Trust posture Last reviewed 17 May 2026

Trust is platform infrastructure — not marketing copy.

Fairness, integrity, privacy, and the play-money boundary aren't aspirations. They're how the platform is built. This page is the short version. The four deeper posture pages are where the specific commitments live.

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Four trust surfaces

Four domains under one posture. Each surface is summarised below; deeper commitments live on the linked page.

  1. Fairness

    Canonical-shuffled production hands use a cryptographically strong shuffle path and persist hand-level fairness evidence before dealing. Public, dated fairness reports retain that evidence for an explicit window. A simulator lets anyone re-run the proof.

    Read the posture Run the simulator

  2. Game integrity

    Active moderation, anti-cheat, and replay-clean game state. Integrity is treated as observable, not asserted — the runtime exposes structured evidence rather than relying on reassurance.

    Read the posture

  3. Privacy

    Plain account data, narrowly-scoped game telemetry, no behavioural profiling. Players can request export or deletion at any time, and the data registry is maintained as part of every feature that touches personal data.

    Read the policy

  4. Player safety & terms

    PokerWorks is social, play-money poker. No real-money play. No cash-equivalent prizes. Eighteen-plus, in jurisdictions where social poker is legal. The play-money boundary is a product property, not a disclaimer.

    Read the terms
Featured · Fairness evidence

Every canonical hand persists a record like this before dealing — the public fairness reports are aggregates of records of this shape.

Quick answers

The questions diligence reviewers, partners, and curious visitors most often ask. Boundary answers carry a forest pip for fast scanning. If something is missing, tell us.

Is this gambling?
No. PokerWorks is social, play-money poker. Real-money play is not on the roadmap.
Is real money involved?
No. Chips are valueless, non-redeemable, non-transferable in-game tokens.
Are prizes awarded for play?
No. There are no cash, crypto, or cash-equivalent rewards for play.
Who can play?
Adults 18 and over, in jurisdictions where social-poker play is legal.
How is fairness verified?
Cryptographic shuffle preparation, hand-level fairness evidence persisted before dealing, and dated public fairness reports.
What data is collected?
Account essentials, gameplay telemetry needed for game integrity, and abuse-prevention signals. No behavioural profiling.
How is abuse handled?
Active moderation, community standards, observable game state, and direct escalation routes to a human operator.
Who operates PokerWorks?
PokerWorks, an independent technology company founded by Paul Gould (former CEO of Replay Poker).
Operating posture

Five short claims about how the platform actually behaves today. Each one is something the deeper posture pages can substantiate — not aspirational copy.

  • Public reporting Dated, retained fairness evidence published on a fixed cadence — readable by any visitor, not gated.
  • Verifiable controls Shuffle proofs persisted before dealing. Production hands do not proceed if required evidence cannot persist.
  • Active moderation Anti-cheat, community standards, and a clear escalation route into a human operator — not just an inbox.
  • Auditability Replay-clean state transitions and structured logs. Hand histories are reconstructable from the persisted record.
  • Social boundary Play-money only. No gambling. No cash-equivalent prizes. Eighteen-plus. The product boundary is enforced in code, not in copy.
Trust ledger

A public record of recent posture changes. The ledger grows over time as security disclosures, vulnerability reports, and independent verifications are added.

  1. Trust posture published

    First public version of this page, consolidating the four trust surfaces with a single point of entry for reviewers.

  2. Legal documents reviewed

    Privacy policy and terms reviewed and re-dated. No structural changes; clarity edits only.

  3. Fairness reporting cadence formalised

    Public fairness reporting moved to a fixed publication schedule with a documented retention window.

  4. Personal data registry baseline

    Internal personal-data registry and export-collector pattern adopted as a release-gate for every PII-bearing feature.

Looking ahead

This page is intentionally short. As PokerWorks grows, it will expand with security disclosures, a vulnerability-reporting route, additional public evidence, and paths for independent verification. We would rather understate what is true today than imply certifications we do not hold.