{"id":201164,"date":"2024-10-30T09:45:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T09:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog?p=201164"},"modified":"2024-10-16T09:46:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T09:46:35","slug":"poker-collusion-what-is-it-and-how-do-we-detect-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/poker-collusion-what-is-it-and-how-do-we-detect-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Poker Collusion: What is it and how do we detect it?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWorm and I fall into our old rhythm like Clyde Frazier and Pearl Monroe. We bring out all the old school tricks. Stuff that would never play in the city\u2026signalling, chip placing, trapping, we even run the old best hand play.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The movie \u201cRounders\u201d depicted poker collusion at live poker tables, but online poker operators can choose to invest into effective policing of games for collusion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Collusion in poker is any form of cheating where two or more players work together to gain an unfair advantage over the other players at the table. At partypoker you are not allowed to create a coordinated strategy with another player, with penalties for collusion including account closure and confiscation of any account balance for redistribution to affected players.<\/span><\/p>\n

Collusion can take many forms; indeed, no two cases of collusion are exactly alike. When \u201csoft playing\u201d, players involved in collusion may intentionally choose passive betting lines with strong hands, a classic example would be a player folding KK when their colluding partner has been dealt AA. \u201cChip passing\u201d can be a more subtle form of collusion; a player might fold a weak hand blind vs blind when it is theoretically correct to shove any two cards, and in doing so pass chips to their short-stacked colluding partner in the big blind. \u201cCard sharing\u201d can be effective in many game types, particularly in PLO games where colluders can make more informed decisions based on knowledge of their partners\u2019 cards.<\/span><\/p>\n

Challenges<\/span><\/h3>\n

Finding evidence of collusion on a network where millions of hands are played every day presents a variety of challenges in detection and as we demand a high burden of proof before acting, we typically need multiple pieces of evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n