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The act of chip dumping is a frowned upon, often illegal act that is used in poker tournaments to give a player or a set of players an abnormal advantage over his opponents by ‘feeding’ him extra poker en ligne chips.

In general, pokerchip dumping occurs when players in collusion with one another are seated at the same tournament table, wherein they then involve each other in a hand or series of hands, with one player intentionally losing to another in order to pad his stack and give him more stacks, and thus more ability to push around the other players. The ideology here operates under the idea that it is much easier to win a tournament with more, easily acquired chips than it is for one of two players operating with normal chip stacks. Often, then, the colluded players will split the winnings of the tournament, and both go on their happy ways, at the expense of the other players who have go along normally, with normal stacks. The rule of requiring two players in an all-in situation to turn their hands up to some extent can help defend against this practice, as it would be clear then, or at least suspect, if a player was trying to feed his chips to a friend.