Archive for April, 2009

Hacking in Online Poker

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

The danger of hacking online is that it is victimizing online poker players involving emails. This  online poker cheats can be easily detected if you are not that gullible. Just like in any email virus, opening a virus-infected email file can expose your personal online poker directory to others.

Online poker cheats are also experts in ‘hex-editing.’  This means that  a hacker can open an online poker client’s profile and personal programs. Hackers have adopted the technique or technology that online operators had formerly used to edit or modify interesting profiles, including banned names or aliases that are not decent enough and often, really funny and disgusting.

Aside from the two hacking techniques by some online poker cheats, hacking is not that rampant throughout the Internet. Most, if not all, of online poker rooms or operators are equipped with software or programs that will halt any attempt by online poker cheats to hack their systems or their clients’ accounts.

Online poker cheats will find that online poker rooms have security measures encrypted on the player’s screen and decrypted on the operating server’s side. Therefore, experts assert, hacking is just a myth in online poker.

How did online poker start?

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Poker has become a popular game among men. But there was a time that it became a bit isolated from the world. Actually, it was limited to be played by business men in expensive suits inside high-rolling casinos. This means that before the poker game was out of reach from the common man. Because of this. beginners and novices who want to play the game couldn’t. This is because poker is an expensive game. Anyone who wants to play seriously this game  should be ready to shell out large amounts of cash money to be able to play. In addition, the beginner should be ready to face the challenge of trying to stay expressionless ( this is the origin of “poker-faced” expression) even if his card has absolutely no sign of winning, or his opponent will have the opportunity to read his reaction and every movement.

It was good that high stakes online poker was developed. High stakes online poker became so famous that even the World Series of Poker accepted entries from players of high stakes online poker.