How useful is collusion?

[CtPokerPro]

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Read this post and thread from rec.gambling.poker and tell me what you think:

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Hi beernutz,

I just wanted to chime in that I think these guys are full of crap. I have a dozen reasons why I feel that the entire thing was fabricated, but the strongest reason is that some of the specifics they mentioned were checked by paradise and could not be confirmed.

Also, an "experiment" by two colluders would never last 5,000 hands, and would never be replicated. The details are too firm and the methods they describe would lead to their being caught long before that kind of volume was played.

This is just my opinion, but I am extremely leery that these episodes EVER happened. Yes, there is cheating at paradise. They catch them all the time. However, imho these two are not credible.

[chaos]

Since they can't keep track of how much money is in your account or where the action should be preflop, I wouldn't expect them to be able to detect collusion.