POLL: Cheating and Collusion within Online Poker

[Nem]

Please note: all votes are totally anonymous, the mods/admin are unable to track or see who has voted for each option.

[matt674]

lol, pretty unanimous so far - but then after what has happened with JJProdigy and ZeeJustin did you really expect anything different??

[Indestructable]

Or that we haven't worked out how to do it yet?
 

[Nem]

bump

[The Baron]

BUMP.

Geeting slightly more realistic figures now I feel.....

[Rupert]

When I first started playing we usually had 3 or 4 of us playing a $5 sit and go and telling each other our hole cards.  I didn't know much better at the time so thought it was fine.  I haven't colluded for ages since though

[The Baron]

When I first started playing we usually had 3 or 4 of us playing a $5 sit and go and telling each other our hole cards.  I didn't know much better at the time so thought it was fine.  I haven't colluded for ages since though

Nice honesty Rupert. Good on you.

[TightEnd]

top marks for honesty.

[Nem]

I find the figures amazing tbh. I thought a lot more players would have cheated/colluded online. Especially with IM, free phone calls, Skype etc...

Shows what good people read this forum 

[Sark79]

In an interview I heard with Mike Matasow(sp?), he says that he feels there are some dodgy antics going on in the $100/200 game on stars.

Could he be correct or is stars too big a site for this to happen?

Not that it bothers me that much, I am years away from that game.

[AndrewT]

Sark, there are certainly many big stakes players who refuse to play anything other than heads-up poker online, because they fear collusion (particularly from groups of Scandies).

[Nem]

Sark, there are certainly many big stakes players who refuse to play anything other than heads-up poker online, because they fear collusion (particularly from groups of Scandies).

Especially on the Prima $40/$80 Omaha, they even banned 2 players from Finland sitting on the same table.

[The Baron]

I find the figures amazing tbh. I thought a lot more players would have cheated/colluded online. Especially with IM, free phone calls, Skype etc...

Shows what good people read this forum 

7.8% is quite big I think.

What's that? About 1 in 12 players have cheated regularly? EDIT: Ok 1 in 13 but you get my point.

So for every two 6 player cash tables you sit at you can expect one cheat. That's not a small number.

[crddolly]

Me and Mr crddolly play on the sane computer using the same login name but I don't class that as cheating we usualy fight over whos going to play the next hand LOL keeps people guessing when the style of play changes.  He usualy wins and I get to watch more often than not.

 

[Longy]

I don't find this particularly surprising. I have played some very small STT's with my mates online and have had messenger open at the same time. We have discussed the fact that we could clean up by sharing hole cards but to be honest none of us saw the point for such small beer and its not my or my mates nature. Plus i probably play harder against people i know, my competitive nature and bragging rights over my mates are worth more than the money.

Yet i suppose my point is that it is so easy to cheat that there is bound to be some minor level collusion going on all the time. All you can do is report it when you do suspect something is amiss, no poker site wants this as its bad for publicity.