I have been playing online poker for the last 10 years and I have played in live games at the casinos all around the U.S. I have come to the conclusion that online dealing is anything but random like the websites proclaim their dealing system is purely random from a random generator of sorts. I have played with live dealing and the frequency of bad beats is no way near the frequency of bad beats as in online dealing. I have noticed that at least 80% of the hands dealt online seem to always have, by way of which cards are dealt, the latent possibility for a flush, straight, or full house capability. This would not be so bad, but this occurs way more than it should naturally. I have many times just marveled at how many 3 cards to a suit or a pair shows up on the flop. Again way more than it would if the dealing was done with a live dealer. I have also noticed that as the tournaments start to wind down to the final table, the chip leader seems to make virtually all his hands no mater what the chip leader is holding or what comes on the flop. I am convinced this is all in the software that the website is using as a random generated dealing. I believe this is a way for the poker website to eliminate as many people in a tournament setting as possible in the shortest period of time because the poker websites make their money on the entry fees to each tournament and if they can turn a tournament over quicker then they can collect the fees faster. I for one would never play online for real money no matter what the website claims were. The "random" dealing in the software could be too easily manipulated in a very deliberate manner so as to compromise the very honesty and integrity of the game itself making the results suspect at best.