Wife thinks online poker rooms are rigged...

[Holdfast]

I cannot really say this is a question as I don't think anyone really has the answer, but welcome feedback. My wife thinks online poker rooms are rigged and prefers I play at a brick & mortar casino. Now, I fully understand that online poker rooms have the potential to be rigged in such a way to benefit certain players, players who play for the house, etc. This could easily be done where the house just lets favored people (even those on the payroll) play using poker clients that see all the hole cards. That is possible. The more nefarious would be letting a preferred player simply draw to the winning hand as needed. I guess reasons why a poker room would do this, if they really wanted to, would be: 1. To let the house make money off the site members (IE: Keep those big 1st place MTT winnings). 2. To let whoever they prefer (for whatever reason) to make some easy money.
I play at sites with the trust that they have some integrity. However, I'm sure plenty of people don't play online simply because there can be a breach of integrity and you would never know. Being that I'm in information technology, I know full well that it would be easy for an off shore poker room to do whatever they want with their software. So, it is in the back of my mind. Especially when you see someone go all in for $100 with pocket aces in a cash game and someone makes a quick call with 7,3 off and hits trip 7's on the flop, as if they knew they'd make that miracle hand. There are always bad beats, and there are also cheats... However, you cannot proove it in the online world.

Regards,
Holdfast