Simply money/maximized rake/greed, all of which correlates to quicker tournaments/acquisition of cyclical deposits and players...
For the record, I am not implying that every deal and every hand and their outcomes are exploited. Rather, only a modicum percent of hands and their outcomes are orchestrated rendering it practically undetectable to poker hand tracking software. The other remaining hands are likely 'random' if you will...
Regarding your statement about a whistleblower and related reasoning: please do not delude people with your possible shilling, sales tactics, and/or naivety.
And/or, can you truly be that obtuse?
Of course in this technological era also involving intellectual property, any software developer(s) directly associated with the inception and construction of a poker program along with any possible developers employed and/or implemented to alter an otherwise fabricated poker program by an online
poker site may/must sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), effectively granting the disclosing party (online poker site) whistleblowing protection...
Ergo, if one decided to become a whistleblower, that individual would stand to be subjected to a possible if not certain legal process pertaining to breach of contract with financial and personal ramifications that would likely outweigh the positive incentive(s) to pose as a whistleblower.
A lot if not all of these individuals have a life and/or a family to consider. The legal/lawyer finances could/would be tremendous especially if the disclosing party protracts the process with its plethora of capital, which in turn could/would ruin a whistleblower's career/personal life and possibly impel bankruptcy, etcetera...
Furthermore, it would be logical to hire an unethical software engineer by an online poker site to possibly be encouraged and/or paid handsomely to alter software and/or to not be a potential whistleblower. The same would/could apply for an ethical software engineer.
After all, as you so eloquently relayed, they have "oodles" of money to bribe and/or to hush certain individuals (especially regulating/certifying bodies/entities) with. And to assume that sort of activity and/or the manipulation of cards to maximize profit is unbecoming of them, then that to is simply conveying ignorance and/or naivety... Let's face it, most if not all of the owners of these online poker sites are not exactly 'born-again' God-fearing Christians, so to type...
I trust this post has done some enlightenment.
Take it easy...
For the record, I am not implying that every deal and every hand and their outcomes are exploited. Rather, only a modicum percent of hands and their outcomes are orchestrated rendering it practically undetectable to poker hand tracking software. The other remaining hands are likely 'random' if you will...
After consideration, I shall modify and/or elaborate on the statement above...
For the record, it is conceivable that a portion if not every hand is calculated and orchestrated by the poker software/pseudorandom number generator for some if not all
online poker sites as per poker probability/odds/percentages. And furthermore, the software plausibly formulates statistical hand data on/for every registered poker player at the site for future reference and/or hand outcomes.
That is justifiably why there are so many bad beats/coolers in online poker play and why premium pocket pairs/premium hands lose to inferior pocket pairs that hit/flop sets and/or to inferior hands altogether so frequently.
I shall attempt to create a crude example of what I am trying to establish.
Example: AA versus KQ suited or any suited connectors – The software will enumerate the times that pocket bullets/AA have won versus all other hands (suited connectors specifically), if the number/percentage is standard or excessive then the software will contrive the opponent’s hand to win. And vice versa for the KQ suited/suited connectors. If the percent/number of times that KQ suited/suited connectors (or player in general) has received either a flush/straight or three of a kind, etcetera, is lacking according to poker probability, the software will formulate one of those former premium outcomes to relish victory over AA…
The same applies for other hands, specifically premium pocket pairs versus inferior pocket pairs.
The prevalence of low to medium pocket pairs that receive sets versus premium pocket pairs in online poker is absurd/asinine… Again, the software will determine the number/percentage of times that a player’s pocket pair has snagged a set. And again, if that data is below standard the software will assemble a set for the person with pocket threes (for example) to triumph over the premium pocket pair like AA/KK, etcetera, for instance.
This is all peradventure encompassed in the software to maximize rake/profit for the online poker site and obviously more rake is generated by AA clashing with 33 that flops a set to possibly induce all-ins by both players, because AA is/may/could be too retching to muck... Thus, the above plausibly explains why such rampant bad beats/coolers happen online and why the doctoring of cards by these sites is so arduous to detect.
I trust this post has produced some enlightenment.
Take it easy…