To see if its fair, you need to watch tables with out sharks on it. The sharks raises and raises in touneys or and cash tables. You can see the random of winnings by low or high hands. The trouble starts when the sharks comes to youre table, cause you don`t know when he holds a strong or a weak hand. The random cards are selected by a computer system, different from Ipoker to microgaming or to the party network. You will not see the same cards as You play, playing in all the networks. Some networks a hard to win, some are verry easy to play in. If I should do some promo of network, I would choose a network with few players like FatbetPoker.
Reason why would be:
1. Few sharks in the network
2. Lets you to try the hands you have to win randomly
3. Youre likely to win if you are skilled.
4. You learn more of the poker by those kind of "smal" networks
5. Stay away from networks over 10.000 players, you are more likely to loose all youre money due to all the sharks
6. Stay away from the big ones since its most likely you sit on tables, where better players sits.
7. You need to learn the different networks befor you jump in to them. Cdpoker meens fold 60-75%, microgaming fold 50-70% and so on.
FatbetPoker is a smal network with 100 to 500 players, there are more smal networks, but haven`t tryed them out yet. found fat bet for 2 month ago and are verry happy for it, after playing and loosing in the big ones for 2-3 years.
GOOD LUCK OUT THERE!! :-)