Integrity

You can feel safe playing at Absolute Poker. Great care has been taken to provide our players with the safest place to play poker online. Integrity is a key part of our mission statement and will continue to be our focus as we strive to continue to be the best and most trusted online poker site in the market. When the stakes are on the line, we have gone, and will continue to go to great lengths to do everything possible to offer the most honest and fair games played on the web.

Our security and safety measures and procedures are constantly reviewed and updated regularly to ensure that our players have a safe place to play poker. A strong competitive advantage is obvious when taking a closer look at the measures taken in respect to banking, collusion, hackers & the randomness of our card shuffling software at Absolute Poker.

Banking

Player Deposits & Account Balances

To ensure that player funds are always safe at Absolute Poker, all player< account balances are held in segregated accounts, which are managed by a leading European Financial Institution. This leading European Financial Institution is the second largest Financial Services group in Europe by market capitalization and the sixth largest in the world.

The segregated accounts that contain all player account balances are not used for any operational expenses. This ensures that player account balances are completely safe and secure. Any and all liabilities to players can be immediately fulfilled at all times by Absolute Poker.

Security Highlights

Software Download

• When using Internet Explorer, the validity of downloaded executable is verified by the browser using our key and Thawte certificate.
• When using any browser other than Internet Explorer, we use 1024-bit RSA key and a Thawte server certificate to protect our HTTPS web server and download.

Software Security Built-In Features

We also have a number of features to protect your privacy while you're playing at Absolute Poker

• Our client software uses the certificates issued by our own Certificate Authority (CA) to authenticate our servers. Absolute Poker software authenticates our servers by using the industry standard DES combined with AP's custom encryption algorithm.
• Our client software uses a combination of DES and AP's custom algorithm for encryption. We use 256 bit encryption to ensure the highest level of privacy and confidentiality of data both to and from Absolute Poker's servers.

No private data, such as pocket cards, is ever transferred to other players.

Collusion

Whether you play in brick & mortar card rooms or online, poker players are always aware of the possibility of collusion. Collusion is known as cheating and occurs when two of more people at a table know what the other is holding in their hands and work together to cheat others out of their money. Collusion destroys the integrity of the whole industry not only at Absolute Poker. Anyone who attempts to collude while playing at Absolute Poker will not only be permanently banned from Absolute Poker but will also be entered into a black list data base.

Absolute Poker has state-of-the-art algorithms and software in place to immediately identify any fraudulent or unscrupulous activities. Aside from just the algorithms, activity on Absolute Poker watched for by a full time team of professionals, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The algorithms will track any collusion through Absolute Poker's sophisticated software as well as monitored 24 hours a day seven days a week by our team of professional analysts. There are a variety of strategies used by our analysts to uncover and identify collusion in conjunction with our set algorithms. Any complaints will be taken extremely seriously by Absolute Poker and investigated to there fullest.

Hackers

Absolute Poker is secure in the transfer of any information between its players and our Absolute servers. We utilize the internationally accepted industry standard SSLv3/TLSv1 encryption algorithm to protect your information as it transfers between our client application running on your computer and our servers. So whether it is credit card, your name, password, your cards, your personal address and any other private information is protected. Player cards are sent directly and exclusively to the individual player's computer without ever being susceptible of being hacked. Also no other computer playing at your table can see your face down cards. This security is the best available and prevents any hacking and ultimately collusion to take place.

Card Shuffling

It is critical for card shuffling to take place using a shuffle algorithm as part of our software. This shuffling algorithm is fair and unpredictable. Please see our RNG certificate. There is no deck of cards that is shuffled as thoroughly as the Absolute Poker algorithm shuffles our cards. Each game, the deck is shuffled 10 times with each shuffle moving each card somewhere between 1 and 51 times throughout the deck (10 passes at Knuth's full shuffle algorithm).

In addition to the shuffling algorithm, Absolute Poker uses a random number generator. The entropy pool needs to be large enough to allow it to be impossible for any player to have an advantage over the other players. Absolute Poker's Random Number Generator has been fully certified as random by a well known third party, Technical Testing Systems, Inc, http://www.tstglobal.com/.

If you have any questions with regard to any integrity or security issues, please do not hesitate to contact us .

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