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Start playing FREE poker in our poker room and experience the skill it takes to become a pro at any poker game. Poker success does not depend on that last river card but does depend on your long-term commitment to perfecting skills and learning poker lessons which is developed much faster playing at an online poker room. The amount of hands that you will be playing at an online poker room is always more than playing live poker. Poker Room Mission StatementPoker Host is dedicated to providing an enjoyable, state-of-the-art online poker room experience focused on fair play, top quality customer support and a sense of community. Poker Room Technology AdvantageOur poker room is truly technically superior. From the beginning, Poker Host set out to build a poker room environment using only the best technology available. Poker Room State of the Art TechnologyWhen we set out to build the best online poker room, we knew a key to that mission would be having non-stop servers. We have designed and built a poker room server system that can withstand failures that would cripple other poker rooms, yet continue to provide you with an enjoyable poker playing environment. If one of our poker room servers experiences a problem, another system seamlessly takes over all the poker room games running on it. You will not be able to distinguish the delay from ordinary poker room network congestion. Poker Room Player Centric GraphicsPoker Host offers attractive, easy-to-use graphics designed by poker players in our online poker room. The way we have organized our poker room is slightly different from other sites you may have visited. We are confident you will find our poker room model more intuitive and far easier to use than others. Poker Room Unparallel SecurityPoker Host has made certain that your money and the integrity of the games are not compromised in anyway in our poker room. From sophisticated random number generation to 128-bit encryption and a range of other measures we cannot disclose, we have designed the poker room with security as a number one priority. Poker Host values your business and won't risk compromise. Poker Room Service AgreementPoker Host wants all of our customers to enjoy the interactive nature of our poker room and the sense of community which interactive poker uniquely fosters. Poker Host also takes every effort to ensure the experience is fun and not spoiled for others by cheating or with bad behavior in our poker room. We therefore ask all players to agree to certain poker room rules and standards of behavior and to accept responsibility for their own actions and that disputes or concerns about the operation of the poker room or cheating will be resolved by the poker room management. Some of the areas where you as a customer can help in this are identified elsewhere. Here we set out the key terms and conditions for the poker room, which you are asked to accept when you install the poker room client. Poker Room Privacy StatementPoker Host respects your privacy. We will collect a limited amount of information from you, intended to help us make your poker room experience even more enjoyable but never sold to 3rd parties. Poker Host values our customers and pledge to preserve the privacy of the information we collect from you. We will not sell information we collect to any party. We will use your contact information only to send you news about the poker room, including information about promotions, events, and new features. Information will be used only for operational and accounting purposes, and to ensure the security of the operations. Poker Room Security and IntegrityWe have made certain that neither your money nor the integrity of the games is compromised in our poker room. From sophisticated random number generation, to 128-bit encryption, to a range of other measures we can't disclose, Poker Host has implemented our poker room with security as a number one priority. We value your business and won't risk compromising the security and integrity of our online poker room. Poker Room RNG Random Number GenerationA critical aspect of any poker room is the random shuffle of the deck. We take this very seriously and want to share with you our approach. The two critical aspects are the use of unpredictable random numbers, and the approach to ensuring a random and unpredictable ordering of the deck. Our poker room uses the random number generator (RNG) available from the Linux operating system. This is an entropy [1] based RNG. The random number generator uses (collects) noise from the system, device drivers and other sources such as network activity and CPU utilization, into an entropy pool. From this entropy pool random numbers are created. Linux provides the /dev/random device. Reading this device from code provides random numbers. [2] Our approach is to take seeds from that pool on a periodic basis. These seeds serve as the starting number for an elementary cellular automaton. [3] A cellular automaton in our case is an array of binary values. A complex rule for state transitions creates new random numbers from the seed value. We use a rule known to produce randomness. "Rule 30 is of special interest because it is chaotic Ö this rule is used as the random number generator used for large integers in Mathematica." [4] Once we have that seed, we produce random number through the state transitions of the cellular automaton. Our cellular automaton has 256 bits. We take the additional step of randomly selecting one (1) bit from each of the successive 255 rows (states) to produce our random numbers. Our random number generator passed two (2) standard tests: the Diehard [5] and the ENT [6] tests. More importantly, we our code has been inspected and certified by an BMM [7] independent testing lab specializing in the analysis, review, and certification of software for gaming and cryptology. Poker Room ShufflingA random number generator in poker rooms is only part of the story in producing randomly distributed decks of cards. How the deck is shuffled is equally important. Our poker room has selected an algorithm (process) that ensures a true randomizing shuffle. This approach does not favor any one card or any one position in the deck. We then assign each card a 256 bit random number. This very large number is greater than 1 with 77 zeros after it. With each card given its own huge random number, we sort the deck by those random numbers, placing the cards in yet another random sequence. This algorithm also ensures that every possible card sequence is theoretically equally likely to occur in our poker room. Poker Room SummaryOur online poker room approach relies on well-accepted random number generation tools, relying on system entropy to generate random seeds. We then use a system known to generate randomly distributed numbers from the seed number. As a further security step, the poker room periodically selects a new seed. The decks in our poker room are randomized prior to first use, and then serve as the random base from which a randomizing shuffle is applied. [1] Entropy -- df:: A measure of the disorder or randomness in a closed system. |
It’s no secret that professional poker players become poker pro’s simply because of the numerous hands they’ve seen making do or die decisions at poker rooms. It is impossible to learn the game of poker in one poker room game or even in one year. Losing for the first time on the river playing live cash games or at an online poker room is never fun but you can be assured it won't be the last time either.
