Just like any other game, there are cheating and honest players in online poker. You can be the former, but surely, you would prefer the latter as you are an advocate of fair play. But is it possible for you to catch cheating players in online poker, when you don't basically see one another? What are you going to do with cheating players?

Here are the tell-tale signs:

1. A cheating player will automatically log in and out of the game. Normally, online poker games can last for several minutes. However, you may have noticed that one player could not even stand for several seconds, but then he's not folding. A good explanation for this is that he could be running a robot. This is an automated program that will do the betting for him, based on certain algorithms or mathematical formulas. Simply put, the one who's playing the game is not a real person. The main problem of robots is that they have been programmed to be right almost all of the time. Thus, the player running... Read More »