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As gambling games made the transition from the conventional casinos to the online Internet formats, the scams that are associated with the traditional card game were not left behind. These scams took on a new shape and they continue to flourish online where like the table format of the game poker stakes are often high. There are a good number of scams that a player should be wary of when dealing with real poker money.

The first and most primary scam has to do with the website that the player is playing in. There are a number of sites that have been noted for their dubious character and a player has to be keen enough so as to play in sites that have the best reputation only. The dubious sites are run by fraudulent owners who unfairly use the technical opportunities at their disposal to take advantage of hapless players.

By virtue of the fact that these website owners can see the cards that the players are holding it is very easy for them to take part in a game especially one that involves real poker money and take all the money for themselves. Whether this is a high or low poker stakes game the undue advantage is unfair. One is advised to play in a reputable website always. These sites are professionally monitored using specialized software and any malpractices are dealt with in industry forums.

Another scam that seems to have permeated even the most reputable of websites has to do with collusion between regular players. This scam is of course quite commonplace when the game’s poker stakes involve real poker money. These rogue players take advantage of communication channels to interact as the game is being played and in this way they gain an unfair advantage, which ends up tipping the game in their favor. The most common channels of communication that they use are Instant Messaging and, of course, phone. They discuss the cards they are holding. This scam can also take a different format. One player may decide to lose the chips he is holding to another player, intentionally, thus effectively granting him a big opportunity to triumph in the tournament.

One of the craftiest scams that is a real handicap to the real money poker game is the use of bots. Bots are essentially software programs that play on behalf of a real player – it is possible to use such software and go about your other activities without the other players realizing that it is not you who is playing.

Despite the fact that many of the bots that are being sold today are breaking even and losing games one should not take a chance playing against them especially when the poker stakes are high since there are indeed some which have been proved to be quite consistent winners.

A good way of noticing if you are playing against a bot is that it will tend to play in a predictable manner and it will rarely chat. The extremely good poker players may succeed in tricking the bots but if you are a novice there is a very good chance that you will lose all your real poker money.

As a recent inductee into the game, low poker stakes games are the way to go initially. Patience and of course caution to the aforementioned scam varieties are of the essence before making the jump to high poker stakes games.