Very strange to me. Was checking out Playnow considering giving it another shot. I don't want to out usernames because if they are clean players it's not fair to them. But 3 accounts sitting on this table (only 200s table running ATM) I suspected of collusion and had reported to support. Had mentioned it to another reg I guess 4 or 5 days ago now.
The strange thing to me is this is 6 new accounts (ie I don't have them tagged). Normally games that run on this site I have 4-5 players tagged, which is why it was odd to me.
So anyways I think this is odd, but keeping watch on the game I see two of the players I believe to be colluding involved in some small pot. flush runout, player checks back nut flush on the river. Believe there was a straight flush out there, so not technically the nuts. Ended up being flush over flush, no bets went in at any point. I think this is worth of reporting, especially considering that I am suspicious of this accounts already. And part of my suspicion is they don't raise each others limps, and virtually never put in bets against each other post flop when HU. But play totally different vs players I have tagged as regulars or recreational.
Get this response. "please stop spying on players". In this site, it is impossible to get HHs unless you're dealt in. And no saved HHs to actually do a check on these players. And after losing 10k in these games I'd rather actually make sure nothing weird is going on before playing.
after this, I say something along the lines of "I totally understand your policy, I know you aren't the security team and can't do anything about it right now. Can you please take down the HH that I just witnessed and forward it to them though." - after this the support rep started typing then just ended the chat and I lost the rest of the log.
I totally understand that one suspicious hand isn't evidence of collusion. But requiring me to have a HH ID, which I can only get by being dealt in on the table, is so frustrating. Seems like the 200s games on this site are dying now that there's a ton of these new accounts. Some regular type guy was also open sitting 200 at the time of writing this, but didn't sit in this 200s ring game.
Additionally, I see none of the accounts that were sitting at the 1/2 PLO ring sitting in any of the NLH games running. So if this is legit, all 6 of these accounts I don't have tagged (ie new) are just deciding to sit PLO and only PLO. Which is a little odd as well.
I have no conclusive evidence obviously, but this is just me trying to give some more context to why I'm feeling so suspicious of this site.
In this downswing I'm in,
roughly 10k from Playnow. Roughly 4k from Global. Down some large amt on Unibet as well.
Up on ACR, Pokerstars, GG.
Down negligible amounts on Betonline and iPoker.
Very frustrating for me to have the bulk of my downswing coming from a site where I'm seeing these weird things happen.
But yeah, maybe I'm just paranoid. Maybe 6 new accounts all decided to go sit PLO independently of each other, and 2 accounts that I've always seen playing together are just mass multitabling and accidentally checked back the nut flush twice. Who knows. All I know is, I probably shouldn't put more money onto this site.