How Rampant Is Cheating In Online Poker?

Online poker cheating has is an issue that has become of great concern with many online poker room providers and they spend millions each year trying to combat ways of how to eliminate cheaters. Most of these online poker room providers make use of state of the art encryption technology that encrypts user data and it has helped to eliminate hackers - people who intend to gain unauthorized access into someone’s account.

However, the issue is not focused on hackers only but there are cheaters online who make a fortune through poker cheating. Many poker rooms are battling each and everyday to eliminate such cheaters and this has made all poker rooms to only allow one player to register an account using one IP address. Players can no longer have more than one account via the same IP address and you can no longer open an additional account if you are using a family computer or the cafe. The main reason for this is that many players would open several accounts and have them logged in at one table, when an opponents sits on the table, she will think that s/he is playing against four other opponents but at which s/he is only playing against one opponent who is situated somewhere around the world making use of different accounts.

Even if you are brothers making use of the same computer, you need to open separate accounts using different IP. How ever this has not stopped online poker cheating. As technology advances, cheaters also get advanced as well. Since cheaters found out that online poker rooms are now using IP to track opponents accounts, they have proceed to set up a networks of computers that are connected to an independent internet connection such as using a mobile phone as a modem. The cheater would set up several computers with each own modem connecting to the internet.

However, online poker providers now make it a mandatory that your personal information used should be identical with the one you used to make your deposits with. Even if you make use of a credit card, your withdrawals will be made via the same deposit method you had made at first place and if you need to change this withdrawal method, you would have to verify it by making a deposit first.

But cheaters proceed to open accounts with fake names making use of virtual accounts that have been created with these fake names. The providers now have what we call player conspiracy. If they find out that there are players who frequently play at a table and they transfer funds with one another every time most often, they can have all your accounts suspended and they would want to contact you via phone to check if all of your are from independent countries or locations.

Online poker cheaters have not stopped and poker room providers are fighting hard to get them eliminated.