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Your site cannot prove that they are not doing the following:

1) Skewing shuffles
2) Hinting players

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What would you like them to do?

What hurdle would you think is reasonable?

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Josem:

#1 is a solvable proof with player determined shuffling (the PBWC guys are doing this for their event).

#2 is not a solvable proof in an encrypted internet environment.

To solve the proof of #2 you must use a plain text (unencrypted) open source message protocol from server to client and you must put a 3rd party sniffer on the line to police the entire message stream from server to client in order to prove that the server never sent a hint of any kind to any player during the course of a hand. This does not actually prove that no hints happened but merely that no hints happened over the lan line that connects the server computer and the client computers.

It is easy to verify the single lan connection upon visual inspection. It is another matter entirely to prove that the lan line between server and client is the only connection that exists; you'd have to be able to show that no wireless connection existed between server and client(s) or any other type of connection for that matter.

The fact that #2 is not solvable in an internet enironment means that players will forever be forced to place faith and trust in the word and character of the site operator.

And thus online poker is somewhat similar to a religion.