From: vend82@virgilio.it   
      
   Ted Dunning wrote:   
      
   > Given a fair dealer, the easiest way to make money against other   
   > players (even very good ones) is collusion.  If three of five players   
   > share information and strategy, the remaining two can be put at a   
   > massive disadvantage.   
   >   
   > Of course, this is illegal in virtually all forms of poker.  That   
   > doesn't mean it doesn't happen when the stakes are sufficient.  In most   
   > on-line games, any sort of mechanical aid is also considered illegal   
   > and many of the systems make quite an effort to examine the machine you   
   > are playing on in order to determine that you don't have other programs   
   > running that would help you.  This isn't that hard to circumvent, of   
   > course, if you really care, but the fact remains that any robot players   
   > are probably as illegal as collusion.   
      
   Moreover, it's probably rather easy to create teams of robot players   
   that play using collusion.   
      
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