The incident took place at a one-table, 10-player no-limit Texas hold 'em "satellite" - a minitournament where the winner earns cash or chips that can be used to enter bigger tournaments at the World Series.
Each player started with $1,000 in tournament chips. Early in the satellite, one of the colluders raised $950, and everyone folded around the two other teammates, who both went all-in for their $1,000.
The original raiser then folded - a bizarre play that would never be made unless something was fishy.
The two all-in players then each revealed a "junk" hand. Obviously, the three were working together, attempting to "dump" chips to one of the two players who stayed in the hand. In a one-table satellite, a stack of $2,000 or $3,000 is far more powerful than two or three separate stacks of $1,000 working together. That's why cheaters collude to dump chips to a teammate.
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WSOP - (world series of poker( will be no different. The first line of defence is the legitimate poker players themselves making noise when they spot cheaters, rather than raising an eyebrow. An unenviable task.
