Possible indication of cheating?

[1eyedjack]

I detected what I thought might be a method of cheating. It is not a subject that occupies my mind much and I tend not to get involved with these debates. And there are so many ways to cheat if you wanted to. But some of these tourneys you pay money to enter and have no TD.

 

The idea only works on robot tourneys that have a clock for the tourney as a whole but not for the individual rounds within it. You enter the same tourney twice under separate IDs from separate computers. One of the IDs is entered as a sacrificial entrant, who plays through all of the hands fast and without much caring for the results, but just to harvest the hand records. Then the other ID which has been waiting patiently on hand 1 eventually gets going, and can also play fast because he knows all the hands, and can easily finish within the tourney total clock.

 

I only mention it because I have played in a few tourneys where one combattant appears to be stuck on round 1 while all the other tables are completing the entire movement, and then with just one table in play he eventually comes to life and completes the movement. Of course he could have been off making a cup of tea, and I wasn't sufficiently interested to check whether he won the event, which would have made it a bit more suspicious.

[barmar]

If you suspect any particular player, send email to abuse@bridgebase.com. Our cheating investigators can tell whether something like this scenario took place.

[42krunner]

A lot of simple cheating strikes me as easy to detect. Making winning anti-probability plays time after time would surely cause a flag!