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Old 12-09-2005, 07:31 PM
SheetWise SheetWise is offline
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Default Re: does anyone ever find themselves wondering if a site is rigged?

I would be very surprised if there weren't game situations where you were facing opponents who had more information than you think they have. It would be fairly simple for any site to separate the RNG from the game software and have it delivered by a 3rd party in real time -- yet I don't know of any site that has gone through the effort. I've written several sweepstakes games where the client has had to purchase a policy for cash prizes, and we used RNG data from a provider who was contracted by both myself and the insurer -- it's fairly simple. The only tests I've seen done on poker sites are for randomness, which doesn't address the issue of when the information is available and to who.

I've never seen a game that was controlled by a single party that was not exploited at some time. Maybe online poker is a first.
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