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Originally Posted by Poppadaddy I prefer playing in live cash or tourney games as opposed to online gaming; one of my reasons being this: I have heard from several people that there is software available to be bought that allows others to "see" your cards. Again, this seems somewhat unlikely to me. I would think that the various poker sites would be secure enough to prevent this, but I really don't know.
Is this just a myth or paranoia? Anyone have a comment or evidence either way? |
Think about what you have said for a minute.............
Ok, here goes my logic on why this is not so. At this very moment there are 25,000 people playing poker on PokerStars alone. I have logged on many times and seen the number at easily double that. Think about how much money is at risk for these establishments. Maybe you can look up the financials for PokerStars or some of the other larger online gaming establishments, but at the very low end these places are making at least $1/hr/person. This works out to
$1/hr/person * 25,000 people at any given time * 24hrs /day * 365 days per yr. This comes out to $219 million per yr. I would guess that this number is really way way too low.
Wouldn't you guess that they could afford to pay a programmer to establish some security so this does not happen? If there was proof that this was happening they would be done as a business. I think that these online gaming establishments have a really good gig going and they would do just about anything in their power to keep it.
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