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by fairity 952 days ago
Whenever there's a large financial incentive to cheat and low consequence for getting caught, it's safe to assume that there will be sophisticated attempts to do so.

I think both these preconditions are met (in spades) when it comes to online poker.

As far as I can tell, there's no way to stop collusion in the following form:

- Create a large remote team of cheaters

- Have them all multi-table PLO at the same online casino

- Each participant randomly chooses tables to avoid anti-collusion tracking

- With a large enough pool of cheaters, you will inevitably have multiple colluders at the same table

- Sharing knowledge of your whole cards with other colluding table participants will give you all a huge winning edge

Since there's no way to stop the above, and there's a large incentive with low consequences if caught, I assume cheating is a huge problem in online poker. Wondering if anyone can confirm/deny this?