Gene Gioia, a Denver businessman who played poker for all his live is busy translating his love for poker into a brand new and revolutionary poker site which players can trust because it deals cards like an automatic card shuffling machine would in a live game.

Gene Gioia came up on the idea of creating this method during his career as a JD Edwards consultant who audited the installation of software sytems nation wide. In his spare time Gioia enjoyed playing online poker; but that was very different from playing a live game of poker.

For example Gioia said that when he played in an online poker game, he's three of a kind and also full house got bead more frequently then when playing a live game.

“I even got beat with a straight flush by a higher straight flush — things I’d never seen at a real table,” Gioia said.

This fact pushed Gioia in the direction of developing his own poker software, and after a couple of years he started Gioia Systems LLC. The biggest challenge he confronted was, how he's software should be different from the many allready existing populair poker rooms.

“The answer was almost instantaneous: Play with a real deck of cards,” he said.

Gioia asked his brother Andy Gioia to help him. Andy worked for a company that produced high-speed printers, and had some technical knowledge in electric machinery. Both worked hard and configured a shuffling machine they called "Real Deal" that shuffled and dealt cards continuously. The shuffling machine sends his results to servers that can manage hundreds of games simultaneously. Every dealt hand is logged and is available for review for anyone interested. This can be a big issue when it comes to players that are playing for thousands of dollars

Gioia Systems is planning to launch a demo website www.realdealpoker.com later this month. At first the online poker room will host games with no money involved. By attreacting many players, Gioia then hopes to attract more investors and finally install a fully operating poker room located in the British Channel island of Alderney.

Gioia stated “We’re not saying that these gaming sites are cheating”, but he points out that the dealing method of other rooms aren't transparent, also they don't offer any review system on how the cards are dealt.

Bob Hannum, a University of Denver statistics professor, agrees with Gioia on that point. Bob Hannum also reviewed Gioia's Real Deal system.

“You can trust his shuffles to be random,” Hannum said.

Once RealDealPoker is online, RoyalFlushed will take a closer look at the games that are provided.