Cheating rings, rigged machines, fixed matches, and the cases that reshaped how the industry polices itself. The reporting is documented, not dramatized.
Live dealer games stream actual humans dealing cards from actual tables. The question of cheating prevention is therefore the question: what stops the dealer from dealing to a predetermined outcome?
Postle's win rate was not human. The hole-card stream was feeding his phone. The lawsuits went nowhere because the civil bar for fraud in a card game is a wall nobody could get through. Five sentences of truth.
Two online poker rooms, same ownership ecosystem, same technical flaw: a backdoor that let insiders see opponents' hole cards in real time. Between roughly 2003 and 2008, a small number of accounts used that view to extract somewhere in the neighbourhood of 20 million US dollars from the player base.
