Online Poker Shuffling

One area of lively debate in online poker room circles is the issue of shuffling. How fair are the online shuffling programs, are they honest and if so are they secure and safe from unscrupulous cracks ? There is often a tendency, amongst some players to blames any run of bad luck at the door of unfair shuffling practice rather than their own playing technique. In the early years of online poker where some shuffling systems that were found to be open to abuse.

However, the online poker business has moved on and it is probably fair to say that online poker rooms have a lot more to lose from unfair or insecure shuffling techniques than they have to gain. A happy and reassured customer base is much more valuable to them over the long term than any short term gains that they could make by using an unfair shuffling algorithm.

Nonetheless , there are some conspiracy theorists out their in online poker land who feel that shuffling systems are not always fair, one grievance that is sometimes aired is that players who cash out are penalised by online casinos for taking their money and are then deliberately dealt and unfair proportion of bad hands. This feeling maybe be due to the fact that players who have had a good run are more likely to start playing in an overconfident manner and therefore face a bad run soonafter.

It is worth baring in mind that online poker rooms have no financial incentive to punish players who cash out. The important thing for the casino is that the players remain happy with their room and continue to return and play. This way they will keep paying funds to the casino rake and the online poker room does not really care if they win or not.