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Cheat Predicts One Decade of Online Poker
If computer hackers can go straight and make thousands working honestly by
ratting out the secrets of their former colleagues, why couldn’t it work for
card cheats? It certainly is the hope of Richard Marcus, one of the most
infamous and successful poker cheats in recent history. He retired without
getting caught and has now written a book called Dirty Poker, which suggests
that millions of people who have been playing online poker are now getting
cheated in the same way he once made his fortune.
Marcus claims that poker continues to be a rigged and sordid affair, despite
its recently acquired glam image. He claims that his life may be in danger
for the secrets he purportedly reveals in his book. Marcus claims that
although he may have left the old crooked life behind, he still maintains
contact with some of his crooked card playing friends. Marcus suggests that
with online poker a billion upon billion dollar industry, cheater will be
swarming like flies.
In a recent interview with George Knapp of the I-Team, Marcus claimed that
online poker was just a “river full of suckers”. How does he know? He says
that the same techniques that worked in casinos work online too. An old and
well known method is collusion, where several players at a table work as a
team using multiple IPs and providers, sometimes thousands of miles apart.
Marcus said that some people set up rooms with eight different ‘players’ on
eight or more computers, but only one is seeing all the hands at the same
time, a huge advantage. Entire companies are participating in the fleecing,
one being shut down for using their own bots to fill up seats and watch
everyone else’s cards.
Marcus believes that in ten years, there will be no more online poker sites,
because of the cheating with robots and hackers. Honest players will see
that it is a no-win situation, and will no longer play. He advises that
anyone playing online poker should stick to the small stakes games because
cheaters are less likely to go after small pots. Marcus’s book won’t be
released until March 15th, but one can’t help but wonder if his whole theory
is just another cheat. His media blitz certainly rivals that of any online
casino.
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