online cheating?

Obscure

Came up during the sunday free-roll about online cash games cheating. With some ppl saying thats the reason they dont play cash online. They'll play touraments online cos its harder to cheat as you dont get ur choice of table and you get moved around a bit.

There are a few ways you can cheat i guess. Firstly by having friends on the same table who tell you what cards they hold, from which you can make a better guess at opponents hand. Anyone know of other ways? Also you can pump up pots to make it easier for an opponent to call.

It was said that downstairs in the Merrion in FareBet(?) is perfect for cheating as all the machines use different IPs so the poker sites cant tell that all the ppl are actually sitting in the same room.

Does anyone have fears of playing online becuase of cheating and does anyone cheat online by communicating with "opponents"?

Krusty_Clown

NickyOD wrote:

Some sites also use code built into their client to take screenshots of your PC, which is fed back to the site to tell them if you are using an instant messenger or a bot like Win-Holdem.

I find this hard to believe, as this would negate any data protection or privacy rights of the individual (you code also have source code / company finances visible on your screen, not just porn!). I haven't read the T&Cs but I kind of doubt that they can make you waive your rights by using the company's poker client..

Their client software could potentially analyse the applications you have running, or the network protocols you are using to identify collusive communication, but who's to say that you're not just having a chat with a friend while playing poker? It's also a grey-area, i.e. rights/spyware and we all know how much attention spyware companies get..

I think it highly more likely that they concentrate on seeking collusion using the means mentioned above, i.e. finding players who regularly play together, unusual bet and fold patterns (i.e. Player A has pocket Kings, Player B has pockets Aces, and player A folds to player B on a low flop, etc).. I would imagine that to make decent money by cheating, you'd need to play with your fellow bandit a fair bit, i.e. it wouldn't be worth it for a once-off opportunity, because of the hassles of setting up unique credit cards, addresses, users, etc.

Much easier (cheaper) to have a couple of algorithms filtering table and user information, than paying a couple of hundred people to watch people's desktops!

Here's a question: Is cheating in online gambling illegal?