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How do poker sites detect bots?

From what I know they track certain metrics to determine bots. Most bots are pretty damn weak but as individuals are often hard to detect. What they track tend to be the following: Repeated use of ...
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Burning cards in poker

No question is silly, and you are right, it is for preventing cheating. Let me elaborate on that. The main reason for burning top card is to prevent players from using a marked deck. For example, if ...
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How should money won by a cheater be distributed?

Generally speaking there is limited scope to what happens. Generally, the house is not responsible for damage done by cheaters, and they really don't have a right to say confiscate chips or cash to ...
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Final table at tournament, two players avoiding eliminating each other -- what can the tournament director do?

The WSOP has rules against collusion and card throwing, the collusion rule is as follows b.Collusion is defined as any agreement between or among two (2) or more Participants to engage ...
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Someone else took my cards from the muck

I have seen this happen before, it really depends on the player who mucked their cards. They can either let it slide or call the floor over. It is definitely not cool to look at another players cards ...
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Angle shoot speech play - for sure I am calling

So this really depends on the number of players in a hand. Ultimately the outcome will be the same but the number of players in the hand determines if a penalty will be applied or not. Lets just get ...
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How are marked cards prevented in Poker?

At a casino, it would be difficult to mark the decks without being seen. In addition, the decks get swapped every few hands, so you would have to mark multiple decks, which increases your likelihood ...
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Test to prove deals are not random

Without any knowledge of their code, it is very difficult to find out how their randomness is generated. It would take knowledge in cryptography and most likely a very large number of hands. A ...
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Final table at tournament, two players avoiding eliminating each other -- what can the tournament director do?

The problem with collusion is that it is extremely difficult to document, especially in live poker.it is even difficult online were one has full access to the hand histories. the Tournement director's ...
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Someone else took my cards from the muck

The best way to handle this is for the dealer to call the floor over. The floor should explain that no player is allowed to touch another player's cards, and you're especially not allowed to touch the ...
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Can someone else help in making a descion about a hand

No it is not. The standard rule is "one player per hand".
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N00b ethics question about calculators in online poker (or choker)

In terms of ethics surrounding calculators, I think it is unethical to use something that gives you information that other players would not be able to obtain themselves (without the calculator). Eg, ...
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Someone else took my cards from the muck

This is a major breach of etiquette. If the player wanted to see your cards, they had the option of paying to do so, and they didn't. As a dealer, I would have ideally protected the muck proactively, ...
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Cheating by 2 or more players playing "best hand?"

This I think could simply be that two or more colluders would not only avoid being in the same pot against a third player but they would communicate which should drop out based on hand quality. ...
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How does one get comfortable with the honesty of online casinos?

You can measure the improbability of a sequence of events all you want, but you can never 100% be sure that these events are a consequence of tampering with the random number generator. As big as ...
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How does one get comfortable with the honesty of online casinos?

Pokerstars (Amaya) is a multi- billion dollar company. They have licenses in different countries to operate in them. They will soon have over 200 billion! hands played on their site. It's all about ...
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Micro/nano skin implants to signal hole cards at the WSOP?

Interesting thought, I think it is possible but it would be very difficult to pull off depending on the method used. I believe the WSOP now uses RFID cards instead of hole cams to show the player ...
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Soft play in a cash game

You need to talk to the shift supervisor away from the table. Sure it is cheating, but no proof enough for anything to happen with a ruling. So the supervisor may or may not do anything about it. But ...
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Soft play in a cash game

I would not use the word cheat. Not follow the rules is not always cheating. Call the floor if bets are not paid out properly. As for instantly muck after a call that may not be against the ...
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How do poker sites detect bots?

Some poker sites have code built into their clients that allow them to display a captcha challenge when the server requests it (which likely is manually triggered by the security team after reports ...
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Collusion in real life poker games

Firstly, just don't. People tend not to take too kindly to cheaters, and even more so when the cheaters are taking their personal cash. If and when you'll eventually be caught you'll likely end up in ...
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What to do if we suspect online poker server is cheating?

what do you mean by "cheats"? If you are good at Googling, you will easily find relations between zbot from annual computer poker championship and zynga poker on facebook. Using bots in learning poker ...
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How are marked cards prevented in Poker?

Call me cynical, you could get away with it. I am constantly amazed by how comfortable and confident that poker players are by their faith in the security systems they believe the casinos have to ...
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How are marked cards prevented in Poker?

There would be the ink or dust the act of marking the cards the custom glasses inspecting the cards new decks dealers and staff trained at detecting players detecting surveillance cameras ...
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