 8:55 pm
Mind. Blown.
@Mike__B
October 14, 2025 at 11:18 am
it’s amazing that they allow players to use cell phones during a game, whether or not they are part of a game is irrelevant. Yet you try that thing at a blackjack table, or any other game where the house’s money is on the line and they’ll tell you to put your phone away whether you are playing or not.
@PositiveVibesVids
October 14, 2025 at 11:22 am
“In a real high stakes game”
“Money is not real idk why I’m not sweating”
@PositiveVibesVids
October 14, 2025 at 11:38 am
I doubt anyone will read this but Poker in general online or in person is rigged.. I’ve actually had mgm give me money back due to a “miss shuffle” – the river card literally glitched and changed on me.
That being said I still win long term by knowing it’s rigged I’ve set a strategy that works – generally with online it lets you get small wins but if you get greedy it will take it right back. The cards seem to fall in and out of favor …
So what I do is take a small win each day instead of trying to get what I really deserve to win – because I know the opponent will 2 outer me on the river 80 percent of the time once I’ve already won.
The stakes don’t seem to matter so much but I find 30-60BB win per day is ideal. And the moment I start losing I walk away. I’ve tested this through half a million hands to date and it’s definitely not a coincidence.
They will also try to set you up with say aces – kings or queens to lose so I snap fold to an overpair on the flop I’m just so used it at this Point.
You gotta realize casinos make more money on the rake with big pots so they have incentive to cheat. Also by letting fish beat pros like myself a way higher percentage than they should – they keep the fish in longer which ultimately generates more money.
Not to mention mathematics has proven all roulette wheels at least the ones tested in Vegas are rigged unless you believe in lignite striking 1000 times ina. Row day after day – the math does not check out as a legitimate non rigged wheel.
So the same people that rig roulette , sports , and everything else are in charge of being the trusted ones .. I’m not buying it
@WoodrowThe3rd
October 14, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Doesn’t the display on the sorter prominently show when something is plugged into any of the ports that would alert the dealer? Seems like that would be a basic security feature, and a huge oversight if it doesn’t, all things considered.
@wormholewest
October 14, 2025 at 12:34 pm
If the shuffling machine can be hacked it implies the machine can also be used to cheat the casino patrons
@zeg2651
October 14, 2025 at 1:37 pm
7:50 tf
@pighast974
October 14, 2025 at 1:51 pm
Can the deck be solved for a typical 9 person deal?
@JFullerton44
October 14, 2025 at 1:53 pm
In the first hand of the demonstration, the action is wrong. The cheater should have acted first after the flop/turn/river but the dealer kept having the cutoff act first instead of the small blind
@nickbaker5296
October 14, 2025 at 2:24 pm
A minute before they mentioned the hand I was like oh, that’s how Robbie finessed
@Thisisaweirdthing2makeusdo
October 14, 2025 at 2:32 pm
The 10 8 hand makes zero sense but other than that. Awesome job
@superiormovers
October 14, 2025 at 2:36 pm
Is it possible for Casino’s to allow or deny when the shuffler creates a Bad Beat senario? So that it can let their Bad Beat Jackpots reach a certain dollar amount.
@LuminousWatcher
October 14, 2025 at 3:54 pm
Keep up the curiosity Andy! This is golden!
@jakepokervegas
October 14, 2025 at 5:04 pm
Omg! That’s why I keep losing! Hahahaha! 😅
@kastanius
October 14, 2025 at 5:06 pm
how did ur parter stay in the game? he couldnt fold 3hrs straight. what did u do on the rounds he had to play? this looks staged af
@jk0419
October 14, 2025 at 5:11 pm
man I clicked thinking this was a Vsauce video
@MrJJDionisio
October 14, 2025 at 5:36 pm
i love sal so much
@TC1TheOrginal
October 14, 2025 at 5:50 pm
He doesn’t show the the cards were shuffled before
@TC1TheOrginal
October 14, 2025 at 5:53 pm
Turn off the internal camera and it solves the problem.
@CptSeaHawK
October 14, 2025 at 5:56 pm
Could the casino not just look at his phone via cctv?
@iloveplantcats
October 14, 2025 at 5:59 pm
11:32 timetraveller confirmed?
@ZacharyWüthrich
October 14, 2025 at 6:03 pm
Very simple solution: put it through two shufflers. The first with a camera, the second without.
@DougieBarclay
October 14, 2025 at 6:14 pm
Riffle after DeckMate2 shuffle.
Problem solved.
