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Originally Posted by old_moose
My question is simple, have you got the log or the numbers or cards coming from the RNG?? Is the same numbers or cards that is from the RNG arrived at the table???
If the cards arriving at the table pass all tests for randomness, they are random. There is nothing else worth saying about the subject. The specific algorithm that led to those cards coming to the table is interesting but ultimately irrelevant.
It is impossible to simultaneously pass tests for randomness and manipulate the output of the RNG in a non-random way.
You could have an Intel Hardware RNG, passing a seed to a mersenne-twister pseudoRNG, and a monkey flipping coins to see if the bits get reversed or not, in sequence and create numbers that pass tests for randomness. You cannot have a hardware RNG, a pseudo RNG, a monkey flipping coins, and an evil software program manipulating the cards in sequence and pass tests for randomness.
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Whats does the million hands tell you. How many times has somebody has KK and his neighbour has AA. Please tell me this??
You could test for this in your own database easily enough if you assume your opponent's never fold AA when you hold KK if you believe it is rigged specifically against you.
Last edited by Pyromantha; 10-25-2009 at 06:36 AM.