Collusion in poker - can it actually acomplish anything?

[tsearcher]

A few more ideas as to why collusion may not be that helpful.

1.) The colluder only wins half as much (or 1/3, 1/4 etc.)with his winning hands. But he is still paying the full rake. So it will be harder for colluding players to beat the rake.

2.) Same theory will apply to blinds and/or antes.

3.) Unless the cheaters are bots, it would be difficult to multitable when playing online.

4.) The problem with chimp dumping was already addressed as far as devaluing your chips. I also wanted to point out that again you are splitting your winnings. And going from two (or 3, 4 etc.) chances of winning to one.

5.) If you don't know you're being cheated you could use game theory principals to neutralize any possible cheating until you are sure.

6.) If you do know you are being cheated, use the counter measures which have been discussed.

Just some thoughts, I don't really have any more proof to back these up.