Zynga Rigging Poker Games?

The world’s largest online poker room, Zynga Poker, is being accused of rigging poker games.

The free-to-play poker application came under fire on social news website Reddit.com by a former contractor.

From PokerUpdate.com: 

The post came from the user “Mercenary-Games”, while information is hard to find on them, it appears to be a team of developers who had worked for Zynga Poker before. The user claims that the gaming company used to spy on players, viewing their gaming data and habits in an attempt to effectively monetize from each regular player and resorted to tweaking codes for the sake of profit, not entertainment.

The user also makes the claim that the company relies on metrics to maximise on features which are popular to players at that time, most noticeably on players who’ve spent a significant amount of money on the game. He claims that up to 5% of the audience have spent up to ten thousand dollars on Zynga games.

Zynga announced last month it s in the midst of exploring the potential to offer real cash online poker games once US federal or state legislation passes to allow such a platform. 

- Aaron Goldstein, Gambling911.com