Just an FYI if you think it’s not possible to cheat at online poker
It’s obviously possible to cheat at online poker, and it’s an open question as to how much it occurs. The easiest way is to simply have two computers connected through two ISPs playing in the same game. Or for two friends who are playing in the same game to be yakking about it on the phone or through instant messaging, sharing hand information.
There is even a cheating program out there that allows you to have a’buddy list’ of colluders. If you’re in a game and one of your buddies shows up, their hand information will be displayed for you, and vice versa. The various online poker clients are regularly updated to attempt to detect these programs, but there are always ways around it. And I’m sure they also have log sniffers on their end that look for things like multiple accounts using the same IP address. But there’s absolutely no way they can detect two guys talking on the phone about their hands, or two computers in the same room connected through two different ISPs.
It’s one of the things that keeps me from playing big stakes poker online.