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Poker Strategy - Poker Cheating TechniquesChannellingOnce again this is a technique that can be used in tournaments but the bigger the team, the more effective it is. Channelling is the process of getting as many team members through to the latter stages of a tournament so that many of the other cheating team play techniques can be utilised. For instance, let's take a very large tournament with 75 tables and over 700 players. This ten man team play the tournament extremely tightly unless they have premium hands. What tends to happen is that the wilder and reckless players start to bite the dust and the field begins to compress. This means that as players are eliminated and tables are removed, the likelihood of team members being located to the same table increases. If several of the team members have caught some big hands along the way, then it is quite possible for half the team to still be around with only two tables left. One of the disadvantages with this method of cheating is that it essentially makes it more difficult for any team member to accumulate a very large stack early on. This is because of the strategy that they are working to. However, the goal is survival and when this "scam" is executed well, it can be very effective. On a very good day, half of the final table could be team members. How to spot itI think that it becomes very important to keep your "ear to the ground" with this one. One of the problems with this technique is that the larger the team, the more difficult it is to keep every member of that team happy and contented. This means that sometimes certain disgruntled team members can end up saying more than they should to someone. You must remember that many rumours are based on something that is tangible. Once you start to gather evidence of other forms of cheating, then further investigation could reveal a much larger and far more complex operation than was first envisaged. Articles Within This Category |
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