[mrick]

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you left out the part where none of the data came from datamining. It all came from people who had actually played with the suspects.

[/ QUOTE ] I would venture that the suspicions will always come from people who actually play with the suspects but that the suspicions will be confirmed by comparing the cheaters' stats with "normal" players' stats.

That's the way to catch most cheaters is what I mean. The specific Absolute Poker cheaters were too obvious. Their cheating was too blatant. Don't bother to compare their stats, etc. But data analysis is the only correct way to catch the clever cheats, the majority of cheats!

Thinking otherwise, and taking the Absolute Poker case as precedent-setting, would be results-oriented thinking.

Besides, the cheats and the bot programmers read the papers too...