Online Cheating at Poker?

September 29, 2008

Some would wonder how it would be possible to cheat at poker, but it does happen. The more poker players out there that try to cheat the system however, the more the online poker sites find ways of thwarting them in their attempts. This goes doubly true for online poker sites – where they might try cheating their players, but they won’t get away with it for long.

Gene Gioia likes to play poker. However, he was noticing that some of the poker hands that he was seeing online just didn’t seem plausible, and he suspected that you would not see them at a live table. So, having a background as a consultant in charge of auditing software installations for nationwide companies, he decided to come up with a way of finding out if the hands were possible by dealing actual cards.

He and his brother made a machine that would continuously shuffle and deal cards at a high speed. Then the results went to computers as if they were real games. The hands are dealt and recorded, and Gioia is going to use the results to find out if there is a glitch, purposeful or not, in the poker system.

He is planning on opening his own poker site, as he says that players will like the fact that he uses his own cards instead of a random number generator. He says that this makes it more like a real poker game and players will appreciate that.