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Don't Play Online Poker Again Until You Read This!
I am one of those poker players who is skeptical about online poker sites. Ialmost never play online poker anymore because...well, I don't think it's atotally level playing field.While there have been newsworthy cheating scandals by players (I have alsorun into collusion between players), I believe that something more insidiousis going on.On top of my list is that there are far too many big hands dealt and far toomany bad beats as a result. I don't buy the nonsense that you see more handsdealt online. That argument is so bogus. You don't need to see many handsonline to see that it's just not real.It's one thing to complain about it and it's another thing to do somethingabout it.I discovered a company that may have actually identified why the poker siteshave an incentive to cheat, how their RNG's can be manipulated and mostimportantly, they are going to come out with a solution.You must check out this company before you play online poker again!http://www.gioiasystems.com/ Note: I do not have anything to do with this firm, and no incentive topromote their business.
The Online Bad Beat Phenomena
An editorial from Gene Gioia, Founder of Gioia Systems, and architect of the Cut N’ Shuffle
™
and Game Check 
™
systems
 
Many online poker players have observed noticeably more bad beats onlinethen in live poker room games. The common explanation for this is thatonline players see more hands online then in live games.Many online poker players believe that the starting hands online arenoticeably better then their experiences in live games.When taking these two factors into account, along with the fact that allonline poker rooms generate their revenue from the size of the pots at games(the larger the pot, the more the rake), I can come up with an alternate theoryfor the seemingly larger number of “bad beats” and “draws” experienced byonline poker players.I am told that the Nevada Gaming approved that standard Random NumberGenerators (RNGs) have 12 lines of code. Online poker operators claim to bespending millions on the development of random number generators. Why?Considering the recent news that Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet hadsoftware installed that gave certain players the ability to see other players’hole cards, why should I think that programming random number generatorsto appear random while creating significantly more “draw” hands is out of the realm of possibility?A random number generator is, after all, a computer program, that will dowhatever it is programmed to do. Poker is such a unique game because itcreates a virtually unlimited number of possible outcomes. This opens thedoor for any number of possibilities for anyone wanting to exploit this fact totheir advantage.What is preventing online operators from developing or using RNGs that areprogrammed to create, whenever desired, a series of hands that encourage agreater number of players participating in any given game, to stay in because
 
of the possibility of achieving a really “monster” hand? If you have playedonline for any length of time, you probably can relate to what I am sayingand why I am saying this.By using computer programming to create desirable starting hands, it standsto reason that you would also be creating a significantly higher number of finishing hands. In the process, the pots for those games would besignificantly higher; therefore the amount of rack per game increases.Three years ago, Sports Illustrated published, in their May issue, an articleabout online poker. That article pointed to an April study by an onlinetracking company. This study concluded that there was approximately $200million dollars per day being bet in online poker pots. It also estimated thatonline sites were generating about $5 million per day in rake revenue. Atthese levels of pots, an imperceptible change could result in a huge increasein annual revenue. If the average rake is 2.5% of the pot size (as the Aprilstudy suggested), the effect of one quarter of 1% (very possible and easilydone with programming) results in an increase of $500,000 per day or$182.5 million dollars annually in rake revenue. And who pays for this, theplayers of course. The rake is a necessary part of the game, but should notresult from manipulation of any kind.
So, you’re thinking that random number generators are safe. Thinkagain.About the author:
Mitchell Cogert is a poker author, coach and player. He has written thehighly praised book 
Tournament Poker: 101 Winning Moves
. It is theonly poker reference book with 101 no limit plays used by Poker Pros in nolimit poker tournaments. The book is reviewed as the “the best poker book published this year (2008).”
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