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Originally Posted by TheGodson
They have software for chess.com that can detect cheating even at the grand master level. For this reason, I think it would be reasonable for software to be able to catch poker players cheating using RTA. Even at the highest levels, players are not GTO robots, so a player cheating after several hands would become quite noticeable. Especially if they start playing too perfectly.
I think PokerStars is pretty good. BetOnline has been good as well. I suspect PokerStars is safer than BetOnline, but who knows. I played live poker at the casino awhile back and the rake there was ridiculous. I even entered a tournament where the house took 25%. I doubt many are making a profit playing in a game like that. The cash games had these annoying jackpots that you had to pay into every hand as well as a 10% rake. Yeah, I think I'll stick to PokerStars with the 5% rake and 33% rakeback thank you. I played live to prepare me for the WSOP as I have little experience live. It was fun to play and chat with the other players, but if you want to make more money, I think online is definitely the way to go. You get more hands per hour and significantly less rake. Just my 2 cents.
Poker is not dead.
They have a system in chess to catch cheaters but I would wager the systems they have to catch cheaters on poker sites like Stars are far, far more advanced. Cheating is endemic in chess, you can listen to Hikaru talking over this recent
C-Squared pod on the issue to get an idea of the problem.
What no one wants to admit is that the problem isn't solvable within the current constrains of the technology that is being used. If you have a clean account with access to high stakes games, you know how to setup RTA with a good system of separate networks, computers etc and you are a good player already who understands how to use the knowledge in a way that gives you an edge but doesn't make you look like a GTO bot there is literally nothing these sites can do to catch these players. You can talk all you like about improvements in security, you can't catch anyone who is sophisticated enough to know how to cheat.
You have an ecosystem where some players are still winning (prob many of them cheating), sites are still collecting rake and neither have any incentive for things to change. So as long as the losing payers keep showing up to prop up the current farce who cares if they are losing money through lack of skill or being cheated.
I feel like the vast majority of players are aware of this truth but still play if they feel like they have a win rate. We have reached a point where the cheating is so endemic that if you are playing online you almost can't complain if you are getting cheated.
“caveat emptor”