@blakeisdope
October 14, 2025 at 6:16 pm
lmao this is insane, Deckmate must me absolutely sweating rn
@DougieBarclay
October 14, 2025 at 6:31 pm
Joseph could’ve kept this to himself and made an absolute fortune, but didn’t.
What an absolute legend.
@Sean-gt4ck
October 14, 2025 at 8:49 pm
Is this how Postle did it?
@GerhardTreibheit
October 14, 2025 at 9:40 pm
the ending was based ❤
@jeanpaulg1036
October 15, 2025 at 2:12 am
Such b.s. casino cameras would catch your app
@juanantonio3487
October 15, 2025 at 2:49 am
That’s not a high stakes game at all, and I am suspicious that the game is set up with two actors, even tho the point of the video is other. You should have go to the Lodge and try it in a real gambling environment with unaware real players involved that could be rewarded somehow for their participation.
@TheGodEmperorOfMankind_
October 15, 2025 at 3:16 am
The machine is absolute compromised garbage but they would have been caught before the game was over.
Some of the winning hands would have drawn attention and chip stacking is one of the most common signaling methods that would be spotted in 3 hands tops.
@hotdogg268
October 15, 2025 at 10:02 am
Casino’s probably been doing this in their favor.
@vhol93
October 15, 2025 at 10:48 am
super interesting
@L2Trixx
October 15, 2025 at 11:58 am
WHAT IS THE ORDER OF RHE CARDS THAT YOU ALWAYS WIN!?!?!?
@famousamoso7
October 15, 2025 at 12:47 pm
Wouldn’t it be prudent for casinos to just have mechanical shufflers that have no cameras and just load them with like 10 decks worth of cards? Then you make it almost impossible for a card counter to count cards. The more decks in play the hard it is to track them.
@odyssey232001
October 15, 2025 at 12:53 pm
Mikki mase has said the card shufflers can be hacked giving the casinos an edge, as sal showed the game can be controlled by the dealer knowing we’re cards are in the deck and the casinos isn’t going to admit that they are cheating.
@nathanielmarcum7093
October 15, 2025 at 1:10 pm
and we still believe dominion voting machines to be truth! lmfao
@odyssey232001
October 15, 2025 at 1:19 pm
What if you compromise the machine with a rigged deck of cards that a player could read the top of the cards, because when dealt are face down knowing if they have the best hand, example Phil Ivey vs Daniel negraneau. 🤔
@thegamerboneless2864
October 15, 2025 at 1:47 pm
We have created and we celebrate we also follow grifters these days. Nothing is safe cause grifting has become the innovation. Bunch of failures at life failing up these days.
@strawbaria
October 15, 2025 at 2:11 pm
I’m suspicious why they want to “choose” the randomness by code – iirc the casino wants to have a deck as “uniformly” random as possible to make the most money, so I guess they thought forcing a specific “random” order to an existing not-so-random deck of cards was better than actually shuffling it randomly (and preserving the kinda no-randomness)?
@lofiguitarchill
October 15, 2025 at 2:13 pm
The USB plug-in + Bluetooth deck order reveal is absolutely wild.
@justinscherb749
October 15, 2025 at 2:39 pm
If you play poker and don’t think you’ve ever been cheated, you’re wrong.
@TheYetiLee
October 15, 2025 at 2:59 pm
I used to play online. I played on both Absolute and Full Tilt and I’m pretty sure I was never cheated. They were reputable companies I’m pretty sure.
@TheYetiLee
October 15, 2025 at 2:57 pm
I hope Mikey and Worm are watching this and taking notes!
@louis-philip
October 15, 2025 at 3:11 pm
Vsauce here.
@bakedpotato7254
October 15, 2025 at 6:12 pm
This is incredible.
@Wence42
October 15, 2025 at 6:23 pm
If you want it to be unhackable, don’t put a camera in it and ditch the sorting function.
Edit- 10:55 that’s what I said! If you really want to check for missing/duplicate cards, there needs to be a step after the camera where some untracked pseudorandomness is introduced. That could just mean a more complicated cut, or it could just mean having two completely independent systems inside the box, and have the camera system completely unable to communicate other than a speaker that alerts the dealer if the deck is non-standard.
@ДмитрийВознесенский-ч1о
October 15, 2025 at 6:25 pm
I don’t get it, dealer could cut 1 or 2 cards higher or lower and it would change order of winning hand, how does that calculating?
