What is "chip dumping"?

Chip dumping has been a problem in poker for awhile and thus didn't originate online. What happens is that when two players are working with each other in a tournament, when they face off against each other intentionally or unintentionally, one of the players will purposefully lose or dump their chips to the other player. Hence the name, chip dumping.

Now, to the average player, this may seem like a pretty stupid thing to do, since no one would ever want to give up their chips to begin with, but depending on the tournament type, being able to double-up your chips or at least gain a huge chip lead (especially early in a game) can be very effective. In a large, multitable tournament however, the effects of chip dumping are usually minimized since the two cheats have less of a chance to meet each other. I'm not going to mention specific names here, but a certain few professional players are heavily rumored to engage in chip dumping with their own team. Pretty sad if it is true, since chip dumping is absolutely cheating, which comes down to outright theft from other players when you think about it.

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