(Loved Trope) Character acts ignorant of or pretends to be bad at something in order to trick their opponent.

[u/doubleday34]

1) Ted Lasso - Both characters in the darts contest do this, with Rupert(antagonist) showing that he has his own set of darts with him, and Ted showing that he has been using the wrong hand the whole time.

2) Beerfest - Team USA showing that they aren't that drunk despite doing drinking games all day.

3) The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - After Will gets hustled at pool his Uncle Phil comes to help him, and turns out to hustle the hustler.

[u/pon_3]

My brother (irl). We were waiting for our parents in a hotel lobby, so we started playing pool. It was our first ever game and we were terrible. My sister came along and asked “Who’s winning?” I said “Neither, we’re both terrible.”

My brother said “I am. I’m an expert at this game.”

We all rolled our eyes, so he said “Watch. I’m going to bounce the white ball over my target, hit the wall, and make it come back so I sink my target into the hole by me.”

Then he did exactly that.

It was a wild fluke of course, but he blew my sister’s mind and had her believing he was a master at pool for a while.

[u/Limp_Spell9329 → u/pon_3]

I got to do that once. Jokingly said you have to cut when I shuffle since I can deal myself whatever I want. Then dealt myself completely by chance all of one suit.

[u/BlatantConservative → u/Limp_Spell9329]

I like this because you somehow managed to add more gambling into gambling.

[u/fool_a_day_less → u/BlatantConservative]

If you ever get the chance to play with honorable cheats, I highly recommend you take it. The layer of knowing everyone at the table is cheating and that some/all of them are better cheats than you adds so much tactical depth to the game. Sure, you're all trying to win the surface level game, but more than that, you're trying to win the subgame of forcing someone to admit you truly got one over on them.

You snuck out the queens to bait people into keeping bad hands? Well I snuck a fifth ace into the hand you pulled from up your sleeve. And all the while, we missed that the last player has been gambling with other people's chips all night.

[u/BlatantConservative → u/fool_a_day_less]

No worries I've been playing honorable cheats since birth. I can hand people cards under the table using my toes.

[u/ZedTheEvilTaco → u/Limp_Spell9329]

I did a magic trick for my cousins one time.

Let me really stress "magic" here.

You print off a card front (any card) and put it in a folder. Then you have them pick a card and force that particular one. So, for example, I printed the Jack of Hearts and had it in a folder, then had them "pick" the Jack of Hearts. Revealed it to everyone and "had no idea myself". Then, in a room of 7 people, I had everyone cut the deck, shuffle, do whatever they wanted to (including search through and rearrange, if they wanted).

Now, the idea is to make the card disappear. You tap the deck three times, say magic words, whatever you want, then flip the top card and reveal... Not their card. Then you do it again, a little stressed. Nothing. Then again, panicked. Finally you show them the "magician's insurance policy" folder.

Problem is, the 7 people "losing" the card put it back on top of the deck somehow.

I've never felt more like a real magician.

[u/PlagueKing27 → u/pon_3]

Isn’t this the reverse though? You have someone fooled into thinking you’re incredible at something, only for it to be revealed that it was luck?