We are not talking about live cash games. We are talking about online games obviously. If in a live cash game, I could simply get up from the table, walk over to my friend and hand him $5,000 or whatever I wanted and walk back and sit down.
Well, fine, do the equivalent thing online then; P2P transfer, or have him send you a check.
As far as money laundering, I can think of at least a half dozen easier ways to launder money than go through an online pokersite. While poker sites should be looking for money launderes, isn't that the reason they closed down the poker sites in the usa? Supposed money laundering? This is completely laughable.
Well, you know what? Your (no offense) naive opinion is as well. So, I'll tell you what is easy; sitting halfway across the world wondering how you can send your terrorist buddy just a few grand to use in an attack by using a poker site to do it via chip dumping and having him cash it out. I doubt that money will hit on any radar, now will it? And since they cannot use western union, if they ever do fund an attack in this this way OLP will have one helluva black eye. Then where will we be? So why risk your companies future? And before you laugh at this, keep in mind what they have already done before to get money transferred. As we shut each one down, they become more desperate to find new ways. So laundering money or not, it does not really matter, does it?
As far is it is considered cheating, I still do not understand why player C who is not at the table gives 2 cents about what player A and player B does. Player A wants his money in Player B account, good for both of them.
The reason you don't understand is that you want to have your cake and eat it to; how in the world could they prevent some from abusing it and allow some, who simply want to do a "little friendly transfer" separate? They cannot, now can they? They could not pick out the illegal chip dumps from the legal, could they? What do you want them to do, send out a letter?
"From site administration; we noticed you were chip dumping in yesterday's game. Please inform us if this was just a friendly transfer or an illicit act. Thanks for your help, and good luck at the tables."
See what I mean? And what could you do? Send them a notification that you are going to place yourself above the rules of the site and other members because, what? Your special? Now do you get it?
To equate this of stealing a candy bar being wrong is outright absurd. #1 If i am hungry enough to steal, you can believe I'm not looking at a snickers bar. #2 What does it say about our society in which we would jail hungry people for taking a candy while we allow the millionaires and billionaires to rob us completely blind.
It's not absurd at all. Stealing is stealing, period. Why you did it does not change that. So, same thing with chip dumping. It's against the rules, so it does not matter why you do it. It's still not allowed. Period. Is the guy stealing really just hungry? How could you prove it? Maybe he is lazy. Would not a real thief with malicious intent simply claim he was just hungry and trying to eat just to avoid prosecution? So then, maybe millionaires and billionaires are not the only ones "robbing us blind", huh? I guess not. And as for those million/billionaires "robbing us blind", you got proof? They hold a gun to someone and rob them? Or do they just have rules and/or charges for services and things you also do not like or agree with? In order to rob or steal, don't you have to be breaking the law? Or is breaking someones opinion robbing?
#3 Calling it illegal doesn't make sense. 2 players agreed to a deal at a table or before hand. Player A going all in leaving behind 1 chip and folding is fine by me. The site got their rake of the 1 hand instead of 100. So what, they still got their cut. I'm only talking about HU sngs or HU cash games where no other players are involved. In a ring game with more than 2 players, i can obviously see this as collusion. Get the money to the other side of the table where player B has better position. That's not what we are talking about. Player A wants his money in player account. Fastest way to do that seems to be to set up a table and give your chips away. Why do you really care?