@KyleBaran90
October 15, 2025 at 6:38 pm
Ah, so Richard Turner is basically able to create a solved deck on the spot, that’s how he’s able to fix the decks. Still an impressive guy
@lemagreengreen
October 15, 2025 at 8:57 pm
Neat but unrealistic as far as a player being able to exploit it. You are not going to be able to access that USB port, the shuffler is installed next to the dealer and you’re not rooting around under the table there. Now of course this could be very realistic if we’re talking about the casino themselves cheating…
@TheCloudPuff
October 15, 2025 at 9:17 pm
If a deck shuffler can cheat. It can rig games to be in the casino favor. (This apply specifically for Black Jack)
@Premo2K
October 16, 2025 at 6:23 am
bro how do they say its unhackable when it has the freakin independence day weakness😅
@Lasttime-i3c
October 16, 2025 at 6:40 am
They edit out [if you’re in seat 1….] “this is what sits next to your knees under the table” as if every player has access to it which they do not, only seat 1 has access and its limited and since “The World Series of Poker” are all tournaments you have no say which seat, 1-9, you are seated in.
Speaking of Seat 1 shout out to “Seat 1” on Global poker – I dont know you but you have all my money. Please spend it wisely. 😅
@Lasttime-i3c
October 16, 2025 at 6:49 am
7:47 Say more lies please, the video is getting good.
@jm9371
October 16, 2025 at 8:02 am
That was fascinating.
@nickg.580
October 16, 2025 at 8:47 am
It’s vsauce’s J-Nosed brother lmao
@Ross-px9iy
October 16, 2025 at 8:50 am
I think a good part of poker is also bluffing. So even if you don’t have the best hand if you know the opponents hands isn’t complete nuts you can bluff a win. There should be a 4th signal that you don’t have best hand but opponents winning hand is weak.
@bbabins45
October 16, 2025 at 9:50 am
I only trust Tech writers who look like this
@timbraska6750
October 16, 2025 at 10:06 am
That little earpiece is madness.
@timowiese
October 16, 2025 at 10:26 am
I didn’t expect to see Vsauce’s brother in 2025
@Fed-Up-YouTuber
October 16, 2025 at 11:35 am
What if a bouncer or camera is directly behind the signaler that can see their phone?
@FichingoJ
October 16, 2025 at 12:05 pm
two words.. mike postle..this is exactly what they did
@SilverKnightm2138
October 16, 2025 at 1:07 pm
17:23 lmao he named the app winner winner chicken dinner
@jort93z
October 16, 2025 at 1:08 pm
I always just assumed it was mostly mechanical, and would just randomize the cards in some mechanical way. Its crazy that card shuffling machines even have the ability to sort the deck. I mean, there are obviously use cases to sorting a deck, but it should physically be a different machine.
@sunalwaysshinesonTVs
October 16, 2025 at 1:33 pm
Yeah, sure, but did he figure out how to get around the deck being riffled once before cutting? Simple add’l step many casinos already do.
@sunalwaysshinesonTVs
October 16, 2025 at 1:46 pm
“actual high stakes poker game”…. 5mins later, “money’s not real but Im sweating”.
@UncleT0ny
October 16, 2025 at 1:47 pm
Meta RayBans direct link into the deck
@codyedition
October 16, 2025 at 1:49 pm
very interesting watch!
@doombybbr
October 16, 2025 at 2:08 pm
“it generates a random number then puts the card in that position” is all I needed to know as to how this can be hacked. The device even being able to track the deck in ANY way is a serious flaw.
@skidoojoe9522
October 16, 2025 at 2:43 pm
lol you are not hacking anything… they are programmable !!casinos don’t lose money
@dromena
October 16, 2025 at 3:19 pm
No one has ever inserted a USB without violent finicking and scraping
@user-po5tu9qz6u
October 16, 2025 at 4:34 pm
she is ALL IN with K6 @ 3J4 flop? yeah – real pro players)))
@Pseud0nymTXT
October 16, 2025 at 4:55 pm
7:18 you know that could easily be rebuild to be a thumb drive and completely innocous
@brunommarinho
October 16, 2025 at 5:10 pm
No way a guy on his phone every other hand wouldnt be detected by surveilance
@maxscherzer9521
October 16, 2025 at 7:40 pm
The other two players are just so obviously actors. It would have been better to get real poker players.
