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We are pleased to announce that Secure Card Dealer is going to make a DealGuardian demonstration service available to the public. This service will provide a sense of how easily DealGuardian can provide the necessary services to provide a legitimately secure and honest environment for online poker rooms to utilize.

OK. I understand that I have not been playing poker as long as Mason, but the idea that he expressed on the Two+Two Pokercast about the online poker community policing itself like live poker players do is absurd. Sure, the 2+2ers got lucky with Absolute. Someone in the support department gave up information they should not have and a cheater was discovered.

THE NIGHT BEFORE ONLINE POKER SAFETY

Twas the night before online protection, at an online poker house
All the supers were playing, even PotRipper louse;
The bets were all made with correct odds and care,
In the hopes that the river wold bring no despair;
A super user is ready for signal all green,
while images of everyone's hole cards flashed on his screen;

For over 2 years now I have been exploring the issues with on line gaming, specifically on line poker, dealing with the trust and integrity of the electronic data for players.

I spent a better part of the day last week playing $5 SNGs at FTP. I found two things disappointing. First off, some of my opponents appeared to be BOTs and second I have a pretty good idea I was the victim of collusion on more than one occasion.