Friday, January 16, 2009

Is someone else reading my Poker hole cards?

By BigT

You have just bet your entire stack on the fact that your full house is better than your opponent's trips and for the third time, he, he, you have lost as the other players at the table commensurate at how unlucky you got this time again. Let's have a look at what kind of "poker cheat" software exists today that might be helping your amazingly lucky opponent. And if it has to do with poker hole cards reading.

Poker Calculators. These know only your own cards and because they are sometimes keyed to the exact brand of poker game that you are playing, they know the seating positions and can calculate how likely it is that your own cards can win based on the amount of money in the pot, your own seated position and the cards already shown on the table and in your hand.

The closest to "at your opponent hole cards" is that those programs can show you mucked cards. This means if someone prefers not to display the poker hands they did fold (mucked), you can still can see them with this kind of legal poker cheat software. Is this a poker cheat? Not really, because most poker rooms offer you to read the hand history of your competition and is therefore "not a secret".

2. Poker Profile Databases - the best "open poker cheat secret" to gain advantage over your competition is to know their playing patterns and profiles. How often do they win, at what tables to do they win most, what is their playing style? Those questions can be answered with poker cheat databases that constantly collect publicly available data from the poker rooms. You can often buy software that creates an overlay over your poker room software. Not all poker rooms allow that, so often people run this kind of software on a separate computer while they do play and look up players as they encounter them. There is even software that alerts you to join poker tables that have a high amount of bad players in them. I would consider this a good poker cheat option.

3. Personal data mining behavior. In addition to public databases of player hand histories, Ms. "Can Do No Wrong" at your very own table may have an electronic assistant who collects any and all data possible about your betting behavior. On noting that you have obvious tells, she may put your on her list as a "Poker buddy" and you may never know. Well, if you are reading this and notice that Ms "Do no wrong" is constantly showing up at your tables, you know know - it wasn't a coincidence and it was neither your perfume nor your cologne.

4. Poker Bots - those are programs (many of them are outrageous poker cheat scams) that automatically play poker hands for you according to given set of rules and behavior. Those that work well can be pre-programmed to operate out of the box or they can be finetuned by better players. It is said that they can sometimes help one to get over those "boring" periods in online poker tournaments where you stick to a "tight Tens or Better" playing style in order to make it into the later stages where you take over yourself.

So finally - what about the often advertised Poker Hole Cards cheat software?

So, did any of the above mechanisms look like they could really look at your hole cards? No, not really. The only person looking at your hole cards is your sweetheart behind you, so tell her to get off the cell phone with your friends, lol. - 16887

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