Pogo Case Study

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We all know most of us, spades players come to play a couple of games to have some fun or may be at least to kill some time. Pogo provides a rating system (with a color code) to make the game more competitive and to reveal one facet of the strength of players. Custom rules can be set by the first player who sits in an empty table (the host). It is natural to accomplished players have a higher rating than others. Unfortunately, some of our colleagues do not realize it and desperately try to go for the red dot, even their procedure is not legitimate.

Intentionally bidding the maximum possible tricks may be considered as the mildest form of game fixing though it is still cheating because you deliberately fix the outcome. This can be happened for several reasons varying from frustration of the playing strength and risk taking by partner to …show more content…

Starting on May 2015 or so, you can quite often see partnerships with a 'normal ' profile paired to a newly registered user. Most probably, I 'd say 85%, it is a dummy profile created by the 'normal ' user to control both sides of the partnership alone (in site it is called double browsing or abbreviated as db). Moreover two quite new profiles paired together are almost always (like 95 off 100) cheating. An extended form to this type of cheating is to control a third player on their opponent team to throw the game in their favor (this is called 3-in-1 in site).

In my opinion, this is the bitterest way of cheating that players with no confidence and etiquette (sore losers as called in the site) do. The site allows the host to decide whether to continue the game or to wait if any players leave in the middle of game. The intention of stalling is to let all the other players leave, and then leave himself/herself to 'dissolve ' the game without affecting rating. Hate speech towards other players is often used as a catalyst to this

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