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The Scams You Need To Be Wary Of As You Play For High Poker Stakes With Real Poker Money

As gambling games made the transition from the conventional casinos to the online Internet formats, the scams that are associated with the traditional card game were not left behind. These scams took on a new shape and they continue to flourish online where like the table format of the game poker stakes are often high. There are a good number of scams that a player should be wary of when dealing with real poker money.

 

The first and most primary scam has to do with the website that the player is playing in. There are a number of sites that have been noted for their dubious character and a player has to be keen enough so as to play in sites that have the best reputation only. The dubious sites are run by fraudulent owners who unfairly use the technical opportunities at their disposal to take advantage of hapless players.

 

By virtue of the fact that these website owners can see the cards that the players are holding it is very easy for them to take part in a game especially one that involves real poker money and take all the money for themselves. Whether this is a high or low poker stakes game the undue advantage is unfair. One is advised to play in a reputable website always. These sites are professionally monitored using specialized software and any malpractices are dealt with in industry forums.

 

Another scam that seems to have permeated even the most reputable of websites has to do with collusion between regular players. This scam is of course quite commonplace when the game's poker stakes involve real poker money. These rogue players take advantage of communication channels to interact as the game is being played and in this way they gain an unfair advantage, which ends up tipping the game in their favor. The most common channels of communication that they use are Instant Messaging and, of course, phone. They discuss the cards they are holding. This scam can also take a different format. One player may decide to lose the chips he is holding to another player, intentionally, thus effectively granting him a big opportunity to triumph in the tournament.

 

One of the craftiest scams that is a real handicap to the real money poker game is the use of bots. Bots are essentially software programs that play on behalf of a real player - it is possible to use such software and go about your other activities without the other players realizing that it is not you who is playing.

 

Despite the fact that many of the bots that are being sold today are breaking even and losing games one should not take a chance playing against them especially when the poker stakes are high since there are indeed some which have been proved to be quite consistent winners.

 

A good way of noticing if you are playing against a bot is that it will tend to play in a predictable manner and it will rarely chat. The extremely good poker players may succeed in tricking the bots but if you are a novice there is a very good chance that you will lose all your real poker money.

 

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As a recent inductee into the game, low poker stakes games are the way to go initially. Patience and of course caution to the aforementioned scam varieties are of the essence before making the jump to high poker stakes games.

 

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If you are a newbie to the world of online gambling, you may want to refrain from playing with real poker money . Once you’ve learned to navigate the a various scams, then you can put your money down and enjoy playing for high poker stakes .

How are poker bots raking online money ?

Sophisticated card-playing robots – known as “poker bots” – have now been playing online for years and the trend is accelerating. The increasing activity on poker bots forums and the growing interest generated by the annual poker bot competition (organized by the University of Alberta) are prime indicators of this trend.

Of course, online poker rooms have been fighting bots since the beginning as it hurts their revenues but, detecting bots is becoming more challenging every day as bots improve their counter-detection measures. While Full Tilt, one of the leading online poker rooms, recently successfully detected a network of bots (and redistributed the seized bankrolls, thousands of dollars, to the fooled human opponents), it only shows the tip of the iceberg.

This increasing presence of online poker bots proves, if still needed, that it is a very lucrative business to be in. But how are poker bots raking online money? In other words, how come poker bots are so successful against human players?

Thomas Kessler, founder of www.MyPokerCoach.net (a free Poker coaching service based on a leading bot), explains what makes poker bots so strong:
In the long run, poker bots are winning against humans and this can easily be explained by a number of bots’ intrinsics:

• Analytical power: bots have, already today, a massive amount of analytical power and it is going to further double every two years as computers become more powerful. Our bot, for instance, simulates ~5 million situations at the Flop in less than a second to perfectly assess the current hand strength and the possible outcomes. Something a human player will obviously never match.
• Lifelong memory: can you remember how the opponent sitting next to you last month was playing? Bots have a memory that will never fail. They can remember all their opponent’s previous actions and playing style. In our case, we store all the observed moves (even if our bot isn’t in the hand) in a large database and, next time we play against the same opponent – even in 3 years, we already know his playing style.
• Discipline: most humans are open to emotions and are sometimes looking for adrenaline in a game. Bots are disciplined and will, for instance, never go on a tilt. Discipline is key in poker and always pays off in the long run.
• Game richness: there are many great poker strategy books out there but most players remember less than 20% of it and they often over-use the few strategies they remember. Bots can learn a large set of strategies and only apply them when most appropriate.
• Patience: who likes to fold 80% of his hands without seeing the Flop? Bots will only play hands that should be played, even if they’ll have to spend most of their time watching opponents playing (and collecting information on their playing style).

When asked what human players can do to defeat bots, Thomas says: to increase your chances against bots you should definitely train yourself with them to learn their play pattern (MyPokerCoach.net genuinely provides a free poker bot) and you should frequently change your online ID so that bots can’t rely on their historic database when playing against you.

So, next time you play online, ask yourself if you’re ready to play against bots!

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About MyPokercoach.net

Created by voluntary Artificial Intelligence developers, www.MyPokerCoach.net provides a free online poker coach that has recently proven to be stronger than Poker Academy Pro 2 (the leading commercial poker software).