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[QUOTE="rawone, post: 2342930, member: 95060"]
Phil Ivey without a doubt is a really intelligent and perceptive guy.  You can't reach the top of the poker world without smarts and great skills of perception, especially of small things that turn into tells over time.

He is so perceptive as to have noted a feature of play card design that could be used to his advantage, if he was able to manipulate the cards.  With an accomplice at the table, and playing a single deck game, they were over time able to arrange the cards in the deck in a manner that would allow them to determine a "10 not 10" status of a card.  You have to be pretty smart, pretty observant, and more than anything incredibly patient to get to that sort of situation.

Is it cheating?  IMHO, yes it is.   It's not playing the game, it's exploiting a flaw.   I am also sure it's a flaw that the casinos are addressing.  I suspect that the dealers are now spin shuffling cards (cut in half, spin one side 180, shuffle together before putting them in the shuffling maching), and I wouldn't be shocked if the shufflers are modified over time to spin cards during the shuffle.

Ivey may be a great card player, but two such episodes (caught) seem to indicate something else.
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