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Why Independent Testing Is Important

There are countless articles, blog posts and forum threads which have attempted to answer to this question and all of them have failed to do so.

The best of these provide compelling arguments why Online Poker must certainly be fair or rigged, although none can claim to be definitive or conclusive. The cause of this is that all these arguments, irrespective of how sound, are derived from reason alone - they're simply not supported by any evidence.

Simply speaking it is a philosophical approach to the question, i.e. the argument is founded on pure thought. Although a philosophical approach has value it could be frustrating when put on a question similar to this because every argument leaves room for a table argument. The end result is that the debate continues and on and round in circles without reaching any conclusion. A scientific approach where evidence is used to test an argument is a much better approach.

It's true that poker sites have always had their Random Number Generators (RNGs) tested but the truth is that always these tests are carried out by the poker sites themselves so can not be considered objective. Also, these tests have already been limited to the RNGs and do not test the algorithms that effectively deal the cards.

However, for the first time since online 먹튀검증사이트 poker began independent tests are now being run using a broad scale to attempt to answer the question: "Is Online Poker Rigged?" The tests follow sound scientific practice and have already been performed on many of the popular poker sites and networks. Poker Stars, Party Poker, the On game Network, the Merge Network and the Etraction Network have all been tested - over ¾ of players online use these sites so the results have relevance for online poker in general.

Simply speaking, the tests analyze histories from real hands which were data-mined from the poker sites and use these to check on if good players receive more bad luck than they need to if random cards were used. Much increased detail are available in the full report of every test. Up to now the results for each and every site have shown "no proof rigging" which can only be the best thing for the internet poker industry.

After the initial few tests some skeptical observers commented so it could be possible for the tests themselves to be rigged, or that the initial dataset could possibly be tampered with to exhibit fair results. In the end, the internet poker industry is a multi-billion dollar industry and when large sums of money are involved, a lot of things are possible. As a response to this Online Poker Watchdog produced a downloadable app that players may use to analyze their very own hand histories. By using this, players can make certain that the information is real as it is data from their very own games - they can test their very own hand histories to check on that the games they have been playing are fair.

Before we jump to any grand conclusions though, the tests are not without limitations as they only check for one type of bias. There are other possible types of rigging that could not be picked up by these tests. However, once this series of tests are complete new tests is likely to be performed to detect other biases.

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