@vivavaldez87
October 16, 2025 at 8:53 pm
If only the final shuffle in the video was done by Jason Ladanye or Jeremy Tan. Analog, indeed…
@joeimjoe
October 16, 2025 at 10:55 pm
“you did this with code alone”
“yes”
bravo
@00SingleSeven
October 16, 2025 at 11:16 pm
There’s are couple casino in silicon valley and both uses the shuffler without cutting the deck… I’ve never seen so many crazy hands in a single session. They say it is to prevent cheating but I’m not buying that. Deck cutting is must at least. I stop going there even though I’ve made few decent runs in tournaments..
@droogie1xp
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 am
Yea, I ran into this at the bay 101 and they said if I want them to cut decks I would have to move up in stakes… what a joke
@00SingleSeven
October 17, 2025 at 1:26 am
@droogie1xp same with matrix.. it’s about time to have the california gambling control commission involved
@fw5532
October 16, 2025 at 11:34 pm
And just like that…the good ‘ol jack-four scandal is back
@LanceBeckman
October 16, 2025 at 11:48 pm
Apparently the code is Doug
@RoaringPig
October 17, 2025 at 12:21 am
I scheduled a call 3x but no one ever showed up. Some of the links to his vault are also unaccessible. I get that these are freebies no one should feel entitled to, but it heavily scalps away your credibility as a coach. Pity, your videos have been nothing short but golden nuggets.
@joehopfield
October 17, 2025 at 1:08 am
as soon as he showed it could sort the cards, I knew it could not be trusted. insane, who wouldn’t put a camera connected to the same computer as the rng??
@ImSkye
October 17, 2025 at 1:08 am
Undetected? LMAO I’d have correlated the gestures within a few hands.
@LukeMackaman
October 17, 2025 at 1:46 am
The graphics are giving Marathon
@AkuroGames
October 17, 2025 at 1:49 am
That was an enjoyable watch! Crazy!!
@kenyarborough812
October 17, 2025 at 2:14 am
Regarding the code hash, once you have the exact inputs and environment, the algorithm itself is usually discoverable. Not trivial, but also not impossible.
@edvardpiano
October 17, 2025 at 2:14 am
it blows my mind that “shuffle” machines are actually sorting machines! it seems like a very strange and over-complicated solution to “shuffling” cards
@unridio5012
October 17, 2025 at 3:42 am
people still playing and losing ? ohh my people are so desperate 😀
@johnnytimestamp8224
October 17, 2025 at 4:01 am
me at the end..”so he wasn’t stupid enough to try this at a real casino, phew”
@UWUMelon
October 17, 2025 at 4:12 am
11:07 I think he wants us to use the promo code “Doug”…
@Simon-xi8tb
October 17, 2025 at 6:27 am
They took some randos that barely know the rules of poker let alone how to play and they cheated them out of fake money. Good job!
@billpii6314
October 17, 2025 at 7:22 am
So, is this a cheat machine for the house or for anyone who can get to it?
@SupperSoup
October 17, 2025 at 8:03 am
they could of also coded to just buzz somewhere on their body more steathly without ever taking the phone out.
@samgodzwa7927
October 17, 2025 at 10:50 am
New video idea: pranking casino clientele by waving magnets around their ears
@DiscoNd
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 pm
If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable
@fernandorivas2455
October 17, 2025 at 2:43 pm
The shuffler shouldn’t have the camera in the shuffling mechanism, it should first validate the deck with the camera, and then shuffle the deck without the camera
@Otis151
October 17, 2025 at 2:48 pm
I think the dealer is Sal’s wife. I think I saw them both on another video.
@Den99973
October 17, 2025 at 5:42 pm
Microsoft Windows 11 will basically own all your database….😢
@alphazero924
October 17, 2025 at 11:16 pm
“It is secure and cannot be compromised”
The entire hacker community: “Bet”
@nodrance
October 18, 2025 at 12:31 am
everything is hackable, if it’s electronic assume it’s already been hacked. Especially when money is involved. This is why electronic voting is a bad idea.
@jeffcooper4225
October 18, 2025 at 12:54 am
Wow
@SneakyG59
October 18, 2025 at 4:27 am
Is it not a red flag that a dude is folding consistantly every time?
@joelch20071
October 18, 2025 at 12:19 pm
not really some ppl play in such way that they only play when they have high probability of winning. and when that person doesnt fold. everyone else folds
@thomasthomas7858
October 18, 2025 at 4:55 am
Very interesting ! 👍👍
@kides6537
October 18, 2025 at 6:45 am
Sal is the best
@TheLostPacketYT
October 18, 2025 at 7:17 am
People keep forgetting major parts of things like this especially in the comments these devices would often be physically secured in a way so you can’t access them. Almost always mitigate every other threat to it.
