Dont do it. Not at the Texas Holdem table. Not anywhere else. Nuff said. Right?
Oh, you already dont cheat? Well congratulations and good for you (and for the rest of us too). But as honest as you may be, cheaters do abound, as much in Texas Holdem as in any other game, and youll need to know their tricks in order to spot them before they turn them loose on you.
Fortunately, many forms of cheating at Texas Holdem are subverted in online play by the nature of the internet. Online players, for example, cant miscall their hand, manipulate the deck, short pots, or practice any other form of devious sleight of hand.
Online Texas Holdem players can however collude, and collusion is cheating just the same. Collusion is when two or more players partner up to mislead the other players at the table and unfairly take their money . There are a number of ways that online Texas Holdem players can do this, including:
Codes
Using the chat window, the colluders communicate in a pre-established code, right in front of the other players eyes, whereby they compare their two hands and then fold the weaker of the two, only playing the...