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pylon · 09-21-2011, 02:14 AM

I have watched a guy who I know through a friend rig an online game, on a major site in real time, and make 2 grand in an hour playing low limit tables. The guy made a very healthy living for about 5 years, and reinvested it all into a pretty sizeable business, and paid off his house, playing poker part time, and getting a University degree all at the same time.

He didn't do it through hacks that showed him cards, but he did it through setting up multiple "machines" on one PC, held 4 of the 8 seats at the table, and clean out everyone else out by strategically betting and moving the money around through his 4 players, and driving up the pots. I don't know the exact logistics behind how he did it, as I thought they tracked IP's on the sites, but I witnessed it with my own two eyes. He would even purposely lose the odd hand to keep under the radar. The guy had close to 200 different logins for some of the sites, and multiple netteller accounts. The guy capped himself at $5000/day, between 3 sites, as to not raise red flags. It was a pretty complex gig, but whos laws was he breaking? All these sites were based off shore.

Apparantly, he did eventually get caught, banned from a couple sites and lost some winnings, but from what I understand, he made a little over a million bucks in 4 years, cheating the system. After I saw that, I never played online again. I don't know what the security protocols are now, as this was about 5 years ago, but it is not as much the site that scares me, it is the users, and the chance they are colluding/holding multiple seats at the table.

09-21-2011, 02:14 AM	#21
pylon Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Jul 2007 Exp:	I have watched a guy who I know through a friend rig an online game, on a major site in real time, and make 2 grand in an hour playing low limit tables. The guy made a very healthy living for about 5 years, and reinvested it all into a pretty sizeable business, and paid off his house, playing poker part time, and getting a University degree all at the same time. He didn't do it through hacks that showed him cards, but he did it through setting up multiple "machines" on one PC, held 4 of the 8 seats at the table, and clean out everyone else out by strategically betting and moving the money around through his 4 players, and driving up the pots. I don't know the exact logistics behind how he did it, as I thought they tracked IP's on the sites, but I witnessed it with my own two eyes. He would even purposely lose the odd hand to keep under the radar. The guy had close to 200 different logins for some of the sites, and multiple netteller accounts. The guy capped himself at $5000/day, between 3 sites, as to not raise red flags. It was a pretty complex gig, but whos laws was he breaking? All these sites were based off shore. Apparantly, he did eventually get caught, banned from a couple sites and lost some winnings, but from what I understand, he made a little over a million bucks in 4 years, cheating the system. After I saw that, I never played online again. I don't know what the security protocols are now, as this was about 5 years ago, but it is not as much the site that scares me, it is the users, and the chance they are colluding/holding multiple seats at the table.