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Can anyone 100% prove its not rigged? If so explain...
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Who knows??
the system is checked by certain groups(i dont know but others do and i am sure they will say)
so the long story short.. it is what you think it is.. all sites
All sites make great store out of the fact that the RNG is tested but that doesn't really guarantee it's random.
The problem with the favoured means of assuring customers that the game is random is that the RNG is only part of the whole. To use an MOT analogy, if my car had it's steering and tyres checked and was awarded an MOT certificate it wouldn't mean it was safe. Failing to check the brakes would be a serious omission and therefore the MOT would not guarantee a safe vehicle.
Until all aspects of the game are subjected to checks, just saying the RNG is performing correctly cannot be the guarantee of a random game. The RNG is able to generate far more card sequences than are required and at this time there is no guarantee as to which sequences are used and which if any are discarded or whether the sequences are delivered in the order they are generated. Also there is no check made regarding the distribution of any RNG generated sequence to the table.
Proving the game to be random is impossible without all aspects of the generation and distribution of cards being subject to regular scrutiny. It is also impossible to prove the game to be anything but random because the only reference available is the RNG output, which, providing the RNG is functioning correctly, will always show a random generation of card sequences.
The actual checking and regulation of poker sites is a grey area. The regulation is undertaken by autonomous off-shore regulators. The checking of the RNG and accompanying software is undertaken by the manufacturers of that software. Neither of these can be said to be independent as both have a vested interest in the outcome of the checks.
In the case of the regulators, the poker sites they are regulating are their customers. The very people who provide their income based on the turnover of the poker site.
In the case of the RNG certifiers, they supply the software and yet provide no information as to the workings of that software. The only guarantee they give is that it will give everyone a fair game.
The problem I have with that statement is that a truly random deal would not be fair to everyone. It would be random.
I play on line poker to pass the time but i will never fully accept it as proper poker as its computer generated so how can it be!
I won't go into lists of arguments for and against but in answer to your point ....... well actually you almost answer it yourself....... Sites make money by taking rake. Any means of increasing rake is a very good reason. That doesn't mean they do but there are good reasons to if they so wished.
ps. Before you say they make enough without cheating - the NOW was the biggest selling newspaper in the world and it didn't stop them.
Please do not post such things without knowing all the facts.
Sky Poker is fully regulated and things like the RNG are independently tested.
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