Party chat about PS cheating?

[William]

No problem Kdog, I'll ask my own ex to do it [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Terry]

Homer,

You’re a pretty clever fellow and you may or may not have noticed that I rarely disagree with you. I’m not going to do so now – but I am going to suggest that until you have spent 10 days in a country in which you don’t speak the language that you are totally unqualified to make such a statement regarding people to whom English is a second language.

I’ll even go so far as to allow you to take your high school (or college) Spanish to Mexico (not a border town ... real Mexico, like San Cristobal de las Casas or something) and consider that as qualification. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[bigpooch]

Wouldn't it be great if PokerStars pulled off a nice coup
like on The Prima Network? Let this group of players play
their collusion game for a few days (assuming they have made
a significant deposit). Then, when their accounts are juicy
and plump, freeze them all! Just say that according to the
hand histories, there is unequivocal evidence of cheating
based on expert examination. Take those funds, and have a
number of freeroll bashes for the regular customers; of
course, let the site take a small cut for the trouble!

[sumdumguy]

Is it possible that both of you agree, but mean different things when you say "illegal"?

Like in Canada, it is fine to play poker anywhere you want for any amount you want. However, it is ILLEGAL to take a rake for spreading the game without a gaming licence. I'm not totally certain, but I suspect that American laws are similar in most states. So, it is legal to play, but not legal to profit from as a non-player (or specifically, from the business side of spreading the game).

So, could it be that Norway may be similar? Legal to play, but not legal to profit from the organization of the game (unless the organizer has a gaming licence)?

[4Finger]

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Is it possible that both of you agree, but mean different things when you say "illegal"?

Like in Canada, it is fine to play poker anywhere you want for any amount you want. However, it is ILLEGAL to take a rake for spreading the game without a gaming licence. I'm not totally certain, but I suspect that American laws are similar in most states. So, it is legal to play, but not legal to profit from as a non-player (or specifically, from the business side of spreading the game).

So, could it be that Norway may be similar? Legal to play, but not legal to profit from the organization of the game (unless the organizer has a gaming licence)?

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Quite right, although it's not possible to get a gaming licence.

[thylacine]

What stakes are these guys playing. What games?

[MS Sunshine]

This chat happened in $50 buy-in baby NLH.

MS Sunshine

[Acesover8s]

Wow, $1-2 NLHE and a $10 tourney, guard the pocketbooks boys!

[vesap]

Forget the cheating.

Oulu is quite small city (125 000 people) near polar circle.
The city is some kind of "local silicon valley", we have lot of well educated Nokia workers etc.

We have small but active poker society, about 15-20 players.
The most common game is PLO 2/4 once or twice a week.

I started playing at PS about a year ago.
Despite my (small?)losings some of the other players from our city started also online playing, and naturally in PS, too, because we are familiar with the size of the pots there.

If You really suspect cheating, ask PS support about the unlogical actions or total winnings of Oulu players.
I suppose that these 5 or 6 new players lose about 10 K every month, and I'm not happy with this situation !
They will now lose all their money in PS, last 4-5 years they used to lose it to me and couple of other winning players !

[Billy LTL]

Terence Chan's take and various other RGPer comments fwiw.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...com%26rnum%3D1