Security

Secured Game Play

Creating and maintaining a safe and secure gaming environment is our number one priority. Our Only Poker Security Team will promptly and thoroughly investigate all complaints registered by players suspecting questionable practices or collusion. Any player found to be participating in collusion or deceptive practices will have their account immediately closed and will be permanently banned from our games.
Please contact our Security Team directly with any questions at security@onlypoker.com.

Collusion

Collusion is an unacceptable practice that undermines the integrity of the games. In order to combat collusion Only Poker employs numerous preventative security measures which include random security checks and log-file reviews. Our analysis includes automatic tracking of betting patterns related to the strength of a player's hand and referencing that against other player's actions at the same table to determine if they may be working together. Sophisticated algorithms are employed to identify, track and uncover collusion help to ensure the integrity of our system and fairness at our tables.

Hackers

All communications between the client program running on your computer and the Only Poker server in Curacao are encrypted using the accepted industry standard 256-bit TwoFish encryption algorithm. The unique cards dealt to each player are delivered exclusively to that particular player's computer thus maintaining privacy and integrity of play. Packet-sniffing by other players cannot be used to gain any advantage. Each player's cards are sent exclusively to that particular player's computer. None of the other computers know what your hidden cards are, thus preventing an opponent from hacking their client software to determine your cards.

Bots

The use of Artificial Intelligence or 'bots' is strictly forbidden. Only Poker employs measures to prevent and detect the use of programs that are designed to enable artificial intelligence (non-human) play on the site. Players found to be using such programs will have their account closed immediately and they will be banned from playing at the site permanently.

Tracking Prevention

Only Poker does not support the use of tracking software (software used by players to track the play of others). We are proud to lead the way in preventing the effectiveness of software that unfairly gives players an advantage over others at the table.

In order to allow players to study their hands, Only Poker stores a Hand History text file for every player that can be reviewed later. Tools have emerged over the years to allow players to better understand their own play by loading these text files for analysis. For some players, these tools are useful to try and learn how to better their play. Only Poker welcomes players to study their own hand histories to better their own play, so long as they do not use tools during game play.

Recently, some tools have been created that can also be used to track and store the long term play of other players at the table. Not stopping there, some tools are actually sharing their tracked data with other tool users. This allows the good possibility that players who are unfairly using these tools will have statistics on players they've never played against before. These tools currently rely on a common factor: that poker sites will rarely allow players to change their nicknames, if at all.

Only Poker players will be granted the option of changing their Poker Nickname every 7 Days.

By allowing players to change their Poker Nickname often, Only Poker thus negates the effectiveness of shared or prolonged poker data tracking.

It is important to point out that any Notes made on a player in the game will always remain linked to that player in Only Poker's Note system. While we strive to make our poker game fair, we realize that players want to remind themselves about the habits or behaviors of other players. Much like playing in a casino and moving to a table to play against someone you met the previous day, Notes are there to remind you personally about the people you run across, even though their Poker Nickname may change.