ONLINE POKERJerad Hobgood

History

Advantages

24/7 Accessibility Fast Games No tipping No travel Find table in your price range Play in more than one table at a

time

Disadvantages

Faster Losses Can’t see tells Easier to get distracted Addicting Lose money without knowing Faster Actions

Cheating

Collusion Multi-Accounting Poker Bots Ghosting Viewing hole cards Account selling

Collusion

Most common Two or more players at one

table sharing information Weaker hand tries to raise pot Weaker hand will fold

Catching Collusion

Many sites can’t play with friends

Sites keep database records of all players who play together and what the players had in their hand.

Eventually a pattern will emerge and the cheaters will be caught.

Multi-Accounting

Similar to Collusion

Same person registers twice on same gambling site.

Strictly against the rules

Gives player advantages in tournaments.

Catching Multi-Accounting

Many Sites don’t allow same IP address to register more than once

Sites keep database and using algorithms try to find patterns

Not much else sites can do

Poker Bots

Computer programs that play for you or give suggestions on next move

University of Alberta Canada made a program called Polaris

Polaris won majority of Texas Hold’em games against a professional player

Most bots used by players are not effective

Catching Bots Many Sites check background of

computer

Measure movements of mouse

Measure Reaction time

Information analyzed to determine if player is human or not

Ghosting

Player has coach with them

Gives player advantage over other players

Catching Ghosting

You Can’t

Viewing Hole cards

Cards somehow mark Gives the user who can see the marks

huge advantage

Catching hole cards

Keep database to cross reference

Example:In 2007 poker room called Absolute Poker had employee in possession of super-user account where he could see all cards.

This man was caught because he would fold a losing hand before the flop. This was a dead giveaway.

If you are going to cheat be smart about it

Account Selling

When a user sells his account to another player (offend processional)

Big names such as Sorel, Mizzi, Chris Vaughn have all been caught cheating with this method

Kentucky Site seized

141 domain names seized Because Kentucky law bans gambling

devices Most of these sites where not owned by

people from Kentucky and few not even from this country

Eventfully overturned.

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