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Legend
Silver Level
I'll start by clearly stating that I do not belief online poker is "rigged" in that I don't believe a site needs to "rig" the game to make money since they already make money from rake. Although I do sometimes joke about "action flops" and "action rivers," I don't actually believe that this needs to be done since again...rake will come always.
Putting the "it's rigged" thing to bed, my concern centers on the possibility of certain players on sites somehow gaining access to parts of the software they shouldn't have access to. Such as seeing other players' hole cards, seeing the next card in deal, etc. Is this possible?
I recently requested the security team of a site i play on to review two user names on one of the sites that seemed to never lose.
One in particular , who I've played tens of thousands of hands with or at the same table with over the past few months, is always "up" on any table they're on, never speaks in chat, never seems to call when behind, and seems to either flop massive hands or "catch" on the river whenever we see the player go to showdown, which they do often. And whenever another player is "ahead" by a mile they insta fold, whenever another player is behind they tank and then make a large bet and get called only to see they won yet again. Something just doesn't smell right here.
Now I'm not saying this is the case that these users are somehow cheating or gaining an exploitative edge here.
But I did express my concerns to the site security and am wondering if this is something that's actually, from a technical standpoint, a possibility? I mean it's certainly possible, and I actually hope is the case, that the player(s) in question are just really good skilled poker players , but technically speaking this kind of exploit could be possible could it not?
Again I don't think it's the site's fault or doing but really a bit concerned that a user could exploit software in this manner.
Putting the "it's rigged" thing to bed, my concern centers on the possibility of certain players on sites somehow gaining access to parts of the software they shouldn't have access to. Such as seeing other players' hole cards, seeing the next card in deal, etc. Is this possible?
I recently requested the security team of a site i play on to review two user names on one of the sites that seemed to never lose.
One in particular , who I've played tens of thousands of hands with or at the same table with over the past few months, is always "up" on any table they're on, never speaks in chat, never seems to call when behind, and seems to either flop massive hands or "catch" on the river whenever we see the player go to showdown, which they do often. And whenever another player is "ahead" by a mile they insta fold, whenever another player is behind they tank and then make a large bet and get called only to see they won yet again. Something just doesn't smell right here.
Now I'm not saying this is the case that these users are somehow cheating or gaining an exploitative edge here.
But I did express my concerns to the site security and am wondering if this is something that's actually, from a technical standpoint, a possibility? I mean it's certainly possible, and I actually hope is the case, that the player(s) in question are just really good skilled poker players , but technically speaking this kind of exploit could be possible could it not?
Again I don't think it's the site's fault or doing but really a bit concerned that a user could exploit software in this manner.
