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by differentView 3991 days ago
My poker buddies from college are now all over the world. You can't identify us and ban us from playing at the same tables.
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No, but you can definitely identify collusion. It's really very simple. When you see the guy with JJ fold preflop and the two remaining players have, say, AA and AQ, it suggests that JJ and AA have colluded to keep AQ in the pot. So you build a pipeline to process and detect this sort of thing. It doesn't have to be realtime. Same day would suffice. Besides, you will need hundreds, maybe thousands of hands to classify it reliably.

And you can be certain that none of that is happening in this example and I'd never play there -- unless I wanted to collude with friends.