The Ultimate dominoqq pkv Partnership Nightmare
Want to really feel a chill? Imagine yourself wandering into a
online poker room where ALL FIVE of your opponents are sitting in the same room
(or are sharing a conference call or chat room), working together, seeing each
other's cards, and the like. Not only would knowledge of each other's cards be
a huge advantage, but they would be able to select only the strongest hands to
play, making it very difficult to prove cheating even by post-hand review.
How do you protect yourself from this? Like most forms of
cheating, a suspicious nature is a good start. If the same two players keep
re-raising each other, be wary. They might just be wild players, or something
might be happening.
How the Online Poker Room Can Help
But I also think the online casino needs to help. They need some
sort of appeal and review process, where a player who thinks he's been the
victim of sharp practice can press a button and have some casino employee
review the hands and the betting. If Player C has re-raised with a bad hand, we
know what's going on. The cheaters should then be permanently barred (tougher
in cyberspace than in real casinos), their accounts frozen, and the losing
player should be awarded the pot (or pots) that the cheaters took down.
Unfortunately, sophisticated poker cheats know better than to
re-raise with a bad hand; they'll wait for a situation that's more defensible.
That's why I think we're a long way from high stakes poker being practical on
the Internet, with the possible exception of one-on-one poker, and most players
don't like to play one-on-one.
If you can find a online poker situation where the ownership is
well capitalized and where there is an effective review process, I'd say you're
probably as safe playing online poker as the live version. I do not endorse
(explicitly or implicitly) any particular online poker room (or Internet
casino), so don't write asking for recommendations. I can help identify the
issues that should concern you; after that, you need to do your own work.
Things can change fast in this business.
Comparing Online Poker to Live Poker
For people who don't live within an easy drive of live legal
poker rooms, online poker offers some very real advantages over illegal private
games. It's very easy to get cheated in a private game, it's no fun getting
arrested, and I assure you, the first time you play in a game that gets
hijacked (robbed) by three guys brandishing shotguns (which happened in one of
my old Atlanta games), you'll develop a stronger interest in the safety of card
room poker.
You also need to consider your own dominoqqpkv strengths and weaknesses as a poker player. If you're a very
good "technical" player but aren't very good at reading other people,
or at keeping a poker face, online poker may be a better option than live
poker. If technically you're merely adequate, but no one can "read"
you and your intuition about other players is good, you need to find a live
game.
Me, I prefer the camaraderie of a live game, but that's a
personal preference, easy to indulge because I live 15 minutes from a card
casino, and also because I don't think poker is as good a game without all the
fascinating human factors. If the drive isn't that easy for you, or if you're a
math professor type, online poker is a viable option. But like they used to say
on Hill Street Blues... be careful out there!
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