About cheats.poker and how we work
Who writes this, what it's for, and the rules we hold ourselves to. Short version: an honest field guide to a dishonest subject, written to be read by players, not sold to them.
What this site is
cheats.poker is an independent research and information resource about how cheating works in poker, online and live, in 2026. It exists because the subject is badly served. The authoritative sites treat cheating as a scare-story footnote and never explain the mechanics. The grey market explains nothing and sells fantasies. Search results fill the gap with forum threads, scam videos, and, on one query we checked, a video-game cheat forum ranking above any real answer.
We sit in the middle: technical enough to be genuinely useful, honest enough to tell you when something is a scam, and unsentimental about the risks. The goal is that a curious player, a paranoid one, and someone weighing whether any of this is real all leave better informed than they arrived.
Who writes it
The guide is written by Marcus Vane, a game-integrity researcher who has spent years studying poker’s security arms race from the outside — how bots are built, how sites catch them, how the live-cheating hardware actually functions, and how much of the market is simply lying. For obvious reasons this is a pen name; you cannot put a real byline on writing about this subject, and anyone who claims otherwise is selling something. What we can offer instead is verifiable sourcing.
The rules we hold ourselves to
We explain how it works, not how to do it. There’s a real line between describing a bot’s decision loop or a detection method and publishing a step-by-step manual for cheating. We stay on the explanatory side. You’ll learn what these tools are and how they’re caught. You won’t find operational instructions here.
We source the specifics. Every non-obvious number on this site (the seized balances, the account bans, the device teardowns, the court cases) traces to a real published report. When a claim is an operator’s own PR rather than independently verified, we say so. When we couldn’t confirm something, we leave it out rather than dress a rumour as fact.
We call scams scams. The single most useful service we can offer is telling you that most “undetectable poker bots” and “hacks” sold online are non-functional, malware, or theft. We say it plainly and repeatedly, because it’s true and because it saves people money.
We don’t promise outcomes. There are no guaranteed-profit figures on this site, no “+100% winrate,” no income claims. Anyone promising those is lying, and we’d rather lose your trust by being boring than keep it by being dishonest.
We’re independent of the rooms. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with any poker site or app named on this site. We name them because you searched for them, and we describe them as we find them.
Corrections and contact
This is a fast-moving subject and we will get things wrong. When we do, we fix the page and note what changed rather than quietly editing it away. If you find an error, an out-of-date figure, or a source that no longer says what we claim it says, tell us and we’ll correct it. Every factual claim we can source, we source: the seized balances, the account bans, the device teardowns, and the court cases each carry an outbound link to a published report at the bottom of the page they appear on, and where something is an allegation rather than a proven fact, we say “alleged.”
A note on the commercial side
We’re upfront that this site is not a charity. Some pages link you to a way of speaking directly with specialists who work in this space, and we may be compensated when that happens. That relationship doesn’t change what we write: the scam warnings, the risk disclosures, and the detection realities are the same whether or not you ever click. Full disclosure is on the disclaimer page. If anything here reads as marketing dressed up as journalism, tell us, because that’s the exact failure we’re trying to avoid.