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Are you really amazed that I don't have to tell you about my business, or that you have no way of knowing if I have given someone a right to buy me out?
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and this kind of secrecy is what online poker has to change. There needs to be more transparency, and as Josem suggested(I think it's brilliant), an independent audit agency which can verify HH's and actually have a voice in the investigation of fraud.
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Well, there is an outfit sort of like that called the Gambling Commission in the United Kingdom. Here is their url.
http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/Client/index.asp
If online poker were legal in the major market for it, in the USA, then we probably could have a similar organization monitoring online poker sites. Otherwise let's face it - it's a pipe dream. With prohibition the legal drinking age was the age at which you could get your money up to the table. We're in that kind of world right now. Maybe if a Democrat is elected President of the US, then Barney Frank's proposals to legalize online gambling will get signed into law. Otherwise, it just ain't gonna happen.