Jonathan, I really enjoyed this article. I think it speaks of the variety of scams imagined or otherwise that exist with on-line poker and on-line gaming in general. What was not mentioned was the possibility of internal fraud at the poker sites. Any organization dealing with financial transactions has the possibility of someone on the inside using the system in an inappropriate manor for financial gain. Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker are documented examples of this kind of behavior. The poker sites have the responsibility to protect their players from being cheated by their employees.

My solution to all this suspicion and evidence is to remove the poker site from storing, at least during live hands, the information about the hand. This can best be accomplished by invoking an independent 3rd party servers to manage the live hand information for the site. Using an independent 3rd party will provide a “Brick-an-Mortar” like environment for online gaming. When you play games in a casino, your cards are meant for your eyes only and no one knows the order of the cards in the deck. An independent 3rd party can provide such an environment by managing all of the Random Card Generation and hand data for the poker site. When the hand is over, the appropriate information can be provided to the poker site to evaluate the outcome.

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-Nick