haven't read the entire thread.

and i don't think online is rigged in general or really at all.

but who's to say they can't juice the card flow a little bit for their own house players. how would any of our statistical analysis/pokertracker pick that up? very subtle and only for a few people. again, the games would be very beatable, the site though would just be grabbing a giant pot occasionally thru rigged card flow.

would anyone be extremely shocked if one of the big 4 or 5 was busted for having slightly rigged games?

OTOH, a friend of mine was in customer service and a big site and all the people who called in to complain about rigged games were seeing 60% of flops and similar type stuff.

i think neither side (myself included) has much evidence or real insight into whether this is realistic or not. it would have to be a fairly big conspiracy, but we've had them before.