Cheating at poker

In poker, as in most activities involving money in larger amounts, there are people trying to find ways to take an unfairly large share of the pie. Cheating need not always break the rules but can sometimes rather Pushing the limits, which may make it difficult to detect and combat. Nowadays, of course, playing poker at home, at casinos and on the Internet, and will be cheating in poker, we must apply different tricks in different environments. Cheating is probably most at home games or casinos as advanced software makes it harder to cheat on the Internet.

Cheating in live poker (at home or at the casino)
It is a little easier to cheat in the ring games than in tournament play because you do not know what it will share the table with games in the tournament, plus any hand in ring games can give more money in your pocket. Typical cheating in the ring games are:

* Throw in their sloppy chips in the pot to hide the failure to put in as many chips as they say ( "Splashing the pot" in English), or to snoop for the chips that do not belong to one yourself.

* No peeking at the other players card to gain an advantage in asking none.

* Tagging cards so that you can keep track of the higher denominations, for example, King and Ace.

* Collaborate with one or more "opponents".

* Breaking the various formal and informal rules of the game, for example, repeatedly saying that it has a different hand than you have, or to "accidentally" saying failure or change its focus in order to confuse opponents.

The above methods, except to cooperate, will not make anyone rich - at most, perhaps taking home an extra pot and danger while being pushed and lynchad of incensed opponents. An effective cooperation with other players around the table is the most profitable way to cheat in the ring games, and indeed it is difficult for others to discover. It requires much planning and coldness of the people involved because it sits right alongside those attempting to cheat on the money.

In tournament play, we do not win money in each hand and you do not know who is going to sit around the table. Cheat becoming more difficult and risking the cheating that works in the ring games may not feel like appealing anymore because there is no direct reward. The most common cheating in tournament play is that "soft play" against any opponent. For example, it is not so unusual for players who know they are both from the same city played a little benign toward each other. This benefits both, although they may not know each other well or have planned to cheat in advance. This is difficult to detect because it can be perfectly legitimate for soft play sometimes, depending on the gaming technology we have, and other players might not even know that there is any kind of relationship between the two players.

When playing at a casino should report suspect behavior of players to casino staff, so that the casino may have a chance to check that everything goes right. This is of course also in all the honest players' interest.

Cheating in US online poker
Cheating at poker on the Internet is a little different than in live poker, among other things, as you sit yourself and nobody knows what you have for yourself, but also to a computer program has completed an eye on what hand you have, what you really focused and that you imposible can see other player's card or body language. But just as in ring games is the most effective fraud to cooperate with other players. In online poker, you can easily do it via phone / Skype, instant messaging programs or by having one computer to sit next to each other. Another option that did not exist in live poker is that you can play at the same table by two different accounts at once.

All this is of course sophisticated poker room on the internet aware and because there are computers that handle online poker game can be using advanced software to detect suspicious behavior automatically. Poker rooms have statistics on exactly what everyone has done and in what order, and by analyzing it, they can detect the most. One can also have an eye on the different game accounts from the same computer (IP address) and account A only used if the account B also plays at the same table simultaneously. Other behaviors you can discover is whether it interferes with a good hand for the benefit of even other games account or someone you work with. Once a poker room has taken a suspicion against one or more players, they can analyze the player's style of play a long time and will then often discover if there fuskats.

Naturally, even honest player, a major source of reports about the cheats, because these players naturally do not want to be cheated on money. This has, of course, poker rooms and the honest players a common interest - one can therefore say that the ability to detect cheating and cheats is a major characteristic of a good poker player.

Some are afraid that any programmer will "chop" poker software you have on their computer to get an advantage. However, this is an exaggerated fear, because it is not the software they have on their own computer that controls the poker game, but a central poker room software that runs on a mainframe somewhere else (often outside England). This center will not send any hidden or unnecessary information to the poker clients can trick up by programming on anything - that you can, for example, does not find out what others have been too short in this way.

Do you envisage a future in poker, you should of course not even consider trying any of that which is described in this article - that cheating is for losers who can not manage to win honestly, and it almost never works, plus you can get rid of your gambling capital on a poker room on you. However, it may be useful to be aware of different tricks to be able to detect if someone is to trick you on the money by cheating.