It's nice to hear RNG was approved by iTechLabs, they seem to be more reliable than most of those gambling comissions which give licenses to real money rooms and literally don't have any power over rooms when supposed to protect players interests. I had an issue with one of merge network skins and Kahnawake gaming commission which licensed them just said: "yes, they fraud you but we can do nothing about that"
So at the end everything depends on professionalism of room's team imho. As ultimatebet and some others experiences showed if they want to scam, nothing can stop them. That's why nice to see how eking657 handle everything by now. It says a lot about the team imho.
eking657, u didn't answer on 2nd part of p3ppymon's question about bots. Interested in your position on it too.
Sorry, just read the follow-up question.
Again, I'm not a developer so its a little bit hard for me to give you a precise technical answer for this question.
What we have in place for internal security is an alert system. We can detect with a considerable amount of accuracy player collusion. (Ill get to bots in just a sec.) Basically, on top of the usual collusion security protocols such as double accounts by same I.Ps etc, we have a system that actually detects playing patterns. If players are betting high, then folding to the next player. The system accumulates data and we process it statistically to determine whether player collusion is in fact happening or not. To be 100% honest, it is not bullet-proof, byt does make it almost pointless for colluders to play on our system. Players with a very high collusion score will have their account locked until further investigation. This will also prevent them for withdrawing their funds until we have eliminated the security threat.
For bots We also have an alert system of the same type for bots. Bots run on algorithms and do not change style of play, so it is not impossible to find them. However, my team did make the point that this too is not bulletproof, and it can take some time to detect such applications.
This is the most honest answer I can give you.
But on top of everything -
I'm running this brand with people that play poker offline and online regularly! Were taking this project very seriously, and have great ambition to make this the home of bitcoin poker. Instead of running this company like a normal poker room, I think this room will have a unique personal touch to it, where players will actually know the owners, admins and support personnel very well! We will always have admins on site to manually check what's going on, on cash tables, at all times.
People caught cheating, after a full investigation, will have their account/s closed and their funds appropriated. When the investigation is over we will look back at the hands played, and reward players directly affected by the cheaters.
Another security measure -
A lot of our marketing will be done on bitcointalk. Users receiving promos like NO DEPOSIT BONUS' etc, all will be awarded only through the forum. Therefor, users will have to have a bitcointalk account with activity, and open their ultimatebit account using the same account username as bitcointalk, to receive the bonus' - this isn't to say that cheaters cant circumvent this, but it does lower the chances when you have a 6 month old account with activity on bitcointalk. You can check user activity quite easily. This will help for indicating certain player qualities.
We will be able to validate bonus' based on bitcointalk activity and trust score.
If at any point of time, you feel you are at jeopardy playing on the table against colluders or bots, you will always have the option to catch us on LIVE CHAT and let us start an immediate investigation. We will take every case seriously.
Many thanks for your answers. At least you seem aware of the possible problems the room might experience. Good is the policy of frozen accounts and refunded players affected by cheaters.
