The most exciting hobby that is sweeping the world today is poker.

Ever since Chris Moneymaker won the Main Event at the World Series Of Poker in 2003 after getting into the tournament by winning a $10 tournament online, the poker world has revolutionized and multiplied into the single most popular entertainment in the world.

Online poker has taken over and grown into one of the largest industries in the world. An estimated 19 million is exchanged everyday through online poker.

Online poker is very simple, you just log on, go into where you want to play and there are always people waiting to play. It sure beats having to spend a hour to call up seven or eight of your buddies then meeting somewhere to play and spending all night on a single game. Online poker is the poker players dream because there is always a game anytime you want for how ever much you want to play for.

With the rise of so many poker websites, many people have raised the ideas that online poker is nothing but a big scam. Thousands of poker players claim they have been cheated out of their money through colluding players and "rigged poker rooms." It would be easy for a couple of players to be teaming against you and you never know it, thats just one way of cheating online.

Many people believe the poker sites themselves have rigged deals of cards that keeps more people playing more hands so the house rakes in more money, or giving new players to their poker room an advantage to get them hooked on their site.

Being a poker player myself, I know of one poker room where over 80% of polled players said that the majority of the winnings came in the first week of trying that particular poker site and since then they have not won anything valuable since.

Can that just be a coincidence? Poker sites claim to have random shuffler that gives fair deals. In 1996 a few players on a particular website were found to have discovered the logarithm in the cards and knew what cards where coming out before they actually saw them. With proof in the background that there has been many instances where cheating has been concern is raises the biggest question among all poker players... is online poker fair? Recently poker BOTS have came out, where a person can buy this program sit this maching programmed poker playing machine in a room and it is suppose to play flawless poker. The poker bot generally will not make the mistakes a human will, and has become an option of income without the person actually having to play themselves.

How would you feel to know that you are losing your money to a machine that is programmed to simply not make mistakes? The fact is online poker is here to stay and getting bigger everyday. Many poker professionals do not even play online because they feel that online poker is not genuine and is just a scam of people's hard earned money.

Are people truely earning the money off their skill for the game? Which makes the concern will the question ever be answered on the integrity of online poker? Is online poker really the best thing since the invention of the casino for gamblers or is it the biggest scam in the history of the world?

-Jay Horne

This is information based on Jay Horne a poker player of many websites and a regular player who travels playing poker everywhere. Jay believes in the integrity of fair gaming. After many reports and eyewitness situations in the poker room, Horne has started research in attempt to put togehter some evidence or information of whether online poker is truely genuine.