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Originally Posted by polle54
Very good post.
Raw Alex I understand where your concerns come from but please answer me the follwing:
How much poker have you played (how many hand in PT or the likes)?
Are you a programmer? Know C++ and Client - Server programming=
Do you know how the RNG are approved an such?
I think, and I really don't mean to offend you, that you need to study this a bit and you will see that it's not something you just do. Adding a 0.5% edge to bot players or the likes.
Other than that please consider what Eros just said about motivation.
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You guys are both missing the point. Collusion between players is the end user's version of cheating. It is easy to do, and can actually be profitable, just by moving the risk ever so slightly.
That is the small end of the stick.
the RNG has little or nothing to do with it. Let's say you are a poker site. You spike every big game with a half a dozen players for "the house". They might even be automated for all that matters. You feed those players all of the information about what is going on at the table, and because the deck is in theory pre-shuffled, you can even reveal all the cards that will come out. Those players can then choose to play winning hands when they will win, and be able to call out bluffers without an issue. They can also even lose hands when there isn't many chips in the pot, just to look good.
At the end of the day, you end up from, say 200 players in a $100 per seat tourney with 10 players at a final table and say 6 of them are house players. They all then lose out over the next little while, taking 10th, 9th, 7th, 5th, 4th, and 2nd. All that money goes directly to the company instead of back to players.
Instead of the $5 fee to enter the game ($1000 for the house) they also took in about 30-40% of the total prize pool, or $6,000 - $8,000. Suddenly, running a poker room is very profitable indeed. Do that 10 times per day, and there is an extra 30 millions dollars in it for you.
Doubly more important if the money isn't going to the company but the the main partner's personal off shore accounts.
you have to think big
