Worked for an online poker company. The information they stored from users devices was insane. Registration and connection ips, mac addresses, disk serials. Basically any identifiable piece of pc information they stored in their database so they knew who was logging in where and from what computer.
Every online poker does (and should do) this as part of their security to keep users from "multi-accounting". If users were able to have multiple accounts, on multiple computers, from the same room so they could play two (or even more) spots in a cash game or a 9-handed sit & go tournament, they would have a huge advantage over other players.
Oh yeah absolutely agreed. I know exactly why they did it, and I even was involved with checking hands and gameplay for collusion. It's still crazy though how much they record and how people think they can cheat the system when literally their entire system and account is being tracked upon login.
This is one of the things I've read on lemmy that I'd like an AMA on. The cheating the system/regularatory movements tipping scale is very interesting. Please consider doing one if that's possible!
I've not considered doing an actual AMA but I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.
Worked for an online poker company. The information they stored from users devices was insane. Registration and connection ips, mac addresses, disk serials. Basically any identifiable piece of pc information they stored in their database so they knew who was logging in where and from what computer.
Every online poker does (and should do) this as part of their security to keep users from "multi-accounting". If users were able to have multiple accounts, on multiple computers, from the same room so they could play two (or even more) spots in a cash game or a 9-handed sit & go tournament, they would have a huge advantage over other players.
Oh yeah absolutely agreed. I know exactly why they did it, and I even was involved with checking hands and gameplay for collusion. It's still crazy though how much they record and how people think they can cheat the system when literally their entire system and account is being tracked upon login.
This is one of the things I've read on lemmy that I'd like an AMA on. The cheating the system/regularatory movements tipping scale is very interesting. Please consider doing one if that's possible!
I've not considered doing an actual AMA but I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.