Re: cheating at star city tournament
Several ways of combatting this.
1. frequently change the style of the high denomination chips, and vary the chips from tournament to tournament, that makes it harder to cheaters to accumulate useful chips.
2. transparency for the punishment of cheaters, I don't know if it is a crime or not to cheat in a tournament, if it is made clear to all players that cheating is a criminal offense and punisheable by turning over to police, then that is a big deterrent. Currently, i think people are not aware of any punishments whatsoever.
3. All players who are capable of doing so to track all player's at their tables chip counts. Really, if you are serious about tournament poker, this is something that you should already be doing. Combined with transparency of punishment, that is a huge deterrent for cheaters if they know that they could be at a table with someone who will track their chip counts and report them.
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