Editing Cheating in poker (section)

== Collusion ==
[[Collusion]] is two or more players acting with a secret, common strategy.<ref>T. Hayes, [https://www.lybrary.com/collusion-strategy-and-analysis-for-texas-holdem-p-922246.html "Collusion Strategy and Analysis for Texas Hold'em"], 2017</ref> Some common forms of collusion are: ''soft play'', that is, failing to bet or raise in a situation that would normally merit it, to avoid costing one's partner or friend money; ''whipsawing'', where partners raise and re-raise each other to trap players in between; ''dumping'', where a cheater will deliberately lose to a partner; and ''signalling'', or trading information between partners via signals of some sort, like arranging their chips in a certain manner.

In a [[poker tournament]], when one player is all in and two other players are active in the pot, it is common for the two players with chips left to "check it down", or [[Check_(poker)#Check|check]] on each round of betting through the end of the hand.  Unless they explicitly communicate an agreement about checking it down, this is not collusion.<ref>[http://www.rgpfaq.com/tournament-implicit.html Is "checking it down" in a tournament implicit collusion?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060510190703/http://www.rgpfaq.com/tournament-implicit.html |date=May 10, 2006 }}</ref>