In recent years, online poker has seen an enormous increase in traffic, thanks to the widespread COVID-19 pandemic. This virus has forced many unlicensed gaming venues to shut down, leaving people with no place to go for live entertainment. Casual players have flocked to the online world as a result, and operators have reported a double or triple-digit increase in traffic from the affected region. In the past three years, online poker traffic has grown by a factor of about four to five times, thanks to the pandemic.
IDNPoker launched in 2010 in Cambodia and climbed to the second spot in the world’s largest poker networks ranking in 2016. Its focus on the Asian market has helped it gain traction and has made it one of the most popular networks in Asia. While the IDNPoker lobby is simple and uncluttered, it doesn’t feature wait lists or filters. It also only allows one table per account, making it difficult for players to multi-tabling.
Internet discussion forums are full of claims that online poker sites use non-random card dealing to favor house-employed players. While this could possibly increase the number of players in a hand, it is also unnecessary and foolish. The attempts at manipulative dealing could lead to third-party detection. This is possible with sophisticated tracking software but is not available in the public domain. In addition, the software can scan hand histories for mistakes and display previous statistics of known players.