@joelch20071
October 18, 2025 at 12:18 pm
pay off the dealer? it should not have a open usb port no matter what
@TheLostPacketYT
October 18, 2025 at 12:23 pm
@joelch20071 they are in security sealed safes and the usb port iis used to confirm no tampering oninspections
@drfunkinstein1
October 18, 2025 at 8:39 am
Doesn’t the dealer cut the deck after the machine shuffled it?
@joelch20071
October 18, 2025 at 12:17 pm
did u even watch the video
@drfunkinstein1
October 18, 2025 at 12:57 pm
@joelch20071 A couple minutes of it
@Styggejoe
October 18, 2025 at 10:00 am
if you were part of a cleaning crew, couldn’t you have swapped the shuffler for a bluetooth emitter internally with the usb port untouched if you just have the emitter battery powered leaving a useable usb?
@zackx8147
October 18, 2025 at 12:01 pm
When I read this title, I immediately thought this was a Mikki Mase video!
@zackx8147
October 18, 2025 at 12:10 pm
After the shuffler gives you the deck, dealer should have to do a wash!!
@joelch20071
October 18, 2025 at 12:16 pm
the card wizard + hack tech wizard = a scary combination
@Saint-hamudi
October 18, 2025 at 12:22 pm
this shouldve been vice
@ukdnbmarsh
October 18, 2025 at 12:31 pm
imagine these casinos always deal House the winner – isnt that UNLAWFUL.
@zackx8147
October 18, 2025 at 12:35 pm
Sal looks like the most trustworthy person ever!!!
@zackx8147
October 18, 2025 at 12:41 pm
10 8.. k 6.. super sus!!
@oldcowbb
October 18, 2025 at 1:00 pm
hash is not unique, thats pretty much the whole point
@JosephWagoner16
October 18, 2025 at 2:14 pm
Okay, I really wish y’all would make that code open source. They charge SO much for those machines, and they’re unwilling to admit their tech is broken.
@tommasomorelli9631
October 18, 2025 at 8:06 pm
If you add the visual check to be sure there are no duplicates before the shuffling (and you add a “mid” shuffle that is mechanical) you can make a product like this effectively unhackable.
You just need to make sure it doesn’t really know the order of the cards after they are scanned, basically change the order even slightly but still randomly (like picking 2 cards instead of 3 and viceversa) and it then shouldn’t be able to tell which cards it’s moving around at any moment when applying the randomly generated order
@Overonator
October 18, 2025 at 8:55 pm
Why not cut the deck more than once?
@vezselin
October 19, 2025 at 5:34 am
They especially made it to be hacked… by the casino, for the casino so they dont lose money
@remcovanhartevelt588
October 19, 2025 at 8:19 am
Well, you pulling a casino royale straight 2 outer on him with like 10 high against aces makes this very very unlikely to not be suspicious.
@SoushinSen
October 19, 2025 at 9:01 am
Always a pleasure to see Sal Piacente in videos.
@OfficialWhitehouseYT
October 19, 2025 at 9:44 am
I totally bet the hacker is using this in the real world. This was not just for our education, it was their education, and connection to experienced cheaters.
@masonpellegri7981
October 19, 2025 at 10:26 am
This with the glasses that protect a screen onto your eye would be unstoppable
@thetommantom
October 19, 2025 at 2:57 pm
Now do it with a meta glasses band to input ur data and a smart watch with a black unreponsive screen that you need to input a special code to unlock and that will stop vibrating if it detects a lock code or random inputs trying to get it to do something
@James02876
October 19, 2025 at 6:14 pm
Who thought a machine that can ORDER a deck was the right machine to shuffle a deck? That sounds insane.
@markus1351
October 19, 2025 at 8:10 pm
so all they needed to do is to remove the ability of the shuffler to know the cards itself… it can’t sort the deck afterwards, but it’s a blind, secure pseudo-random sort
@conorspinks8130
October 19, 2025 at 8:42 pm
how did you account for the dealer cutting the deck?
@pokerpi4664
October 19, 2025 at 8:59 pm
cheating by putting a camera in the card shuffler is the premise of DEAD MONEY(2024) movie. The ploy that the poker pro Bobby Kirkland plants a camera in the card shuffler to read the hands would likely not be effective since, as a rule, most dealers are instructed to usually give the deck a quick riffle and a deck cut to again randomize the deck…