READ THIS IF YOU HAVE EVER WONDERED ABOUT THE LEGITIMACY OF ONLINE POKER

Online poker is currently in a critical state.

At present, many are simply not aware of what is happening.

All over the internet, you will find video after video, post after post, referring to "rigging"...

Whatever your opinion, i ask that you read the rest of this post thoroughly before jumping to any conclusions.

To give you a top down view first of all, of the ROUGH idea, of what i believe to be happening, based on playing more than half a million hands in sit and gos in the past year.

Imagine 4 players, have decided to play in a team and run the risk of being banned (for simplicity, it could be many more in an MTT)

2 from country A

1 from country B

1 from country C

Their strategy is very simple.

The players from country A, play an arbitrary number of hands in the sit and go, before labelling both

country B's player and country C's player as "tight".... Which player B and C, lets call them, have been, as a rule.

Player B and C are playing a pretty solid, ICM+GTO driven strategy, on the WAY tighter side of things however, AS A RULE.

Now here comes the fun part.

Lets imagine you are in this game, and another random player is in the game.

You two are also playing tight, almost identical stats to player B + C

However, for some reason, player A1 and A2, are constantly entering pots with you, almost as if they have a personal issue with you. Well, you check their sharkscopes to see if they're good players and they're exploiting you.

They're not, they're massively losing.

We're in the big blind... Player A1 limps, player A2 limps. Everyone else folds their junk.

We're now in a pot, risking ruin, whether we like it or not.

You miss the flop, Player A1 checks, player A2 bets pot. You obviously fold your big blind, had you called, A1 is just going to jam whenever you're capped. You'd need to be EXTREMELY CERTAIN they're colluding to actually exploit this. As well as that, you'd still have no chance actually winning in the games, unless they let you for some reason, maybe you have some clout in the poker world, for example.

Big blind comes around to player B, same exact scenario, everyone limps.

However, now when you fold. Player A1A2, do not seem to give a rats arse about taking down the pot.

Pot ends up going to player B in the big blind, around half the time.

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Okay it's going to get a bit more complicated now.

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So player A1 and A2... Are tasked with essentially, forcing the non-team-members to risk ruin as much as possible. Whilst refraining from ACTUALLY forcing the team-members to risk ruin, whilst still SEEMING to keep the same limp, stab with some strange frequency, and way too big, style... Just... No one ever seems to make any chips off of anyone, in the long run, barring PURE coolers, which obviously they need to get in, even vs eachother, to avoid being completely obvious.

Player A1 and A2, are replaceable accounts and do not wish to carry much $ in them. The bare minimum will be deposited. FACELESS voucher at a time... No ID necessary in most cases until you CASH OUT... Not in. At least for a while...

So player A1 and A2, are dud accounts basically, which will be banned eventually. They can make as many suspect ICM kamikazes vs you as they like... Nothing will ever change. Even if those players are banned.

Players B + C, stack the money up and make the cash-outs, then paying everyone via bitcoin, or by losing heads up games to them on another site. (go looking for all the heads up players with win-rates far exceeding what seems likely to be possible, all on small-time sites)

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Alternatively, player A1 and A2 can be non-duds, and the accounts can they play much higher stakes.

All they then have to do, is keep finding people (lets imagine someone who is in desperate need of money), and offering to pay them, a nice amount of $, in order to create and verify the account for them. Also exchanging details, so that in the event that the account needs to be re-verified, or anything like that. More $ can be offered for this... I don't think you'd be looking for all that long, before you found some people willing to do this.

Once you have all the accounts, you just need to apply simple strategy, and repeat.

Poker sites, simply do not have a defence vs this...

The only defence is to facially scan everyone, every X amount of time, to ensure that they actually are the person. ON TOP OF THIS... They need to do way more work (i think the players should help them in coming up with as many ideas as possible) in actually discerning who is a colluder, and who is not... After all, a very sophisticated team, could do things such as "white list" a random reg player or a few random reg players, and dump just as many wins to them as the rest of the team... This way, there would be no way of telling that the games are actually unbeatable. This would also explain "stream run-good".

Multiple reports, could mean that they need to verify more than usual, perhaps also including answering an actual question, a recording of this answer, would then be sent to a human, who can fully assess for anything overtly suspicious, such as a group of players in the exact same game, being seated in the same room as this player, as an extreme example.

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CONCLUSION

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It's an extremely likely thing to be happening in my opinion... It's TOO EASY TO DO. The rewards are massive.

The worst part is... POKER SITES ARE SWEEPING THIS UNDER THE RUG.

Which is where all of you come in...

We need to start something today...

If you've ever felt hopeless in a poker session.... JOIN ME TODAY...

No i'm not selling anything. But pleading with you... TO JUST BRING THIS SUBJECT UP... EXPLAIN THIS TO AS MANY PROS AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN... GET THEM TO START ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT IT..

VISIT THEIR TWITCH STREAMS.

VISIT THEIR BLOGS.

VISIT 2+2

VISIT Cardschat.

VISIT AS MANY AS YOU CAN BE BOTHERED TO VISIT.

AND BRING COLLUSION TO THE FOREFRONT OF THE CONVERSATION.. RATHER THAN ALL THIS RIGGING BS, AND "HOW MANY BUY-INS SHOULD I USE" BS.

THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THIS GAME STAYS ALIVE, IS IF WE GET A SOLUTION TO COLLUSION.

CURRENTLY NOBODY IS EVEN THINKING ABOUT IT. SO I (WE) HAVE MY (OUR) WORK AHEAD OF ME (US).

The poker site i play at has decided to stop responding to me after i have explained this to them.

They literally, DO NOT EVEN HAVE ANYTHING. AS A RESPONSE.

The best they can do, is continue to miss the point.

Telling me that players "live far away from eachother"... You would think that a Poker site of all the groups of people, would be aware of communication technology.

They also try to assert that somehow because players are passing up on certain collusive opportunities, that this is somehow GOOD ENOUGH PROOF, that they are not colluding, enough to drop the investigation...

That, my friends.... Takes the piss. Almost as much as rigging the games would have been in the first place...

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Any questions or criticisms, don't hesitate, i'm all ears.

Keep me updated on whether or not any of you are joining this endeavour.