Online poker is not rigged

I can officially announce that it's time for everyone to put away the tin foil hats. I have definitive proof that online poker is not rigged. And the proof is that old mathematical favourite, a proof by contradiction.

For, it is clear that if online poker were rigged then certain things would follow. For instance, someone returning to a poker site after an absence of a month or so would be rewarded with a nice session or two. Nothing extravagant, but enough to make sure that the hook is once again well and deeply placed. Above all, such a person would be protected from precisely the sort of events that would lead a more susceptible personality to become convinced that online poker is rigged.

Well, it certainly hasn't happened that way, and therefore we can conclude beyond a shadow of a doubt that online poker is indeed not rigged.

QED