Getting A Real Deal

By Author: Bonny Kominek
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Online poker is one of the success stories of the last decade. An estimated $500m is wagered every day worldwide, from uncounted numbers of players. It has become an incredibly lucrative business.

Accordingly, there are some who believe that online poker has become increasingly rigged. Many sites use random number generators to generate the cards, and suspicion remains as to how random these generators really are. Additionally, there is the question as to whether the person who wins the hand is actually a person at all, or rather a bot placed there by the company running the site.

Further, there are many stories of people who''ve found a way to ''beat the system''. That''s all very well, but you can''t do that in real poker, so the implication is that there is a system to be beaten, not least in the fact that there''s precious little proof that the cards that appear on the screen are actually drawn fairly.

That is not to say that online poker is rigged, merely that the suspicion is there and that several high profile lawsuits have suggests that there''s no smoke without fire.

Accordingly, the arrival ...
... of RealDealPoker.com has attracted a lot of interest in the gaming industry. The man behind RealDeal, Gene Gioia, claims to have invented technology that guarantees a random hand being drawn, and offers proof.

The system is disarmingly simple, by using a real pack of cards and filming the machine that makes the draws, the hands are not only proven to be random, there is also a video that proves it. This means if people are suspicious they can request an audit and see the proof of the matter for themselves.

Another interesting little feature that RealDeal are incorporating is that the person who is the dealer of each round can choose to cut the cards or not, picking a random number for the cards to be cut at. This is designed to try and ensure that each player on the table is an actual player, and not a computerised ''bot''.

With the lawsuits mentioned above and recent surveys suggesting that there is widespread mistrust of the online poker industry, RealDeal could be just what the industry, and the players, are looking for. Bonny Kominek is a professional internet poker player who recently discovered RealDeal Poker,a site that provides online poker presenting a game based upon the deal of a real deck of scrambled and shuffled cards a fully automated system.