Cheating On-line Games (addiction, problems, aunt, people)

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I used to play Texas Hold'em Poker Online. I played sometimes to fill time, but mostly to tune my poker skills. When I first started playing, it could be daunting, but I slowly got better and the game was entertaining.

About a month ago I noticed game play had changed.

Instead of measured and strategic play, I started noting that several players who became familiar to me would go "all in" and win big at moments that seemed improbable.

A little while later, I noticed that many people don't even bother with strategy anymore they just go "all in" on every single hand. Sometimes they win - sometimes they lose, but when I looked at their profile they had around a billion$ in chips - so it really didn't matter if they won or lost.

A third habit I have noticed is that people with similar profiles and avatars would enter and leave a table at the same time and win or lose in a way that just suckered in someone not on their "team" and also funnel chips to one another.

Basically they seemed to be cheating.

When I discovered this, I did a google search to see if there were published online cheats to the game. I found two of the three activities I described above on cheat sites.

I wonder what type of personality would go through the trouble to cheat like this. And what could they possible get out of spending hours of time cheating a game for which there is no monetary gain to be had, or for that matter any gain at all that I can figure. This seems like an incredible waste of time and really what kind of thrill can you get out of such hollow "wins."

[Nothere1]

Hollow wins...
I think their are some people on this site that just say popular things to get credit points, therefore they forgo having a good conversation or giving honest POV's to have a higher status. I wonder if they are connected or it is more of an addiction thing. My family has, what I believe are hereditary, additions problems. I tried to successfully move them to these games instead of the monetary ones as they were loosing money. I wonder if these people have the same addictions and are just on a high. If so, I'm sorry to be one sending them to your sites.

As for waste of time....
Isn't almost all games a waste of time, and I'm a gamer. I'll give it to you though Poker is one of the better ones, creating better skills. I play SimCity a lot, get board or annoyed that the residents aren't using something correctly and destroy the plot and start over. This isn't real city planning, the people don't represent actual people, I really don't feel I'm gaining anything but creativity, and how much worth is that?