Re:Isildur1 and the week that changed online poker
by sanswork on Monday November 23, 2009 @12:18AM
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Collusion isn't that hard of a problem to tackle when people are colluding at a poker table as they act very differently to when they aren't. Since the poker site can see all the hands this becomes visible very easily.
They obviously won't catch all people colluding but they will catch most of them. And just changing IPs won't help much when they ban your account/payment details and you have to arrange another fake identity that checks out at a payment processor regularly.
Collusion over a very short period of time from specific (and easily changed) IPs can make a lot of shared money - it's not clear how (and even if) online poker sites would monitor this.