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10-05-2016 , 10:09 PM

Edgelooker1

grinder

Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 650

I know a lot of players online say things like, "I would of won that hand if I didn't fold preflop" etc. My question is would the community cards of been the same if the player had stayed in the hand?

I can't find anything online on when the cards are chosen by the RNG. I wanted to know if its all decided before the flop, or at each street where the milliseconds in each persons decisions could have an effect on the randomness of the cards to come out.

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10-05-2016 , 10:18 PM

whosnext

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 6,730

Different poker sites do it differently.

IIRC, Pokerstars fixes the deck before the deal.

The old Full Tilt reshuffled the remaining deck on each street so "timing" of a player's decision affected what cards came out.

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10-05-2016 , 10:40 PM

NewOldGuy

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Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,935

Neither method affects "the randomness of the cards to come out" at all.

Imagine in a live game we spread the remaining cards face down and ask you to pick 3 for the flop. Do you see how this also has no effect on the randomness? If the deck was shuffled before the deal, then all methods to pick are equivalent.

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10-05-2016 , 11:31 PM

ynach

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Join Date: Sep 2016 Posts: 145

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Originally Posted by whosnext

Different poker sites do it differently.

IIRC, Pokerstars fixes the deck before the deal.

The old Full Tilt reshuffled the remaining deck on each street so "timing" of a player's decision affected what cards came out.

Applies to PokerStars as well iirc.

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10-06-2016 , 02:50 AM

Edgelooker1

grinder

Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 650

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Originally Posted by NewOldGuy

I understand that.

Its just that I have seen some players online go on tilt because they folded preflop or before showdown. But if they knew the runout cards would of been different had they stayed in the hand, then they shouldn't be upset and going on tilt at all.

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