well maybe i just have an evil mind but i can think of several ways a shop could cheat..entering their own players who could take down the big hands or top prizes and therefore keep them in-house...i suspect more than 1 shop of doing this...
How about keeping a database on players that would tell them who withdraws their winnings and who just puts it back in to eventually lose....and give the loser the big hands or top prizes???
Either method would take very little work to accomplish, and be a big moneymaker for the shops....Now do any do this??? i do think some sites use their own players but ive found no concrete evidence ever of the other theory.....
I do know this, my very little live game experiance has taught me that anything can happen on a table.....ive seen it all in live games....cold decks for hrs at a time, just today i called a short stacks all-in...KK vs K7....7 on the flop and a 7 on the river, if this happened online it would be instant "poker is rigged" thread....shit happens!!!