William Hill Poker guide to Player Collusion
Many times I was asked whether the advantage, if the players will be able to share information with winning poker strategy other players.
Although, in the land-based casino is forbidden, many online casinos, with group tables, players can easily do this by phone. Despite this, not very encouraging. Article Peter Griffin and John M. Gwynn Jr. “Analysis of Caribbean Stud Poker” (it can be found in the book “Finding the Edge” – Calculating the house edge), even in the best ratio of 7 Player collusion, the number of closed unknown dealer’s cards can be reduced to 16 possible cards.
Using a computer to analyze all 1820 possible combinations of four cards of 16, the player will benefit 2.3%. When playing with six players, the casino still would have the advantage of 0.4%. In the article “best US Poker Rooms” Scott McIntos also explores this theme, and comes to similar conclusions. If stealth spy on another player’s card may slightly reduce the casino advantage.
If your an ace / king can help you, if you will, if the card of another player coincide with the upper / dealer’s up card. The more matches, the more it means that you need to raise. While the Internet may be the most convenient place to exchange information with other players at the group tables. I saw that the largest number of poker players seated at a table – three.