1. Jerad Hobgood

3.  24/7 Accessibility  Fast Games  No tipping  No travel  Find table in your price range  Play in more than one table at a time

4.  Faster Losses  Can’t see tells  Easier to get distracted  Addicting  Lose money without knowing  Faster Actions

5.  Collusion  Multi-Accounting  Poker Bots  Ghosting  Viewing hole cards  Account selling

6.  Most common  Two or more players at one table sharing information  Weaker hand tries to raise pot  Weaker hand will fold

7.  Many sites can’t play with friends  Sites keep database records of all players who play together and what the players had in their hand.  Eventually a pattern will emerge and the cheaters will be caught.

8.  Similar to Collusion  Same person registers twice on same gambling site.  Strictly against the rules  Gives player advantages in tournaments.

9.  Many Sites don’t allow same IP address to register more than once  Sites keep database and using algorithms try to find patterns  Not much else sites can do

10.  Computer programs that play for you or give suggestions on next move  University of Alberta Canada made a program called Polaris  Polaris won majority of Texas Hold’em games against a professional player  Most bots used by players are not effective

11.  Many Sites check background of computer  Measure movements of mouse  Measure Reaction time  Information analyzed to determine if player is human or not

12.  Player has coach with them  Gives player advantage over other players

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14.  Cards somehow mark  Gives the user who can see the marks huge advantage

15.  Keep database to cross reference  Example: In 2007 poker room called Absolute Poker had employee in possession of super-user account where he could see all cards.  This man was caught because he would fold a losing hand before the flop. This was a dead giveaway. If you are going to cheat be smart about it

16.  When a user sells his account to another player (offend processional)  Big names such as Sorel, Mizzi, Chris Vaughn have all been caught cheating with this method

17.  141 domain names seized  Because Kentucky law bans gambling devices  Most of these sites where not owned by people from Kentucky and few not even from this country  Eventfully overturned.

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