This part of the article covers the only way to be sure that the site you gamble on for poker and casino gaming is playing fair... check at ecogra.org to see if it is monitored...
Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Safe to gamble? Don't bet on it: "Within the online gambling industry, eCogra is well regarded. It aims to bolster consumer confidence by providing sites it has approved with a 'Play it Safe' badge, which can be earned only by sites that are audited by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and whose software is regularly tested to ensure it is constantly random. In fact, the badge is so well-regarded, Beveridge admits two sites have copied the graphic without bothering with being audited, and despite legal letters are not taking it down. Would-be gamblers should check the ecogra.org site to make sure a site displaying the seal has the right to do so. "
Alarming start to the article - how your online gambling account can be raided..."a gambling information site called Checkraised.com made some software available: a "rake calculator", which measures the varying cut, or rake, that online casinos take from bets to pay for their operations. But some users had problems with the program and when security companies started investigating, they discovered the calculator silently dropped keylogging software - watching what keys were pressed - on the computer. It also used a "rootkit" to hide itself from searches. When the user logged in to several gambling sites (whether or not the calculator was running), it logged the user name and password and sent them to an unknown site. Why? So the keyloggers' controllers could later log back into the site as the user, and play against themselves - and lose. On the user's account."
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