How Does PokerStars Protect Players From Cheats?

James Hartigan interviews Steve Winter, Pokerstars Director of Game Integrity, and Bryan Taylor, Senior Game Integrity Product Manager on how Pokerstars protects players from cheating including collusion and computer bots. They explain cheating is relatively small on Pokerstars but is taken very seriously and employs a team of 80 people to monitor the integrity of their online poker games.

Watch the video below to learn more on some of the measures that PokerStars puts in place to protect the games at its online poker tables.

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Pokerstars To Launch Sports Betting and Table Games Globally

Initially Pokerstars will roll out Blackjack and Roulette games beginning this month on a market-by-market basis with completion expected by the end of 2014.

In 2015 Pokerstars also plans to add Sports Betting and other popular Casino Games, including full-featured mobile and web offerings.

Pokerstars recognizes that some poker players may prefer a poker only environment and will enable players to remove the additional games from their software client view and will also be able to opt out of direct marketing and promotions of the casino games.

Pokerstars full press release here (pdf format)

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