integrity
The questions you ask when you stop trusting the game.
Four of them, usually asked after a bad month. Is anyone cheating. Is that person running software. Is that even a person. And does any of my results mean anything in the first place. These pages answer them with the sources named, without a single method, and with our own two boundaries written at the top rather than at the bottom.
four pages
Cheating in poker
CheatingWhat actually exists, and what exposed it?
Six kinds of cheating described as what they are, the 2007 insider case and the data that proved it, and the honest answer about what you can see from your own seat.
Real time assistance
RTAWhere is the line between studying and playing?
Two operator policies that draw it in different places, why the same tool can be fine on Tuesday and forbidden on Friday, and the refusal written into our own coach.
Poker bots
BotsCan machines beat people, and are they at my table?
What three published results actually showed, what they do not mean about your game, and where our own practice opponents stop.
Is poker a game of skill
SkillHow long before results mean anything?
Courts and researchers disagree, and the answer depends on the question asked. The arithmetic underneath does not, and it is worked out with the formula in the open.
Poker collusion
CollusionWhat happens when two players share what they hold?
How operator policy defines playing as one, what a confirmed case costs the accounts involved, and why it is found in millions of hands of data rather than at the table.
Poker RNG
RNGIs the shuffle really random?
The five properties a shuffle has to demonstrate, who tests them and what that audit does and does not cover, and why your own session is far too small to tell you anything.
where we stand
A training company writing about bots and about assistance during a hand is a company writing about its own products. Pretending otherwise would be the least trustworthy thing on the site, so here is the position in four points.
Our bots never sit where money is
Pokiq builds practice opponents, and they exist inside a training product with no buy in, no prize pool and no payout. Their frequencies are published before you sit down, they do not adapt, and they have never been pointed at a table where anything is at stake. A bot that hides what it is and a drill that prints its own numbers are opposite things.
Our coach refuses the hand you are playing now
The system prompt has a section headed as a hard boundary against real time assistance: if you are in a live hand or session, the coach gives no concrete advice for it, says so kindly, and offers to review the hand as soon as the session ends. It also refuses to say what any specific poker site allows, because those terms change and a confident wrong answer could cost you your account.
We publish no methods and no tells
Nothing in this section names software you could cheat with, explains how anything is done, or lists the signals that give a cheater or a bot away. The last omission is the one readers notice, and it is the one we are most sure about: a list of what gets somebody caught is a list of what the next one will avoid.
We would rather leave a figure out than print one we cannot check
Several numbers that circulate about fines, refunds and closed accounts are missing from these pages because we could not read them at a source we could verify. Each page says which ones and why. On this subject a confident wrong number does more damage than a gap.
The full account of both is elsewhere on the site: every frequency our opponents play with is listed on the practice bots page, and the six boundaries in the coach prompt are written out on the coach page. What we measure instead of your balance is on the Poker IQ page, and if the reason you are here is that the game has stopped being a game, start at responsible play.
next
Start where most people start.
With the suspicion that somebody was cheating. It has happened, it has been investigated and paid for, and it is still almost never the explanation for your session. Both halves of that are on one page.
questions
What is this section for?
Four questions that decide whether the game is worth playing at all: whether people cheat, where the line sits on software during a hand, what machines can do, and whether results ever tell you anything. Each page says what is known, names its sources, and says what it deliberately leaves out.
Does Pokiq have a conflict of interest here?
Yes, and it is stated on the pages themselves rather than buried. We build practice bots and we ship a coach, which are the two technologies these pages are about. That is precisely why our own boundaries are written down: ours sit on a practice table, and the coach refuses to help with a hand you are playing right now.
Why is there no list of signs that someone is cheating?
Because that list is also a checklist for whoever wants to avoid being caught. What actually exposed the biggest documented case was data across many accounts over years, which is a view only an operator has. Report what you saw, with hand identifiers and dates, and let the people with that view look.
Is any of this legal advice?
No. Whether a game may be offered, and to whom, is a licensing question that is answered differently in different places, and it changes. We name the decisions and the regulators we read so you can go to the source, and nothing here is advice about your own situation.