Originally posted on 12/02/2011:
The problem is the party line for all online poker rooms and sports book and 100% invalidation of statements like these (or those like "all player funds are held in segregation") only come after we (the players) get screwed...
Regardless if "you" (meaning the persona that gets paid to tout their company's position) realize it or not online poker as a whole was greatly hurt recently by various cheating scandals... Since none of these would have been uncovered without player name's and access to their past hand histories in this case it seems that most players think that Bodog's strong reputation takes second place to the player's losing their only mechanism of independent verification of a gambling site's fairness...