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Originally Posted by urban1
I think a lot of cheating goes on.
I think of how many scam artists there are out there who pull off elaborate scams where the proceeds of the crime are small compared to the effort required.
Whether its highschool or college kids with some computer knowledge, amature hackers, or some scammer with a computer in Nigeria, I cant for a minute believe that these poker sites are so secure. I believe they can catch the obvious scammers such as looking for the same combo of IPs in games and looking for other software you running on your machine but that doesnt take much knowledge to get around.
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In order to collude properly you must actually be good at poker. Otherwise you will be caught.
All it takes is one player saying something fishy is going on and you and your friend will be banned from playing at the same table.
As for hacking into the system, to do what exactly? Read hole cards? In order for this to be a successful scam, the hacker would first have to hack into the system, play for long enough to make it profitable, and finally figure out a way to cash out. All without getting caught or doing something suspicious that gets their funds frozen. Not really realistic. The much more likely scenario is an inside job, where someone who works for a poker site and has access to the hole cards decides to use it to their advantage. That's what happened in this case and they got caught.