Safe to play poker online ?

IS the online poker rigged? After the Absolute Poker drama , and the Poker Stars drama and ending with Full Tilt drama, what can we believe?

Many times we noticed awkward things while playing , bad players hitting 2 outers and the question asked is : is online poker random ? There was a theory discussed on a few other sites about the poker rooms trying to keep the bad players in the game. Totally untrue .

The chances of a room fixing cards to help the bad players save money are almost non-existent. Only when you start to think about the side effects of such a system can you appreciate the absurdity of such a theory.

If a room is helping a bad player from losing money, at the same time the room will be taking this money from the good players to compensate. Therefore there would be no such thing as the online pros that make a living from playing online poker, because they will find it too difficult to win money due to a ‘fair’ system.

In addition, the site would have to scrap the use of its RNG and design a system that is able to detect a losing player and be able to deliver ‘good hands’ to those players. Not only would this be incredibly difficult for the sites to create, but it would also be illegal. If a site were found to be utilizing such a system to help make them more money, they would incur a staggering amount of fines and be heavily prosecuted. The events from this year, had a strong impact on the safety part of the software, The poker rooms know this and so it would be dangerously unwise for them to even consider using such a system.

It's true that you will see far more bad beats online than you will during live play, but this is not because it is rigged. There are two reasons why you see such a high frequency of beats online:

The action at an online poker table runs much faster than the action at a live table. More hands = more beats.

You are not sitting face to face with any of your opponents whilst playing online.

To elaborate that, the players are happier to call down large bets and raises on unlikely draws, as they do not have to worry about being berated by other players at the table (except for a few words in a chat box). If a player is playing at a live table, they are more likely to avoid calling with terrible odds for a draw because they would not like to be criticized because of their bad play.

Nowadays, where the technology is dominating, can we agree that online poker is random ? Never say never .