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posted by admin on Aug 16

Identifying cheats and accusing other online poker players of cheating are uncontroversial acts that will always, and will surely, get you into trouble.

Online poker cheats are always justified and disguised as just slippery, strategic and acceptable game tactics. But sometimes, it will be very hard to distinguish between tactics and cheating arrangements in online poker games.

Cheating is very rampant within traditional room and casino pokers. The fact can be attributed to the reality that poker is played based on a number and variety of procedures and rules and games are played more quickly.

Several forms of online poker cheats

The following are some of the most rampant and detected online poker cheats. If you are into online poker, or just a beginner, take note of how opportunistic and unscrupulous people commit online poker cheating methods so you will not fall prey to them.

Hacking

The most common form of hacking activity victimizing online poker players is the one that involves emails. This sub-form of online poker cheats can be easily detected if you are not that gullible. Just like in any email virus, opening a virus-infected email file can expose your personal online poker directory to others.

Online poker cheats are also experts in ‘hex-editing.’ Through this, a hacker can open an online poker client’s profile and personal programs. Hackers have adopted the technique or technology that online operators had formerly used to edit or modify interesting profiles, including banned names or aliases that are not decent enough and often, really funny and disgusting.

Aside from the two hacking techniques by some online poker cheats, hacking is not that rampant throughout the Internet. Most, if not all, of online poker rooms or operators are equipped with software or programs that will halt any attempt by online poker cheats to hack their systems or their clients’ accounts.

Online poker cheats will find that online poker rooms have security measures encrypted on the player’s screen and decrypted on the operating server’s side. Therefore, experts assert, hacking is just a myth in online poker.

Phishing

Phishing is the most common fraudulent activity over the Internet. The ‘modus operandi’ is very simple and familiar to online users.

Though phishing, scammers send ‘spoofed’ emails that can easily be detected through their funny email headings or subjects. Several of these scammers can be creative enough to try to convince users to  click a link to a Web site.

Clicking on a scam Web site or link will try to fool users by convincing them to divulge personal and confidential financial information like account usernames, social security codes, personal identification numbers, credit card numbers, and others.

Online poker cheats also use this tactic to fool and defraud online poker players. Though, this cheating strategy is not that rampant in online poker compared to its counterparts outside the online poker world.

Here is one example of an email letter that you could receive. Be aware and careful cause this will lead you to links that will eventually defraud you.

From: technical_support@onlinepartypoker.com

Subject: URGENT  Modify Account Info

Dear client,

This is regarding your cash out. Online Party Poker urgently needs to check and verify your account information because we are currently upgrading our systems. Failure to provide information will prevent you from cash outs. Click here to provide information.

Regards,

Online Party Poker Technical Support Team

There. You can easily detect that the letter is misleading you. It is obviously composed by online poker cheats. If you have received a similar letter, just ignore it. Cash outs are not usually cancelled due to lack of information.
Collusion

This is probably the most widely used cheating method by online poker cheats. In traditional poker rooms, the tactic is very simple. Two players will adopt a common and devised sign language. Through this, their chances at beating other players are higher.

Online poker cheats collude with each other through the use of various modern technologies, including fixed and wireless telephones, instant messaging, radio communications, etc.

It can be funny, but really amazing, how online cheats recently developed ‘self-collusion activities.’ How is this collusion process done?

Online poker cheats will set up or enlist a number of computers in one online poker room and run all of them by himself/herself. Through that, the online poker cheat has the advantage and collude with himself, beating the clueless opponents.

Currently, online poker rooms deny and dismiss allegations that this form of online poker cheat exists within their rooms or games. But nobody can really be sure.

posted by admin on Aug 14

The online poker industry grew 27% in December 2003 to about $34 million or €28 million per month. It has grown at that pace ever since.

Experts and industry stalwarts estimate that monthly revenue of online poker players will reach $100m by November 2006. That is quite huge for an industry that is fast-gaining popularity.

The facts and estimated figures will clearly explain why a number of scammers aim to tap the online poker industry for huge and easy money. And the threat by these people led the online poker industry to secure its own domain and fight massive fraud and online cheating activities.

To help you secure yourself, here are some readings that can be accessed through the Internet. The articles and books were tapped to inform and advise you on how online poker is threatened by cheats and help you secure your online poker accounts.

“Winner’s Guide to Internet Poker” by Steve Badger

Steve Badger is a poker analyst. He is constantly in search for online poker rooms that can secure accounts and online players. For a start, Badger is really not into online poker. He is more into traditional or brick and mortar pokers.

But realizing that it is harder to secure poker games in casinos and poker rooms than in online poker venues, Badger conceded that playing poker through the Internet would be more cheat-free.

To summarize the online article, it is generally stated that several mechanics in online poker are different than the usual mechanics in traditional or brick and mortar poker. Badger advises that to secure yourself when playing online, you should equip yourself with the basic knowledge of online mechanics.

Badger also emphasizes that poker magazines and books will also offer you hints and tips on hoe you can secure yourself during online poker games. Know the rules first. For example, in online poker, a ‘flush,’ or cards with same signs, can beat a ‘straight’ card, or cards whose number values are consecutive regardless of the signs.

Other tips from Badger to help you secure yourself during online poker events include: a) Play the level you can afford to play; b) take a good set of starting cards; and basically, c) concentrate or focus.

Casino Gaming. com’s columnist, Maryann Guberman

Through the online poker site mentioned above, an archive is posted containing 2000 and 2001 columns of Maryann Guberman. Ms Guberman is an online poker columnist. Through her columns, Guberman advises readers on how to effectively secure themselves during online poker sessions.

In one of the columns, Guberman discussed how she finds online poker cheats rampant. To secure one online poker venue from scammers would be a difficult task for the online venues and the players themselves. In general, Guberman advises readers to immediately contact technical support of the Web sites or online poker venues if you detect or suspect that hackers or cheats exist in one room or poker game table.

“Pokerworks” by Linda Geenen

As an online poker analyst, Linda Geenen released this online read to advise online poker players on how to secure their games from fraudulent doers and cheaters. The digest will help readers identify collusion and its many and various forms.

According to Geenen, online collusion in online poker can be committed by a group or just a single person. Two or more online players might be contacting each other to exchange information about their cards during online poker games. No other measure can secure you from that.

A single colluder can commit the crime by logging on more than two computers in one online poker game. By this, an innocent player can not be secure because the cheater has the advantage for a home-run and sure win.

The best advise Geenan gives to online poker players is to get out of an online poker game at once, if you suspect or feel that the game is corrupt or that your opponents are cheating.

Wrap up to a more secure online poker game
Overall, no online poker site can secure their game rooms against cheaters and online poker scammers. To secure yourself, the best way would be to get your senses working.

If you suspect or think, or if there are indications that an online opponent is cheating, contact the system support immediately and air your concern. Get out of the game at once. Trust your instincts. It is the best way to secure you, not just in online poker games, but also in the outside game called ‘life.’