The base rate fallacy requires two things:
a) a very low incidence of the issue in the broader population:
AND
b) some sort of binary test which generates (even a small number of) false positives.
I can't think of any situations as a poker player where this would be relevant in the game, but it is certainly an important issue to be aware of when designing anti-fraud security systems around online poker sites. For example, given the relatively
tiny numbers of cheaters in the poker world, false positives are a huge problem to any security system.
Here are a couple of outstanding introductions to this issue:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8153539.stm
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archiv...al_intent.html