# How to report online poker site irregularities? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 8, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-report-online-poker-site-irregularities/432780 "2008-01-08T22:16:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-report-online-poker-site-irregularities/432780/1 "2008-01-08T22:16:27Z")
I want the governing authority to consider an investigation of dealing manipulations at a particular gambling site. (I know, I know, poker sites wouldn’t do such a thing. The risk is too great.) ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-report-online-poker-site-irregularities/432780/2 "2008-01-08T22:59:05Z")
I don’t think there is one. Aren’t all of those sites overseas in countries where there are no laws regulating them? Also, can you give a detail of what you’re talking about? How can you tell if there’s dealing manipulation? You can’t exactly see the dealer pulling a card off the bottom of the deck. The only way I could see to catch an irregularity is if there are duplicated cards. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-report-online-poker-site-irregularities/432780/3 "2008-01-08T23:05:11Z")
[QUOTE=jasonh300] I don’t think there is one. Aren’t all of those sites overseas in countries where there are no laws regulating them? Come to think of it, you’re probably right. Also, can you give a detail of what you’re talking about? How can you tell if there’s dealing manipulation? You can’t exactly see the dealer pulling a card off the bottom of the deck. The only way I could see to catch an irregularity is if there are duplicated cards. [/QUOTE] I can’t right at this minute. But I might later on. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-report-online-poker-site-irregularities/432780/4 "2008-01-08T23:17:06Z")
Wasn’t there a recent to-do where someone - a privileged user - got caught cheating? ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-report-online-poker-site-irregularities/432780/5 "2008-01-08T23:19:47Z")
I think he was a programmer who did some work for the site. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-report-online-poker-site-irregularities/432780/6 "2008-01-08T23:29:14Z")
Many online poker sites are affiliated with the [Kahnawake Gaming Commission](http://www.kahnawake.com/gamingcommission/) and are bound by its regulations. Permit-holders are required to display the commission’s banner prominently. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-report-online-poker-site-irregularities/432780/7 "2008-01-09T00:06:55Z")
[QUOTE=Quartz] Wasn’t there a recent to-do where someone - a privileged user - got caught cheating? [/QUOTE] Right - Google “Absolute Poker scandal” for lots of links. ---
**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-report-online-poker-site-irregularities/432780/8 "2008-01-09T18:45:24Z")
If you are talking about one of the major poker sites you are probably wrong. Many online poker pros have records of millions of hands and any irregularities in card distribution would have been spotted. If you are talking about one of the smaller sites, anything is possible. The forums at [twoplustwo.com](http://twoplustwo.com) are a very good source of information. The users there have broken the news on more than one online cheating situation. Note that the Kahnawake Gaming Commission is not very highly thought of in those forums. Kahnawake is actually a server farm on an Indian reservation in Canada which many poker sites use; they haven’t historically been very aggressive about investigating their customers. Do search on twoplustwo to see if your problem has already been discussed. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-report-online-poker-site-irregularities/432780/9 "2008-01-09T19:02:01Z")
[QUOTE=Turble] If you are talking about one of the major poker sites you are probably wrong. Many online poker pros have records of millions of hands and any irregularities in card distribution would have been spotted. If you are talking about one of the smaller sites, anything is possible. The forums at [twoplustwo.com](http://twoplustwo.com) are a very good source of information. The users there have broken the news on more than one online cheating situation. Note that the Kahnawake Gaming Commission is not very highly thought of in those forums. Kahnawake is actually a server farm on an Indian reservation in Canada which many poker sites use; they haven’t historically been very aggressive about investigating their customers. Do search on twoplustwo to see if your problem has already been discussed. [/QUOTE] Okay I will. Many thanks.