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Nowadays you can sit back in front of your TV and watch various poker tournaments such as the World Series of Poker. Ever since poker events have been televised, poker has become increasingly popular. Not only that, but more and more online poker rooms have been created. But since there are so many online sites that offer online poker, we cannot but wonder how safe they really are.

The main question that we must ask ourselves is if playing poker online is a safe activity. Coming up with an answer requires us to analyze this conundrum from two points of view.

First of all we must analyze the legal point of view. At first glance this should be a piece of cake, the law should be clear, cut and to the point. There is one problem though. Nobody has ever been charged, trialed or much less convicted for playing online poker. Since there is no precedent, coming to a clear, concise conclusion is a bit tricky.

It all depends on how you interpret the law. You could say that some laws prohibit online poker playing, but without a precedent, you have no base for your arguments. Not even one person has suffered a charge, trial or conviction from the moment these laws came to act.

We can only conclude that legally it is ok to play online poker.

The second point of view is regarding the fairness of the game. Has anyone tampered with the game, or has anyone influenced the game in such a way that you will definitely lose?

Let’s take a look at the sites that offer online poker. Are they offering rigged games in order to make more money? To be completely honest, they do not need to rig their poker games. The poker sites make their money from collecting the rake of each hand and not if you lose a hand. The rake is nothing more than a commission that the poker sites retain from the total amount of the pot.

They will collect that commission regardless which player wins the pot. Not only do they not need to rig the games, but it is in their best interest sites to leave things alone and have as many players as they can to place normal bets. At low bets tables the game is usually loose, and that is why you will see a lot of big hands. Since more players are in a hand, one player will win a handsome pot. In this case the blame falls on the odds, and not the way the program is shuffling the cards.

We thus conclude that online poker is not rigged. The online poker rooms will not attempt fraud in order to get your money.

Let’s take a look at another factor that influences the fairness of online poker. I am talking about that threat that has been around ever since the internet was developed, namely hackers. This is what usually happens. You will be contacted by a hacker and he will try to convince you that he has hacked a particular poker site. He will then try to sell you some sort of a cheater program that can help you win.

Do not buy cheater programs from anyone, because they are nothing else but scams. The online gaming industry has invested huge amounts of money in making sure that their games are safe and secure. An online poker site that fails to offer the necessary protection from fraud attempt will lose its reputation and consequently its costumers.

You are right to be concerned about cheaters. Cheaters have been around forever and they will always be around when there is money involved. Just remember that cheaters are not necessarily hackers. One common form of cheating is when two or more players work together and they secretly communicate with each other about their cards and the way they bet. If you pay attention to the signs you can spot cheaters quite easily. Most of the times, they will play slow before the flop, since this is when they plot their course of action.

Other times a cheater will keep raising and re-raising even if he is holding garbage. The reason he does that is to raise the pot for his partner or push out players that have good hands and might win. Luckily these forms of cheating can be easily detected by the online poker sites and measures can be taken against the cheaters. They have expert employees and topnotch software that monitors the games and detects cheating players.