"Shooting Angles?" -- what is it EXACTLY

[mar1o]

I've been researching what kinds of cheating goes on in poker. I'm particularly interested in stories of people who have been cought cheating in online poker and how they were caught... and what poker sites may or may not consider cheating.

I heard a mention of this term "shooting angles". And got only a vague description of what it is. A common explaination that I find in google searches lists "miscalling a hand" as a potential angling tactic....

Is it just a general term for doing something that is clearly dumb in name of cheating?

But how the hell could a cheater miscall a hand to give himself the advantage?

Dirk

[jungy121]

like saying you have the nuts, when you don't, so the other guy mucks, without seeing your hand. cause you know, once you hand hits the muck, dead hand. and also, saying like " i raise" outta turn so that the other guy won't raise. and you just limp. stuff like that's angle shooting.

[KY_Ace]

Angle shooting isn't cheating, it's usually considered unethical but barely within the rules. I do it quite often when I'm playing live. jungy had some good examples, a good example is something i did a couple weeks ago in a NL game. I was playing a hand against a new player, completely clueless ( he was drinking too ) kept looking at the dealer when it was his turn, not sure what he was supposed to do. Flop was K66 and I had KQ. I had called $25 on the flop and $50 on the turn based on what I'd seen from him so far. When the river card came down I checked, I could tell he didn't know what he was supposed to do, so I turned my hand face up, and he proceeded to turn his K6 face up without a bet. Unethical, yes, but it saved me some $$!

[bigred]

Angle shooting isn't cheating, it's usually considered unethical but barely within the rules. I do it quite often when I'm playing live. jungy had some good examples, a good example is something i did a couple weeks ago in a NL game. I was playing a hand against a new player, completely clueless ( he was drinking too ) kept looking at the dealer when it was his turn, not sure what he was supposed to do. Flop was K66 and I had KQ. I had called $25 on the flop and $50 on the turn based on what I'd seen from him so far. When the river card came down I checked, I could tell he didn't know what he was supposed to do, so I turned my hand face up, and he proceeded to turn his K6 face up without a bet. Unethical, yes, but it saved me some $$!

Meh, if you sit down to a poker game and aren't competent enough to know the rules or have someone explain the rules, you probably will part with your money soon anyway.

[KY_Ace]

I've seen some damn juicy games in my day! Sometimes it just seems like a race to see who gets the fishes stack first, even the good players are forced to loosen up cuz they know if they hit the flop they get the fishes' stack. Only in America baby!!!!

[bigred]

I've seen some damn juicy games in my day! Sometimes it just seems like a race to see who gets the fishes stack first, even the good players are forced to loosen up cuz they know if they hit the flop they get the fishes' stack. Only in America baby!!!!

And Eurotrashland