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how does it stop collusion at the tables ?
Look left; look right. If you're not colluding with either of those guys, then they're probably colluding against you. :-/
There are a few things you could potentially do to make it not worth their time. The first is to take money before assigning a table, and then randomly assigning the person. The second is to have the house take such a large cut that even with collusion it's not profitable.
You still have to worry about Sybil attacks. It's one thing for me and my 3 friends to play poker together and try to land at the same table. It's another for me and my 1000 bots at different IP addresses (bots who will, of course, play computationally perfect games and collude any time they are at the same table) to try and beat the odds.
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Impossible to stop, unless you strictly play heads up poker. Even in the far fetched scenario where you place participants in Faraday cages, they can still communicate by timing bets, changing amounts, etc.
Connection from the same place on the same table are forbidden (comparaison between address is done on hashed ip's)
There are some challenges though, like multi account cheating, and bot players.
I think a site like this can easily make more money then say a drug-store on darknet, but perfectly legal. There are some challenges though, like multi account cheating, and bot players.
I think a site like this can easily make more money then say a drug-store on darknet, but perfectly legal. There are some challenges though, like multi account cheating, and bot players.
http://www.pokernews.com/news/2015/02/seals-with-clubs-chair...
What assurances are there that the house isn't cheating?
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Impossible to stop, unless you strictly play heads up poker. Even in the far fetched scenario where you place participants in Faraday cages, they can still communicate by timing bets, changing amounts, etc.
Connection from the same place on the same table are forbidden (comparaison between address is done on hashed ip's)
I experimented with this a few years ago. Even going as far as creating https://bitflop.me . I came to the conclusion that the future legal battles would just not be worth it.
I think a site like this can easily make more money then say a drug-store on darknet, but perfectly legal. There are some challenges though, like multi account cheating, and bot players.