A person can also trick others by using his cards, known as card cheating. In this category, a person might have an expertise in the sleight of hand. There might also be a bottom dealer (or base dealer) or a paper player.

One of the cheats, collusion involves two or more players playing together as a team without others at the table getting to know this. They can indulge in soft-play: not raising a bet that will be beneficial because it will cost your partner. They can also raise and re-raise the bets to a big amount to lock in the other players: whipsawing.

Collusion can be easily implemented in online poker. Two players can be in contact through phone or messenger. If not, the same person might even play from two different systems with different IP addresses. If this is well applied, catching it can be a cumbersome task.

Another way of cheating is by using bots. They are automated programs playing poker replacing human beings. Although humans are far better at the job in terms of accuracy and the application of tricks but using bots is still an unfair means and it resorts to poker cheating.

It’s painful, but some people don’t have the mental toughness a player like Tom Dwan for example has to go through the ranks of the poker world, work up a bankroll and get to the big bucks. Some people want a shortcut, and cheating can sometimes be one… albeit it might end in jail!

At our table, two people were playing for at least ten hours and had huge chip stacks. Obviously me buying in short, I was just hoping they would call me with relatively weak draws — and in the first couple minutes they both did just that. I more than doubled up in the first hand holding . I raised to €12 after having to post a blind in late position. I got 3 callers, and when the flop came , I re-raised big when UTG bet out. He shoved, I called, and showed , perfect for my hand. I rivered the flush – making it a great start.

I mucked the next couple hands, and picked up in early position. Decided to limp/re-raise and that worked out like a charm. One of the big stacks shoved after my re-raise and showed . I flopped a set and doubled up yet again. Ahh pocket aces!

I circled around €1000 for over half an hour when I picked up on the button. I raised it after everyone mucked, and got a call in the big blind (stack €700). I flopped the nuts with and when the BB bet right out, I decided not to slowplay and make it 2.5x his bet. He just called. On the turn the beautiful hit and all the money went in. BB showed . Awesomeness!

Everything just went right. In the last couple minutes I won an additional €600 when some sort of idiot pushed his pre-flop when I raised it with . No ace on the flop, and I scooped yet another big one.

Life is great in poker!

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