Poker Cheats
When poker games moved from traditional casinos to the Internet, the cheats associated with a certain phenomenal popular card game poker didn’t just fade away. Online cheaters took on different forms and appearances and still continue to this day. Here are some of the cheats you might encounter in poker games online.
First of all, what about the poker site itself? Some poker sites dedicated to the game are said to be run by dubious companies. As every poker site knows the hole cards of all its players, from a technical stand point it would be very easy for the site owners to participate in the poker games at the site while seeing every other player’s hole cards. With this decisive edge he could easily take the players money. To avoid this cheating problem, make sure you play at the most reputable poker sites only. These card sites are monitored by professional poker players using statistical analysis software and any anomaly is reported on poker forums.
A poker cheat you might encounter even at the top poker rooms is collusion among regular players. These poker players might interact with each other via telephone, instant messaging, or other systems and exchange information about what cards they are holding, allowing them to gain an edge on the other poker players. Communication is not necessary to cheat at poker; in multi-table tournaments, one player might intentionally lose all his poker chips to his cheater friend, just to give him a huge increase chance to win or place higher in the poker tournament. When you suspect or detect this type of collusion, immediately report it to the support department of the poker site.
Poker bots are another major threat to the online poker industry. Poker bots are software programs that act on behalf of the poker player. You could go to sleep and leave your poker bots running for you and no one would notice anything different. Fortunately, most poker bots that are available for sale are losing or break-even poker players except at the micro limit games. There have been some reports of bots winning consistently; new advances in artificial intelligence might one day make winning poker bots common place. You can usually detect a poker bot because it will play very predictable and almost never participates in the chat box. If you are a great poker player, you might be able to trick the poker bots into losing money because it plays such a predictable poker game. But the average and bad poker players could suffer significantly from these new bots and perhaps lose all their money.
