i am curious if there is anything that stops players from teaming up on other players. you would definatly have an advantage if you had 3 friends sitting in the same room. do the companies do anything to watch out for this. not trying to scam anyone. just curious if when i'm playing i am being teamed up on. thanks for any info
i'm not up on my poker terms. don't know what rake is. anyway i would think you could get a group of people together and bleed a table. bid up the pot know others cards and have a pretty large advantage. i wonder if there are any steps in place to stop this. like showing how often groups of players play in the same room.
i play golf at a country club and there always card games in the mens locker room. everyonce in a while i new guy joins and gets in the game. they will rob him blind, and split his money after he's dry. they do this by signaling bidding up the pot, ect. how do you know by joining a table your not walking into a scam.
i play golf at a country club and there always card games in the mens locker room. everyonce in a while i new guy joins and gets in the game. they will rob him blind, and split his money after he's dry. they do this by signaling bidding up the pot, ect. how do you know by joining a table your not walking into a scam.
Rake is the small percentage of every pot the house or in this case web-site takes out of every pot. Texas-Holdem is an unusaual game as individual players only get two private cards to go with the five community cards, so anyone with a partner would only know what hole cards they had and could walk right into a big hand trying to force bet people out by betting in front with nothing. There are lots of possibilities to consider though and it is theoretically possible to team up by phone say and take three seats at the same table and have an edge. How, I am not really sure. Intersting question though. I play on-line, mostly with Demo-money for practice and things move real fast.
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YES THERE IS COLLUSION AND TRAPPING
GROUPS TRY TO RAISE THE POT WHEN ONE OF THE GROUP THINKS HE HAS THE NUTS. THEY TRY TO GET THE SUCKER IN THE MIDDLE AND KEEP RAISING
IT WORKS BEST IN OMAHA HI/LOW
PLAYER GETS 4 HIDDEN CARDS EACH
IF 2 GUYS ARE PLAYING TOGETHER 1 GUY MIGHT HAVE THE BEST LOW CARDS AND THE OTHER PLAYER THE BEST HIGH CARDS THEN THEY JUST START RAISING -OUCH
GROUPS TRY TO RAISE THE POT WHEN ONE OF THE GROUP THINKS HE HAS THE NUTS. THEY TRY TO GET THE SUCKER IN THE MIDDLE AND KEEP RAISING
IT WORKS BEST IN OMAHA HI/LOW
PLAYER GETS 4 HIDDEN CARDS EACH
IF 2 GUYS ARE PLAYING TOGETHER 1 GUY MIGHT HAVE THE BEST LOW CARDS AND THE OTHER PLAYER THE BEST HIGH CARDS THEN THEY JUST START RAISING -OUCH
Is there anything that stops players teaming up in a real cardroom?
Who do you think is more vigilant?
Fat Tony who is trying to score with a cocktail waitress and catch the donut guy, while watching 20 live games,
or online operators, who's entire business is built on integrity?
I've played an extraordinary amount of online poker, there is no doubt cheating, there is in anything that is gambled on, it only becomes a problem when it interferes with an honest guy earning and that has yet to be the case with online poker.
It has been debated alot, a search will yield alot of information.
Just watch out for posts by this Heywood guy, he thinks 35 guys colluding 4 or 5 at a time for some corporation is some earth shattering scheme to defraud the public.
Who do you think is more vigilant?
Fat Tony who is trying to score with a cocktail waitress and catch the donut guy, while watching 20 live games,
or online operators, who's entire business is built on integrity?
I've played an extraordinary amount of online poker, there is no doubt cheating, there is in anything that is gambled on, it only becomes a problem when it interferes with an honest guy earning and that has yet to be the case with online poker.
It has been debated alot, a search will yield alot of information.
Just watch out for posts by this Heywood guy, he thinks 35 guys colluding 4 or 5 at a time for some corporation is some earth shattering scheme to defraud the public.
From conversations I have had with online poker people there is collusion software in place. They would not go into details on everythihng it looked for, but they said eventually it would pick it up. At the same time, "eventually" means they get away with scamming for a limited amount of time.
I think the most basic of collusion software merely checks playing time.
If PLAYER1 and PLAYER2 have logged 300 hours on the site, and 290 of those hours they were seated at the same table, then I think the software calls in someone to investigate further.
Hopefully its more sophisticated than that, but that would be a start.
If PLAYER1 and PLAYER2 have logged 300 hours on the site, and 290 of those hours they were seated at the same table, then I think the software calls in someone to investigate further.
Hopefully its more sophisticated than that, but that would be a start.
bigbet states that they monitor for collusion, but don't really say how. The mere fact that they say this strongly implies collusion takes place. I have often seen 2-3 players join a table very nearly at the same time and those same 2-3 players seem to bet very aggressively even when 1 or more of them don't have very good hands. You should jot down their 'names' and notify the site.
