Chip dumping

Also: chip dump

Deliberately losing chips to another player — usually a friend or backer — to transfer value between accounts or stacks. It is cheating in every cardroom and on every site, and online rooms detect it through hand-history analysis.

Example. Two accounts that always ended up at the same table with one shoving into the other's nuts were banned for chip dumping.

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