Cheats, Hacks, 3rd Party Software: Possible in Online Poker?

In every poker software, there is always a brilliant mind behind it all. From the interface to coding, each developer of an online poker software is working a step further to make their software better, hence satisfying their clients and customers.
But other “brilliant” minds are working contrary to these developers. Is hacking really possible for online poker software?

Hacking a poker software is hardly possible and remains a myth until now. There was one case of an online poker site being hacked but that was only because there was a flaw in a random number generation code. Since then, this problem has been addressed to and has been fixed. The encryption of the different poker software has been updated making it impossible for hacking.

It has also been said that there are certain sites that has cheats on it (for additional cash or to have a better hand) but it was never proven. Like hacking, cheats on online poker software is hardly possible. These software are made to have a strong protection against hacking and cheating to assure security in a player’s game play.

3rd party software, however are possible. There are certain poker bots and poker calculators that can aid a player’s game of poker but are barely harmful or can’t be called cheating. They help in strategizing and keeping records on the player’s game.However a hacker would like to invade a poker software, a good online poker software developer would always make sure that the poker software they develop is 100% hack and cheat proof.