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Originally Posted by mollila There must be cheaters online, but nobody knows for sure how many. At least the larger poker sites have software and teams to detect collusion and cheating patterns.
If you think you are being cheated, you can save the hand histories and report the suspected players to the poker room support. They should then review the case. |
Recently a person reported in another forum that he and two other people had entered a tournament and were playing together, discussing hands and talked about their money split.
I sent this info to P*'s and they said they would check into it , I didn't hear for over a week and e-mailed them again. They said they were looking at the issue and thats the last I heard; 2 months ago. I gave them the tourn. #, the players names and the screenshot from the Moneypage.
They can't and wont do anything, even though it was submitted in a forum.
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Internet discussion forums are rife with unproven allegations of non-random card dealing, possibly to favour house-employed players or "bots" (poker playing software disguised as a human opponent), or to give multiple players good hands thus increasing the bets and the rake, or simply to prevent new players from losing so quickly that they become discouraged. However, there is little more than anecdotal evidence to support such claims, and others argue that the rake is sufficiently large that such abuses would be unnecessary and foolish. Many claim to see lots of "bad beats" with large hands pitted against others all too often at a rate that seems to be a lot more common than in live games. This might actually be caused by the fact that online cardrooms deal more hands per hour: online players get to see more hands, so their likelihood of seeing more improbable bad beats or randomly large pots is also increased.
However, to date there has been at least one site, ProPoker.com, that has been found to use serverside bots that play with the knowledge of players' cards and the cards yet to be dealt. It has since been shut down, with many players losing the funds they had on the site.
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