May 9, 2008

Hacking Poker Sites - Online Poker Security Standards to Make Game Poker Room Hack Proof

Online poker rooms are a great place for the hackers to try their luck in cheating you. The demand is obvious - online poker rooms have to deal with technological issues and you do not see who is in front of you.

Due to this online poker rooms take necessary precautions. But are these precautions enough?

Learn how to check the "online poker room hack proof level" of your favourite room.

  • True random number generation
  • Game integrity
  • Real-time on demand transactions
  • Game history
  • 128-bit SSL technology
  • Advanced statistical analysis tools (to prevent player collusion)
  • Confidentiality

When some items in the list abive are obvious, some still need more detailed explanation.

For example, the game integrity. Quality online poker room is recording all types of actions during the game: every card, hand, move, win, loss, and other details. This info is recorded and analyzed by special algoritms that are designed to prevent you from collusion. Player collusion is a form of cheating - two or more players are working together to gain an unfair advantage over other players on a table.

Professional software will "see" these schemes and fight for the fair play. Plus, top quality online poker rooms have special teams of real human beings (professional players) who check this issue.

Now a few words about confidentiality. Surely poker rooms do not want to disclose your personal info. But be aware that they have the right to ask for official documents to make sure you are the true account holder and a real person, not some fake personality. This may seem not very ok, but after you read in the previous passages that many people try to cheat - you understand that being a real person one would hardly fall for such a stupid step. So this is providing extra security.

We want you to be aware that not all online poker rooms are taking this full list of precautions. This does not necessarily mean you will become the object of scam or cheating, but this increases the chances for you to get cheated.

Check this example of poker room security standards and compare them with what you have at the moment.

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May 28, 2008

Jazzy @ 7:33 am

There's a list of PokerBots on http://jazzybets.com that have been known to be able to hack into online poker rooms.

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