Safety and Integrity

Trust is very important when it comes to offering activities on the internet, and trust is something we take very seriously here at OpenTablePoker.com. We want you to trust us and feel 100% comfortable playing poker online. You put your trust in us that your play is fair and your money is secure. We value this enormously and will never compromise your experience.

Are your cards actually random?

100%! We employ Sun Microsystem's SecureRandom function for Java. Thorough testing and evaluation of the OpenTablePoker.com poker software by various third party auditing companies has found that:

*There was no statistical bias in cards dealt as pocket cards.
*There was no statistical bias in cards dealt to any of the board positions.
*There were no statistical differences in the cards dealt to games involving experienced players and the cards dealt to games involving new players.

We have also a database over the expected value for all of the played real money hands at our site. Or you can view the list of the pocket cards ranked by value or profit under Expected Value Statistics.

You can also search for the results of each starting cards combination. You can also view a statistical analysis of 500,000 real money hands dealt in the Texas Hold'em poker game.

If you remain unconvinced, there are links to the raw data (the hand histories), if you would like to conduct your own tests.

Do your cards favor certain players?

Absolutely not! Our cards are checked and verified to be completely random, and since you do not play poker against the house, but other players, there is no reason why we would favor any player.

Is it possible to predict the cards?

No! Our server sends out information only on a need-to-know basis, which means that there is no way to predict any coming cards or the other players' cards. The cards are not calculated until the very moment before they are sent out, so there is no way to know them in-advance (because they don't even "exist" in-advance). All sent information is also heavily encrypted.

Multiple Accounts

Network rules dictate that each customer may only have one account per operator. Our security systems (search for IP, cookie, supercookie, poker-style matches) and can detect if a customer has more than one poker account.

Anti-Collusion System

Colluding is defined as more than one account playing together as a team to gain an unfair advantage over other players. If a group of players know each other's cards they can play in a fashion so as to gain more money collectively from regular players at the same table. This kind of behavior is not tolerated under any circumstances. Accounts proven to be involved in collusion they will all be permanently removed from the network.

Such activities are monitored daily by the Ant-Collusion System. Dealing with accounts may take one of several different guises. Strange activities may just warrant preventing accounts from playing with each other at the same table. Repeated incidents involving related accounts may be regarded as stronger evidence and form part of the decision to remove them from the Network. When these decisions are made the accounts and style of play will be examined independently by several members of staff. The collusion system works in such way as to score every single real money hand if certain rules are broken. In doing so we are able to profile players very accurately.

Chip Dumping

Planned chip transfer is called 'dumping' and is not allowed on the Network. This can take place between friends swapping funds on a small-scale, or more seriously between fraudsters trying to 'clean' stolen deposits. We can discover this activity in a report which includes suspicious poker sessions during which players have gained or lost an abnormal amount of money to another player.

This policy covers how OpenTablePoker.com treats personal information that OpenTablePoker.com collects and receives. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable, like your name, address, e-mail address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that OpenTablePoker.com does not control.

OpenTablePoker.com collects personal information when you register with OpenTablePoker.com, when you use OpenTablePoker.com products or services, when you visit OpenTablePoker.com pages or the pages of certain OpenTablePoker.com partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. OpenTablePoker.com may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

When you register, we ask for information such as your name, e-mail address, birth date, gender, zip code, and personal interests. Once you register with OpenTablePoker.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.

OpenTablePoker.com collects information about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners.

OpenTablePoker.com automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, OpenTablePoker.com cookie information, and the page you request.

OpenTablePoker.com uses information for the following general purposes: to facilitate the forums, offer exclusive opportunities to a select membership group, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

OpenTablePoker.com would share personal information about you under the following circumstances:

• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;

• We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required by law.

• We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with OpenTablePoker.com under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help OpenTablePoker.com communicate with you about offers from OpenTablePoker.com and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.

OpenTablePoker.com may set and access OpenTablePoker.com cookies on your computer.

Cookies are anonymous .txt files that allow us to remember you and your preferences from previous visits. OpenTablePoker.com cookies collect no personally identifiable information.

OpenTablePoker.com may update this policy and would update the significant changes on our website.