How can i know FOR SURE that online poker is NOT rigged?

Question

Tell me

Answer 1

You can't.  It's unfortunate, but that's the cyber world.  Whether it's rigged electronically or whether it's the players who talk to each other "offline" and gang up on people...there's no way to know.  Don't play with real money...that's your safest bet.

Answer 2

You can't know for sure... In fact, Absolute Poker got nailed for one of its players having a "super user account".  Basically, that person was able to see the hole cards of everyone at the table.  Even so, chances are, you probably won't get cheated at the lower limits simply because it wouldn't be worth the effort to cheat in a game where you can't make that much money anyway.  Don't fall into the notion that if you play live, it's perfectly safe either.  Cheating can occur there as well.  Just use common sense and if you sense something is up, then quit and find another place to play.

Answer 3

If you play on a MAJOR site like Poker Stars or Full Tilt, they have no reason to rig the games.  They often have over 20,000 cash players playing at any given time.  All they need to do is offer a fair game with a reasonable rake and they will make a fortune.

In order to rig the game several programmers and staff members would know about it.  Rigging the game is not as simple as you might think.

When you consider that Stars has been around for over five years, think about the odds of a programmer or other staff member getting disgruntled and leaving the company.  Consider the chances that he would want to get even with the company that upset him.  Don't you think he'd go public?

Even if not a disgruntled employee there are those with high moral values who would feel that it is their civic duty to leak the information.

In short, the fact is it would take at the very least half a dozen people to keep such a scheme quiet.  Because of human nature and greed being as it is, I think someone would blow the whistle pretty quickly.  The fact that no one has leads me to trust them.

Hopefully once Bush and his stupid cronies are kicked out of the White House a more sane and sensible policy would be set where the industry was taxed and regulated.  If Bellagio opened an online casino based in Vegas, and it was monitored by the Nevada gaming commission, wouldn't you feel pretty safe playing your money online?

At the end of the day, there is a risk of cheating in all gambling.  If you get on a plane right now and head to the Palms poker room in Vegas, how do you know that two buddies are not colluding?  Even if not very well, they could be doing just enough to give you a slight disadvantage.  There are no guarantees.

But I've played at Stars and Tilt for many years, and have been a long term winner in small stakes games.  You see more hands that in a live game, so you get exposed to some more unusual situations.  But nothing that's left me feeling like the game is rigged.  So as long as I keep winning, and no one comes forward with proof of a rigged game, I'm happy to trust them.

Answer 4

easily - no matter who wins the casino always gets their cut....

Answer 5

You can't!

That is why I stopped playing online a long time ago. Find a REAL game in or near your town. There are tons of live poker games happening that you can trust a lot more.  Good luck!

Answer 6

You can't really.

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Answer 7

Its not rigged because they win from the rakes. That means they always win no matter you or the player you play wins. FOr that reason they dont need to rig anything. And if you play a good site like http://bestgamblingsites.hit.bg/fulltilt...

you can be sure its all ok.