Soon after the poker went online, players started to find methods of cheating in order to get more money and higher ranks. The most practiced method of doing this is collusion, meaning that two or more players go at the same time at a table and after a lot of gaining they share the total amount of money. This idea of working with another player was not new to the world of poker. At brick-and-mortar poker establishments, players have been teaming up for as long as there has been gambling. Two players go to a card room and sit at the same poker table. They have a predetermined system of signals to communicate with each other about their hands. The theory is that, together, they can better manipulate the betting and, eventually, win a lot of money.
Still, players collude in online poker games all the time. Often, those players think they are the first people ever to devise such a brilliant scheme. They congratulate themselves on their cleverness. In truth, they are late to the party. It is estimated that as many as one out of every five online poker tables contains at least some players working in collusion in some way. Is this collusion effective? Not really. Most players who try it, do so only for a while, and then give up after they notice they are not generating any more profit than they normally do. Often, the colluding players actually end up earning less than normal. Such players eventually conclude that working in cahoots with another player is more bother than it is worth, at least for them.
More, one very important thing that determines collusion not to work online is due to the fact that the technology and the informatics system have evolved so much that people can detect whether some players are colluding or not. First of all, they can detect the IP address, the MAC address and they can also check whether the players correspond or not to approximate home addresses. That is the reason why in most of the case practicing collusion in online poler is more of a myth than a real thing!
