British poker players mistrust online poker

The online gambling specialist company Probability Plc recently presented a study from the UK on how the general public regards online poker and the results of the survey was pretty surprising. The study was named "The Great British Poker Survey" and it showed that as many as 50 percent of the online poker players did not trust the online poker sites. The survey had more than 2500 respondents.

In the press release about the survey Probability said: "The survey posed the question: ‘How much do you trust online poker sites?’ Just 12.55 percent of respondents were prepared to respond with 'I trust them, they provide a good service.' That compared with 36.95 percent who said they 'mostly trusted them' with one or two doubts. However 19.45 percent said they mistrusted poker sites, having 'a lot of doubts' while 31.05 percent said they did not trust them 'at all.'"

When the people who responded that they did not trust online poker sites where questioned further, 33.24 percent responded that it was because they did not believe that the cards were dealt randomly. 32.28 percent said they worried about the security of their personal information and their accounts safety.  21.3 percent said that they were concerned with regulations at the online poker sites and 13 percent said that they were concerned about the game was filed with software bots.

51.8 percent of the respondents said that the support systems at the online poker sites was no better than average and 75 percent of online poker sites used “house players” contrary to what the online poker sites reports.

With all that mistrust to the online poker sites, you could easily believe that no one would play online poker however 36.7 percent of the respondents in the survey said that they still chose to play on the internet as their primary place for playing poker. 57.75 of the participants said that they chooses house games and only 5.55 percent that they prefer poker clubs or casinos.

Charles Cohen, CEO of Probability said: “We don’t have any axe to grind on this issue. In fact, the reverse is true—a healthy poker industry is good for us because the more people who are comfortable with playing remote poker the more business there is for us to shoot for. Some 50 percent of players surveyed by the Great British Poker Survey said they did not trust the online poker sites. A third said they did not trust them at all. Those figures are striking and came as a surprise even to us. There is clearly an issue here that the industry needs to address."