[MicroBob]

Further to my idea that this could be aired on TV all over the country and still not be that big a deal:

There was a TV story a few months back about the guy that wrote the book Dirty Poker.
Segment 1 was cheating at live-poker...and segment 2 the next day was about internet-poker and it was ridiculously bad.

It showed him playing on Party Poker and talking about how all the sites have bots and props and rigged games and how all these people can see all your hole-cards and you really don't have a chance to win. This was a normal news-story just interviewing the so-called "expert" that ran on several stations across the country.

I saw it on the news in Memphis.
They had a big lead-up to "Cheating at Internet-Poker" and then brought in the "expert" to say that some people had the special programs that could see everyone else's cards.

Nobody paid attention to the story that aired on several different stations across the country because nobody cared.

You guys didn't pay attention to it, did you? Nobody got paranoid that this story was going to be the end of online-poker as we know it.

Sure, it certainly helped to feed the perception that many idiots have that online-poker is always rigged against the leigitimate players and that hurts the game in the long-run.
But one story about cheating just isn't that big a deal and many of the stations and viewers can't even distinguish between what is real and what isn't in the first place.

Final point - we've had a lot of stories of cheating players and dealers, etc in live casinos too and it doesn't seem to have hurt their business very much either.