A researcher from Google has found a sophisticated poker cheating device that allows people to know what cards you are holding by using a specially adapted mobile phone and a deck of cards.

I used to appear in a local poker game in a pub across the road from where I used to live. There were six of us who were hardcore, the type of people who would turn up on Christmas Day. Then there were another six or seven who would frequent the game on an irregular basis. That’s a small sample size of poker players living in a small Welsh Valley of 3,000 people, and yet we still had problems with cheating in the game.

You could break our problems down into two categories.

Problem #1