Cheating in poker is a fraud for the purpose of easy earned money. In online poker cheaters are the players who can see their opponent's cards by any way, or are considered in collusion.

Oftentimes inexperienced players are accusing poker sites in cheating after losing the pot with a strong hand. Unable to believe in their loss, they are starting to blame everyone around them, except themselves. It is worth to mention, that there are known cases in poker history, when cheaters, using the third-party software or their official position in poker site, did seen the opponent’s cards and have been extracting considerable benefits from that.

The player’s collusion is also quite frequent in poker. A group of fraudsters intentionally sit at one cash table (or register for one and the same Sit-n-Go tournament), and in results, by knowing each other cards, are trying to win all the chips from other players due to the fact they know cards of each other.

As a rule, cheaters (unscrupulous players) are quickly exposed by a security team of a poker site, and block their account without an option to unblock them in future (i.e. accounts are blocked once and forever).

Related poker terms:

• Chip dumping
• Collusion