OP, I'm curious of the amount being confiscated by this platform. I don't think you've mentioned it? Or did I miss the number?
They always played together, hence the relatively similar login and logout pattern. They played on the same table, as they intended to compete against each other. Thus, same gameplay. And the transaction behaviors... well, that's kinda self-explained.
The amount confiscated was only 24$ and one more thing I missed to mention is I made the withdrawal order right after their servers were down for few minutes (about 10 minutes).
Thank you for the number, I'll add that info to my list.
I didn’t always play with my friend or only with him, we shared few games together the day before I tried to withdraw my money and surprisingly got banned from them without even leaving an explanation.
Collusion means cheating when two or more players secretly working together against others while we were competing against each other.
This is my understanding too, that those findings they found are there simply because two players are friends, who share time and wanted to enjoy some game together, instead of deliberately trying to collude. Especially that now you've add that you've been around for a while and plays on other matches alone, and not exclusively always together.
If they found strange behaviour on some of the matches where one [perhaps] deliberately lose to the other, and very visibly guiding the winner, on empty tables, I believe it's simply because:
[...] yesterday a friend of me wanted to learn more about online poker [...]
pineapple_poker?