Let's be clear-you weren't casting suspicion on an industry will little regulatory oversight, you were trying to say that it was impossible for the deal of cards to be truly random because computers are deterministic. And indeed, shuffling algorithms do have to be, all modern programing languages are deterministic. But, a proper shuffling algorithm is a "black box" as far as the rest of the program, and the people running the servers is concerned. Because of this, if the input, the "seed" value for the RNG is non-deterministic, then the output of the black box is as well.

You go so far as to say that you feel that hands are set up so that the server knows in advance that one player will be dealt trips, one dealt 2 pair, blah blah blah, all in an attempt to maximize pot size and rake. Of course, this is a way that a poker site could cheat. But external tracking services like Poker Table Ratings track millions of hands from different sites. Sharkscope and OPR track millions of tournaments. If there were a pattern to the number of, or types of, hands that were dealt out, they would have discovered it! Or people observing the data would notice it! Don't think that that's impossible. That's how the superusers on Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet were discovered. That's how Stoxtrader and Kinetica were discovered as colluding. The Chinese DoN Scandal was verified by using Sharkscope.

All major poker sites have a regulatory body that governs them. Pokerstars is governed by the Isle of Man. Full Tilt Poker is regulated by Alderney. These regulators require that the random number generators be audited by independent companies. Since Full Tilt Poker was the site you mentioned, I went and looked at their regulators website, and their website which contains their certification letters for their RNG. Cigital and Technical Systems Testing have both certified Full Tilt's RNG. Alderney has accepted these as certification that their RNG is truly random. Now, Full Tilt could have forged these letters of certification. But if they did that, could they keep 2 companies who are actively involved in testing RNG's quiet? They could have paid them off. But then they would likely have to pay off the Alderney gambling control commission as well. Sure it's possible that they would have taken a bribe, they're a small British Isle, with little revenue outside of gambling regulation. Reminds me of Kahnawake. They were certainly impotent as a regulator weren't they? And they were small and overwhelmed. But even then there still wasn't bribery or conspiracy was there? It's still believed that their RNG was fair, just as it was tested by the regulators and the independent agency, the cheating occurred because of an exploit built into the software at it's inception.

But one thing is clear to me. Bodog is clearly doing something to screw their customers. Full Tilt has been accused of it and has provided ample evidence to the contrary. And for some reason, you've decided to take the side of the operator who is clearly behaving unethically, and not the one that may or may not be? You make a lot of sense!