People (myself included) will obviously consider giving up online poker for good with this scandal. I see the only way for players to feel safe playing is for a trusted expert to come along and start up a web site that watches out this type of scandal. This is how I basically see it being done :
As many players upload as much hand history as possible to this new website. The website takes all the information and sets up tons of scripts that analyze different parts of each hand. winnings, hands played, hands lost, hands lost against which players, betting patterns, river big bet calls with garbage hands (yet winning hand),etc, etc, etc, etc. The scripts could filter out immediately the most likely cheaters and submit the user handle name to a group of people that would continue the investigation.
A percentage of probability for each situation would obviously be in the scripts and once someone defies the odds to the impossible degree, he would be caught. It would take a bit of work to iron out the bugs in the program but would definately work. I don't see people playing too much longer when the word spreads and they encounter a few bad beats. The trust is gone for all sites. This AP scandal only means that 1 site got caught. Doesn't mean that others don't do it. I am not saying all do it but I know more do.

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