It's very tough to prevent collusion between players online. There are behavioral things you can look for but I don't think you can technically prevent it.
In keeping with the way HIVE works I'd go with a reputational system and the higher stakes games require higher reputation and more proven track record of fair play.
This is a good idea. Simply just not allow people under x reputation to participate, right?
Perhaps that could be something the host of the tournament decide, or am I being unrealistic now?
I'm not really familiar with how you are setting up your tournaments, but if you're playing for cash (or HIVE) then having a reputational requirement is certainly a reasonable starting point.
Currently the idea of having poker directly on-chain is in the early stages and my idea is to have an option for people to create their own tournament.
This is what I have initially thought of:
Sounds good. I will play if I don't have to do any identity verification stuff beyond HIVE (eg, email address) and I'd highly recommend integrating with Keychain for log-in if you can.
If you have people promoting tournaments on HIVE and running on HIVE they'll probably be able to make their fee from upvotes. A number of relatively benevolent whales might even sponsor new on-chain gaming activity with some fatter upvotes. Good luck!
The game will by on kryptogamers, where there is login with HIVE keychain. They'll implement poker if I (or we) can come up with a good way to minimise collusion.
Thank you for all, I'll go and see if they think the reputation restriction is a good way to go about it.
Hopefully this onchain poker can become a good thing